Option 3 common mistakes

Common mistakes

• Aggression Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression, including the limbic system, serotonin and testosterone..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Aggression.

• Aggression Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain genetic factors in aggression, including the MAOA gene..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Aggression.

• Aggression Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain the ethological explanation of aggression, including innate releasing mechanisms and fixed action patterns..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Aggression.

• Aggression Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain evolutionary explanations of human aggression..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Aggression.

• Aggression Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain social psychological explanations of aggression, including the frustration-aggression hypothesis, social learning theory and de-individuation..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Aggression.

• Aggression Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain institutional aggression in prisons using dispositional and situational explanations..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Aggression.

• Aggression Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain media influences on aggression, including computer games, desensitisation, disinhibition and cognitive priming..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Aggression.

• Forensic Psychology Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain offender profiling using the typology approach, investigative psychology and geographical profiling..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Forensic Psychology.

• Forensic Psychology Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain biological explanations of offending behaviour, including genetic and neural explanations..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Forensic Psychology.

• Forensic Psychology Psychology mistake 1

  Writing AO1 description but calling it evaluation. This can weaken answers for: Explain psychological explanations of offending behaviour, including Eysenck's theory, cognitive explanations, moral reasoning, cognitive distortions and differential association theory..

  Fix itAdd AO3 by explaining why evidence, validity, reliability, bias or methodology strengthens or limits the claim, because evaluation must show the effect on the conclusion. Apply this directly to Forensic Psychology.