AQA(A) A2 Psychology Student Unit Guide: Unit 3 Topics in Psychology (2): Biological Rhythms and Sleep, Relationships, Aggression and Cognition and Development

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Table of Contents:
Introduction
About this guide
The examination
Unit 3 topics
Content Guidance
About this section
Biological rhythms and sleep
Biological rhythms
Sleep states
Disorders of sleep
Relationships
Formation, maintenance and breakdown of romantic relationships
Human reproductive behaviour
Effects of early experience and culture on adult relationships
Aggression
Social psychological approaches to explaining aggression
Biological explanations of aggression
Aggression as an adaptive response
Cognition and development
Development of thinking
Development of moral understanding
Development of social cognition
Questions and Answers
About this section
Q1 Biological rhythms
Q2 Sleep states
Q3 Disorders of sleep
Q4 Formation, maintenance and breakdown of romantic relationships
Q5 Human reproductive behaviour
Q6 Effects of early experience and culture on adult relationships
Q7 Social psychological approaches to explaining aggression
Q8 Biological explanations of aggression
Q9 Aggression as an adaptive response
Q10 Development of thinking
Q11 Development of moral understanding
Q12 Development of social cognition

About the Author(s):
Jean-Marc Lawton has been a teacher and lecturer of psychology for many years, and was a former Head of Psychology at a large sixth form college in the southwest of England. He has extensive experience as a senior examiner and is an author of several psychology textbooks.