Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Unit 3 Exam Questions, and studies to learn for gender and relationships
Here are all the Unit 3 exam questions for Biological Rhythms & Sleep, Relationships and Gender. I have adjusted the AO1 marks for the older questions (there used to be 9 per section, now there are 8) and have noted where changes to the spec mean that a question wouldn't come up any more, or would be worded differently.
Here is my list of theories and studies for relationships in case you can't track it down - I plan to update this some more, but have added one study since I printed this and gave it to you a while ago. It's an interesting update to the Clark & Hatfield and Buss evidence which questions the claims of evolutionary theories. Alexander and Fisher (2003) had men and women answer surveys about how many sexual partners they had had and how many they wanted (amongst other things). They got typical responses suggesting that men were far keener on casual sex, but then repeated the experiment with participants connected to a fake lie-detector (known as a 'bogus pipeline'). When they thought that their lies would be detected, women and men answered in much the same way! This is a very nice bit of supporting evidence for a criticism we did briefly discuss - the idea that differences between men and women which arise in surveys may be due to differences in social desirability rather than real differences in what they actually do or want to do... Read more on this article or the actual journal article.
Here is my list of theories and studies for gender. Learning these, using active revision techniques like cue cards with key words or questions on one side and details on the other, would be a very good place to focus your revision over the holiday.
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