Help! Psychology exam in january 2010

I'm retaking my crime module from ocr psychology in january but can't remember the topics (or studies) and am unsure how to answer the questions. does anyone have any advice or revision notes (or websites)
Thanks

Reply 1

GodspeedGehenna

hiddencat12

I'm retaking my crime module from ocr psychology in january but can't remember the topics (or studies) and am unsure how to answer the questions.

Have you tried revising?

Reply 2

hiddencat12

I am revising I JUST dont think im getting very far.

Reply 3

grape:)

GodspeedGehenna

Have you tried revising?

and OP, continue to revise?

Reply 4

xxNicoxx

I did this exam in june last year (got 100 :p:

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The topics were:
Offender Profiling
Psychology of testimony
Psychology of the courtroom
The police and crime
Explanations of criminal behaviour
Crime victim interaction
Crime thinking patterns
Offender punishment, treatments and preventing crime

As for studies overall there were like 40 becuase each section is divided into subsections and the studies were up to the college etc. So I'm not going to sit and type them up but if you need studies there are books which are set out in the sections with the subsections and have a variety of studies for you to take your pick from.

Reply 5

hiddencat12

Ive got 33 studies but will probably drop 3 from the explanations section.

Reply 6

26daystoworkwith

The topics and sub-topics are:

Explanations of criminal behaviour
-Theories of criminal behaviour.
-Individual and cultural differences in criminal behaviour.
-Social psychology of the criminal.

Criminal thinking patterns:
-Morality and crime.
-Social cognition and crime.
-Rationality and choice.

Crime-victim interaction:
Who are victims; fear of crime.
-Victim responses.
-Crime reporting and intervention.

Offender profiling
-Definitions, approaches and developing a profile.
-Biases and pitfalls.
-Applied profiling (one case study only).

The police and crime:
-Policing; the police personality.
-Determining and processing suspects.
-Interviewing and negotiation techniques

Psychology of testimony:
-Cognitive processes and testimony.
-Variables influencing accurate identification of suspect/event.
-Aids to recall/recognition: identikit and identity parades.

Psychology of the courtroom
-Trial procedures and persuasion techniques.
-Jury selection and decision-making.
-Children as witnesses.

Offender punishments and treatments and preventing crime.
-Types and effectiveness of punishments.
-Offender treatment programmes.
-Environmental crime prevention.

I had a look at what's come up recently, I think that the Jan exam will probably be

Section A
Punishment and Treatment
Police and Crime

Section B
Criminal Thinking
Crime-Victim Interactions

But that's only if they're still following the pattern, they might just throw random ones at us.

Reply 7

hiddencat12

Thanks if those 4 come up I will be really happy since can remember both those section A's ans the criminal thinking.
but will keep revising.
are you retaking?
if so Good Luck.

Reply 8

26daystoworkwith

Yeah I am, I need 13 marks to get my overall C up to a B... considering I got an E in crime, it shouldn't be too hard!
Good luck to you too :smile:

Reply 9

hiddencat12

Yay You should be fine. i NEED 7 more marks to get my D up to a C overall. but lot's of revision. I can't decide if it's good I can remeber 6 studies in full and a few more outlines. or bad because I can't remeber anything else. Ah well lots of revision YAY