AS Psychology - Wednesday 12th January 2011

[Mathew]

Anyone else taking AS Level Psychology on Wednesday?

Mine is on Research Methods, Attachment and Memory. Attachment is my biggest problem I think but I'm starting to get the hang of it. Here's hoping for a good paper!! :)

I also have AS Critical Thinking tomorrow aswell but I highly doubt anyone is doing that :P

[Shar]

Edexcelll
Mines on the social and cognitive approach, the exam paper generally isn't bad.

[Rozi]

Mine's AQA A, so I think the same as you Matt. I downloaded the paper from last January and it's ok, I can answer most of it, but not with like loads of detail.

My main problem is answering the 12 mark essays at the end, I just have no idea how to do them :(

[Mathew]

Mine's AQA A, so I think the same as you Matt. I downloaded the paper from last January and it's ok, I can answer most of it, but not with like loads of detail.

My main problem is answering the 12 mark essays at the end, I just have no idea how to do them :(
Yeah I went through all the past exam papers and I found them... just okay. I knew what I wanted to say but the mark scheme is really specific so it's going to be most difficult trying to figure that out.

I know what you mean about the 12 mark essay, it will be fine providing it's something I'm confident in. If it asks you to evaluate then just talk about ecological validity and ethical issues, and you have 6 of your marks there! :P

Good luck to you both :) xo

[Shar]

Aqa a 12 mark questions: ao1:6 marks ao2:6 marks.

Remember grove (generalisability, reliability, objectivity, validity and ethical issues) for studies and ucare (usefulness, consistency, applicability, reductionist and evidence) for theories. this is for evaluation btw.

Good luck :)!

[Rozi]

Aqa a 12 mark questions: ao1:6 marks ao2:6 marks.

Remember grove (generalisability, reliability, objectivity, validity and ethical issues) for studies and ucare (usefulness, consistency, applicability, reductionist and evidence) for theories. this is for evaluation btw.

Good luck :)!

oooo that is actually so useful, thank you.

[Describe]

I feel genuinely sorry for you. I was on a NC Health and Social Care course at Dundee College and the psychology aspect involved in said course was tough enough, I simply didn't enjoy it.

Good luck though! :)

[Shar]

The exam didn't go terribly, I just hope I don't have to re-take! How was the AQA paper? :)

[Mathew]

I don't want to jinx anything but it was a pretty reasonable paper. 12 marker about the Working Memory Model seemed fair enough.. and none of them really made me scream and cry. Although I suppose if everyone found it "reasonable" then the boundaries will be high :P

Ah well, can't change anything now! :)

[Rozi]

I don't want to jinx anything but it was a pretty reasonable paper. 12 marker about the Working Memory Model seemed fair enough.. and none of them really made me scream and cry. Although I suppose if everyone found it "reasonable" then the boundaries will be high :P

Ah well, can't change anything now! :)

yeah pretty much exactly the same, the only one that threw me was the "outline research against the learning theory" and I couldn't remember any specific studies so I just said stuff like "studies have shown that regardless of who provides physical care like feeding or bathing the child, the person who provides the most emotional care will be more likely to be the primary attachment" or whatever.

[Mathew]

yeah pretty much exactly the same, the only one that threw me was the "outline research against the learning theory" and I couldn't remember any specific studies so I just said stuff like "studies have shown that regardless of who provides physical care like feeding or bathing the child, the person who provides the most emotional care will be more likely to be the primary attachment" or whatever.
I just write some jibberish about Lorenz' geese and the 44 theives study but looking back, it doesn't seem to be right. I started to get a bit messed up in the last 10 minutes because I still had 3 pages to complete.. so I seriously just rushed through it all.. no idea what I wrote :(

[flatface]

I just write some jibberish about Lorenz' geese and the 44 theives study but looking back, it doesn't seem to be right. I started to get a bit messed up in the last 10 minutes because I still had 3 pages to complete.. so I seriously just rushed through it all.. no idea what I wrote :(

BOWLBY, I remember him :D

[Mathew]

BOWLBY, I remember him :D
Wooo gotta' love Bowlby and his ASCMI.

A - Adaptive - Evaluate with Lorenz Geese
S - Social Releasers - Cute face, big eyes, cooing
C - Critical Period - Evaluate with 44 theives study
M - Monotropy - Evaluate with Schaffer and Emmerson Glaswegian study
I - Internal Working Model - Evaluate with Hazen and Shaver's Love Quiz

You won't believe how many times I've written that out these past few days :'(

[flatface]

Wooo gotta' love Bowlby and his ASCMI.

A - Adaptive - Evaluate with Lorenz Geese
S - Social Releasers - Cute face, big eyes, cooing
C - Critical Period - Evaluate with 44 theives study
M - Monotropy - Evaluate with Schaffer and Emmerson Glaswegian study
I - Internal Working Model - Evaluate with Hazen and Shaver's Love Quiz

You won't believe how many times I've written that out these past few days :'(

What about the evolutionary one, survival of the fittest etc?

[Shar]

What about the evolutionary one, survival of the fittest etc?

Bowlby's biological theory vs learning theory or something

then there's deprivation and privation.

I think we do all of that in A2 psychology :D

[flatface]

Bowlby's biological theory vs learning theory or something

then there's deprivation and privation.

I think we do all of that in A2 psychology :D

Yeh I remember doing it at A2, it's Bowlby's Attachment Theory which is the evolutionary basis of attachment, internal working models, social releasers and parenting styles and maternal deprivation hypothesis which all fits into Child/learning psychology :P