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Aqa a level psychology paper 3

Hi , does anyone have any predictions for paper 3 : issues and debates , gender , schizophrenia and forensic psychology 😊

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by charlotte2023!
Hi , does anyone have any predictions for paper 3 : issues and debates , gender , schizophrenia and forensic psychology 😊

The main predictions I’ve seen for issues and debates are 16 markers on idiographic and nomothetic approaches and culture bias

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Original post
by charlotte2023!
Hi , does anyone have any predictions for paper 3 : issues and debates , gender , schizophrenia and forensic psychology 😊

Schizophrenia I’ve seen a lot of predictions of classification and diagnosis and for forensic I’ve seen a lot about the psychodynamic explanations, top down approach and bottom up approach

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Ok thank you

Reply 4

Vulnerable areas:
Issues and Debates

Gender Bias (16 marks)

Culture bias (16 marks)

Nature and nurture debate

Ethical Implications

Idiographic and nomothetic

Schizophrenia

Reliability and validity issues in diagnosis

Drug therapy

Token economy

Family therapy

Interactionist approach

Forensic

Offender profiling

Biological explanations of offending atavistic theory, genetics and neural

Eysenck and personality

Differential association theory

NOTE: no comparison question (could be asked to compare theories or treatments) and no sign test question yet

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