Explanations for the success and failure of dieting
Psychological explanations for obesity, including restraint theory, disinhibition and the boundary model.
Biological explanations for obesity, including genetic and neural explanations.
Psychological explanations for anorexia: cognitive theory, including distortions and irrational beliefs.
Psychological explanations for anorexia: social learning theory, including modelling, reinforcement and media.
Psychological explanations for anorexia: family systems, including enmeshment, autonomy and control.
Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa, including genetic and neural explanations.
Neural and hormonal mechanisms involved in the control of eating behaviour, including the role of the hypothalamus, ghrelin and leptin
Explanations for food preferences: the role of learning in food preference including social and cultural influences.
Explanations for food preferences: the evolutionary explanation, including reference to neophobia and taste aversion.
Atypical gender development: gender dysphoria; biological and social explanations for gender dysphoria
The influence of culture and media on general roles
Social learning theory as applied to gender development
Psychodynamic explanation of gender development, Freud's psychoanalytic theory, oedipus complex; Electra complex; identification and internalisation
Cognitive explanations of gender development, gender schema theory
Cognitive explanations of gender development. Kohlberg's theory, gender identity, gender stability and gender constancy
Atypical sex chromosome patterns: Klinefelter's syndrome and Turner's syndrome
The role of chromosomes and hormones (testosterone, oestrogen and oxytocin) in sex and gender
Androgyny and measuring androgyny including the Bem Sex Role Inventory