Psychology AQA B PSYB4 18th June 2012

Spec A is more popular. The reason itself I never actually understood.

There is less 'real' science in Spec A. Spec B has a compulsory section solely on Biopsychology. It also less 'fashionable' topics - we don't do media or anomalistic. At AS there is also far more material covered - I know because I've taught both. So Spec A has a reputation as easier than B - especially for non psychology teachers who constitute the majority!

Reply 181

HotfireLegend

Original post by Arcane Barn Elk

There is less 'real' science in Spec A. Spec B has a compulsory section solely on Biopsychology. It also less 'fashionable' topics - we don't do media or anomalistic. At AS there is also far more material covered - I know because I've taught both. So Spec A has a reputation as easier than B - especially for non psychology teachers who constitute the majority!

Oooooooh, I get it now. My teacher is highly scientific (he has said so himself on many occasions, plus he teaches Biology!) so that explains why we do B.

*Joins cram club*

Reply 182

Placebo101

These amateur crammers know nothing about the morning cram pahaha

Well good luck all!

How was it?

I thought it was a pretty fair exam! Though, had a moment where I completely forgot all the evaluation for Holism Vs Reductionism.. :L

So happy cognitive wasn't an essay!!

Reply 186

Chris P Chicken.

Loved that exam. :biggrin:

The psychodynamic essay was brilliant! What could be more unique than the Oedipus complex and the Anal stage?

So very glad psychology as a science didn't come up, using the reductionism vs holism debate and applying them to topic areas wasn't to hard.

Research methods were my weakest, I didn't understand how to answer the first question and I can't be sure I answered the other correctly. Though the five marker was quite straightforward, I'm assuming it was all A01?

Only one more exam left, and I'm free!

Reply 187

Alxndra

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Original post by NellyNoodles

I thought it was a pretty fair exam! Though, had a moment where I completely forgot all the evaluation for Holism Vs Reductionism.. :L

So happy cognitive wasn't an essay!!

Same here!

Reply 188

Placebo101

Awful exam imho. Forgot the difference between validity and reliability so I had to guess, the t test question was impossible, don't think I evaluated the SLT right. Forgot the difference between autonomic and sympathetic nervous system, put the wrong answer for replicatability :/

Evaluating SLT and reductionist approach was impossible too!

Reply 189

MyselfEtAl

I thought it was ok, could have been better, hated the 5 marker on research methods. :redface:

Reply 190

raaaachx

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thought is was a fair paper. how did people tackle the psychodynamic question?

Reply 191

Jessica_94

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i thought it was ok, the approaches was fine apart from the cognitive question which was hard. Debates was ok but in the essay i kept writing about idiographic instead of holism :frown:

and i didnt mention interactionism, and also only wrote 2 lines for the 4 marker on replication, research methods was better than i thought but i did know the first question, something about dispersion? and struggled on the diary question, but thank god we didnt have to plan a study!

Reply 192

Chris P Chicken.

Original post by raaaachx

thought is was a fair paper. how did people tackle the psychodynamic question?

Tried to 4 points of description of why Psychodynamic is unique, then compared the points to a different approach, then evaluated each approach. I think I did that three times though, hopefully my expansion will count as A02. :rolleyes:

Reply 193

Chris P Chicken.

Original post by MyselfEtAl

I thought it was ok, could have been better, hated the 5 marker on research methods. :redface:

Did you use 5 A01 marks for that?

Reply 194

Chris P Chicken.

Original post by Placebo101

Awful exam imho. Forgot the difference between validity and reliability so I had to guess, the t test question was impossible, don't think I evaluated the SLT right. Forgot the difference between autonomic and sympathetic nervous system, put the wrong answer for replicatability :/

Evaluating SLT and reductionist approach was impossible too!

How come you didn't choose option A?

Reply 195

NellyNoodles

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Original post by Chris P Chicken.

Did you use 5 A01 marks for that?

I wasn't too sure about whether it was A01s of A02s OR AO3s!!

Reply 196

chocolate_monster

I did section B, I actually liked the paper! one more exam go :tongue:

Reply 197

Sorw

I thought the exam was ok, the research methods section was my weakest though. I was expecting the last question to be about writing you own study, so did not expect the reliability and validity question but I still answered it the best I could. Just got an english literature and a philosophy exam and then I am done. :biggrin:

Reply 198

NellyNoodles

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What did everyone write for that final research methods question..? I wrote about pilot studies and a bit about peer review to check it was replicable and measured what it was supposed to. I also defined the terms for good measure. :L I don't know how the marks are dished out because I wrote out pilot studies in a lot of detail. I think that question will be my downfall...

Reply 199

Chris P Chicken.

Original post by NellyNoodles

What did everyone write for that final research methods question..? I wrote about pilot studies and a bit about peer review to check it was replicable and measured what it was supposed to. I also defined the terms for good measure. :L I don't know how the marks are dished out because I wrote out pilot studies in a lot of detail. I think that question will be my downfall...

I wrote about the reliability and validity tests in the book.
So face validity, concurrent validity, then I talked about reliability checks which were: Test-retest, item analysis, split-half test.

I'm not sure about pilot studies, but I'm pretty sure peer reviews can show validity.

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