AQA B PSYB2 7th June 2011

I found that to be some of the easier stuff to learn, weird! If you want to discuss it over PM feel free.

I don't know what was on the 2010 June paper (going to do that later today) but I'm sort of expecting to get something on Social Facilitation, as that hasn't seemed to come up for a while. Which sucks, because that's the area of Social Influence I know the least well.

Possibly comparing two theories of forgetting for the Cognitive section, and hopefully something on phobias for the anxiety disorders section.

Anyone think Levels Of Processing Approach/Types of LTM is likely to come up for the memory 10 marker?

yes, was just going over that as its the only essay that hasn't come up yet for memory

edit: levels of processing i mean , i dont think there is enough info in the spec for a 10 maker on types of ltm ?

yeah there is, 5 marks - describing the stores.
ao2: real life example, 3 studies: dr S, tulving and HM.
= 9/10

I don't get what it means by "circular argument" for Levels of processing?

ao2 marks are:

2 marks MAX for quoting studies (you can only get these marks once)
1 mark for a real life example. (again, you can only get this mark once)
1 mark for contrasting points (you can give as many as you like here)
1 mark for RELATING the evaluation of a study to the theory (i.e. you can't say "it lacks ecological validity" you have to elaborate).

tbh, you could just get the ao2 marks simply by contrasting. and yeah, nelson thornes, page 175.

ah i see , thanks. and yeh i guess you could just get a02 points by contrasting , im guessing its best to try learn a study for everything because if the question ask you to refer to evidence and you don't, you can only score a certain amount of marks?

and your right the circular thing is confusing , would we not get the mark if we just said there is no adequate measure of depth, as its different for certain individuals ?

what dyou mean for "certain individuals"?
and yeah, you can only get 6 marks max if it asks you to refer to evidence and you don't. also, make sure you know the evaluation points for studies because they like giving "evaluate one study on...(3 marks)" question. i hate that -,-

im not really sure what its trying to say , i just interpreted it as , becuase level of depth is not really measurable , deep processing for one person might not neccarayly be deep processing for another .
and yeh thanks for the tip , i will go over the studies again later on.

lol idk but that seems worthy of a mark
i desperately need to go over research methods, i dont even know what "matched pairs design" is! :s

fortunately i still remember allot of research methods as i sat psyb1 recently, have you learnt many studies for anxiety disorders as I hardly have any.

Anyone think Levels Of Processing Approach/Types of LTM is likely to come up for the memory 10 marker?

Types of ltm is unlikely but theories of forgetting came up in jan & last year June I think - so most likely will he straight forward model proposed!

& 10marker for social influence either obedience or facilitation I'm guessing! & anxiety disorders theve asked for treatments - so most likely OCD or phobia could be psychodynamic :/

Hope it's not biological!

i dont learn 1 study for each explanation, just the evidence really.

phobias:
biological - mineka and cook (the monkeys) fyer et al (high concordance for agrophobia)
psychodynamic: little hans/abraham - unconscious fear of spiders.
behaviourist: little albert/ dog phobics (60% remember traumatic event, 40% dont)
cognitive: grazio & mooney (the CBT treatment for kids scared of the dark)

OCD:
biological: comings and comings (people who have OCD are more likely to have a first degree relative suffering from an axiety disorder)
psychodynamic: ratman
behaviourist: superstitious sports stars (o'leary and wilson), rachman and hodgson (stopping them from doing their compulsions)
cognitive: (idk about this one?..)

ive pretty much got the same , are you planning on revising all night ?

no, im gonna sleep at around 1.30ish. you?

going sleep at 3 then will start again at around 6 or 7. btw i just looked at some of the candiate exampler work on the aqa site and some essays with are about 100-200 words have been given 8/9 out of 10 , if this is all thats requires why do they give us 3 pages

i LOVE biological! psychodynamic isnt that bad, i just get mixed up between the phobias and ocd explanations

going sleep at 3 then will start again at around 6 or 7. btw i just looked at some of the candiate exampler work on the aqa site and some essays with are about 100-200 words have been given 8/9 out of 10 , if this is all thats requires why do they give us 3 pages