1. Thinking caps….
Design a practical investigation (you have access to funding) to test the effects of TV exposure on anorexia
5 minutes to design the best practical…….

2. Contemporary Study
Becker et al. (2002) Eating behaviours and attitudes following prolonged exposure to television among ethnic Fijian adolescent girls.
If eating disorders were caused by our nature what would this study find?
If eating disorders were caused by our nurture what would this study find?
15 minutes of reading time

3. Your Challenge…. Can you summarise the APRC into the following marks……
Aim – 2 marks
Procedure – 4 marks
Results – 4 marks
Conclusion – 2 marks (Does it address the aim?)
Strengths – describe two (4 marks)
Weaknesses – describe two (4 marks)

4. Key Question Aims: To be able to describe the key question. (A01)
To be able to apply your knowledge and understanding of the Learning approach to the key question. (A02)

5. Your key question….
Is the influence of role models and celebrities something that causes anorexia?

6. Exam question possibilities
Describe the key question from the learning approach which you have studied. (4 marks)
Use concepts and research from the learning approach to explain the key question you have studied. (6 marks)
Discuss the key question in relation to the learning approach (8 marks)
Describe – AO1
Explain – AO2
Discuss – AO1 & AO2

7. Describe the key question from the learning approach which you have studied. (4 marks)
State your key question
Describe knowledge on celebrities and role models – how does the media portray them?
Describe knowledge on Anorexia

8. Use concepts and research from the learning approach to explain the key question you have studied. (6 marks)
Social Learning theory – attention, retention, motivation and reproduction (identification, self efficacy and vicarious reinforcement)
Operant conditioning – avoiding criticism (negative reinforcement)
Bandura’s Bobo Doll experiment (1961) & Bandura’s Bobo experiment with vicarious reinforcement (1965)
Becker et al. (2002) Eating behaviours and attitudes following prolonged exposure to television among ethnic Fijian adolescent girls

9. Explain a key question for society using two concepts from the learning theories (6 marks)