Social Psychology - Social Influence
Social influence	·        Conformity (majority influence) and explanations of why people conform, including informational social influence and normative social influence ·        Types of conformity, including internalisation and compliance ·        Obedience to authority, including Milgram’s work and explanations of why people obey
Social influence in everyday life	·        Explanations of independent behaviour, including locus of control, how people resist pressures to conform and resist pressures to obey authority ·        How social influence research helps us to helps us to understand social change; the role of minority influence in social change

 

Individual Differences – Psychopathology (Abnormality)
Defining and explaining psychological abnormality	·         Definitions of abnormality, including deviation from social norms, failure to function adequately and deviation from ideal mental health, and limitations of these definitions of psychological abnormality ·        The biological approach to psychopathology ·        Psychological approaches to psychopathology including the psychodynamic, behavioural and cognitive approaches
Treating abnormality	·        Biological therapies, including drugs and ECT ·        Psychological therapies, including psychoanalysis, systematic de-sensitisation and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy