AQA AS Psychology Unit 1! 7th June.. How DID EVERYONE FIND IT?

We do all 5 basic approaches which is one section, basically just an overview of their assumptions and strengths and limitations and various details within them.
Then it's a bigger chapter on the biological approach which is a bit of a nightmare with all sorts of things about neurone structure, brain structure, localisation of function and neurosurgery and genetic basis of behaviour and twin studies but thankfully none of that actually came up
Then there's a chapter on gender development, it goes over gender stereotypes and explanations behind gender development using the approaches. Then research methods which is mostly common sense.

Unit 2 there's options, I'm doing social influence, memory and anxiety disorders but there are 3 others, social cognition perception and autism I think.

I've heard AQA(A) is alot harder! Is it at all similar?

To be honest, yours sounds a lot harder to me!

Unit 1 we do Memory/Attachment/Research Methods
Unit 2 we do Stress/Social Influence/Individual Differences (I think! I'm doing A2 so I've forgotten some )

for the mode one....was it 6 for kids and 7 for adults

and what were you supposed to put for the non directional hypothesis...I put some crap about adults bieng better than kids

Oh and that frequency question and why was it that they chose independent measures design, what did you guys write!?

So, for that question on Anxiety, you had to write about Loftus very briefly (as it was a lab. study and the stimulus text -space shuttle being destroyed- was obviously natural) and therefore you had to talk more on Christiansen et al. who did research on genuine witnesses.

Arrghhh ******** i thought it asked for directional. u guys SURE it asked non-directional?

I flopped the 12 mark question too, as well as the study into STM.

What did everyone right about the cognitive interview question

Also wasnt it opportunity sample?

**** i needed an A too boost up my A2 grade

Did people mention the weapon focus effect in the anxiety one?

Name two types of day care - what did people put? I put day nursery and childminder. :/

Same.

What advice did you give to Ali? And was Ali a boy or a girl?

That was probably one of the hardest Psychology papers I've done, although I did manage to answer all questions... It's just a matter of whether they were correct or not.

In regards to the anxiety question, I wanted to talk about Loftus et al and the weapon focus but didn't see it as being relevant to the context. I did mention how violence can affect the recall (Loftus & Burns) and so similarly the traumatic nature of the event may have effected the recall of the participants. In the same question I contradicted myself by using Cutshall et al (Real life shooting) and supporting it with Yerkes & Dodson (Optimum Anxiety level) which supports the idea that recall may have improved. I did both sided argument but I should have lobbed in flashbulb memory too.

For the institutionalization question, I mentioned Gunnar et al, Tizard & Hodges and O'Connor (same as Rutter). I also did about correlation/Cause & effect... The negative effects of longitudinal studies etc to help with the AO2.

I see many members mentioning researches that I have never heard of and so am a bit apprehensive about my final mark. I didn't have Jan exams but did the same test for a MOCK and was 1 mark away from A. I would've loved the Jan paper but I feel that I probably got a B which is pretty bad news is Psychology is meant to be my strongest subject (Unit 1 anyway)

Do you guys think grade boundaries may be lowered? Seeing as though many here are complaining about how hard it was and my friends in different sixth forms were also complaining about the difficulty of this test. It may just be enough to get me those vital marks.

I had Economics straight after and was absolutely dead so I was delighted that we had Psychology exam first. I basically sacrificed Economics with a half arsed attempt to answer a 25 mark question...

In regards to Unit 2, anything under abnormality and I will completely fail. I can do stress by tomorrow and social is my strongest point in Unit 2 (Milgrim, Asch, Moscovici, Zimbardo, Hewston etc) so I wouldn't mind a 12 marker on that. My Psychology predicted a 12 marker on Social but don't whether she's right or not. But at the moment I have English Lang & Lit to revise for.

PS - If anyone is interested in helping themselves revise by teaching me about the biological part of stress then your most welcome I know jack all for the chronic/acute stress (Hypothalamus Thingy-Ma-Jig)

Thanks and good luck for Unit 2

Name two types of day care - what did people put? I put day nursery and childminder. :/

And about the cognitive interview, I talked about the four basic elements (Despite it saying mentioned at least one. So I wrote about changed perspective, context reinstatement, Report everything and reversed order. As well as taking it place in a well controlled room.