[s_axo]

(Original post by Dodidi95)
I've received a letter from my teacher explaining that this exam may include a "Stress Inoculation Therapy"... Can anybody please enlighten me as to what this is?

Stress innoculation therapy was introduced by Miechnebeum, and is a psychological treatment for stress. It consists of 3 stages...
1. Conceptualization- whereby one analyses a situation and what elements of it causes stress
2. Skills- this is the stage where the psychologist teaches someone how to deal with this stress, such as relaxation techniques
3. Real life application- this is when these skills are applied in real life setting

The evaluation of this-

• It takes a lot of time/effort
• It has been proven to be effective, as Meichenbeum found
• However, there may have been bias in this result

[s_axo]

(Original post by Lauraaa12)
What would a
'What are the implications for social change of research into social influence?'
question actually want?

I probably sound stupid but I don't think the wording is too clear, that's probably just me being used to concise chemistry questions though

I was doing this past paper earlier and it had no actual answer....silly paper

[shybrowngirl]

i'm definitely staying up all night!

thank god the exam is on the afternoon

[ashmorris93]

(Original post by pickles_mix)
Well you get 6 A01 points and 6 A02 points...so state 3 knowledge points about an approach and the therapies involved and explain them and then state 3 evaluation points eg strengths/weaknesses..that's what I do anyway

I asked my teacher and she said not to put in therapies if it specifically asks for approach. Only talk about the therapies if you're going to link it back to something like 'a way of evaluating the cognitive theory, CBT shows how important the role of cognitive processing really is...' something along those lines.
The question is not asking for the therapies. Just the approach.


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[0day]

(Original post by shybrowngirl)
i'm definitely staying up all night!

thank god the exam is on the afternoon

Oh god same here, just found out I have the test tommorow (stupid mistake). How are you revising?

[HarryMWilliams]

Would someone like to outline and evalute systematic de-sensitization?

[AwkwardPenguin]

Okay I went to check specification changes but they seem to have disappeared which isn't particularly helpful half way through the exam period... O.o

So would you guys mind answering a couple of questions?

Firstly what ARE the changes that we actually need to know? Like which means learning more?

Are the two methods of coping with stress aka emotional and practical DEFINITELY no longer going to come up?

And finally I know we now need to know stuff about a Type B personality - what is it that we need to know because I'm self taught but my textbook is from the original specification.

Thank you so much to anyone that takes the time to answer this!

And good luck to everyone with their last minute revision.

[PowerPuff]

(Original post by Lauraaa12)
I was doing this past paper earlier and it had no actual answer....silly paper

Lauraaa12
What would a
'What are the implications for social change of research into social influence?'
question actually want?

Not a 12 marker, most likely an 8 Marker
'On impacts of social influence research'

This is my Plan, if anybody needs help:

4 Points (Preferably research from each Social Influence section)
4 elaborations (Suggesting the real life implications of the research)

Conformity research
- Orlando (Hopsitals can increase empathy among staff)
OR
- Zimbarado (normal people can commit evil acts do to situational factors leading to identification conformity to social roles)

Obedience
- Milgrim (Gradual commitment through foot-in-door effect)
OR
- Bickham (Legitimate Authority through Power of Uniform)

Minority Influence
- Moscovichi (Consistency)


ALL THREE
- Ethical impacts

[Ambbeerr]

What things would you write about for this question and how would you evaluate it?? Outline of research relating to independent behaviour
Thanks!

[0day]

(Original post by PowerPuff)
Not a 12 marker, most likely an 8 Marker
'On impacts of social influence research'

This is my Plan, if anybody needs help:

4 Points (Preferably research from each Social Influence section)
4 elaborations (Suggesting the real life implications of the research)

Conformity research
- Orlando (Hopsitals can increase empathy among staff)
OR
- Zimbarado (normal people can commit evil acts do to situational factors leading to identification conformity to social roles)

Obedience
- Milgrim (Gradual commitment through foot-in-door effect)
OR
- Bickham (Legitimate Authority through Power of Uniform)

Minority Influence
- Moscovichi (Consistency)


ALL THREE
- Ethical impacts

Quite helpful, cheers!

[Hamsey45]

(Original post by Quafflewing12168)
I thought this 'pattern' indicated that it WOULDN'T be abnormality, because abnormality has come up 3 times and the others have only come up twice... because stress came up in the last exam, doesn't this mean that it is likely to be social influence?

