WJEC - PY2 - Case Studies and Research methods

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  1. Monzystar's Avatar
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    Psycho exam was totally amazing i loved every bit of it!! hoping to get another A!
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    oh and has anyone else done PY3? I'll be doing it next academic year (but of course were starting early). is it hard or easy? interesting or boring? and are their any resources.
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    PY3 easy, basally an extension of section C in PY2.
    PY4 is hard.
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    I'm a little mad. Bennet-Levy's findings and conclusions was the only one I never revised and it came up -.- .. 1/10 and it came up for god sake!

    Which has probably ruined my chances of getting an A in As Psychology, although I've definitely done enough for a B.
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    I'm a little mad. Bennet-Levy's findings and conclusions was the only one I never revised and it came up -.- .. 1/10 and it came up for god sake!

    Which has probably ruined my chances of getting an A in As Psychology, although I've definitely done enough for a B.
    I'm thinking the same, but I think I got a B -.-
    I'm really annoyed, because I predicted that either Langer & Rodin or Bennett-Levy would come up, but I revised Langer and Rodin first since they have much more info to remember and forget Bennett-Levy.

    I think I'm just gonna re-take PY1 and push that up to a high A, PY2 and also push that up to an A or high A and get a high A on PY3, so if I get a B on PY4 it's still an A overall.
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    I'm thinking the same, but I think I got a B -.-
    I'm really annoyed, because I predicted that either Langer & Rodin or Bennett-Levy would come up, but I revised Langer and Rodin first since they have much more info to remember and forget Bennett-Levy.

    I think I'm just gonna re-take PY1 and push that up to a high A, PY2 and also push that up to an A or high A and get a high A on PY3, so if I get a B on PY4 it's still an A overall.
    That will be hard. For me I didn't know what the covert sampling or the other is, i knew nothing for BL -_-

    What did you write for relyability?
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    I'm quite shocked that I was able to cope with the exam in terms of jumping from core study to core study. Normally I just go through all the questions for one study :P I did mid-question sometimes forget xD
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    (Original post by Sesshomaru24U)
    I'm thinking the same, but I think I got a B -.-
    I'm really annoyed, because I predicted that either Langer & Rodin or Bennett-Levy would come up, but I revised Langer and Rodin first since they have much more info to remember and forget Bennett-Levy.

    I think I'm just gonna re-take PY1 and push that up to a high A, PY2 and also push that up to an A or high A and get a high A on PY3, so if I get a B on PY4 it's still an A overall.
    You couldn't have did as bad as me for Bennet-Levy.

    I litterally wrote things like "The Spiders and the Rats were ones which people mostly feared" "Bennet-Levy said it's because they pose a threat for example poisonous spiders and rats carry diseases" "And so fear is inherrited"

    Do you think I'll get any marks for this? How many? Be honest.
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    You couldn't have did as bad as me for Bennet-Levy.

    I litterally wrote things like "The Spiders and the Rats were ones which people mostly feared" "Bennet-Levy said it's because they pose a threat for example poisonous spiders and rats carry diseases" "And so fear is inherrited"

    Do you think I'll get any marks for this? How many? Be honest.
    I didn't even mention biological preparedness -.-
    I would say (and note that I mark really harshly so if I don't get my hopes up xD) 4 from what you said. However, did you include findings & conclusions?
    Like: Rats were perceived as most dangerous etc. there was correlations between the 4 perceptual characteristics.

    Than for conclusions, how it supports biological preparedness and the 2 theories put forward by Hinde (1974) discrepancy theory and Schneirla (1966) aversion configuration stimulus. <--- where the **** was this guy in the exam
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    (Original post by Miracle Day)
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    Honestly though, I think you'll either get a C or a B. But I'm retaking it in January unless it becomes an A magically. I'll suppose you'll do the same because you want an A to I believe
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    (Original post by Sesshomaru24U)
    I didn't even mention biological preparedness -.-
    I would say (and note that I mark really harshly so if I don't get my hopes up xD) 4 from what you said. However, did you include findings & conclusions?
    Like: Rats were perceived as most dangerous etc. there was correlations between the 4 perceptual characteristics.

    Than for conclusions, how it supports biological preparedness and the 2 theories put forward by Hinde (1974) discrepancy theory and Schneirla (1966) aversion configuration stimulus. <--- where the **** was this guy in the exam
    Awww

    And, well that's something. For Milgram, I put Hoffling, Sheridan and King, Milgram, Burger and the nuremburg trials which should be 12 marks.

    For Aims and Context, I put Stotland and Blumenthal, Seligman and Adler and all the aims so I should have 12 marks for that.

    For procedures I'm pretty sure I put everything possible so 12/12

    For the evaluation i've no idea

    Did you do question 1 or 2 for C? If you did 1 what did u put for reliability?
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    (Original post by Sesshomaru24U)
    Honestly though, I think you'll either get a C or a B. But I'm retaking it in January unless it becomes an A magically. I'll suppose you'll do the same because you want an A to I believe
    Oh no I definitely know I'll get a B

    I need 59/90 for A overall, based on Januarys boundaries which were one of the highest they've been. I estimate I'll get 66/90, in order 12/12/0/10/10/12/10

    And I under marked myself on Section C massively there.
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    Oh no I definitely know I'll get a B

    I need 59/90 for A overall, based on Januarys boundaries which were one of the highest they've been. I estimate I'll get 66/90, in order 12/12/0/10/10/12/10

    And I under marked myself on Section C massively there.
    Yeah, I probably got a C. Seeing how everyone found this paper easy it's crushing my hopes.

    Section C I struggled. I don't think I put anything for reliability I was going to put test-retest or split-half method, but I wasn't sure how come up with an issue for reliability.
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    for Bennet-levy and Marteau you need to mention:
    FINDINGS

    rats were feared the most with a mean of 2.06
    rats were less approachable with a mean of 3.90
    participants during the informal interview said that they feared rats due to its features and the potential disease it may carry.
    therefore, this shows that the note which was in place to claim that these animals are harmless has failed as harmless animals such as rats were highest commonly feared and less approachable.
    there was no major gender difference regarding the findings, however, men rated themselves as less fearful than women. yet when the animals were put in order, both men and women feared the same animals with a correlation co-efficient of 0.96
    the finding was then put into a matrix correlation which will allow the researchers to find the a correlation co-efficient either being positive or negative. when sudden movement and nearness were correlated to find a relationship, there was no significant relationship, however, when ugliness as a variable was removed, there was a positive correlation of 0.61.

    CONCLUSION:
    Bennet levy and Marteau concluded that there are two mechanism played a major role in provoking fear and that is the descrepency principle and the aversive stimulus configuration.

    and there are other stuff to put in.
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