[HarryMWilliams]

(Original post by zahra_xo)
hey guys

hope everyone's revision is going well

I was just wondering for stress, how much do we need to know the biological side of it?

I know we have to know the HPA and SAM system

But what about things like the differences between the symapthetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?

Theres also stuff in the text book on stress and physical illness about direct mechanical effects, energy mobilisation, fatty acids, indirect affects and b and t cells

surely we dont have to know all that stuff do we :/

thanks in advance

You need to know the bare basics of what the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems do, i.e. one makes things speed up and the other slows you down.

In terms of the actual nitty gritty, the book is unbelievably over the top on ALL of it. You do not need to know most of it according to our Psychology teachers. Just the basic facts and information such as what is the bodies response to stress, how does that affect your day to day life etc.

[zahra_xo]

(Original post by HarryMWilliams)
You need to know the bare basics of what the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems do, i.e. one makes things speed up and the other slows you down.

In terms of the actual nitty gritty, the book is unbelievably over the top on ALL of it. You do not need to know most of it according to our Psychology teachers.

aaah okay, i thought we may have to know about sympathetic and parasympathetic. Well thank god for that! its wayy too detailed! hahaaa i will probably read over it, just so i have background

Thankyou so much

[HarryMWilliams]

(Original post by zahra_xo)
aaah okay, i thought we may have to know about sympathetic and parasympathetic. Well thank god for that! its wayy too detailed! hahaaa i will probably read over it, just so i have background

Thankyou so much

No worries.

[cuckoo99]

(Original post by Lauramayxxxx)
I personally think that the 12 mark question is going to be on social influence.. which I pray to god it isn't! :')

check out the trend should be abnormality

[shybrowngirl]

hi sorry if this was asked before, but does anyone have a complete list of all the topics; including the sub-topics??

[antonia95]

could anyone explain moscovicis social influence research>?

[Tim Kelly]

(Original post by Saif95)
Im asking about independant behaviour (resisting social influence)...my teacher told me that individual differences in independant behaviour (locus of control and attributional style) has been deleted from the spec and it also says...

http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/pdf...-SP-12-SOC.PDF

(Original post by Lauramayxxxx)
I'm pretty sure LOC is still included seems as I've still been taught it and the changes were made in 2011, also if you look on the specification LOC is still on there.

Also what I said was independent behaviour. Having an internal LOC can explain why people can resist the pressures to conform and obey (which what I said about gender links to). Reactance can explain why people can resist conforming, having an anti-conformist personality means you can resist the pressures to conform.
When resisting the pressures to obey you can mention having reduced proximity, social heroism (such as Rosa Parkes or Nelson Mandella), and being in the autonomous state etc...

(Original post by Saif95)
But if you look here at the spec http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/pdf...-SP-12-SOC.PDF

It says individual difference in independant behaviour..(locus of control and attributional style) has been deleted.. my teacher said so also so it can't be wrong...

Is independant behaviour not to do with resisting pressures to conform/obey..?

My teacher has clarified:

"Individual differences in independent behaviour have gone, but independent behaviour stays. Locus of control is explicitly mentioned on the spec. Attributional style is useful to evaluate locus of control and if you get a 12 mark question."

So L.O.C is still there...

[Tim Kelly]

(Original post by shybrowngirl)
hi sorry if this was asked before, but does anyone have a complete list of all the topics; including the sub-topics??

