Option 2 exam tips

Exam tips

• Schizophrenia Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to describe positive symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations and delusions..

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

• Schizophrenia Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to describe negative symptoms of schizophrenia, including speech poverty and avolition..

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

• Schizophrenia Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain issues in diagnosis, including co-morbidity, culture bias, gender bias and symptom overlap..

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

• Schizophrenia Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain biological explanations for schizophrenia, including genetics and neural correlates..

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

• Schizophrenia Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain psychological explanations for schizophrenia, including family dysfunction and cognitive explanations..

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

• Schizophrenia Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain drug therapy using typical and atypical antipsychotics..

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

• Schizophrenia Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain cognitive behaviour therapy and family therapy as treatments for schizophrenia..

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

• Schizophrenia Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain the interactionist approach and diathesis-stress model in explaining and treating schizophrenia..

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

• Eating behaviour Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain food preferences using evolutionary explanations, neophobia, taste aversion and learning through social and cultural influences..

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

• Eating behaviour Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain neural and hormonal mechanisms in eating behaviour, including the hypothalamus, ghrelin and leptin..

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