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Bridging academic authority with modern digital learning – designed specifically for A-level Psychology success.
Bridging academic authority with modern digital learning – designed specifically for A-level Psychology success.
This course explores how our behaviour is learned through experience, from the associations we form to the consequences that shape our actions. You will examine how we acquire new behaviours, why we develop fears, and how observing others can influence our own actions. Through classic and contemporary studies, you'll learn how learning principles affect everything from everyday habits to the development and treatment of phobias. You'll also develop key research methods skills including observations, animal research and content analysis, and explore the contemporary key question: 'Would it be a good idea for airline companies to offer treatment programmes for fear of flying?' Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to practice short and long exam questions with model answers, as well as practice quizzes on every sub-topic. This course covers the complete Edexcel specification for the Learning Approach.
Classical conditioning
Pavlov (1927) experiment with salivation in dogs.
Operant conditioning
Social Learning Theory
Bandura’s experiments (1961, 1963, 1965)
How learning theories explain the acquisition and maintenance of phobias
Treatments for phobias including systematic desensitisation and flooding
Individual differences
Developmental psychology
Research methods including Observations
Animal ethics
Classic study - Watson and Rayner (1920) Little Albert: Conditioned emotional reactions.
Capafóns et al. (1998) Systematic desensitisation in the treatment of the fear of flying.
Key question
Practical Project