AQA AS psychology how are you learnig your researchers?

Sorry about the typo on the title! ^

If I'm not mistaken we seem to have to learn loads of pieces of research for the exam. I'm using flashcards with the name (eg. Peterson and Peterson 1959) and date on one side and what it was about on the other (eg. duration of STM 90% trigrams 3 secs, 10% trigrams 18secs), but it's taking me a while to learn!

Any other idea's?

It's not really that important knowing the researcher's name... You can just refer to it like, in a study it was found that... etc/

Ignore this; it makes you look unprofessional and lacking in knowledge if you do not remember the majority of the names. You can possibly get away with missing out one name, but not all of them. You do not need the years of the studies however, and if there's more than one researcher (ie there's one with an obscure name) then just remember the one which is easiest to remember ie. Kronenburg et al.

REALLY? For example the meta analysis of the strange situation?. Its a bitch writing "IZNJOORN" or what ever his name is.

Ignore this; it makes you look unprofessional and lacking in knowledge if you do not remember the majority of the names. You can possibly get away with missing out one name, but not all of them. You do not need the years of the studies however, and if there's more than one researcher (ie there's one with an obscure name) then just remember the one which is easiest to remember ie. Kronenburg et al.

Not what I've been told, although I don't really put much effort into learning the names, they kind of just stay in my head. I know people who have gotten 100 UMS who didn't use researcher's names. Not including me in that because I did use their names, but even so, it's not essential to learn every freaking name and I didn't make any special effort trying to.

Ignore this; it makes you look unprofessional and lacking in knowledge if you do not remember the majority of the names. You can possibly get away with missing out one name, but not all of them. You do not need the years of the studies however, and if there's more than one researcher (ie there's one with an obscure name) then just remember the one which is easiest to remember ie. Kronenburg et al.

They must have had some pretty good AO2!

Not what I've been told, although I don't really put much effort into learning the names, they kind of just stay in my head. I know people who have gotten 100 UMS who didn't use researcher's names. Not including me in that because I did use their names, but even so, it's not essential to learn every freaking name and I didn't make any special effort trying to.

Ignore this; it makes you look unprofessional and lacking in knowledge if you do not remember the majority of the names. You can possibly get away with missing out one name, but not all of them. You do not need the years of the studies however, and if there's more than one researcher (ie there's one with an obscure name) then just remember the one which is easiest to remember ie. Kronenburg et al.

Any other idea's?

right, let's clear some things up. You do not need to know their names!

It gets you no marks. You just need to state their aim, findings, conclusion how it verifies/falsifies the theory and evaluation of both research and theory. If knowing the name helps you remember the above then go for it, but it won't get you any extra marks.

I got 100% raw mark with mentioning 2 names.

Well, personally I would advise to learn names, despite what these wonderful people have stated

If this is AQA A then you don't have to learn the year

It would be advisable to learn the researcher's name so it doesn't look like you made it up, but if you don't know the name don't make it up - you could make yourself look really stupid!

At my school we use a Method Of Loci to remember the key studies.

Different key studies are put up all around the school building, and then the psych classes go round the school, stopping at each key study location. At each location, we discuss the relevant study and use props to make it memorable (e.g. a bottle of Kronenbourg for Kronenburg et al.)

Then when you want to remember the studies in the exam, you just walk through the tour in your mind and you remember each study!

Hahaha, if you think there is loads of researchers for AS try A2 *rollseyes* its worse, trust. Anyway, I tend to write long notes go over them, and write out little flash cards, with one word/or phrase next to them which will jog my memory and remind me of the experiment ie for Zimbardo for example: ZIMBARDO:PRISON.