A2 WJEC PY3 & PY4 (8th June & 14th June 2016)

As for PY4, I am playing a prediction game myself as I have used the 2012 to 2015 questions and tried working out the ones that have not come up and work up to the ones that pretty much that have appeared.

It is quite a risky game, but tbf, going from the essays that haven't come up to the ones that did come up but on odd occasions is quite a logical step forward, in terms of prediction.

Only going to be learning 12 essays, 3 each for Controversies, LoC, Forensics and Abnormality.

I'm worrying about the py3 exam, for non participant observation for an advantage I said objective and neutral, for disadvantage i said social desirability bias, for the issue of reliability I said that the measuring tool for aggressive behaviour may not be consistent, for the confounding variable in section b I said the envrionemtn where the questionnaire is answered could influence the behaviour and affect the validity(situational variable) for the experimental hypothesis I said 'there will be a difference between how many horror films a participant watched and the development of a phobia' and the null I said 'there will not be a difference between how many horror films a participant watches and the development of a phobia.' can someone give me feedback on these answers?

I'm worrying about the py3 exam, for non participant observation for an advantage I said objective and neutral, for disadvantage i said social desirability bias, for the issue of reliability I said that the measuring tool for aggressive behaviour may not be consistent, for the confounding variable in section b I said the envrionemtn where the questionnaire is answered could influence the behaviour and affect the validity(situational variable) for the experimental hypothesis I said 'there will be a difference between how many horror films a participant watched and the development of a phobia' and the null I said 'there will not be a difference between how many horror films a participant watches and the development of a phobia.' can someone give me feedback on these answers?

Non-PO - if you expanded then 4/4
Reliability - 1/2
Confounding - 2/2
Experimental - 1/2
Null - 1/2 (In order to get 2 marks for the hypothesis questions there needs to be a mention of the IV, DV, and the significance of their relationship 'there will be no significant relationship between exposure to the media and the intensity of phobic reaction to stimuli'

For those of you who weren't taught, a non-participant observation is where the researcher(s) are not a part of the observation

That non-participant observation definition sounds like you're saying the researchers who proposed whatever they're researching are just not the ones doing the observation? i.e. like they hired a 3rd party to do their observations for them

Essentially there's the main researcher and their students/whatever (hence the et al on a lot of cases of participant observations), and the main researcher is not a participant, as opposed to a participant observation, where they are literally one of the people whose data will be taken and used in analysis

As for PY4, I am playing a prediction game myself as I have used the 2012 to 2015 questions and tried working out the ones that have not come up and work up to the ones that pretty much that have appeared.

It is quite a risky game, but tbf, going from the essays that haven't come up to the ones that did come up but on odd occasions is quite a logical step forward, in terms of prediction.

Only going to be learning 12 essays, 3 each for Controversies, LoC, Forensics and Abnormality.

4) i dont know if you'll get a mark for your directional hypothesis, you needed to talk about the difference between conditions i.e. there will be a significant difference between the amount of people who developed phobias due to the media and those who developed them from other sources. There was no mention of horror films. Pretty sure you wont get a mark for the null because that's not what the experiment was about, you needed to have something like: there will be no significant difference between the amount of people who developed phobias due to the media and those who developed them from other sources. You needed to compare the origin of phobias not just phobias of people who watched horror films (because again these weren't mentioned?)

Hello guys,

I have just seen this thread and realised that there was not much for this specific exam board that I am sitting for.

I realised that it is best to open one for you all to discuss and share your thoughts on the exams that are upcoming and also have a discussion on the final exam as to what may come up and what not.

Fire away any questions on this thread and at least get to somewhere positive.

Has anyone got any tips for remembering understudied relationships and the studies?

Thank you!

Has anyone got predictions as to what's gonna come up?

for the aqa a psychology unit 3 exam yesterday , i answered the evolutionary explanation which was not their instead of evoltionary of human aggression . would i lose all the marks. it was 4+16

for the aqa a psychology unit 3 exam yesterday , i answered the evolutionary explanation which was not their instead of evoltionary of human aggression . would i lose all the marks. it was 4+16

If the question you answered was not actually asked on the paper then i think you may not get any marks unfortunately but you never no. For example in wjec theres "ethical issues in human research" and then a question "ways of dealing with ethical issues" if you were asked the first one in the exam but answered the second one by accident i dont think examiners will mark it


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Anyone have any predictions for PY4? I think it might be Factors Affecting EWT

What topics are you doing?