Option 3 exam tips

Exam tips

• Aggression Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression, including the limbic system, serotonin and testosterone..

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

• Aggression Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain genetic factors in aggression, including the MAOA gene..

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

• Aggression Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain the ethological explanation of aggression, including innate releasing mechanisms and fixed action patterns..

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

• Aggression Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain evolutionary explanations of human aggression..

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

• Aggression Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain social psychological explanations of aggression, including the frustration-aggression hypothesis, social learning theory and de-individuation..

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

• Aggression Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain institutional aggression in prisons using dispositional and situational explanations..

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

• Aggression Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain media influences on aggression, including computer games, desensitisation, disinhibition and cognitive priming..

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

• Forensic Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain offender profiling using the typology approach, investigative psychology and geographical profiling..

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

• Forensic Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain biological explanations of offending behaviour, including genetic and neural explanations..

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

• Forensic Psychology Psychology exam tip 1

  Separate AO1 description from AO3 evaluation before writing the answer. Apply this to explain psychological explanations of offending behaviour, including Eysenck's theory, cognitive explanations, moral reasoning, cognitive distortions and differential association theory..

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