Psychology PSYA3/PSYA4 revision thread for 2014

Could we get a 12 + 12 essay for PSYA3? Ie 12 marks for AO1, 12 for AO2/3

What have people used for the breakdown of relationships? I need to write an essay on this so that i can memorise it and i just don't know where to start.. For a 24 marker could i just use the model of breakdown?


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I could never do Geography, I used to struggle with it so much at school lol. Ohh nice, well good luck. I'm sure you'll do really well. I do biology, chemistry and physics as well.

Hey, I'm trying to plan my essay for neural mechanisms involved with control of eating behaviour, and I'm really not sure on which bits to add and how to make it flow - please could anyone help me?

Oh wow Geography is easy compared to those!

Hey,
I would use nm786's essay very helpful!


http://www.mediafire.com/download/yj013cobiap17xl/PSYA3+Essays+-+Relationships%2C+Aggression+and+Eating+Behaviour.docx

Do you think it is better to start with the broken up questions or a 24 marker first? Deciding which would be wiser.

Thank you so much!

For psya4 split questions on schizophrenia. Is it possible for a split question to include one psychological explanation for SZ and one psychological therapy for SZ?

For RM, my book gives two methods under the 'theory construction' section of the specification. There's the induction method (observation -> hypothesis -> test hypothesis -> propose theory based on conclusions drawn from study

and the hypothetico-deduction method (observation -> theory -> create testable hypothesis -> conduct a study to test hypothesis -> draw conclusion from study )

Are we supposed to know both? The differences being whether a hypothesis or theory is developed first.

Another RM question, are we expected to know how to work out results for all the inferential statistics? If so are we expected to know the equations too? Thank you

They're pretty intense but I don't think I would have been able to handle even GCSE Geography lol.

I think so because (this is drawing up in my knowledge of Research Methods in Sociology as well) Popper's hypothetico deductive method aims for falsification (rather than verificationism) which is what the scientific community uses. I'm not too sure though, I'll look further into that.

(Side note: If you guys think Psychology RM is bad, Sociology RM is a KILLER! There's much more to learn for each method then with Psychology where you just need an descriptions of what occurs and two or three adv/disadv of each. You could get a 33 mark question in the section 'Theory and Methods' in the exam, and even then you have to learn theories in detail as well so RM might not even come up!)

Thankfully, you don't need to actually do the calculations for the infernential statistics. You will most likely be given the table and expected to state whether to reject the null hypothesis or not based on the test statistic compared to the criticial value.

Equations? I assume you're referring to the fact that each statistical test has differing rules on when to accept/reject the null hypothesis based on if the test statistic is higher/lower than the critical value? They usually seem to give that in the exam but I would learn it just in case.

for media psychology, is it okay to make reference to the murder of James Bulger by the two boys who were inspired by 'Child's Play'? (for media influences on anti-social behaviour)