Specification of what to include in the exam

Relationship Specification:

The formation, maintenance and breakdown of relationships - Social influences

• Getting relationships started - Bossard, Byrne, Kendell, Murstein etc etc!
• Formation of relationships - Filter model (Kerckhoff and Davis) and Reward/need theory (Rusbult and Van-Lange)
• Maintenance/Breakdown - Economic Theories
• How do relationships end? - Duck 

Human reproductive Behaviour - Biological and Evolutionary explanations

• Sexual selection and human reproductive behaviour

Effect of early experience and culture on adult relationships

• The continuity hypothesis
• Arranged marriages
• relationships of economic alliances

Aggression Specification:

Social psychological approachs to explaining aggression…