Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012

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  1. stephbeeeify's Avatar
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    And isn't the conclusion of the Little Hans study that he has achieved the Oedipus Complex?
    I just didnt have the study in a great amount of detail, thats good thanks!

    Is Little Albert the one with the white rat and conditioning a fear response into Albert?


    Ooh, that key issue sounds loads better than the one i'm doing!!!!!!
    Dreading this exam. Haha

    Thanks a lot
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
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    Hey rizzy what is the psychodyamic evaulation of gender development :/
    to resolve the oedipus complex, freud states that males identify with their fathers behaviour and moral codes as they feel guilty of unconscious sexual feelings towards their mother. develop castration anxiety due to fear of father finding out. girls identify with their mother and relove penis envy. leads to development of gender

    objectivity- as approach looks at mental aspects cannot use scientific measures to investigate as these aspects are not measurable-superego.

    subjectivity- approach is dependednt on freuds ideads thought and concets without scientific testing. based on one persons perspective
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    (Original post by stephbeeeify)
    And isn't the conclusion of the Little Hans study that he has achieved the Oedipus Complex?
    I just didnt have the study in a great amount of detail, thats good thanks!

    Is Little Albert the one with the white rat and conditioning a fear response into Albert?


    Ooh, that key issue sounds loads better than the one i'm doing!!!!!!
    Dreading this exam. Haha

    Thanks a lot
    yep the conclusion is the last line about the oedipus complex
    Little albert us classical conditioning- do you have notes for it?
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
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    to resolve the oedipus complex, freud states that males identify with their fathers behaviour and moral codes as they feel guilty of unconscious sexual feelings towards their mother. develop castration anxiety due to fear of father finding out. girls identify with their mother and relove penis envy. leads to development of gender

    objectivity- as approach looks at mental aspects cannot use scientific measures to investigate as these aspects are not measurable-superego.

    subjectivity- approach is dependednt on freuds ideads thought and concets without scientific testing. based on one persons perspective
    and the female version of the Oedipus Complex is the Electra Complex (not created by Freud)

    I've lost my notes on Little Albert, it'd be great if you could send me some please x
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    (Original post by FailedEverything)
    we need to learn 3 different books
    Psychodynamic
    Biological
    Learning
    Each book contains 2 main case studies which can be up to 12 marks in the exam
    For Psychodyanmic - Little Hans and Dibs
    For Biological - Doctor J money and Gottessmans and Sheilds
    For Learning - Watson and Reiner and Bandaura,Ross and Ross
    for all 3 there are evaluations of gender development
    we need to know methodology e.g brain scanning: MRI scaning/Pet scanning, animal studys,adoption/twin studys,psycoanalysis etc... its not that hard thinking about it, if you need any questions feel free to ask and il be happy to reply and answer
    Oh wow thanks! Btw my post was about how much of Watson and Reiner we're supposed to learn, because it's all a bit confusing in my book

    I know there's one day they paired the rat with the steal bar and Albert fell forward and whimpered little
    A week later they showed him the rat, he reached out but didn't touch it, he played fine with the bricks, then they paired the noise of the steak rod and the rat until he turned away and cried when he saw the rat (even without the steal rod noise)
    5 days later they showed him the rat without the noise of the steal bar, he showed slight fear, but happily played with the bricks. They tried to see if the fear could be transferred to other objects (observers hair, rabbit, Santa mask) . There was some transference and his emotions varied between each.
    5 days later they checked his response when the rat was present. His response was weaker than before so they renewed the association. The researchers showed the rabbit and dog and strengthened this fear too.
    1 month and 1 day later- negative response however weaker response. Albert left.

    So do we write ALL of that as well as aim and conclusion.
    And should we mention the UCS = Steal bar noise UCR=crying+fear...?
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
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    Oh wow thanks! Btw my post was about how much of Watson and Reiner we're supposed to learn, because it's all a bit confusing in my book

    I know there's one day they paired the rat with the steal bar and Albert fell forward and whimpered little
    A week later they showed him the rat, he reached out but didn't touch it, he played fine with the bricks, then they paired the noise of the steak rod and the rat until he turned away and cried when he saw the rat (even without the steal rod noise)
    5 days later they showed him the rat without the noise of the steal bar, he showed slight fear, but happily played with the bricks. They tried to see if the fear could be transferred to other objects (observers hair, rabbit, Santa mask) . There was some transference and his emotions varied between each.
    5 days later they checked his response when the rat was present. His response was weaker than before so they renewed the association. The researchers showed the rabbit and dog and strengthened this fear too.
    1 month and 1 day later- negative response however weaker response. Albert left.

