Psychology A Unit 3 AQA - 17th June 2011

Anyone got any idea what may come up for Agression?

There are 2 maintenance of relationships theories that I know of which are;

Social Exchange Theory:
This is based on the profit/loss obtained in the relationship which can include such things as financial stability, sex etc. For the relationship to be succesful our percieved profits must be higher than our loss.
This can explain why women may stay in abusive relationships as them leaving may have a greater loss e.g. no home.
However this only really applies to western cultures as we are individualist and focus on the gains we can make from give and take e.g. like a stock market.
The 2nd part to this theory is our Comparison Level this is our expectancy level of what we should gain from the relationship that we determine from our past experiences, if we gain less than our CL level we may leave the relationship and look to see if there is a better 'deal' elsewhere.
Although this doesn't explain why people leave relationships when nothing else is available e.g. they stay single.

Equity Theory:
This theory is based on the fairness of the relationship and the equality of the profit/loss. A supporting study for this is were they found couples were happiest when there was equality rather than one person getting all the benefits.
However what we consider to be fair is 'subjective' and can be linked with our CL level perhaps from the Social exchange theory?
Another study considered that relationships aren't purely economic in that with human relationships we repsond to our partners desires and they respond to ours.
Gender differences in that men see there career as more important if they earn more money where as if the women earns more they rate there jobs as equal, so women seem to expect less from the relationship.

Behaviourist approach maybe due to need for rewards in profit?
Not sure if you can inlcude a nature v nurture debate in there anywhere as well.

Aha don't worry, I'm only going for a C too It's certainly rare to find someone else like that too!

According to this thread, it's going to be Evolution

Thanks. Those two theories are also part of formation theories too, right?

These 2 are theories of maintenace, sorry I forgot to include the formation of relationships which you also asked for, do you want me to explain formation as well?

SLEEP: Nature of sleep OR consequences of disrupting bio rhythms
AGGRESSION: Group Displays or Neural/Hormonal
EATING: Evolutionary

Just my guesses if we're going by what HASN'T come up yet

Ok here's what I have for Sleep walking AO2:
Gunn and Gunn: behaviours like lining up shoes on the window sill were seen, but mainly sleep walkers carry out normal routine activities

Soldatos and Kale: said that sleep walkers have a prior pathology of depression and trauma

Hubin et al: studied twins, found concordance rate to be DZ: 0.37, MZ: 0.55 when children, but changed to DZ: 0.05, MZ: 0.37 when adults

can't remember anything else off the top of my head.. wow this is great

Narcolepsy:

I hated Narcolepsy. I don't know anything for it off the top of my head... -_-" sorry...
OH. something about Dogs. yes.
Ninashi and Mignot: found dogs inherited a faulty gene which is why they have narcolepsy, but this doesn't apply to humans as Mignot et al found because out of 16 twins, only 4 pairs had narcolepsy

something to do with brain trauma and brain damage... and something to do with orexin or Hcrt.

do you guys think the evolutionary theories of jealousy and infidelity will come up for aggression?

do you guys think the evolutionary theories of jealousy and infidelity will come up for aggression?

supposing group displays comes up can i write about deindividuation and talk about zimbardo's studies and link it to lynch mobs. then do a alternative approach in the form of evolution then use evolution explanation to explain religious displays. would that work or doesn't deindividuation count as one?

do you guys think the evolutionary theories of jealousy and infidelity will come up for aggression?

Haha, ahh wow! It's an awful position to be in, I don't wanna go tooooo far in revision for this, and get like an A, but do awful in my other subjects.. (not that I'd be able to easily get an A, just hoping the predictions come up! / grade boundarys are low.

My teacher said deindividuation counts, yeah I plan on doing it!
I couldn't say about the evolution explanation though

predictions for Aggression/Eating/Relationships????????