Well look at it in terms of when Abnormality last came up. At least, thats how I did. In any case, itll either be on Social influence (Look at Minority influence especially) or Abnormality (Either Behavioural or Cognitive)

Cant see any other questions they would ask for a 12 marker that is not obvious LOL

By the way, this is what I think NOT what I know LOL

[ashmorris93]

(Original post by AwkwardPenguin)
Okay I went to check specification changes but they seem to have disappeared which isn't particularly helpful half way through the exam period... O.o

So would you guys mind answering a couple of questions?

Firstly what ARE the changes that we actually need to know? Like which means learning more?

Are the two methods of coping with stress aka emotional and practical DEFINITELY no longer going to come up?

And finally I know we now need to know stuff about a Type B personality - what is it that we need to know because I'm self taught but my textbook is from the original specification.

Thank you so much to anyone that takes the time to answer this!

And good luck to everyone with their last minute revision.

Emotional and problem focused approaches of stress are NOT going to come up. You can still use them if you have revised them though.
Type B personality is just the opposite of Type A, so not worried about time, relaxed, not competitive and basically lazy.
I don't think Type B is that predominant, knowing about Type A and hardiness personality type should do the trick I think.


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[Becca94]

Social influence if probably my worst

[ashmorris93]

(Original post by Ambbeerr)
What things would you write about for this question and how would you evaluate it?? Outline of research relating to independent behaviour
Thanks!

This shouldnt come up as its been taken off the spec. That's what my teacher said anyway. But if it did, it would be things to do with high locus of control; internal and external and it would also be the attributional style.


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[HarryMWilliams]

(Original post by Ambbeerr)
What things would you write about for this question and how would you evaluate it?? Outline of research relating to independent behaviour
Thanks!

I would look at three case studies; Milgram (Sub-study within the obedience research), Oliner & Oliner (Nazi-Germany study) and Williams & Warschal (Asch go over).

Remember to talk about locus of control, interal etc and the social responsibility stuff from the above studies.

[shybrowngirl]

(Original post by 0day)
Oh god same here, just found out I have the test tommorow (stupid mistake). How are you revising?

awww well i've finished revising the cognitive and behaviour approach as most people are predicting this as a 12 marker... then i'm going to abnormality - since it's shorter! then social influence and stress

there was a lot of stress on jan/12 paper btw!! - but still revise everything!!!

and i'm making notes from the mark scheme - will is really useful btw!!

good luck xx

[Phate]

(Original post by AwkwardPenguin)
Are the two methods of coping with stress aka emotional and practical DEFINITELY no longer going to come up?

Cut out the rest, but i'll answer this bit.

By this you mean emotion focused coping and problem focused coping yes?

If so then that's still in it. Emotion focused being denial, wishful thinking, venting of emotions etc and problem focused being dealing with the problem by any positive method such as evaluating pros/cons and seeing how to move forward etc.

You could mean physical and emotional/psychological methods that are:
-Physical (Drugs/Biofeedback)
-Psychological (SIT/Hardiness training)

[shybrowngirl]

is it true that minority influence has been expanded in the new spec?

my teacher hasn't told me about it and my textbook is still on the old spec

can someone please give me the needed notes on it, and what sort of 12 marker can we get; also how will i answer it?

[s_axo]

(Original post by HarryMWilliams)
Would someone like to outline and evalute systematic de-sensitization?

A01

• A patient is taught a variety of relaxation techniques, such as breathing exercises, or muscle relaxation techniques
• The patient then makes a 'hierarchy' of their phobia
• This can be imagined, using pictures, or real life
• The patient then goes through the hierarchy and uses the techniques so that eventually they can go through the whole hierarchy calmly

A02

• There are quicker methods, such as flooding
• Only good for phobias, and not for depression etc
• Requires a lot of time/effort
• Only treats symptoms and not causes
• I would also compare it to drugs, for example, and mention how there are no side effects

What would you do? xx

[HarryMWilliams]

(Original post by s_axo)
A01

• A patient is taught a variety of relaxation techniques, such as breathing exercises, or muscle relaxation techniques
• The patient then makes a 'hierarchy' of their phobia
• This can be imagined, using pictures, or real life
• The patient then goes through the hierarchy and uses the techniques so that eventually they can go through the whole hierarchy calmly

A02

• There are quicker methods, such as flooding
• Only good for phobias, and not for depression etc
• Requires a lot of time/effort
• Only treats symptoms and not causes
• I would also compare it to drugs, for example, and mention how there are no side effects

What would you do? xx

Pft, what you said.