Psychology AQA A PSYA3 11th June 2012!

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Reply 1580

hhh123

Original post by Eternal Rest

He/she probably misread the "one" bit.

You were right to just talk about one of the theories. :smile:

Yes sorry I did! :-)

Reply 1581

GemmaB45

Original post by Eternal Rest

He/she probably misread the "one" bit.

You were right to just talk about one of the theories. :smile:

Ha yeah possibly! God i hope social comes up for aggression!! I find it the easiest section by far.

I just wish we could use laptops to type in our exams..would be able to write much more than hand writing!! :P

Reply 1582

blackstarz245

Original post by hhh123

Endogenous pacemakers are something which we are predetermined too (NATURE), however it is important to realise that nurture also plays an important role. For instance we actually choose what time we go to bed and when we wake up, and external factors such as co sleepers do actually influence are circadian rhythm. It is important to consider both nature and nurture in conjunction as in real life both of these exist.

thanks alot good luck :biggrin:

Reply 1583

GemmaB45

Original post by hhh123

Yes sorry I did! :-)

No worries, thanks for reading it :smile:

what topics are you doing? Do you think social has a good chance of coming up or not so much? Ive been lookin at past papers and im dearly hoping it will!

Reply 1584

Eternal Rest

Social has a high chance of coming up for aggression, I'm focusing my revision on SLT and Deindividuation.

Reply 1585

hhh123

Original post by GemmaB45

No worries, thanks for reading it :smile:

what topics are you doing? Do you think social has a good chance of coming up or not so much? Ive been lookin at past papers and im dearly hoping it will!

I'm doing Eating, Sleep, and Aggression.

I realllllly hope social doesn't come up.

I personally think we may get a 5 marker on social though, followed by a 16 marker on genes.

Reply 1586

GemmaB45

Original post by hhh123

I'm doing Eating, Sleep, and Aggression.

I realllllly hope social doesn't come up.

I personally think we may get a 5 marker on social though, followed by a 16 marker on genes.

Im doing eating, aggression and intelligence. Im an external student so havent got a teacher so just chose what interested me most, but turns out im not so keen on intelligence. Find it quite hard :frown:

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Hmm i dont mind genetics as a small question but would much rather social as a big question!

Reply 1587

hhh123

When last did social exps come up?

June 2010 i think...

Original post by simmyxx

Hey I have been looking for the 2012 Jan paper and I cant find it...could you please tell me where you found it or if you have it could you possibly send it to me? Thanks in advance :smile:

here you go and good luck :smile:

AQA PSYA3 JAN12 QP.pdf84.9KB

Reply 1590

:)J

Original post by jannesedward

Hmm not sure, but i've learnt some research just in case. for example Brain sex theory stria termillis central division etc. Also a bit on like Freuds electra/oedipus complex. But yea mainly bio social i.e. parents being disappointed they got a daughter, hence they try raise her as a boy. Doctor money etc.

Ahh thank you! I hate to ask you this, but is there by any chance have you an essay on this and wouldn't mind sending me? I'm an external student so its so hard to find resources in this area

Reply 1591

Kandy_Kain_94

Original post by SecretCircus

Depends on if they split the 24 marks up, but I reckon:

• Aggression: social psychological explanations (i.e. SLT and deindividuation) and/or genetics.

• Eating behaviour: biological explanations of an eating disorder and/or success/failure of dieting.

• Gender: gender dysphoria, evolutionary explanations and/or biosocial explanations. This one is harder to predict!

Yeah, I agree it's very difficult to predict for Gender because everything has come up at least once. I agree with your predictions, maybe gender schema might come up as well.
I also have a nagging feeling that cultural influences on gender roles, which is basically all the cross cultural studies. It has come up as a 24 marker but looking at the examiners report it was done very badly, so they might just throw it back in again.

Reply 1592

iMattB

Original post by SecretCircus

Ahh cool, so do you know what questions were in the jan paper?

Reply 1593

av_kidd

Original post by iMattB

Ahh cool, so do you know what questions were in the jan paper?

From the PSYA3 Jan 12 paper:

Topic: Aggression
0 5 Outline research into institutional aggression. (4 marks)
0 6 Discuss one or more evolutionary explanations of group display in humans.
(4 marks + 16 marks)

Topic: Eating Behaviour
0 7 Discuss neural mechanisms involved in the control of eating behaviour.
(8 marks + 16 marks)

Topic: Gender
0 8 Describe research into social infl uences on gender. (8 marks)
0 9 Assess the importance of social infl uences on gender. (16 marks)