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Edexcel Unit 2 Psychology: Understanding the Individual 23rd May (Old spec)

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Reply 20
how did everyone find the paper?
Was it just me or was the exam very biological approach heavy, and lacking in psychodynamic approach besides Little Hans. I now fear that I misread a question somewhere.

I mucked it up royally especially the key issue (which I hope was biological i know fear was a different approach), and 12 marker which was my downfall last year! I don't think any of retakes went overly well :s-smilie:
Reply 22
what did everyone write for 'Why freud used the horse in little hans' dream to represent the father?'
there was a lot of biological based questions this year ;\
Reply 23
Original post by oliviamkc
Was it just me or was the exam very biological approach heavy, and lacking in psychodynamic approach besides Little Hans. I now fear that I misread a question somewhere.

I mucked it up royally especially the key issue (which I hope was biological i know fear was a different approach), and 12 marker which was my downfall last year! I don't think any of retakes went overly well :s-smilie:


the biological approach was heavy! i felt like they missed out a lot of spec points -.-
and yes the key issue was based on the biological approach .. yet again
Original post by Dharaa
what did everyone write for 'Why freud used the horse in little hans' dream to represent the father?'
there was a lot of biological based questions this year ;\



Ok few so I didn't just misread all of the questions!

in short i wrote The black around the horses mouth = his father's mustache. And the stuff around the horses eyes was symbolic of his father's glasses?
Original post by oliviamkc
Was it just me or was the exam very biological approach heavy, and lacking in psychodynamic approach besides Little Hans. I now fear that I misread a question somewhere.

I mucked it up royally especially the key issue (which I hope was biological i know fear was a different approach), and 12 marker which was my downfall last year! I don't think any of retakes went overly well :s-smilie:


Key issue was on biological approach indeed.

What did everyone put for filling in the gaps questions?
Model, older, primary reinforcement (as it said out for dinner) and motivation
Original post by Julieplec
Model, older, primary reinforcement (as it said out for dinner) and motivation


I think I put, Role model, same sex (female) and Vicarious reinforcement. I know i got the last one wrong though lol
Original post by OrdinaryStudent
I think I put, Role model, same sex (female) and Vicarious reinforcement. I know i got the last one wrong though lol


What did you put for the last one? I must have misread the question but I thought it asked for the type of reinforcement for the mother
Original post by OrdinaryStudent
I think I put, Role model, same sex (female) and Vicarious reinforcement. I know i got the last one wrong though lol


I did the same... Didn't know the last one
Original post by Julieplec
What did you put for the last one? I must have misread the question but I thought it asked for the type of reinforcement for the mother


The question was asking why her daughter copies her the mother I think

I got the last one completely wrong although i think the right answer was Motivation from what ive heard, so you got that correct :smile: - they may also accept model as an answer instead of role model so I think you should be fine
Original post by OrdinaryStudent
The question was asking why her daughter copies her the mother I think

I got the last one completely wrong although i think the right answer was Motivation from what ive heard, so you got that correct :smile: - they may also accept model as an answer instead of role model so I think you should be fine


I hope so I thought I'd got 70-ish marks but now I'm worrying.
What did you put for the multi choice questions (bandura and the Freud one) I put phallic stage and range of ages even though they were only 3-5 but I didn't see it being any of the others
Original post by Julieplec
I hope so I thought I'd got 70-ish marks but now I'm worrying.
What did you put for the multi choice questions (bandura and the Freud one) I put phallic stage and range of ages even though they were only 3-5 but I didn't see it being any of the others


I also put Phallic stage for Freud, could you give me the options for Banduras study question? I dont remember it
Reply 33
Could somebody please reassure me I tend to struggle on the simple questions.

Multiple choice: I chose latency and for the laterisation question I chosen it is on the right for boys for spatial tasks
Gapped questions: I put role model, same sex (female), vicarious reinforcement and motivation.

What did everyone put for the first two questions which where about the littering in the street?
Original post by JCBruh
Could somebody please reassure me I tend to struggle on the simple questions.

Multiple choice: I chose latency and for the laterisation question I chosen it is on the right for boys for spatial tasks
Gapped questions: I put role model, same sex (female), vicarious reinforcement and motivation.

What did everyone put for the first two questions which where about the littering in the street?


Your gapped answers seem perfect, although it was phallic stage and not latency.

for lateralisation, spatial tasks located on the right for the boys is correct
Original post by OrdinaryStudent
I also put Phallic stage for Freud, could you give me the options for Banduras study question? I dont remember it


It was something like;
They were familiar with the bobo doll (I read that they didn't know what it was on a precious mark scheme)
Behaviour was decided before the results or something like that
Range of ages used

Don't remember the 4th option, I'm so annoyed I misread the vicarious reinforcement question. I liked the fact is was biological heavy though. Hopefully I did well on the evaluation of money too. What did you in the exam last year? I got a B, hoping for an a
Just to clarify- was the median 4? I always screw up on free marks like that
Original post by Julieplec
Just to clarify- was the median 4? I always screw up on free marks like that


Yes, median was 4, you had to rearrange the numbers from lowest to highest and then find the median
what did everyone put for the 12 marker? i put about brain laterisation, hormones and genes but i didnt put anything about sex determination(HY antigen and that)?
Original post by Julieplec
It was something like;
They were familiar with the bobo doll (I read that they didn't know what it was on a precious mark scheme)
Behaviour was decided before the results or something like that
Range of ages used

Don't remember the 4th option, I'm so annoyed I misread the vicarious reinforcement question. I liked the fact is was biological heavy though. Hopefully I did well on the evaluation of money too. What did you in the exam last year? I got a B, hoping for an a


For Banduras study i put they had decided behaviour before the procedure or something because they had inter-rater reliability, and they were looking for things such as kicking, punching swearing etc

I got a B last year as well and I messed up the last bit on the Vicarious reinforcement question and also what did you put for operant conditioning dog question?

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