Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!
Psychology discussion, revision, exam and homework help.
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!30 Raw Marks = 40 USM according to June 2011 (one of the harsher UMS conversions and grade boundaries)(Original post by Mr.mAddd)
Can anyone tell me how many marks the paper is out of? Also how many raw marks is 40UMS?
And the paper is out of 85
35 for Research Methods, 24 for the other two sections
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!I think it depends- our teacher hasn't taught it to us, nor did she ever mention whether we need to know it or not (and she's a very good teacher, so it isn't as if she has just neglected the subject). However, I've still looked over it a couple of times in my revision booklet, just in case, mainly because it hasn't yet appeared on an exam paper.(Original post by tresemme)
For research methods, do we need to know about:
- alternatives to the scientific approach e.g. criticisms, new paradigm research
-role of paradigms
-falsifiability
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!Ok thanks. It's quite frustrating because I know some parts have been taken out but it's not that specific which bits! Best to be on the safe side I guess(Original post by wikiellie)
I think it depends- our teacher hasn't taught it to us, nor did she ever mention whether we need to know it or not (and she's a very good teacher, so it isn't as if she has just neglected the subject). However, I've still looked over it a couple of times in my revision booklet, just in case, mainly because it hasn't yet appeared on an exam paper.
Hope this helps
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!Elaboration Likelihood (10) and Celeb. Stalking (10) and a method Q(Original post by Colleen1)
Does anyone know what came up in January 12 for media and schizophrenia?
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!Research methods is a bit funny I found but then again im not too bright(Original post by RachelM94)
That sounds like a serious plan! Mines not going too badly thanks, just plodding through it and trying to make sense of it all I'm just praying RM isn't too tricky cause I haven't looked over that much :/
I have some really good notes for it if you want and some practice booklets that have helped me.
At first they were =
but as you do them over and over comparing to the mark scheme you begin to ace it!
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!Yeah sorry :/ My bad(Original post by Hamsey45)
WHAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED IS NOT RANDOM SAMPLING. Thats Volunteer Sampling as you are asking potential people to volunteer.
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!I know I made a mistake someone else just told me too sorry was doing a question on random sampling at the time so just got confused(Original post by RachelM94)
Hi, sorry i'm not wanting to correct you but I just want to help, that sampling you described is volunteer sampling as you're putting ads out in papers and things for people to come forward and volunteer to take part in the study.
Random sampling can be done by giving everyone in a target population a number (from 1-however many is in the population) and then using a computerised random number generator to pick numbers and so 'randomly' select your sample from the target population
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!I know! I think its just anxiety building up with it finally being over...(Original post by Heyimdec)
Stop worrying Saj! You only have this one exam are you're going to ace it.
Most people on here have 3 or more exams.
Good luck with your other exams Dec
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!Reductionist - Assumes all schizophrenics have schizophrenogenic families, when this is not the case.(Original post by becky465)
Anyone got any evaluation points and IDAs for family systems theory or just psychodynamic explanations of scizophrenia in general??
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Lack of falsifiability - Cannot be proved wrong/right. Lacks scientific evidence as we cannot test it scientifically, thus it lacks scientific validity. -
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!alsoo if the psychodynamic theory was correct, then we'd assume that the therapy is correct. however, as the therapy compared to antipsychotics is worse, we can assume that the theory is incorrect(Original post by amber :))
Reductionist - Assumes all schizophrenics have schizophrenogenic families, when this is not the case.
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Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA4 18th June 2012!I feel like when I ramble on and on it gets me 9/10 each time(Original post by rudizzy123)
Does anybody have a model to follow for the 10/12 mark research method question?
35 for Research Methods, 24 for the other two sections
Most people on here have 3 or more exams. 
