Welcome to

STAGE 2 PSYCHOLOGY
2024/2025 Graduates
Transition Lesson - Thursday 7th December
Mrs Codrington
Today's Session
STAGE 2 PSYCHOLOGY
• The basics of the course
• Weebly site information
• Topics covered
• Assessments
• Letters
• Holiday homework
• Kahoot if time
 ABOUT MRS CODRINGTON

• Completed a Bachelor of Psychology at University of South Australia.

• Graduate Diploma in Social Science at University of South Australia.
• Graduate Diploma in Education.
• Have taught Stage 1 and 2 Psychology for 13 years.
• Have been a SACE Psychology moderator, exam marker and supervisor.
 COURSE UPDATED IN 2022
• Content is approximately 85% the same to
old course
• Different assessments
• SHE concepts and questions

STAGE 2 PSYCHOLOGY

• Full year subject (20 SACE credits)

• Five topics with varying lengths (e.g. one
will be approximately 3 weeks, another

The Basics almost an entire term)

• End of year SACE electronic examination
worth 30% of the yearly grade.
 • Please save this as a bookmark on
your laptops now.
• Still need to be updated but will be
ready for 2024 Term 1 next year.
• All the resources, videos
worksheets, assessments, schedules
etc. will be on the weebly on a week
by week basis.

STAGE2PSYCHWITHCODZY.WEEBLY.COM
 Essentials
Workbook

YES YOU NEED THIS!

• You will receive these early next year.
• Each copy also has a key so you can
access it electronically.
 SASTA
Revision
Guide

YOU NEED THIS TOO!

• Will be ordered early next year to
arrive in Term 2
• Main exam revision resource - very
important!
 TOPICS

STAGE 2 PSYCHOLOGY
 1.PSYCHOLOGY OF THE
INDIVIDUAL
Although every individual is distinct, we perceive some people to be more alike than others in the ways in which
they engage with their social and physical worlds. These patterns of similarities and differences are the province of
personality. Personality refers to the complex network of emotions, cognitive processes, and behaviours that provide
coherence and direction to a person’s life. The personality we have affects our goals, how we feel, how we act, and
how we see ourselves and other people. The study of personality includes the different concepts of personality,
personality assessment, and cultural and individual differences in personality. (SACE 2023 Subject Outline)

Focus of topic:
• Freud's Psychodynamic Theory
• Rogers and Maslow Humanistic Theory
• Eysenck and The Big 5 Trait theory
• Personality assessment and disorders
• Personality in the media
 2.PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH
& WELLBEING
People with healthy minds are not just free of mental disorders, they also have high levels of
social and emotional wellbeing. This topic examines the positive and negative factors that
affect psychological health, how people can be helped to cope with mental health issues and
stress, and what they can do to increase their emotional and social wellbeing. (SACE 2023
Subject Outline)

Focus of topic:
• Mental health and the factors that influence it
• Stigma of mental illness
• Sleep processes, theories and hygiene
• Stress, task performance and General Adaptation Syndrome
• Treatments of mental illness & resilience
 3. ORGANISATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGY
Organisational psychology involves the evidence-based study of organisations and particularly the work
performance and job satisfaction of their members. It considers factors that affect work performance and job
satisfaction at three levels: the individual, the group or team, and the organisation. Organisational psychologists use
an understanding of these factors to enhance the performance and job satisfaction of the members of the
organisation and enhance the performance of the organisation itself. (SACE 2023 Subject Outline)

Focus of topic:
• Defining organisational psychology and different types of organisations
• How human performance can be measured
• Vocational guidance and personnel selection
• Leadership theories
 4. SOCIAL INFLUENCE

The study of social influence includes the impact of the presence or absence of other people on behaviour;
obedience and conformity; attitude formation and attitude change; prejudice and persuasion; and social
media. The understanding of the positive and negative effects of social media is evolving rapidly as new
forms of social media are developed and researched. (SACE 2023 Subject Outline)

Focus of topic:
• Obedience, conformity and compliance
• Famous experiments on the above including The Stanford Prison Experiment, Milgram's obedience
experiment and Asch’s conformity experiments
• Attitudes – how they are formed, changed, measured and influenced by media
• Bi-directional relationship between behaviour and attitude
• Ethical concerns regarding measuring attitudes, media and the experiments above
 5. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
LEARNING
Learning is central to human survival, but the process is difficult to define because it takes so many different forms. In
general, any relatively enduring change in either our potential to behave in particular ways, or our knowledge, that
results from experience is known as learning. The process of learning is essential for us to survive in our environment,
plan for the future, and acquire the social and cultural rules of our society. The principles of learning have relevance in
so many facets of our lives, including the areas of drug dependency and coping with chemotherapy and
unemployment.Universal ways of learning include classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and learning through
observation or instruction. There are personal differences in the way we learn (SACE 2023 Subject Outline)

Focus of topic:
• Classical and operant conditioning and factors related to them
• Observational learning
• Defining and treating severe phobias
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Systematic Desensitisation
SCIENCE INQUIRY SKILLS
(SIS)
Science inquiry skills are fundamental to students investigating the social, ethical, and
environmental impacts and influences of the development of scientific understanding and the
applications, possibilities, and limitations of science. These skills enable students to critically
consider the evidence they obtain so that they can present and justify conclusions. (SACE 2023
Subject Outline)

Throughout the year we will also recap, learn and apply:

• Research designs
• Research methods
• Measuring data in psychology
• Evaluating data in psychology
• Ethical considerations in psychology
• Biopsychosocial Model
 INVESTIGATIONS FOLIO
30%
• Design and Deconstruction Practical
(15%)
• Science as a Human Endeavour Task
(15%)

SKILLS & APPLICATIONS

TASKS 40%
School Based • Character Analysis
• Psych.Health & Wellbeing Test
Assessments •
•
Psychology of Learning Test
Leadership Analysis
 • Worth 30% of yearly grade
• Written by SACE writers and markers
• We will also do a midyear exam. This
is also only a practice and does not
count towards your grade.

Examinable Content:
Social Influence

External Assessment Psychology of Learning

Science Inquiry Skills
SACE Exam SHE concepts
 SCIENCE INQUIRY
SKILLS REVISION
• Go to the science inquiry skills page
on the Weebly site, and revise on the
fundamentals of SIS. At a minimum,
watch my Youtube videos on the
content.

• Remember, Science Inquiry Skills

Holiday are the foundation of the whole
course. Content from this topic will
Homework be present in all topics next year.
THANK YOU