Approaches and biopsychology exam tips

Exam tips

• Approaches in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain the behaviourist approach, including classical conditioning, Pavlov's research, operant conditioning, reinforcement and Skinner's research..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.

• Approaches in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain social learning theory, including imitation, identification, vicarious reinforcement, mediational processes and Bandura's research..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.

• Approaches in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain the cognitive approach, including internal mental processes, schema, models and inference..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.

• Approaches in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain the biological approach, including genotype, phenotype, evolution, biological structures, neurochemistry and cognitive neuroscience..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.

• Approaches in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain the psychodynamic approach, including the unconscious, Id, Ego, Superego, defence mechanisms and psychosexual stages..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.

• Approaches in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain humanistic psychology, including free will, self-actualisation, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, congruence and conditions of worth..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.

• Approaches in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to compare the major approaches in Psychology..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.

• Biopsychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to describe divisions of the nervous system, including central, peripheral, somatic and autonomic divisions..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.

• Biopsychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to describe the structure and function of sensory, relay and motor neurons..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.

• Biopsychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain synaptic transmission using neurotransmitters, excitation and inhibition..

  This keeps the answer specific to AQA Psychology and prevents unsupported opinion or study-name dumping.