[sammy-lou]

(Original post by Emie)
I based mine on methods, I talked about moral dilemma's and mentioned Kohlberg and Eisenberg and then moral comparisons with Piaget.
I know they are pretty much the same thing but I was really flustered as I didn't know what it wanted! Plus we were taught Gilligan as a moral dilemma which she interviewed about so I was unsure about using that one, I think I should have though as it's the most different method! AHHH, can't do anything now though! Just hope they realise how stupid the question was and take it into account!

Yeah, I think you'll be safe with Eisenberg, especially if you mentioned it was a PROSOCIAL dilemma as opposed to Piaget's comparison. Ahhh we weren't taught Gilligan in that way - it wasn't a clear cut question so hopefully they'll allow a big range of answers for that!

[Over The Rainbow X]

I have to say, the long answer questions were pretty weird. With the Schizophrenia/Mood Disorders question, you really did have to know your stuff. However, I do feel I did well, so I just hope I get a good grade!

[FirstHeGiveth]

(Original post by Emie)
Just had this test, I did moral development and forensic too (but not substance abuse).

What did you think of the questions? and anyone else who did them.

What was the first essay asking for? like 2 other METHODS or 2 other TOPICS? As measuring cheating was both the topic and method of the example psychologist.

That essay question was very badly worded. I think it was asking for both. I introduced the moral comparison technique, and then the moral dilemma technique, and then introduced people who used them (Piaget, Kohlberg). I then spent the rest of the essay evaluating the method they used within their studies, and the flaws and good points about the theories generated by them based on the studies.

I was confused about it as well, so I basically wrote a very long essay to make sure I included enough A02 marks for either possibility. So Here's hoping.
I was an idiot in the short questions for that section though. Got the 5 marker spot on, but I named matched pairs design instead of independent groups, and accidently wrote about the independent variable instead of dependent.
How did you find Forensic Psychology?

[beedee1]

(Original post by Over The Rainbow X)
I have to say, the long answer questions were pretty weird. With the Schizophrenia/Mood Disorders question, you really did have to know your stuff. However, I do feel I did well, so I just hope I get a good grade!

ahh, what did you write for that? im so worried about mine! :/

[lauren_a]

(Original post by beedee1)
ahh, what did you write for that? im so worried about mine! :/

Just thought I'd add in here: I'm equally nervous about that question D:
This is what I did:

1. Briefly outlined the types of medication (typical/atypical antipsychotics) for some A01 marks.
2. Discussed the impact of these drugs and why they aren't always the best treatment (side effects, affectivity, alternatives etc).
3. Discussed the impact of institutionalisation with reference to the labelling theory.
4. Discussed some evidence demonstrating the flaws in institutions.
5. Discussed the need for community care and social skills training.
6. Ending by concluding that the focus should be on individual needs but should follow the basic principles of balancing medication with community care and social skills training to rehabilitate patients into society.

Idk something inside me says I did it wrong but I'm not sure how...

[beedee1]

(Original post by lauren_a)
Just thought I'd add in here: I'm equally nervous about that question D:
This is what I did:

1. Briefly outlined the types of medication (typical/atypical antipsychotics) for some A01 marks.
2. Discussed the impact of these drugs and why they aren't always the best treatment (side effects, affectivity, alternatives etc).
3. Discussed the impact of institutionalisation with reference to the labelling theory.
4. Discussed some evidence demonstrating the flaws in institutions.
5. Discussed the need for community care and social skills training.
6. Ending by concluding that the focus should be on individual needs but should follow the basic principles of balancing medication with community care and social skills training to rehabilitate patients into society.

Idk something inside me says I did it wrong but I'm not sure how...

I bolded everything i wrote too! I was really worried I could be completely off. When I got out of the exam I felt really confident, then looked at my book and realised I'd made a few minor errors then freaked out thinking I'd failed it all! Did you talk about Rosenhans study for the impact of institutions and linked it to the flaw in institutions? And for the alternatives of drugs what did you write? I don't think i wrote anything for that :/

[lauren_a]

(Original post by beedee1)
I bolded everything i wrote too! I was really worried I could be completely off. When I got out of the exam I felt really confident, then looked at my book and realised I'd made a few minor errors then freaked out thinking I'd failed it all! Did you talk about Rosenhans study for the impact of institutions and linked it to the flaw in institutions? And for the alternatives of drugs what did you write? I don't think i wrote anything for that :/

Oh I only mentioned alternatives briefly. Just stated that studies had shown that psychotherapy could have a more positive impact than drugs in some individual cases. Well if you fail, I'll fail too! Sounds like our essays were very similar. Ooh no that would have been good. I just talked about that study where people were able to get institutonalised by faking symptoms and how it demonstrated a critical flaw in the diagnostic processes.

[beedee1]

(Original post by lauren_a)
Oh I only mentioned alternatives briefly. Just stated that studies had shown that psychotherapy could have a more positive impact than drugs in some individual cases. Well if you fail, I'll fail too! Sounds like our essays were very similar. Ooh no that would have been good. I just talked about that study where people were able to get institutonalised by faking symptoms and how it demonstrated a critical flaw in the diagnostic processes.

that was rosenhans study !
I briefly mentioned another study I think, it was the one where drug therapy/and some other therapy were tested with community care after some people came out of hospital and got help and a control group didnt and the rates of relapse were 45/40 % for drug and the other therapy and 0% for community care.
I chose to answer that question last and was completely rushing in the last 10 seconds. What other topics did you do?

