Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!

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  1. lou_100's Avatar
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
    (Original post by Happy03)
    exactly what i though you could of had encoding, oduration, capacity etc couldnt you?
    What was the actual question again? "differences between STM and LTM?"
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
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    What was the actual question again? "differences between STM and LTM?"
    i think it was something like "state or summit 2 differences according to the wmm between LTM and STM
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
    (Original post by Happy03)
    i think it was something like "state or summit 2 differences according to the wmm between LTM and STM
    Oh but the WMM is a model of STM? It must have been MSM.
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
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    Oh but the WMM is a model of STM? It must have been MSM.
    yeah my bad i cant really remmember :L if someone could get hold of the paper thatd be good
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    Yea it said 2 differences between STM and LTM accoding to MSM. It cannot be WMM, since WMM focuses on STM.
    Differences like encoding, capacity, duration and forgetting will be credited, I believe.
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
    For the extraneous variable I put 'amount of sleep' and then described how this could have had an effect on recall... Would I get some marks at least?
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    For the extraneous variable question, would they be lookin for particular ones or any as long as they are explained fully?


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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
    Is there an unofficial mark scheme anywhere? Would love to get a rough idea of how I did.
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
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    Im pretty sure you were only supposed to talk about one. Also, isnt Weapon focus by Loftus?
    No Because it just asked for research, and loftis did a study into weapon focus too but so did peters
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
    (Original post by Hamsey45)
    Why? The question was 'Identify ONE study into the effects of anxiety? you would have lost marks if you talked about more than one as you are not answering the question.
    You wouldn't have lost any marks as the paper is marked positively! They would have just read the first study and ignored the second one and just given the correct amount of marks based on the first study
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
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    You wouldn't have lost any marks as the paper is marked positively! They would have just read the first study and ignored the second one and just given the correct amount of marks based on the first study
    I think it should be okay because AQA are really leanient.
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    Your all still going on about an exam completed two days ago?

    Why not just be positive and hope for a good outcome in August when the results come through.


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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
    is the paper online anywhere?
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    (Original post by Happy03)
    yeah my bad i cant really remmember :L if someone could get hold of the paper thatd be good
    The question was: 'identify two differences between the short and long term store featured in the MSM of memory.

    There was three possible answers: capacity, duration and encoding.

    I chose capacity - STM = Around 7+ or - 1 pieces of info. LTM = Potentially unlimited.
    I also chose encoding - STM = Acoustically as well as visually. LTM = Semantically.


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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
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    The question was: 'identify two differences between the short and long term store featured in the MSM of memory.

    There was three possible answers: capacity, duration and encoding.

    I chose capacity - STM = Around 7+ or - 1 pieces of info. LTM = Potentially unlimited.
    I also chose encoding - STM = Acoustically as well as visually. LTM = Semantically.


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    Its 7 +/- 2 for stm's capacity not 7+/-1.So it can hold from 5-9 items.
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
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    Its 7 +/- 2 for stm's capacity not 7+/-1.So it can hold from 5-9 items.
    Yes I agree - but I doubt the person would loose marks for saying 7+/-1
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
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    Yes I agree - but I doubt the person would loose marks for saying 7+/-1
    Dunno aqa are getting tougher in there marking. Also in almost every mark scheme they always say from 5-9 items so the person may lose marks for inaccuracy.
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
    (Original post by Missimperfect)
    No no, that questions absolutely fine! im not sure about the options u gave (a and b) but the question is fine!
    OK thanx for that! :cool::p:o
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    Re: Psychology AQA A PSYA1 23rd May 2012!
    (Original post by lou_100)
    Oh but the WMM is a model of STM? It must have been MSM.
    no it was the multistore model.. i read it over about 5 times
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    (Original post by darkshadow1111)
    Its 7 +/- 2 for stm's capacity not 7+/-1.So it can hold from 5-9 items.
    I actually wrote 7 + / 2 ... It was a typing error.


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