Opinions on AQA AS Psychology Paper 1, 16 May 2016

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did you have to write about the findings? i just wrote that in other cultures behaviours could be interpreted differently? i remember learning about how germany saw a high degree of exploration and not much of a secure base as a good thing because it showed independence, but i have nO idea what i was on about tbh

i thought it was 6 for outline with procedure and findings and then 6 for evaluation? i wrote about the meta-anaysis for findings too

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nickg15b

Original post by whowhatwherewhen

i thought the working memory one was awful! i wrote about the working memory model in the tiniest amount of detail. for the self-report one im sure that is self-report techniques like interviews and questionnaires? i just wrote a method of how to basically carry out an investigation! 100% wrong

Original post by mali473

Yeah pretty much. Some more info

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Original post by Michael_Fishy

So basically, what he did was train his participants to analyse their own feelings. To say what they were thinking about, how they were thinking about it, why etc. He'd show them an an object and they'd record their feelings.

The method was crap, to put it bluntly. Very subjective, and had a lot of issues with validity. Not replicable at all, but it opened the door for more psychology studies to come, and established it as an actual science

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Reply 522

Roubass

Hey, does anyone know if this mark (from new AS) influences a lot the university application? As it it the new specification...I am quite confused about this...

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dmy15

Original post by Roubass

Hey, does anyone know if this mark (from new AS) influences a lot the university application? As it it the new specification...I am quite confused about this...

it does

Reply 524

JohnsLifeDev

Original post by Roubass

Hey, does anyone know if this mark (from new AS) influences a lot the university application? As it it the new specification...I am quite confused about this...

Because the course is under a linear new spec, if you're an A* student but you only get a C this year, as long as next year you get As and A*s in your exams, this year's C doesn't matter as you will receive an A/A* certificate for the a level

Reply 525

vezuxiii

How many marks do u think u need overall for an A both papers combined?

Reply 526

Psychopathology

For the animal study does anyone think it might not be asking for the monkey or geese, would they want us to answer it as precocial?

Reply 527

Kefte

Original post by Psychopathology

For the animal study does anyone think it might not be asking for the monkey or geese, would they want us to answer it as precocial?

I wondered that too (which is why I stated both). Confused as to why Lorenz had three-lines and Harlow had two. It opened it to seeming you needed to write more - perhaps just putting two very short lines would have been adequate imo? - if they just wanted just animal and researcher.

Reply 528

doc.dolittle

Anyone thinking of starting a new one for the second paper? I mean it's time we forgot about this and started worrying about paper 2 on Monday!

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alicestringer_

Original post by doc.dolittle

Anyone thinking of starting a new one for the second paper? I mean it's time we forgot about this and started worrying about paper 2 on Monday!

I will

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dmy15

Original post by alicestringer_

I will

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There already is one--- http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4096295

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mali473

Original post by alicestringer_

I will

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There's already one

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Reply 532

Sheneikax

Original post by Emma9991

Oh yeah I know that really annoyed me! I thought there would only be 1! I spoke to the others in my class and they hated the working memory one, I wrote about the working memory model but I don't think that's right😬The question was too vague! Although if we all found them quite hard then hopefully the grade boundaries will be lower right? What do you think about the self report question? I don't remeber being taught that?

To be honest your teachers should've known there'd be 2 12 mark essays because it's been said by the examiners and the paper layout also the 12 questions are usually the same as seen in the text books so it wasn't really that vague...

Plus everyone I've spoken to thought he paper was really good... My teachers think the grade boundaries will most likely go up. The only thing that really confused me was the self report question! I've never been taught that.

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cattz37821

I talked about Peterson and Peterson.

Original post by Ihonestlydk

Many people said that they stated about encoding, duration and capacity. However I did the opposite and stated the evaluation points for the MSM that linked to STM.

Baddeley and Hitch did the working memory model however it does link to the STM saying that its not one store but a number of different stores.

However it asked mostly about STM and MSM so I don't know if you'll gain any marks, max 1 mark but I'm not sure. :smile:

Reply 534

nafisa16

Original post by orlaaaxx

the 12 marker question for attachment was something like "discuss the strange situation in assessing attachment types"
did we have to outline it in detail? or is it mainly evaluation ??

yes the question was something like that you can also find it out in the link above before the mark scheme you can see the question I think that it required both according to the mark scheme .
By the way any predictions on paper 2

Reply 535

abbeyjayne

I just marked my paper using the unofficial mark scheme and at the moment, it's looking like I would have JUST got an A! I'm shocked because I genuinely thought I was gonna get a B in this paper but it looks like a lot of what I said was correct. Yay!