The CIE A2 psychology exam consists of one paper:
The ‘specialist options’ are as follows:
Psychology and education
- Perspectives on learning
- Special educational needs
- Learning and teaching styles
- Motivation and educational performance
- Disruptive behaviour in school
- Intelligence
Psychology and health
- The patient-practitioner relationship
- Adherence to medical advice
- Pain
- Stress
- Health promotion
- Health and safety
Psychology and environment
- Noise
- Density and crowding
- Natural disaster and technological catastrophe
- Personal space and territory
- Architecture and behaviour: housing design and urban renewal
- Environmental cognition
Psychology and abnormality
- Models of abnormality
- Schizophrenia
- Abnormal affect
- Addiction and impulse control disorders
- Anxiety disorders (phobias)
- Anxiety disorders (obsessions and compulsions)
Psychology and organisations
- The selection of people for work
- Motivation to work
- Leadership and management
- Group behaviour in organisations
- Organisational work conditions
- Satisfaction at work