[Deyesy]

(Original post by kieran1502)
How would you answer this if it appeared as the 12 marker then? Just outline type a and B and talk about friendman and roseman study and hardiness?

I'd mention Kobasa - iirc, and the hardy personality aswell as Type A and B?

[Deyesy]

Do we need to know about the General Adaptation Syndrome btw? O.o

[Tilly3475]

Can anyone explain what the social change bit of the specification actually involves?

[s_axo]

(Original post by Tilly3475)
Can anyone explain what the social change bit of the specification actually involves?

Why social change occurs eg consistency and a study on how the minority view becomes majority.

[megfashion]

sorry to the people i didnt reply to... thanks for the messages i shall get to quoting soon and helping people.

im really stuck on social influences too... just generally what exactly i should know and what i should be revising. for example minority influence has just confused me like crazy, and i know about moscovici, Asch and Milgram but everything else just confuses me...

does anyone have a bat to hit me in the right direction? im rather lost :/

hope everyone isnt freaking out too much for this exam!
x

[shybrowngirl]

i went to this psychexchange website and found this amazing 12 marker predictions - unfortunately i can't remember which teacher did it!!

so these could be the topics that are likely to come up as 12 marker, since we've never seen them:
-life changes and daily hassles
- workplace stress
- personality factors including Type A and hardiness
- CBT for treating stress (Stress Innoculation therapy)
- Majority inflence (conformity)
- Discuss research on obedience
- Implications for social change (appears on all papers - 4/6/8/10 marks)
- Biological treatments for abnormality - ECT/drugs
- Psychological treatments for abnormality - CBT/psychodynamic therapy/systematic desensitization
- Behaviourist approach to abnormality
- Cognitive approach to abnormality

i feel so bad that i can't remember who made this list but here you go! make sure you plan an essay for these and ask your teacher to mark it!

[Id and Ego seek]

Quality list. Cheers!

[cuckoo99]

nice list me thinks it will be a stress related essay

[Deyesy]

Everyone thought the 12 marker in Jan would be on daycare and you lot were completely wrong

[Id and Ego seek]

(Original post by Deyesy)
Everyone thought the 12 marker in Jan would be on daycare and you lot were completely wrong

We never guess one question collectively; we always have a list and the 12 marker is always present on that list. I assume you meant unit 1 January exam? I remember that list; MSM was on that list.

Also, when 'everyone' thinks certain 12 markers will come up, it's usually never based on any reasoning other than it's 'the hardest one to me, so I will prepare the most for it.' It was the same with me predicting the Cognitive Interview would come up as a 12 marker because it was the hardest one in my opinion.

But feel free not to acknowledge or trust predictions on this thread as no one is forcing you too.

[Deyesy]

(Original post by Id and Ego seek)
We never guess one question collectively; we always have a list and the 12 marker is always present on that list. I assume you meant unit 1 January exam? I remember that list; MSM was on that list.

Also, when 'everyone' thinks certain 12 markers will come up, it's usually never based on any reasoning other than it's 'the hardest one to me, so I will prepare the most for it.' It was the same with me predicting the Cognitive Interview would come up as a 12 marker because it was the hardest one in my opinion.

But feel free not to acknowledge or trust predictions on this thread as no one is forcing you too.

No, no. Everyone was seemingly convinced it would be daycare and it wasn't...

[Id and Ego seek]

(Original post by Deyesy)
No, no. Everyone was seemingly convinced it would be daycare and it wasn't...

What did I just say? You clearly don't understand the semantic weight of the word 'everyone'. It was split between day care, CI and learning theory respectively. No one predicted MSM because it's easy and you should have had that grounded in your memory (pardon the pun). This is why we use lists and you IGNORE single speculation. Use your best judgment.

[Deyesy]

Meh. Sorry for arguing.

Sleep well and good luck with your revision

[Id and Ego seek]

How would you set out an outline and evaluate the relationship between stress and immune system question?

