Selected Options: Application and Evaluation
Transfer the route's option knowledge to unfamiliar contexts and make evidence-led judgements.
How to study for GCSE Psychology
Confirm the exact board route, connect theories to prescribed studies, apply mechanisms to unfamiliar contexts, evaluate evidence and practise the current paper design.
Core concepts
Concept 1
scenario application
Exam cue: Select the feature in the scenario, identify the matching theoretical mechanism and explain the link with route-specific terminology.
Concept 2
practical implication
Exam cue: Compare explanations through empirical support, method, validity, ethics, usefulness, diversity and alternative accounts.
Concept 3
comparative evaluation
Exam cue: Keep applications within the current pair: do not answer one option using attractive but unassessed material from another.
Targeted study blocks
Common psychology core
Build the transferable conceptual model
Select the feature in the scenario, identify the matching theoretical mechanism and explain the link with route-specific terminology.
Evidence and application
Connect claims to method, findings and context
Compare explanations through empirical support, method, validity, ethics, usefulness, diversity and alternative accounts.
Current-route boundary
Apply only the live specification detail
Keep applications within the current pair: do not answer one option using attractive but unassessed material from another.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Rewriting the scenario without applying a psychological mechanism.
Guardrail: Do not mix board routes, treat one study as proof, diagnose a person or append evaluation that does not change the answer to the question.
Describing a theory or study without applying, analysing or evaluating it when the command requires more.
Guardrail: Do not mix board routes, treat one study as proof, diagnose a person or append evaluation that does not change the answer to the question.
Importing a named theory, core study, diagnosis rule or paper convention from another specification.
Guardrail: Do not mix board routes, treat one study as proof, diagnose a person or append evaluation that does not change the answer to the question.
Memory anchors
AO2 application chain
Scenario detail → relevant psychological concept → mechanism → explained outcome.
Evaluation criterion
A stated basis such as evidence quality, validity, ethics, usefulness or explanatory scope.
Option boundary check
Every example, theory and study must belong to one of the route's assessed two topics.
Selected Options: Application and Evaluation: evidence check
Compare explanations through empirical support, method, validity, ethics, usefulness, diversity and alternative accounts.
Selected Options: Application and Evaluation: route check
Keep applications within the current pair: do not answer one option using attractive but unassessed material from another.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A rehabilitation programme awards points for attending sessions and practising coping skills. Which principle is used?
Why might a token economy change behaviour inside an institution but not after release?
Answer all questions to submit.
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