Compulsory issues and debates exam tips

Exam tips

• Issues and debates in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain universality and bias, including gender bias, androcentrism, alpha bias, beta bias, cultural bias, ethnocentrism and cultural relativism..

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

• Issues and debates in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain free will and determinism, including hard determinism, soft determinism, biological determinism, environmental determinism and psychic determinism..

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

• Issues and debates in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain the nature-nurture debate, including heredity, environment and interactionist approaches..

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

• Issues and debates in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain holism and reductionism, including levels of explanation, biological reductionism and environmental reductionism..

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

• Issues and debates in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to distinguish idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation..

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

• Issues and debates in Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain social sensitivity in psychological research..

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