A2 psychology OCR G543 revision thread 2014

I did this, we didn't do the justice thing for forensic psych and I didn't know anything about interviewing witnesses! So I only did question 1 for forensic and made sure I wrote the 3 I actually did really well

What points did people make on section b - ecological validity question of interviewing witnesses?

Thats good but how many marks do you think you'll get? Or even what grade? Coz I was so stupid I got interwieing witnesses confused with interviewing suspects!!?? OH WHYYY! DO u think I lost 25 marks? Coz both sections, I put in the wrong study ?

WILL I GET A MARK FOR MENTIONING FISHER et al THOUGH? Owwhh

Got interviewing witnesses confused with interviewing suspects??!! HOW CUD I? I wrote loads though.. Donno if I'lll get a mark for mentioning Fisher.. ?

Aw don't worry, it's easily done!! I'm sure you'll get some consideration

Does anyone have access to the Mark Schemes for unit 3&4 that have been released?


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I was convinced they only came out on the 13th along with the grade boundaries?


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i got an a* what the hell thankyou ocr

good luck to everyone! We worked our butts off for these exams so whatever result, be proud :d

Please can anyone help me on part b questions, what are we supposed to include in them, I'm so confused, our teacher doesn't tell us anything.

Hey my teachers were pretty useless teaching us the technique, so i learnt it off a youtube vid. This is how I do it, may not necessarily work for everyone but i get 12-15/15 marks

Part B is a continuation of Part A but this is where we look at the choices the psychologists have made. Now what I've come to figure out is that these psychologists have degrees and and stuff so they're not making mistakes lol, they're making necessary compromises due to time, money and access.

e.g Generalisability, so they've chosen an ungeneralisable sample, but why? If we as A level students know not to use a sample like that, why would they as qualified psychologists do that? maybe due to the lack of access of other participants from other continents, the cost of flying them over or the cost of going to them. Also imagine how long the experiment or study would take if they were to make it generalisable. REGARDLESS still something to criticise!

So that's just something to keep in mind! not very important but still.

Part B is asking us to consider issues and debates and they'll give you a topic to help you explain your point. So you do the whole P.E.E from that topic to make your points.

Each question they give you has an issue/debate and a topic.
e.g Evaluate the use of longitudinal research when considering upbringing as an explanation of crime = Longtitudinal studies (so your issue/debate) and they want you to use Upbringing (Topic) as an example to explain your points. (Upbringing: Disrupted families Farrington/Disadvantaged neighbourhoods - Wilkstrom/Learning from others - Sutherland)

ok so we know what we have to do, We've dissected the question up but how do we begin? This is the difficult part, you've got to get into an essay structure/technique. Once you have a solid structure, all you do is swap Issues and topics in and out.

Intro - Just a brief into about your /issue/debate/approaches and how it links to your topics, background on the study - It was pretty hard for me at first because I wouldn't read around the study. Everyone does introductions differently so I'll leave you to to do what suits you.

This is the main body, talk about what's right/wrong with the issue.
Issues 1 -
Example 1 (PEE)
Link back to the question

Issue 2
Example 2 (PEE)
Link back

issue 3 (If theres time)
Example 3 (PEE)
Link back

So the issue here is the use of Longitudinal study, when considering upbringing as an explanation of crime I'm going to criticise is it in one paragraph saying it's time consuming and people will drop out of the study eventually. And this was the case in Farrington's study, and then I'm going to give the data or the actual statistics. So I've done that, now what? Well it will have an affect on the overall study so say how, so here it's affecting the validity. and then finally link it back to the question. So this shows that the use longitudinal studies when considering upbringing as an explanation of crime is........... blah blah blah

and then conclude!