Psychology a level revision

technique for writing essay?

I got an A in Unit 1 by making a mind map of all my notes condensed. Then I just read and reread that which would take like 10 minutes and did a few practice papers. I think the biggest tip is to elaborate. Pretend you're trying to explain your answer to a five year old because you need to really state the obvious in your answers. It's helpful to look through mark schemes to see the kind of detail they're looking for. Also remember to evaluate. An easy way to evaluate is just look at what type of experiment it is and evaluate that (lab - no extraneous variables, high ecological validity, etc) and then look at the kind of study (longitudinal?), the sample size (small? biassed) etc. That way you have all these general points you can add onto your evaluation for any study you're asked to discuss.

Thankyou this is really useful

Is this A2 or AS?

At AS I mainly used my teachers handouts, and my textbook. Learn specific evaluation points, e.g. research evidence. Evaluate that research perhaps. Look at the markschemes - what do they want? They repeat questions every now and again in a different context, so just memorise markschemes.

A2 - Currently i'm just making notes on all my topics (PSYA4) except research methods. Then I'll learn them. More relaxed about this as I only need a C to get an A overall.

Well both I'm repeating one as unit and have 2 a2 units, need to get an a in at least two papers to get an a overall so quite stressed. My teachers are not very helpful as they just read from the text book, and don't give us many resources. But it isn't the content I find hard but the way to write It so it is obvious I am evaluating?