Senior Core RME

RME provision in the senior phase is built around the development of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) such as analysis and evaluation, and transferable employability skills such as individual research, listening and talking, time management and personal responsibility. 

All schools in Scotland have a statutory duty to provide high quality, specialist led RME and at Langholm Academy we strive to ensure our young people have choice and breadth of learning so that all can benefit from learning about themselves and each other and how to understand the world around them. 

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N5 Psychology - Phobias!

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This year S5 will be studying a N5 Psychology unit - phobias.

For the topic of phobias, candidates must be able to:

  • describe what is meant by phobias
  • describe the characteristics of agoraphobia, specific phobia, and social anxiety disorder (DSM-V — 2012 revision)
  • describe and explain the role of genetic inheritance, and the two-process model (classical conditioning and operant conditioning, Mowrer, 1947) in the creation of phobias

describe and explain therapies for phobias, which must include: —

  • systematic desensitisation
  • social skills training
  • explain one strength and one weakness of systematic desensitisation

describe the main aims, method/procedure and results of a study into

  • the two-process model of phobias (classical or operant conditioning)
  • the genetic inheritance of phobias

explain one strength and one weakness of the studies used

Examples of topics pupil's have previously opted to study 

transhumanism

Future Moral Issues

  • Transhumanism
  • Genetic engineering - designer babies
  • Weapons
  • Should we colonise space?
  • Cloning
  • Artificial inteligence
  • The future of surveilance
UDHR

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

  • Application of UDHR to current world issues
  • Violations of the UDHR
  • Examples of UDHR being upheld
Medical ethics (2)

Medical ethics

  • IVF
  • Stem cell research
  • Organ donation
  • Palliative care
  • Assisted suicide
  • Euthanasia
Moonies

New Religious Movements and Cults

  • Defining NRMs and Cults
  • Examples
  • How they work
  • Why people believe