Official curriculum documents for VCE Year 11 Psychology

These original Year 11 resources support school-assessed study. They are not official board examinations. Your school determines its assessment program and chosen topics.

• VCAA Psychology course page — Accreditation period from 2023; current linked study design
• VCE Psychology Study Design — From 2023; Units 1 and 2 and shared key science skills; source fingerprint retained in the audit map
• CDC: About Repeated Head Impacts — 15–16 May 2024 page; current public information checked 8 November 2026; supplementary scientific explanation, not curriculum authority
• NIH Research Matters: Severe CTE clearly linked to dementia — 24 February 2026; secondary research communication linked to PMID 41589584; used as a contemporary source-evaluation case, not as a substitute for full methods
• Schmidt-Persson et al.: Screen Media Use and Mental Health of Children and Adolescents — JAMA Network Open 2024;7(7):e2419881; doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.19881; original trial secondary analysis
• Asch: Studies of independence and conformity — 1956 primary monograph; procedure, restricted sample and independence/conformity findings inspected in the original-paper text mirror at https://www.scribd.com/document/225183280/asch1956; no quantitative conformity rate reproduced.
• Milgram: Behavioral Study of Obedience — 1963 primary reference; publisher abstract and indexed original-paper methods checked; 26/40 descriptive result; complete full text not retrieved
• Taste Disorders — NIDCD authoritative sensory explanation; taste and flavour distinction
• Koizumi et al.: Human sweet taste receptor mediates acid-induced sweetness of miraculin — PNAS 2011 primary receptor study; abstract-level mechanism used, no numerical findings reproduced
• Garneau et al.: Crowdsourcing taste research — Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 2014; genetic variation does not fully explain supertasting
• Corbetta and Shulman: Spatial neglect and attention networks — Annual Review of Neuroscience 2011; scholarly review, spatial attention distinction
• Robertson: Binding, spatial attention and perceptual awareness — Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2003; bibliographic reference. Current synaesthesia verification uses Eagleman et al. (2007); this reference is not claimed to have been read in full.
• Malle (2006), actor–observer attribution meta-analysis — Psychological Bulletin 132(6), 895–919; abstract and conceptual distinctions inspected to qualify the attribution claim.
• Milgram (1963), original obedience paper — Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 67(4), 371–378; original-paper mirror, abstract inspected for reported 26 completers and distress.
• VCAA Psychology assessment and accreditation — Accreditation 2023–2027; Units 1 and 2 school-based assessment.
• Eagleman et al.: A standardized test battery for the study of synesthesia — Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2007;159(1):139–145; primary-study abstract retrieved through NCBI.

Curriculum confirmation and 2027 applicability

The VCE Year 11 Psychology pack follows the versions listed on its Official curriculum sources page. 2027 applicability is verified against the recorded official evidence. Your school determines its assessment program and selected texts or topics. These are original study resources, not official board publications.

The official VCAA Psychology assessment page checked 9 November 2026 explicitly gives accreditation 2023–2027. The current course page links the study design from 2023. This verifies current stated applicability, subject to any subsequent VCAA amendments.