Six half-termly units an academic year (five in Year 11, where study leave takes the last one), set out as one sequence table instead of a page per
lesson.
The A Level scheme keeps the same shape over a longer span: six units across
the two years, to the personal investigation, the coursework or the examinations.
Every unit maps to the statutory content.
The GCSE books run to 68 to 85 pages each.
Most departments just call it a SOW.
Board-neutral by construction. No board’s specification is followed. The units map to the Department for
Education’s own subject content, which AQA, OCR and Pearson Edexcel each have to cover however
they order or label it. A department teaches this sequence whichever board
they sit. A change of board does not mean a change of scheme.
1a Memory: What You Remember, and What You Rebuild
1b Development: How a Mind Changes, and What Changes It
2a Social Influence: Why People Do What the Room Is Doing
2b Research Methods I: Planning It, and Collecting the Evidence
GCSE subject content: psychology (DfE, DFE-00213-2015) and Ofqual’s GCSE subject level conditions for psychology· 68 pages, 24 sections ·For heads of psychology, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
3a Psychological Problems: Classification, Explanation and What Helps
3b The Brain and Neuropsychology: How a Gap Becomes a Behaviour
4a Perception, and Language, Thought and Communication
4b Research Methods II, the Debates, and Final Preparation
GCSE subject content: psychology (DfE, DFE-00213-2015) and Ofqual’s GCSE subject level conditions for psychology· 85 pages, 27 sections ·For heads of psychology, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
Fifty-two pages across two years, board-neutral by construction: every requirement comes from Appendix 4 of the DfE's shared science-and-psychology subject content, or from Ofqual's three assessment objectives for psychology. Unlike the three sciences it shares that document with, psychology carries no twelve-practicals requirement and no Practical Endorsement — and its assessment objectives swap places between AS and A level, where AO1 is largest at AS and AO3 at A level. How a board structures the required further depth varies sharply, and that variation is set out in one table rather than guessed at.
1a Minds and Groups: Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and the Logic of a Study
1b Development, Difference and Design: Attachment, Psychopathology and Running a Study
1c The Biological Core, and Closing Out AS
2a The Four Approaches, in Depth
2b Issues, Debates, Inferential Statistics, and Two Areas in Depth
2c Synthesis: Arguing With the Evidence Under Exam Conditions
The DfE subject content for GCE AS and A level psychology, and Ofqual's GCE subject level conditions and requirements for psychology· 52 pages, 12 sections ·For heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
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