A2 - Edexcel Psychology June 2016

Mee I'm feeling okay about it though haha it's unit 4 I'm worried about because I have a politics exam the same day

same! urrgh im dreading that day soo much, theres so much information to learn for both exams! What's your revision method for remembering everything for that day? I have no idea what im going to do, I'm more confident in politics so i'll probably focus on psychology slightly more, still panicking though!

It was something like 'describe Nicole's behaviour using social learning theory compared to another explanation of criminal behaviour'


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It was a really badly worded question, I wouldn't worry about it too much, I'm sure loads of people across the country have interpreted it differently

Is anyone doing Anorexia as the other disorder? And if so, what are your two therapies because struggling really badly with A01/A02!!

I am!! Do you mean treatments or explanations??


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What did you write for "what is criminological psychology?" :')

I'm not making any sense ha! I meant treatments But which explanations did you do?

I do schizophrenia and anorexia. So for schizophrenia I have the biological treatment (drug treatment (chemotherapy) ) and the social treatment (assertive community therapy) and for explanations I have the biological (the dopamine hypothesis) and social (social causation). For anorexia I did the cognitive treatment (rational emotive therapy), psychodynamic (free association) and learning (token economy programmes), the explanations I used learning (SLT, operant conditioning an classical conditioning) and biological (hypothalamus dysfunction).


I think that's right, someone correct me if I've done something wrong please /.\


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Is anyone doing Anorexia as the other disorder? And if so, what are your two therapies because struggling really badly with A01/A02!!

Question about crim: was the question asking us to come up with the procedure of a field study that would test the testimony of old and young people?

I essentially replicated Yarmey and classed my participants into 2 groups dpeending on whether they were young or old.

Dumb question but want to make sure I answered it correctly.

Thank you so much! Does it matter if the treatments aren't from the same approach as the explanation?

I'm doing Learning for Anorexia (SLT, Operant and Classical) and Biological ( role of VMH and LH) as explanations but the revision guide says RET and free association as therapies but I really can't get to terms with free association. So I decided to learn Token Economy and RET but not sure because don't think the treatments have come up on past papers?

I'm so stressed over a tiny thing!

I put something like:
Criminological psychology is the study of criminal behaviour and what causes such behaviour. Criminal psychology looks at theories such as social learning theory and self fulfilling prophecy as an explanation of crime. The aim of criminological psychology is to devise treatment programmes which will reduce rates of recidivism such as token economy programmes and anger management.

That was such a stupid question


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Seems like the comparison threw us a bit.. gonna make sure I practise compare for clinical cos there's a lot