[lauren_a]

(Original post by beedee1)
that was rosenhans study !
I briefly mentioned another study I think, it was the one where drug therapy/and some other therapy were tested with community care after some people came out of hospital and got help and a control group didnt and the rates of relapse were 45/40 % for drug and the other therapy and 0% for community care.
I chose to answer that question last and was completely rushing in the last 10 seconds. What other topics did you do?

Oh good! I feel a bit better now aha. I did Cog Dev and Forensic Psych, you?

[Over The Rainbow X]

(Original post by beedee1)
ahh, what did you write for that? im so worried about mine! :/

I made some points about drugs and included a study. I then A02'd drugs. I made references to the Rosenhan study and then I talked about community care and token economy, and right at the end, I added in the expressed emotion explanation.

[Emie]

(Original post by FirstHeGiveth)
That essay question was very badly worded. I think it was asking for both. I introduced the moral comparison technique, and then the moral dilemma technique, and then introduced people who used them (Piaget, Kohlberg). I then spent the rest of the essay evaluating the method they used within their studies, and the flaws and good points about the theories generated by them based on the studies.

I was confused about it as well, so I basically wrote a very long essay to make sure I included enough A02 marks for either possibility. So Here's hoping.
I was an idiot in the short questions for that section though. Got the 5 marker spot on, but I named matched pairs design instead of independent groups, and accidently wrote about the independent variable instead of dependent.
How did you find Forensic Psychology?

I didn't find it too bad, I could have done much better with a different essay but I had a few names to put into an essay about treatment of offenders as I really want to pull my grade up from last year. Everyone else in my school said they wrote a paragraph for it so I don't think mine was very good but it was a short essay length! I liked the short answer questions, I think.

[FirstHeGiveth]

(Original post by Emie)
I didn't find it too bad, I could have done much better with a different essay but I had a few names to put into an essay about treatment of offenders as I really want to pull my grade up from last year. Everyone else in my school said they wrote a paragraph for it so I don't think mine was very good but it was a short essay length! I liked the short answer questions, I think.

Yeah the short questions were pretty good. The essay was a tough one, I don't think anyone in my class knew the treatments that well. My essay was about 2 1/2 of the pages. I don't know what that's like in length for this, but my teacher said it was quite short hope it went okay.

A lot of people messed up in that bit because they forgot that "Social skills training" was taken off the syllabus, so it was just behaviour modification and anger management.

[beedee1]

(Original post by Over The Rainbow X)
I made some points about drugs and included a study. I then A02'd drugs. I made references to the Rosenhan study and then I talked about community care and token economy, and right at the end, I added in the expressed emotion explanation.

Sounds good How did you link EE to the rest of it?

(Original post by lauren_a)
Oh good! I feel a bit better now aha. I did Cog Dev and Forensic Psych, you?

Ah, I did child development and substance abuse!

[Over The Rainbow X]

(Original post by beedee1)
Sounds good How did you link EE to the rest of it?

I explained what it was, gave an example of the study and said how this shows institutionalisation may be better for those suffering schizophrenia as they are less likely to relapse in the hospital environment.

[electric-wars]

(Original post by lauren_a)
Just thought I'd add in here: I'm equally nervous about that question D:
This is what I did:

1. Briefly outlined the types of medication (typical/atypical antipsychotics) for some A01 marks.
2. Discussed the impact of these drugs and why they aren't always the best treatment (side effects, affectivity, alternatives etc).
3. Discussed the impact of institutionalisation with reference to the labelling theory.
4. Discussed some evidence demonstrating the flaws in institutions.
5. Discussed the need for community care and social skills training.
6. Ending by concluding that the focus should be on individual needs but should follow the basic principles of balancing medication with community care and social skills training to rehabilitate patients into society.

Idk something inside me says I did it wrong but I'm not sure how...

This has made me absolutely terrified.

I basically just talked about community care and evaluated that at great length, and briefly talked about drugs and evaluated them, and concluded that community care is the best type of treatment for schizophrenia as it aims to re-integrate people into society rather than ostracize them from it. I didn't even refer to Rosenhan .

[lauren_a]

(Original post by electric-wars)
This has made me absolutely terrified.

I basically just talked about community care and evaluated that at great length, and briefly talked about drugs and evaluated them, and concluded that community care is the best type of treatment for schizophrenia as it aims to re-integrate people into society rather than ostracize them from it. I didn't even refer to Rosenhan .

Doon't be! I guarantee what I actually wrote was way worse than I've made it sound. I got a C last Jan anyway aha :'D

[electric-wars]

(Original post by lauren_a)
Doon't be! I guarantee what I actually wrote was way worse than I've made it sound. I got a C last Jan anyway aha :'D

It sounds excellent, and I'm sure you've learned from your mistakes!

Do you think we could be penalized for not talking about Rosenhan in that essay? He does seem the rather obvious one to discuss. I can't believe I dismissed him.

[lauren_a]

(Original post by electric-wars)
It sounds excellent, and I'm sure you've learned from your mistakes!

Do you think we could be penalized for not talking about Rosenhan in that essay? He does seem the rather obvious one to discuss. I can't believe I dismissed him.

I doubt it!
In Summer I missed out all the obvious studies from my gender development essay (only referenced one...vaguely...which i made up) and still got an A. You'll be fine!

[Over The Rainbow X]

So, how did everybody do?

[cavorting]

(Original post by Over The Rainbow X)
So, how did everybody do?

I got a B, what about you?