That's pretty much what the spec is:

Biological Psychology - Stress

Stress as a bodily response:
• The body’s response to stress, including the pituitary-adrenal system and the sympathomedullary pathway in outline
• Stress-related illness and the immune system

Stress in everyday life:
• Life changes and daily hassles as sources of stress
• Workplace stress including the effects of workload and control
• Personality factors, including Type A and Type B behaviour, hardiness
• Psychological and biological methods of stress management, including stress inoculation therapy and drug therapy

Social Psychology - Social Influence

Social influence:
• Conformity (majority influence) and explanations of why people conform, including informational social influence and normative social influence
• Types of conformity, including internalisation and compliance
• Obedience to authority, including Milgram’s work and explanations of why people obey

Social influence in everyday life:
• Explanations of independent behaviour, including locus of control, how people resist pressures to conform and resist pressures to obey authority
• How social influence research helps us to understand social change; the role of minority influence in social change

Individual Differences – Psychopathology (Abnormality)

Defining and explaining psychological abnormality:
• Definitions of abnormality, including deviation from social norms, failure to function adequately and deviation from ideal mental health, and limitations of these definitions of psychological abnormality
• The biological approach to psychopathology
• Psychological approaches to psychopathology including the psychodynamic, behavioural and cognitive approaches

Treating abnormality:
• Biological therapies, including drugs and ECT
• Psychological therapies, including psychoanalysis, systematic de-sensitisation and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

[Saif95]

(Original post by Tim Kelly)
My teacher has clarified:

"Individual differences in independent behaviour have gone, but independent behaviour stays. Locus of control is explicitly mentioned on the spec. Attributional style is useful to evaluate locus of control and if you get a 12 mark question."

So L.O.C is still there...

So what is 'individual difference in indepent behaviour' referring to then? And what do you mean if we get a 12 mark question..? If it's gone then surely we wouldnt get a 12 marker on it not even a one marker on it..

So what do we have to know about 'Impliciations for social change'..?

and we wouldn't get a 12 marker on it...right? The AQA A AS Mini companion states we only need to know 6 marks worth of material for it so I guess not..

(last bit left to revise!! )

[shybrowngirl]

(Original post by Tim Kelly)
That's pretty much what the spec is:

Biological Psychology - Stress

Stress as a bodily response:
• The body’s response to stress, including the pituitary-adrenal system and the sympathomedullary pathway in outline
• Stress-related illness and the immune system

Stress in everyday life:
• Life changes and daily hassles as sources of stress
• Workplace stress including the effects of workload and control
• Personality factors, including Type A and Type B behaviour, hardiness
• Psychological and biological methods of stress management, including stress inoculation therapy and drug therapy

Social Psychology - Social Influence

Social influence:
• Conformity (majority influence) and explanations of why people conform, including informational social influence and normative social influence
• Types of conformity, including internalisation and compliance
• Obedience to authority, including Milgram’s work and explanations of why people obey

Social influence in everyday life:
• Explanations of independent behaviour, including locus of control, how people resist pressures to conform and resist pressures to obey authority
• How social influence research helps us to understand social change; the role of minority influence in social change

Individual Differences – Psychopathology (Abnormality)

Defining and explaining psychological abnormality:
• Definitions of abnormality, including deviation from social norms, failure to function adequately and deviation from ideal mental health, and limitations of these definitions of psychological abnormality
• The biological approach to psychopathology
• Psychological approaches to psychopathology including the psychodynamic, behavioural and cognitive approaches

Treating abnormality:
• Biological therapies, including drugs and ECT
• Psychological therapies, including psychoanalysis, systematic de-sensitisation and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

thank you!!!!!!!

[Tim Kelly]

(Original post by Saif95)
So what is 'individual difference in indepent behaviour' referring to then? And what do you mean if we get a 12 mark question..? If it's gone then surely we wouldnt get a 12 marker on it not even a one marker on it..

So what do we have to know about 'Impliciations for social change'..?

and we wouldn't get a 12 marker on it...right? The AQA A AS Mini companion states we only need to know 6 marks worth of material for it so I guess not..

(last bit left to revise!! )

As far as I can understand, the gist of things is we could get a 12 marker on LOC and yeah we'd only need 6 points of information, but we still need another 6 marks of AO2, which is where attributional style comes in because it argues against LOC, saying it's too simplistic.

