What is GENERAL Psychology all about?
Have you ever wondered why people behave the way they do and what makes some people form relationships? How is personality and intelligence influenced by your surroundings? Why is the brain structured the way that it is?
This course allows students to explore types of communication used in relationships and how different factors influence people’s behaviour, emotions and thoughts through investigations and experiments.
Who should select these units in Year 11?
Students with an interest in human behaviour and relationships, and who do not intend to go to university. Students should also be interested in using data from social experiments and surveys to make conclusions for why people behave the way they do.
Pathway
Upon successful completion of these units, students would progress to General Psychology Unit 3 and Unit 4 in Year 12.
Areas of Study
UNIT 1 – Introduction to Personality and behaviour
- Personality
- Intelligence
- Behaviour
- Relationships
- Communication
UNIT 2 – Influencing behaviour
- Human Brain
- Behaviour Development
- Factors affecting behaviour
- Group behaviour
- Stereotypes
To provide for different learning styles a variety of assessment tasks are used. For each course of study tasks are selected from:
- Investigations
- Journals
- Research reports
- Tests
- Scientific reports
What is General Psychology all about?
Have you ever wondered why people behave the way they do, and why we remember some things but not others? What makes people form relationships with certain people? How can good people do horrible things?
This course allows students to explore types of communication used in relationships and how different factors influence people’s behaviour, emotions and thoughts through investigations and experiments.
Who should select these units in Year 12?
This course would be useful for students who enjoy learning about human behaviour and enjoyed studying General Psychology in year 11.
Students wanting to select General Psychology will need to have successfully completed year 11 and be willing to develop their analytical, research methods and writing skills.
Pathway
This course will provide analytical, research and writing skills which are transferable to a range of career pathways.
Areas of Study
UNIT 3 – Self and others
- Personality
- Memory
- States of consciousness
- Relationships
- Communication
- Research methods
UNIT 4 – Self and others
- Brain anatomy
- Human development
- Social psychology
- Culture and values
- Research methods
To provide for different learning styles a variety of assessment tasks are used. For each course of study tasks are selected from:
- Investigations
- Journals
- Research reports
- Tests
- Scientific reports
