AQA A2 Psychology PSYA3/PSYA4 Revision Thread 2016

Sorry if this has already been asked/answered but does anyone have the predictions for relationships?!


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Hi Saj, do you have any knowledge about reductionism and determinism being only applicable to biological theories? As we had some debate about this and it seems reductionism only applies to bio theories other theories are seen as limited?

Is there anybody I could PM an essay on gender to to mark for me to see if it's ok as I've never written it before?


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here's the link to loopa's predictions on relationships http://www.loopa.co.uk/psya3-relationships-june-2016-predictions-aqa-psychology/

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Nooo. If you read all reports you'll understand it only gains credit. In one of them it states if it's not biological to use LIMITED VIEW. Limited view means it only considers that theory and nothing else. Reductionism means it only consider that BIOLOGICAL theory and nothing else.

If you use reductionism, you won't be credited and you'll actually lose marks as your answer will not be accurate

To anyone doing gender, for cultural influence how are you splitting AO1 and AO2? I have like one small paragraph of AO1 and that's it... My essay is really short

Yeah, I did




Yep! Otherwise it's limited view

Hi guys
Im doing agression relationship and gender
I just wanted to know if there any predictions and for gender is there a chance of cultural influences to come up thanks x

For aggression anything biological may come up and for gender the same and cultural influences. My teacher said they are more likely to ask cultural influences with social influences than on its own but it's still a possibility


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If you got at least a C in AS, yep

Really? Awesome! so my teacher's been teaching us bullsh. it the whole year!
We've been taught that you can use reductionism for pretty much anything, e.g I quote what we were told to write down: 'Deindividuation theory is reductionistic (too simplistic) as it ignores biological factors such as genetics or hormones as a cause for aggression.'
Then he would tell us to expand on it.. It is wrong then?

Also, what's the difference between reductionism and nature-nurture debate?
One example given by my teacher 'On the nature-nurture debate genetics ignores nurture, for example social psychological theories such as SLT or deindividuation' and then expand...
I'm pretty sure both examples are saying pretty much the same thing about ignoring other factors?
Can anyone explain it to me pretty pls?

A lot of teachers seem to do this. Technically it's right, but the exam board doesn't like reductionism to be used if it isn't a biological theory. Just use limited view, it means exactly the same but can be used for all the theories

Hi Saj, do you have any knowledge about reductionism and determinism being only applicable to biological theories? As we had some debate about this and it seems reductionism only applies to bio theories other theories are seen as limited?