Themes

Question 1

Social

Answer 1

Issues of personality, culture, gender and situation in explaining obedience and prejudice. Use of two different theories to explain prejudice (Realistic Conflict and Social Identity) and obedience (Agency and Social Impact).

Question 2

Cognitive

Answer 2

Four models of memory show different ways of explaining memory either through a series of structures or the way memory is processed, ie MSM views it as series of stores. Episodic and semantic, reconstructive, MSM and WMM

Question 3

Biological

Answer 3

Comparing Freud’s ideas and biological explanations (ie evolution) of aggression. Similarly, role of evolution against hormones when explaining aggression

Question 4

Learning

Answer 4

Different learning theories explain learning through association (CC), reinforcement (OC) and imitation (SLT). Only SLT takes cognition into account.

Question 5

Clinical

Answer 5

Explaining mental illnesses, ie there is the dopamine hypothesis against cognitive deficits.

Question 6

Criminal

Answer 6

Criminality explained by biological facts such as XYY syndrome or urbanciity