K5PSL10 Issues and debates personal learning checklist
AQA A-level Psychology · exams through 2026 · Paper 3
Name ____________________ Class __________ Date __________
Tick one box per statement. Red: need help. Amber: partly confident. Green: can do independently.
| I can | Red | Amber | Green |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender, culture and universality | |||
| evaluate gender bias and the scope of a universal claim | |||
| evaluate cultural interpretation without treating countries as uniform populations | |||
| Free will and determinism | |||
| compare hard and soft determinism with explicit meanings of choice and causation | |||
| Nature, nurture and interaction | |||
| evaluate heritability, interaction and correlation without an individual genetic percentage | |||
| explain the significance and limits of epigenetic mechanisms | |||
| Levels of explanation and reduction | |||
| compare biological and environmental reduction with holistic and integrated accounts | |||
| Idiographic and nomothetic inquiry | |||
| evaluate detailed case understanding and general patterns as complementary aims | |||
| Social sensitivity and evaluated judgement | |||
| evaluate research questions, communication and applications for socially sensitive consequences | |||
| construct a substantiated issues-and-debates argument using specific topic evidence | |||
| Legacy emphasis: ethical implications of theory and research | |||
| Evaluate ethical implications of theories and research beyond participation | |||
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