Paper 3 - Complete Student Workbook - Relationships

Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES Teacher reference - I have bought your e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )

Option 1 Relationships - Learning Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:

Week 1 -The evolutionary explanations for partner preferences, including the relationship between sexual selection and human reproductive behaviour.

Week 2 - Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships: self-disclosure; physical attractiveness, including the matching hypothesis; filter theory, including social demography, similarity in attitudes and complementarity.

Week 3 - Theories of romantic relationships: social exchange theory, equity theory and Rusbult’s investment model of commitment, satisfaction, comparison with alternatives and investment. Duck’s phase model of relationship breakdown: intra-psychic, dyadic, social and grave dressing phases.

Week 4 - Virtual relationships in social media: self-disclosure in virtual relationships; effects of absence of gating on the nature of virtual relationships.

Week 5 - Parasocial relationships: levels of parasocial relationships, the absorption addiction model and the attachment theory explanation.

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