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Just curious as to how people found it and to what extent the grade boundaries will be lowered. I did aggression, eating and sleep!

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What did everyone else think of the questions then? Especially the sections that I have done. - Aggression, Relationships, and Intelligence.

I'm doing Biological Rhythms rather than Intelligence, I was so-so about the Relationships question (think I got a bit rambly) but I thought the Aggression question was surprisingly nice actually. I spoke mostly about testosterone for the short one, with a little mention of the amygdala, and then about deindividuation for the longer one. I brought up Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment and his Milgram-esque one into deindividuation and then Johnson & Downing's similar one as criticism of it possibly being socially expected behaviour rather than actual deindividuation.

I must have done the same three topics as you then! I thought the aggression question was quite nice too actually. I didn't have much A01 to say so it was good for me that that only need 4marks aha! I had a lot of A02 I think.. so I think I did okay on that one. But I did the social learning theory instead:-)
For the relationships one I just wrote like everything I knew about evolutionary theory and relationships! So, I definitely had the knowledge but god knows how well I wrote it. +I did a little bit on the amygdala and testosterone but it was quite short because I wasn't sure how much we were meant to write for a four mark?
I hated the sleep one! Its my worst topic anyway but I hadn't revised that bit as well so I had to rely mostly on my memory to be honest which meant that I only remembered like two studies. I tried to put some IDAs in there to boost it but I doubt my AO2 will be very good..

What are you guys aiming for grade wise?

Yeah, the lifespan changes was pretty good for me but then I just hadn't worked on the Restoration explanation enough at all so it'll be interesting to see how it worked out haha
My firm's AAA, how about you?

Hi there,


Well I thought the Relationship question was OK - wrote about Trivers. Aggression was the one I didn't like! But in the end wrote about Deindividuation, a bit on the Importation and Deprivation Model, and then wrote about Zimbardo's prison experiment. Wasn't too bad, but would have loved it we got a question on evolutionary explanations of aggression!

Intelligence wasn't too bad, but again, would have liked something else! Loved the 4 marker for aggression! Wrote about Prefrontal cortex, levels of dopamine and serotonin and then testosterone as well. But, it's always hard to see how much to write for the 4 markers, because you still have to get lots down, so in the end, wrote just under a whole page! Although, I do have very large handwriting. Get about 4-6 words on one line on average.

Overall, not too bad, but still was tricky!


How are you all feeling about Unit 4? I have my exam on 11th June! And I am doing: Schizophrenia, Media, and then obviously Research Methods.