OCR A2 Psychology: G544: Approaches and Research Methods - Monday 17th June 2013

Does anyone know an A2 study that takes the Individual Differences approach? I only have AS ones, does anyone know if i would lose marks if I only used these?


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I'm having the same problem! Although I think that if you were to use all 3 AS studies and various aspects of them then you'd still be rewarded?
Also, do you know of any A2 studies which fit in with psychodynamic?

I had a revision session for this exam today and my teacher told us that an examiner friend of hers said that it would be basically impossible to get an A* if you didn't use A2 studies in your section B.

I have a mindmap somewhere with a few studies under each approach and perspective. It's buried under other revision but I can take a look later and let you know of psychodynamic A2 studies :')

Just sat this exam in January and got 97/100, totally unpredicted.
Just a word of warning we all recieved a massive shock when instead of having an approach and methodology in Section B we had two methologies, which I hadn't even been taught.

START REVISING NOW!!! The second section is based alot of memory. Get basic answers prepared, especially for strengths and weaknesses and assumptions. A few of your strengths and weaknesses can be used for more than one approach, if you choose to focus on approaches. For example, usefulness can be a strength to all approaches, and deteminism and reductionism applied to all expect Individual Differences as a weakness.

If anyone wants any additional advice on revision notes etc, I'm willing to help.
Good luck everyone!!!!!

Oh okay, thanks very much! I don't suppose you have any other helpful hints from your revision session you wouldn't mind sharing, do you?

That would be great if you could, for individual differences also if it isn't too much trouble! Thanks very much

Please can you help with answering part e questions in section b? because i literally have no idea on how to answer them

[h="1"]heres a list of studies you can use as and a2[/h]APPROACHES

COGNITIVE
AS - L and palmer, Baron-Cohen, Savage-Rumbaugh
A2 – Yochelson and Samenow, Kohlberg, Gudjohnsson

DEVELOPMENTAL
AS –(Freud), Samuel and Bryant, Bandura
A2 – Farrington, Wikström, Sutherland

SOCIAL
AS– Piliavin, Milgram, Reicher and Haslam
A2 - Farrington, Wikström, Sutherland

PHYSIOLOGICAL
AS –– Maguire, Dement and Kleitman, Sperry
A2 – Raine, Brunner, Daly and Wilson

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
AS –Thigpen and Cleckley, Rosenhan, Griffiths
A2 – Daly and Wilson (males vs. females)

BEHAVIOURIST APPROACH/PERSPECTIVE
AS – Bandura, Savage-Rumbaugh
A2 – Watson and Raynor – Little Albert
PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH/PERSPECTIVE
AS – Freud and little Hans, (Thigpen and Cleckley)
A2 – (Yochelson & Samenow)

I had a revision session for this exam today and my teacher told us that an examiner friend of hers said that it would be basically impossible to get an A* if you didn't use A2 studies in your section B.

I have a mindmap somewhere with a few studies under each approach and perspective. It's buried under other revision but I can take a look later and let you know of psychodynamic A2 studies :')

Thanks, that's very helpful! May I ask why a handful are in brackets?

just ignore the brackets, their only for person revision practice and don't mean anything

Oh okay, thanks very much! I don't suppose you have any other helpful hints from your revision session you wouldn't mind sharing, do you?

That would be great if you could, for individual differences also if it isn't too much trouble! Thanks very much

Do you mean that you have to use A2 studies for the strengths and weaknesses?
As that's the only question I use an A2 study in! And i thought so long as you use 2 different pieces of evidence you can still get the marks! :/

What do people think about just learning the approaches for Section B? Someone has said it on another thread in a previous year, but i'm not sure! x

What do people think about just learning the approaches for Section B? Someone has said it on another thread in a previous year, but i'm not sure! x

depends if you willing to risk it, january's paper was on debates/issues for both sections, so at least one approach will probably come up this time, i'm just gonna briefly learn the debates and issues just incase but mainly focus on the approaches

I wouldn't recommend it personally. Many people did that in January and were extremely surprised when there were no approaches in section b. I would like to think that that would mean approaches would definitely come up on Monday's paper, but after taking my G543 exam yesterday (where there were no stress questions again), you can never predict what will come up. Just revise everything

Does anyone know an A2 study that takes the Individual Differences approach? I only have AS ones, does anyone know if i would lose marks if I only used these?


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