writing skills

• What are the key concepts related to BINDREAMS?

  • Bias: treating a gender/culture unfairly
  • Internal validity: effect of other variables
  • Nature vs. nurture: genetics vs. environment
  • Determinism vs. free will: hard (unchangeable) vs. soft (changeable)
  • Reductionism vs. holism: focus on one aspect vs. the whole context
  • External validity: applicability of findings outside the experiment
  • Ethics: fair treatment of cultures/genders
  • Applications: positive uses to change behavior
  • Methodology: how the experiment was conducted
  • Scientific vs. unscientific: based on facts and falsifiability
• how to evaluate theories

  CODA
• what does CODA stand for


  credibility - does any research evidence support itcredibility - does any research evidence support it

  objections - any research evidence that disproves it

  differences - how do other theories that explain the same thing differ

  applications - can they be used in the real world
• how to break down a 16 marker


  ao1 - 6 marks - description

  ao2 - 4 marks - application

  ao3 - 6 evaluation
• what does description mean


  what the thing is eg what is operant conditioning
• what does application mean

  where was the theory / thing used in the scenario in the question eg where did Allison use operant conditioning
• what do you do for an evaluation in 16 markers


  X3 of +ve/-ve