Option 1 exam tips

Exam tips

• Relationships Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships, including self-disclosure, physical attractiveness, the matching hypothesis and filter theory..

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

• Relationships Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain theories of romantic relationships, including social exchange theory, equity theory and Rusbult's investment model..

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

• Relationships Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain Duck's phase model of relationship breakdown..

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

• Relationships Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain online relationships using self-disclosure, deception and absence of gating..

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

• Relationships Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain parasocial relationships, including levels of parasocial relationships, absorption addiction model and attachment theory explanation..

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

• Gender Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain the role of chromosomes and hormones in biological sex..

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

• Gender Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain diversity in sex development, including androgen insensitivity syndrome, Klinefelter's syndrome and Turner syndrome..

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

• Gender Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain gender identities, including binary, non-binary and gender fluid identities..

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

• Gender Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain measurement of gender using the Bem Sex Role Inventory..

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

• Gender Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain biological explanations of gender development using chromosomes and hormones..

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