GAC Psychology

GAC Psychology is two modules. GAC029 introduces the field and its history, then emotion and personality, sensation and perception, motivation, sleep and consciousness, and the structures of the brain. GAC030 moves to memory and cognition, theories of intelligence, conditioning and learning, human development and social behaviour including conformity.

You run a study, not just read about one. Designing a psychological experiment, justifying the method, carrying it out and reporting it to academic conventions is assessed in both modules.

Precision of terms is examinable. Sensation is not perception, negative reinforcement is not punishment, and a correlation is not a cause. Most lost marks here come from loose use of a term rather than from material never studied.

Say what a result can and cannot show. Marks sit in separating what was measured from what was concluded, which is the same discipline the research modules elsewhere in the programme teach.

The notes follow the published module outcomes; where the topic matches, explanations and figures are shared with our AP Psychology material.