Scheme for Approaches.

Link to check list for approaches.

Issues, Debates in Psychology

Overall Presentation

Week

topic

 

Activity

Resources

Assessment

Differentiation

1

Learning approaches and the behaviourist approach

Classical conditioning and Pavlov’s research

 

Introduction via Wundt

 

 

2

 

operant conditioning, types of reinforcement and Skinner’s research

 

Presentation

 

 

3

 

social learning theory

 

 

 

 

 

 

imitation

 

 

 

 

 

 

identification

 

 

 

 

 

 

modelling

 

 

 

 

 

 

vicarious reinforcement

 

 

 

 

 

 

the role of mediational processes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bandura’s research.

 

 

 

 

4

The cognitive approach

the study of internal mental processes

 

Presentation

 

 

 

 

the role of schema

 

 

 

 

 

 

the use of theoretical and computer models to explain and make inferences about mental processes

 

 

 

 

5

 

The emergence of cognitive neuroscience

 

 

 

 

6

The biological approach

the influence of genes

 

Presentation

 

 

 

 

biological structures and neurochemistry on behaviour

 

 

 

 

 

 

Genotype and phenotype

 

 

 

 

 

 

genetic basis of behaviour

 

 

 

 

 

 

evolution and behaviour

 

 

 

 

7

The psychodynamic approach

the role of the unconscious

 

Presentation

 

 

 

 

the structure of personality

 

 

 

 

 

 

that is ID, ego and superego

 

 

 

 

 

 

defence mechanisms including:

 

 

 

 

 

 

repression

 

 

 

 

 

 

denial

 

 

 

 

 

 

displacement

 

 

 

 

 

 

psychosexual stages

 

 

 

 

8

Humanistic psychology

free will

 

Presentation

 

 

 

 

self-actualisation

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

 

 

 

 

 

 

focus on the self

 

 

 

 

 

 

congruence

 

 

 

 

 

 

the role of conditions of worth

 

 

 

 

 

 

The influence on counselling psychology

 

 

 

 

9

Comparison of approaches