Psychology A level question

Are you doing edexcel or aqa?

Because aqa and Edexcel cover different content. But you would probably say things like neurotransmitters such as adrenaline cause flight or fight response which can explain aggression as well as dual hormone theory where low levels of cortisol induce aggression. Or high serotonin levels induce happiness. But tbh I don't know if that's the kind of stuff you need to know.

If I told you the classic and contemporary studies that my booklet has would that help you figure out whether I do AQA or Edexcel?

You might wanna talk about the branches of the nervous system specifically the sympathetic and the flight or fight response. Give details about the CNS and the PNS. For neurotransmitters five examples such as dopamine and serotonin, talk about how they’re from synapses and therefore neurons. You may also wanna mention their role is illnesses such as schizophrenia and the dopamine hypothesis for example.

I do AQA so this may not be any help, I’m sorry if it isn’t ! Worst case scenario have you tried google?

This was helpful, thank you. I have tried googling it but nothing has come up about it.

Yes absolutely, from the sounds of it I would assume it is Edexcel, what does the front of your text book look like?

Have you tried past papers or asking someone in your class?

We don't have a textbook because our school don't recommend them for some reason but the class study is Reine et al 1997: Brain abnormalities in murderers indicated by positron emission tomography and the contemporary study is Li et al 2013: Abnormal function of the posterior cingulate cortex in heroin-addicted users during resting-state and drug-cue stimulation

Ohhhh then yh your doing edexcel like me. I recommend the book published by illuminate publishing which covers all the content you need to know.

We don't have a textbook because our school don't recommend them for some reason but the class study is Reine et al 1997: Brain abnormalities in murderers indicated by positron emission tomography and the contemporary study is Li et al 2013: Abnormal function of the posterior cingulate cortex in heroin-addicted users during resting-state and drug-cue stimulation

Ok I do AQA and I don’t know these studies therefore I would assume you do edexcel. However, as your question is to evaluate nervous system and neurotransmitters I would recommend using general ones such as reliability, generalisability or research methods (such as a quasi experiment)

Okay, thank you, hopefully I can get this done by tomorrow morning x

You’ll do amazing !