K5PSL12 Schizophrenia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Symptoms and issues in diagnosis | |||
| Distinguish symptoms and evaluate diagnostic issues | |||
| Genetic and neural explanations | |||
| Evaluate genetic evidence for vulnerability | |||
| Evaluate dopamine and neural explanations | |||
| Family and cognitive explanations | |||
| Evaluate family explanations without assigning unsupported blame | |||
| Explain and evaluate cognitive mechanisms | |||
| Medication and treatment evaluation | |||
| Compare antipsychotic mechanisms, effectiveness and appropriateness | |||
| CBT and family therapy | |||
| Explain psychological treatments and evaluate outcome evidence | |||
| Interactionism and the diathesis-stress model | |||
| Apply and evaluate an interactionist explanation | |||
| Legacy requirement: classification and diagnostic quality | |||
| Evaluate diagnostic classification, reliability and validity | |||
| Legacy requirement: token economies in management | |||
| Explain and evaluate token economies in schizophrenia management | |||
Next revision priority: __________________________________________________