AQA Psychology Paper 1 (Monday 16th May ) opinions and question assumptions ?

yes I totally agree, hardly any of the stuff from the spec came up content wise... I was partly glad that there was only 2 marks worth on Romanian orphan studies, but also slightly annoyed when things I revised a lot were not included... the wording, especially of the attachment 12 marker and the stm in the msm was weird, and confusing though

For me I was pleasantly surprised at the whole paper as they could of asked us a lot more.Just wanted to see what people's thoughts were on the 12m and how you all interpreted them as I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that the wording was strange and nothing like the 3 specimen papers released.

It was definitely a lot different than the specimen papers, in terms of their wording, but I feel they weren't too difficult. I felt as if I had understood the questions (fingers crossed) and I am just hoping to get at least a C/B to pass into the second year, whi8ch I think I have accomplished so far. But, for the wording memory model 12 marker, I wasn't too sure if I wrote the correct thing, as it seemed a lot of other students were a little confused about it. And to be honest, I did start writing about the different types of LTMs first, inc. Clive W. and HM, before realising what it was about xD. How did you feel about the question about 'self-report'? What even is that?

I liked the content (Asch, Multi Store..).
But the 12 markers confused me.. AQA used the term 'discuss' and apparently 'discuss means outline and evaluate' but I was never told that before the test???

omg for the decriptive statistic question did we have to explain how to work them out
i misread it i think and wrote strengths and weaknesses

Luckily I was always told discuss means outline and evaluate . Our school is big on "command" word in questions and have big displays al over he classroom of what the words mean.

Judging from what people were saying the 12m on memory was about the working memory model . Case studies on HM and KF . Dual task performance etc .

The 12m on the strange situation was an explanation of the study and eval it ( based on what others are saying )

I liked the content (Asch, Multi Store..).
But the 12 markers confused me.. AQA used the term 'discuss' and apparently 'discuss means outline and evaluate' but I was never told that before the test???

quite disappointed to see nothing specific on Bowlby , eyewitness testimony or other larger topics .

Totally agree with the Romanian orphans study as that's one of the few things I struggle to remember .

I just found it wierd that they worded the questions so differently to the specimens released .

I'm hoping paper 2 will be like this paper .