    So do we write ALL of that as well as aim and conclusion.
    And should we mention the UCS = Steal bar noise UCR=crying+fear...?
    want me to give the model answer for watson and reiner mate? and um it was in the june 2011 paper all we really need to know about that is


    UCS---UCR
    UCS---USR
    CS-----CR
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    (Original post by stephbeeeify)
    and the female version of the Oedipus Complex is the Electra Complex (not created by Freud)

    I've lost my notes on Little Albert, it'd be great if you could send me some please x
    A- explore whether a fear response to a stimulus could be classically conditioned
    P- 9 month old infant chosen for emotional stability
    unafraid of a range of stimuli including rat. 2 month later was shown the rat again and when he reached for it, a lound noise was made with a hammering and a steel bar which scared him. repeated 5x, 1 week later
    R- when steel bar was struck, albert showed fear. second trial, cautious about the rat and leaned away when the rat was presented. 5 days later albert cried in response to the rat and various objects with fur, coat, and theses responses persisted until the final testing, 7 weeks after start of the study
    C- classically conditioned to be afraid of the rat and through generalisation became afraid of other white, furry object's.

    G-no, 1 participant used not applicable to the wider population. also 9 months old male restricting who it can be applied to
    R- lab experiment, high controls, strict procedure. however, extraneous variables may have affected results, so if repeated results may be differnt.
    A- tasks were artifical, findings can inform parents on how to best avoid child developing phobias giving better insight to learned behaviour
    V- low ecological validity as it was a lab experiment, environment not natural
    High internal validity as conclusion supports the aim suggesting true results.
    Ethics- participant not protected, able to withdraw(mum) not debriefed
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    (Original post by Rizzy J)
    A- explore whether a fear response to a stimulus could be classically conditioned
    P- 9 month old infant chosen for emotional stability
    unafraid of a range of stimuli including rat. 2 month later was shown the rat again and when he reached for it, a lound noise was made with a hammering and a steel bar which scared him. repeated 5x, 1 week later
    R- when steel bar was struck, albert showed fear. second trial, cautious about the rat and leaned away when the rat was presented. 5 days later albert cried in response to the rat and various objects with fur, coat, and theses responses persisted until the final testing, 7 weeks after start of the study
    C- classically conditioned to be afraid of the rat and through generalisation became afraid of other white, furry object's.

    G-no, 1 participant used not applicable to the wider population. also 9 months old male restricting who it can be applied to
    R- lab experiment, high controls, strict procedure. however, extraneous variables may have affected results, so if repeated results may be differnt.
    A- tasks were artifical, findings can inform parents on how to best avoid child developing phobias giving better insight to learned behaviour
    V- low ecological validity as it was a lab experiment, environment not natural
    High internal validity as conclusion supports the aim suggesting true results.
    Ethics- participant not protected, able to withdraw(mum) not debriefed
    hey rizzy you know the stuff in the books right? the mark scheme is veryyy veryy different to the asnwers? what the f lol... :/would the examiner marks on them answers there or just read and mark? :/cause everyones gnna have different answers
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    (Original post by FailedEverything)
    hey rizzy you know the stuff in the books right? the mark scheme is veryyy veryy different to the asnwers? what the f lol... :/would the examiner marks on them answers there or just read and mark? :/cause everyones gnna have different answers
    i don't have the book, we make notes from the book and just use our notes. give me an example- find a qs and answer from the past paper and i'll have a look- at the end of an answer don't they have "mark for other description/evaluation points" something like that
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    Hi, i'm resitting this exam tomorrow, and i've completely forgotten everything from last year. can someone explain the Central Nervous System to me? im so confused :|
    thanks xo
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
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    The aim of banduara ross and ross's study was to see whether children would copy aggression shown by the same sex adult role model, the procedure was that there was 72 children in 1 nursery in america, where they were interobserved and taken to 3 stages, in stage one 24 children saw the adult behave agressive and non agressive towards the bobo doll, in the agressive they kicked shouted through it around and in the non agressive they ignored the bobo doll and resembled toys, in stage 2 they were taken to a room full of experimenters best toys which they were told not to touch, which angered them. in stage 3 they were taken to a room full of agressive and non aggressive toys, the findings was that 1/3rd the children behanved more agressively towards toys, boys more agressive then girls, in conslusion children learn by observational learning copying what they see in the surroundings,
    HIGH ecologoical validity, natural environment, also children play with toys as children, high experimental validity- lab sexperment controlled variables,it was clear the agression shown was by the adult, ethical issues making children more agressive is psychologically harmful good relibality however due to ethical issues hard to replicate study giving similar results, high population validty sample of 72 children however done in 1 nursey in america so cant generalise to a wider population of nurserys

    MRI scanning - injecting glucose into blood, chemical radioactiviity breaks down in brain, more activity in darker areas, less activity in lighter areas
    Pet scanning - like an x ray it is a detailed image of the brain used to see where there is more acitity, also to spot small brain abnormalitys