Introduction explaining the immune system and immunosuppression.
Kiecolt-Glaser's (1984) medical students experiment. With procedure, findings and conclusion.
Evaluate.
Cohen's (1993) cold virus study. With procedure, findings and conclusion.
Evaluate.

Would you then need to mention another like Riley or Varnes and Torjussen? Or should you mention the opposite side of the argument: the benefit of acute stress by Evans et al.'s (1994) study of students who gave a mildly stressful public presentation and link with sigA?

[snakeyface]

Hi guys!

Just did an 8-mark on the biological approach, but realised my book has nothing on evaluation for this.

How would you evaluate the biological approach for 4 marks?

Thanks!

[Deyesy]

(Original post by snakeyface)
Hi guys!

Just did an 8-mark on the biological approach, but realised my book has nothing on evaluation for this.

How would you evaluate the biological approach for 4 marks?

Thanks!

Biological approach to abnormality evaluation?

1) It's reductionist - It only accepts genes play a part in abnormality and nothing else such as environmental factors.

2) It's unethical - It places blame on the parents - Kendler (1983) did a study show children with Schiz. parents are 18* more likely to develop it than those whose parents do not.

3) It's lead to effective treatments - Our knowledge about biochemistry has led to anti-depressants being developed for those with depression; as this is caused by low serotonin levels

4) Diathesis stress model - Some people may be biologically 'ready' to develop abnormalities but environmental factors may or may not trigger it...

[member961189]

(Original post by Deyesy)
Biological approach to abnormality evaluation?

1) It's reductionist - It only accepts genes play a part in abnormality and nothing else such as environmental factors.

2) It's unethical - It places blame on the parents - Kendler (1983) did a study show children with Schiz. parents are 18* more likely to develop it than those whose parents do not.

3) It's lead to effective treatments - Our knowledge about biochemistry has led to anti-depressants being developed for those with depression; as this is caused by low serotonin levels

4) Diathesis stress model - Some people may be biologically 'ready' to develop abnormalities but environmental factors may or may not trigger it...

Limitations:
Critics such as behaviourists would state that mental illnesses have psychological causes and not in bodily causes.
Biological treatments such as psychosurgery feature a number of ethical issues such as informed consent and psychological harm.

Strengths:
Psychologists such as Comer (2007) have predicted that biological treatments such as EWT are effective in 70% of cases.


This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

[Deyesy]

(Original post by BobbyBurke)
Limitations:
Critics such as behaviourists would state that mental illnesses have psychological causes and not in bodily causes.
Biological treatments such as psychosurgery feature a number of ethical issues such as informed consent and psychological harm.

Strengths:
Psychologists such as Comer (2007) have predicted that biological treatments such as EWT are effective in 70% of cases.

This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

I take it you meant ECT and not EWT? And the strength you've mentioned, I'd be personally inclined to mention that in a question about the biological treatments of abnormality and not a question about the approach itself but that's just me

[Mephestic]

(Original post by youngzwavey)
if the question is outline and evaluate the cognitive approach you would evaluate the cognitive approach, you can bring treatment in but only briefly, each approach has its own evaluation as does each treatment.

i.e the biological approach AO2: reductionist ignores environmental factors etc

biological treatment AO2: drugs cause dependency, only alleviate symptoms not the actual disease or whatever etc

for the bio approach possible evaluation COULD be that treatment for it has been quite successful which leads researchers to believe that it is in fact neurochemical problems? that cause abnormality as increased levels of serotonin through drugs has "cured" depression..

rough post haven't really thought through what i just wrote in terms of 100% facts so don't take it as a word for word answer; the point is answer the question in front of you not what you think they meant or what you want them to ask because you revised it, if they want to know about treatments they'll ask about them. If your whole evaluation for "outline and evaluate the cognitive approach" is about the treatments you WILL NOT do well.

coming from someone who did it last year and got 74 UMS and is resitting this year because i messed up psya3..its nasty, psya4 is lovely though o_O

man I wish I was doing this paper as my last paper rather than paper 4.
you guys won't believe what papers 3 and 4 look like..

[snakeyface]

Thanks Deyesy and Bobbyburke! That's really helpful.