Higher Psychology 2013

The topics I'm doing are memory, stress, investigating behaviour, Atypical and prejudice, xx what are you doing?!

I think I'm doing this subject next year. Would you guys recommend it?


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Definately recommended! Amazing subject.

I guess it kind of helps for me that our teacher's classes for Psychology have the highest average grades in Scotland! Makes the subject kind of easy cause she's so good at teaching it. We're doing Memory, Stress, IB, Atypical, and Social Relationships.

Got 90% in the prelim. I think I can do this!

Hi, i'm doing higher psychology this year as well, the topics memory, investigating behaviour, stress, prejudice and atypical behaviour. Also finding it hard to focus on what to study and what to not. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or ideas that maybe a lecturer or teacher may have put forward?

Every topic you're covering should be revised for this, as you'll be expected to answer an essay on each one of them (except the Investigating Behaviour - which is a series of questions rather than essay responses).

do you know how long the exam is?

Wasnt sure how to split my time up

The exam is 2.5 hours long and it's worth 100 marks. So you should aim to hit a mark every 1.5 minutes.

That means the 10 mark essays should take you about 15 minutes each, and the big 20 markers at the end should take about 30 minutes each.

10 mark essays?

Oh dear, have you not been doing past papers?

Here's the 2012 past paper: http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/papers/papers/2012/H_Psychology_All_2012.pdf

A1. Early Socialisation

a) Explain the behaviourist theory of attachment. Refer to research evidence in your answer.

This is worth 6 knowledge & understanding and 4 analysis and evaluation marks (i.e. a 10 mark response).

You'll have four of these in Section A, making it worth 40 marks.

Section B is the Investigating Behaviour section, worth 20 marks.

In Section C you'll have to write two 20 mark essays, worth 40 marks in total.

Whole paper: 100 marks in 2.5 hours.

nah i have been doing past papers. ive done every single question possible lol no joke

Thanks for the help btw. Are you doing the exam too?

Does anybody know if its worth drawing diagrams for the memory questions..... :0

For atypical behaviour. Do you have to know how mental people are cared for. ?

Is this a serious question? Your exam is in two weeks!

Firstly, the last thing you want to do is piss off the marker, so don't refer to them as "mental" people. It shows a disregard for many of the ethical considerations that underpin psychology, and a lack of understanding thereof.

Secondly, if you plan to write a 20 mark response on this topic then you need to know the various definitions of atypical behaviour and the various approaches to explaining/treating them. I'd suggest doing a bit of reading into that.