    Personality in the psychodyanmic approach is how well we share a relatiobship between our parents whilst going through the psychosexual stages, too much pleasure or too littlee pleasure can result to mental illness's developing at a later stage of life
    Freudian Slip
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    (Original post by FailedEverything)
    want me to give the model answer for watson and reiner mate? and um it was in the june 2011 paper all we really need to know about that is


    UCS---UCR
    UCS---USR
    CS-----CR
    Yes please it's a bit confusing
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    (Original post by NicoleCanFlyy)
    Hi, i'm resitting this exam tomorrow, and i've completely forgotten everything from last year. can someone explain the Central Nervous System to me? im so confused :|
    thanks xo
    neurones are like biological wires that send electronical messages in brain, spinal cord and around the body
    two types- sensory and motor
    sensory-5 senses- detect sensory info and send it to the brain
    motor-muscles- send info about movement from the brain to body

    brain- center of the nervous system which controls all organs and systems of body
    spinal cord- large collection of neurones communicating between brain and body. sends info inwards to brain and outwards of body

    do you want notes on neurotransmitters too?
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    hi could someone help me pleaaase i need help on brain laterisation, which side do men use and which side do women use. also i need help on gottesman and shields study i need help on everything on that study
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    hi could someone help me pleaaase i need help on brain laterisation, which side do men use and which side do women use. also i need help on gottesman and shields study i need help on everything on that study
    brain has two hemispheres- left and right
    lateralisation refers to using different hemispheres of the brain for different tasks such as using the left side for language and the right side for reading a map. evidence suggests that there are differences in the lateralisation of the brain for males and females. male brains are more lateralisied as they use a particular side of the brain for particular function and female brains are less lateralised as they use both sides of the brain for particular functions. males use the right hemisphere of the brain because they are good at spatial awareness and females use both hemispheres and are better communicators
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    (Original post by Rizzy J)
    neurones are like biological wires that send electronical messages in brain, spinal cord and around the body
    two types- sensory and motor
    sensory-5 senses- detect sensory info and send it to the brain
    motor-muscles- send info about movement from the brain to body

    brain- center of the nervous system which controls all organs and systems of body
    spinal cord- large collection of neurones communicating between brain and body. sends info inwards to brain and outwards of body

    do you want notes on neurotransmitters too?
    Yes please! it's the Biological i failed on last year, and its still not sinking in :confused:
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    Yes please it's a bit confusing
    i lol'd when you saw i typed in lab "sex"periment lmao here you go mate
    The aim of the study was to see if by putting fear into a harmless stumuli can be a result of classical conditioning, the procedure was that 9 month old albert was fine playing with white rats, and a month later was taken to a lab, were watson and reinar hit a steel bar with a hammar which scared albert, giving a fear of the sound, when playing with the rat everytime he came in contact with the rat he crwaled away and cried, this generalised to other things e.g santa mask.. etc, in conclusion by putting fear in the harmless stimuli is a result of classical conditioning )) enjoy famalaamamammaaaamm x
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    Yes please! it's the Biological i failed on last year, and its still not sinking in :confused:
    this is a 5 mark answer which i have

    electronic message of info is transmitted along the pre synaptic neurone and then reached the end of the neurone into a gap called a synapse(1) electrical message cannot pass the synapse so has to transfer info into another format(1) info passes on through neurotransmitters which are released into the synapse/neurotransmitters diffuse into the synapse (1 )neurotransmitters cross the synapse and attach to the receptors on the post synaptic neurone (1) receptors signal to the next neurone that they have received a message and an electrical message is sent along length of the next neurone.
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    i lol'd when you saw i typed in lab "sex"periment lmao here you go mate
    The aim of the study was to see if by putting fear into a harmless stumuli can be a result of classical conditioning, the procedure was that 9 month old albert was fine playing with white rats, and a month later was taken to a lab, were watson and reinar hit a steel bar with a hammar which scared albert, giving a fear of the sound, when playing with the rat everytime he came in contact with the rat he crwaled away and cried, this generalised to other things e.g santa mask.. etc, in conclusion by putting fear in the harmless stimuli is a result of classical conditioning )) enjoy famalaamamammaaaamm x
    Lol Thankkkk youuuuu
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    Re: Edexcel AS Psychology UNIT 2 29th May 2012
    (Original post by Rizzy J)
    this is a 5 mark answer which i have

    electronic message of info is transmitted along the pre synaptic neurone and then reached the end of the neurone into a gap called a synapse(1) electrical message cannot pass the synapse so has to transfer info into another format(1) info passes on through neurotransmitters which are released into the synapse/neurotransmitters diffuse into the synapse (1 )neurotransmitters cross the synapse and attach to the receptors on the post synaptic neurone (1) receptors signal to the next neurone that they have received a message and an electrical message is sent along length of the next neurone.
    thanks, that helps loads.
    fingers crossed i'll pass this time ¬.¬
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