Psychology Diploma Level 4

This course assesses the following units:

Unit 1: Defining psychology and history

• A short history of psychology
• Classification of psychology
• Psychology practice and approaches today
• Major themes in psychology

Unit 2: Research methods in Psychology

• Ethical considerations
• Design and implementation
• Experimental and non-experiments methods
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Presenting data

Unit 3: Psychological abnormality

• Defining abnormality
• Models of abnormal psychology
• The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Depression
• Personality/anxiety disorders
• Psychotherapy treatments
• Ethical issues

Unit 4: Behaviour and experience

• The central nervous system
• Sensory processes and awareness
• Addictive behaviour
• Motivation
• Emotion and stress

Unit 5: Cognitive psychology

• Perception
• Attention
• Language
• Memory
• Models of thought

Unit 6: Social psychology

• Social perception and prejudice
• Attribution theory
• Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination
• Relationships
• Conformity and power
• Groups and group behaviour
• Prosocial and antisocial behaviour

Unit 7: Comparative psychology

• Evolutionary behaviour
• Reproduction
• Social behaviour, imprinting and signals
• Analysis of behaviour

Unit 8: Developmental psychology

• Early social development
• Cognitive development in children
• Moral, gender and self development
• Adolescence to old age
• Major life events

To pass this course learners must complete a number of assignments. These are completed after navigating through the lessons which are sent to students and writing your answers to assignment questions. Once these have been read and marked by your personal tutor, feedback and marks are provided to students which contain helpful tips to improve work in future assignments.