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  1. amber :)'s Avatar
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by fzzz)
    Any predict for schizophrenia?? It's really made me crazy
    therapies i'm guessing.- might split up into bio and psych therapies I reckon....
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    (Original post by unbeatablemoody)
    My favourite way to remember the Stats tests is through this method. WAR, MOI, CIN, SOC.

    W- Wilcoxon
    O- Ordinal <
    R- Related Measures

    M- Mann-Whitney U
    O- Ordinal <
    I- Independent

    C- Chi Squared
    I - Independent >
    N - Nominal

    S- Spearman's Rank
    O - Order More Important >
    C - Correlation

    And the good this is, the top 2 are < and the bottom two are >. So essentially, left right, which is easy to remember. This is what my class likes to do anyways, a bit easier than the other methods I've seen!
    What do you mean by that?
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by sanaindaclub)
    Me too please!
    I've posted them just now above this one hope it's helped !
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    can someone give me sample consent form(5marks) and study report(12marks)which you would be asked to do for research methods please
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by HalleStar)
    That's what I'm doing because I think it will come up, it hasn't come up in a while. I'm gambling definitely


    This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App
    Diagnosis and classification came up in Jan 2012
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by UWS)
    Do we have to know these for Research methods?

    1. Kuhn and Popper
    2. Peer review
    we don't need to know Kuhn and Popper but we need to know peer review (:
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    for addiction does anyone know if we have to learn the key concepts for the models???
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    (Original post by chickenlegs)
    I just started revision and need to like minimise it..............
    Oh I see, I don't think that issues surrounding the classification or diagnosis of schiz will come up coz it came up in January so forget about that. Most likely is therapies so that should help to minimise


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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by chickenlegs)
    is it too risky to just revise therapies and diagnosis/classification for schizo
    why would you even revise diagnosis when it has just come up?
    revise explanations + therapies!
    im ignoring the diagnosis and clasification part
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    Do we need to know these for Research methods?

    Qualitative data
    Variety of approaches e.g. discourse analysis, ethnography & interpretative phenomenological analysis
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    Chances of riks facotors coming up for addiction?
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by Rose957)
    For schizophrenia apparently treatments are going to come uppppp
    I really hope not!

    :mad::confused:
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by HolyFuzazzle)
    Outline and Evaluate 2 Psychological therapies of schizophrenia

    Discuss social explanations of the attraction of celebrity (6+10)
    Outline what research has told us about some of the negative and positive effects of video games (4?)
    Outline the Hovland-Yale model of persuasion. Explain how a phone company might use this information to make a campaign more successful.(4+10)

    You're better than me, I can never be bothered with doing past questions, unless they're research methods ones.
    For the Hovland-Yale model, what can I include? Because a phone is a lot harder to talk about than your example question of perfume, because it has to attractive to a larger target market of both males and females... so I can't mention someone who is similair to the target market... I guess I could use attractive people/celebs... but I don't think I've ever seen a mobile advert with a celebrity on....
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by Hannah578)
    Yours all seems right too me,
    I've got :-
    Biological Interventions

    Smoking - Nicotine Replacement Therapy


    Involves releasing nicotine into the bloodstream in order to relieve the withdrawal symptoms from smoking. Desensitises nicotine receptors in brain so if a person does smoke, it is less satisfying. Releases nicotine into blood more slowly than cigarettes meaning NRT is less satisfying, encouraging relapse. Nicotine causes cigarette addiction but cigarettes contain other harmful substances – NRT prevents the person from ingesting these harmful substances. Therefore it is logical to reduce nicotine to eliminate consumption of harmful substances.

    However nicotine itself does have harmful effects, e.g.:
    - Increases heart rate and blood pressure, leading to heart disease
    - Aggravates diabetes
    - Increases tumour growth
    - Affects development of foetuses

    Gambling
    Serotonin Drugs

    SSRIs AO1
    Evidence of serotonin dysfunction/fluctuation in pathological gamblers (George and Murali, 2005). SSRIs regulate serotonin levels, which could reduce the urge to partake in addictive behaviours.
    Hollander et al (2000) found that gamblers treated with SSRIs to increase serotonin levels showed significant improvement compared to a control group.

    Dopamine Drugs

    Neltrexone - Inhibits the release of dopamine that results from gambling. Supported by research by Kim and Grant (2001) who found a decrease in gambling thoughts and behaviour after 6 weeks. Research with 10 participants over 16 weeks showed neltrexone reduced urge to gamble (Hollander et al, 2000). However these studies only looked at short term effectiveness – limited research into the long term effectiveness of the drug.

    Which is kind of the same, but not really the same as yours?! so who knows?! Ahhh I actually hate this, learning addiction in a day is not going well haha xx
    hahaha arghhh I think we have the same gist, I know I'm trying to do the same thing so bad at revising though I'm just reading these posts about people panicking instead?! haha ooops xxx
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    Any predictions on media?x
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by sanaindaclub)
    Chances of riks facotors coming up for addiction?
    awkard question
    came up in janaury, however specification changed with new stuff so whooo knows
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    Does anyone have the link for the jan 2012 paper and mark sceme?
    Thank youuuu xx
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by LondonLT)
    awkard question
    came up in janaury, however specification changed with new stuff so whooo knows
    I know. We WERENT TAUGHT THE NEW STUFF AND I HAVE NO NOTES! I hate my teacher. She didnt even know about the spec changes until we told her!
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
    (Original post by OxfordPotential)
    Anyone have some point on the TPB because my teacher decided not to teach us it because shes useless.
    Hey, ive just quoted someone else with TPB later on in this thread should be there, its just a quick summary.
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