As Aqa Psychology Unit 2 Revision June 10th!!!

Do we need to learn the variations of Milgrams original study?

its a lovely hour and a half paper with i think 100 marks?

my teacher went out of her way to get me a revision guide in her lunch break even tho i never go to lessons lol. everyone who started revising today make sure you cover everything in abnormality as that is the most difficult part. you can waffle on social psychology if you know the basics..well that's what i think.

PSYA2 january 2009, anyone know which section the 12 marker was in?

How would you answer it?
like
>Definition
>weakness
>stregth
>treatment ie drugs or ect
>strenghts + weaknesses of those?

or
>Definition
>stregth
>weakness
>Stregth
>weakness

Because I'm confused about whether or not to add the treatment when doing the 12 marker on the explanations to abnormal behaviour.
because my teacher said don't talk about the treatment, just mainly the approach or something like that but i've forgotten what she said and ive gotten confused

Previous papers had a total of 72 marks but I don't know if they're changing this..

The main social psychology research studies are:
Sherif
Asch
Clark
Zimbardo
Milgram
Gamson

These were the only main ones highlighted in the AQA book but ofcourse there are other little studies you could throw in for extra credit.

The 12 marker for that paper was outline and evaluate the biological approach to psychopathology

I think a very brief outline like 'the experiment was repeated in a run down office where obedience was lower' would suffice, just the fact that different conditions had different findings is what we need to know.

Isn't it 72?

Awesome, although not so awesome that the 12 marker is likely to be stress

arrrgh, I hope not, minority influence is not one of my errr stronger points. I hope none come up about social change!!

I've lost my behavioural booklet Does anyone have any notes? I'm panicking, and I haven't gone over abnormality yet, I've been sitting here panicking, I don't know where to start!!!!!!!!!!

The behavioural model of abnormality:
The emphasis for behaviourist psychology is not on the workings of the mind, personality or the history of an individual, but purely on observable and measurable behaviour.
The behaviour model believes that what can be learned can be unlearned, which in turn suggests a method of treatment and ultimate cure for abnormal conditions.

Maladaptive learning takes place through classical conditioning, operate conditioning or social learning. This is a 'surface' explanation, in that it does not consider biological or emotional factors.

- Classical conditioning works on reflec actions where a neutral stimulus acquires the properties of another stimulus through association. It has been claimed that mental disorders such as phobias can be explained in this manner.
- Operate conditioning occurs when a new response is learned through reinforcement (reward).The reinforcement increases the likelihood that the new response will be repeated. For example, anxiety could be reinforced by attention and empathy from others.
- Social learning theroy explains the formation of abnormal behaviour as occuring by vicarious learning. The process involves observation and imitation of a role model, who is reinforced (rewarded) for their behaviour.

phheww, I cba to write out an evaluation...Hope this helps anyhow