I don't have a clue what individual differences in resisting pressures to obey concerns, my teacher says she's been teaching us the 2012 spec, so we just haven't been taught it :/

Implications for social change you define social change (When a minority influence in society becomes a majority, changing the zeitgeist) then just apply Milgram, Asch and Moscovici to real life social change. E.g:

Milgram shows gradual commitment *explain how*: relate to real life; e.g. recycling:
- No one recycles
- Told to put bottles in bottle bank
- Told to recycle paper
- Told to recycle more stuff; tin cans etc...

Asch shows us role of a dissenter:
- Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King would be good real life examples of a dissenter in social change

Moscovici shows how a minority needs to be consistent to exert an influence
- Talk about the suffragettes for example, they were a consistent minority that exerted an influence, which eventually caused social change.

Then for AO2 just evaluate these studies! (3 detailed points should be enough, but I like to do 2 positives and one negative to be sure)

[pickles_mix]

Am I the only one who's ****ting myself? There is SO much content! And we did it backwards...studied Abnormality, Social Influence, then Stress. But our teacher said she didn't have enough time to teach us everything on stress (we started AFTER Easter holidays) so she only taught us the basic stuff!! I'm literally sh*tting a brick!

[cdoyle]

High Bs like 2/3 off an A. I know ones that repeated even though they had an A in the module. Someone got 286 in biology out of 300 in AS in my year she repeated.

[cdoyle]

My Best friend has my aqa textbook and I don't drive and live 35 miles apart. I didn't even look through it once. Was very expensive too. Must of read all AS psychology books in my college library and made notes because I have sooo many notes. Guess I don't need it now as at the end of the day psychology is psychology and as long as I'm not looking at undergraduate stuff should be okay.

[megfashion]

(Original post by pickles_mix)
Am I the only one who's ****ting myself? There is SO much content! And we did it backwards...studied Abnormality, Social Influence, then Stress. But our teacher said she didn't have enough time to teach us everything on stress (we started AFTER Easter holidays) so she only taught us the basic stuff!! I'm literally sh*tting a brick!

omg exactly the same. she said "i will teach you what you need to know"... i have no idea about the sympathomedullary pathway etc..., as in the actual process. i can pluck the long words out of thin air bt dont know the actual process!

if you nee any help on social influence or abnormality i can help you if you want

[Id and Ego seek]

(Original post by pickles_mix)
Am I the only one who's ****ting myself? There is SO much content! And we did it backwards...studied Abnormality, Social Influence, then Stress. But our teacher said she didn't have enough time to teach us everything on stress (we started AFTER Easter holidays) so she only taught us the basic stuff!! I'm literally sh*tting a brick!

lol this is A Levels: you're supposed to be doing extra studies around the subject and not relying on your teachers. I had to buy a biology textbook, 2 different psychology textbooks which one wasn't around the syllabus or exam board, and a few of Freud's books just to get my head around this unit.

[ineedtorevise127]

hey guys what are your predictions on what will come up?

[HarryMWilliams]

(Original post by antonia95)
could anyone explain moscovicis social influence research>?

Intro! Moscovici conducted a laboratory experiement in which he wanted to see whether a minority could influence the views of a larger group when answering a question.

The Experiment! The experiment consisted of a group of two people and a group of three people (spearate groups) being shown pieces of card with different shades of green on, they were then asked to shout out what colour they thought was on the card.

Hypothesis! The idea being that the confederates within the groups would then influence the decision of the true participants, even when the suggestion that it maybe dark blue was ridiculous!

Results! A third of participants, 32% judged the slides to be green at least once, where 8.42% of participants consisted to the minority.

Conclusion? Minorities can influence a majority, but not all the time and only when they behave in certain ways (e.g. consistent behaviour style).

[Lauramayxxxx]

Can anyone explain what CBT involves, lets say we got a 4-5 mark question asking us what CBT involves, what would we have to mention?
Something about the ABC model I'm guessing and trying to rid of our irrational thoughts, into more rational, positive thoughts?? Thanks

[WhoYouAre]

yeah you have to write about the ABC model by ellis and how our thoughts affect our feelings, affecting our behaviour