A2 Psychology B'ers

Im just going through my notes and writing bullet points. Also doing test papers. Can't wait for psychology to be over!

Im doing English language in the morning too! I honestly don't know what to do, my hand will be killing me and by the end of the day ill be like a zombie! Im starting to get really nervous now, getting pretty stressed! Going to revise like crazy this weekend

The two main parts of the cognitive explanation is Becks theory and Abramsons theory.
Beck said people develop negative schemas through bad experiences with others. There are 4 types of negative thinking: absolutist, over generalisation, selective attention and magnification. Absolutist is that they believe everything must be perfect or it is a disaster. Over generalisation is believing one negative event means everything else is negative. Selective attention is seeing only bad events and ignoring good ones. Magnification is blowing things up out of proportion. The study, is Beck (1978), this identified the cognitive triad of negative thinking, where depressed people think negatively about the self, world and future.
Abramsons theory states hopelessness is the main thought in depression. It consists of negative expectations of the likelihood of positive events and negative beliefs about the individual to influence those events. Study's are Rose(1990) and Kapci (1998)
i hope this helps!

Good luck!!



Ah! It's awful, isn't it? I have bought myself some silicone pen grips to help make it more comfortable to write for such a long time. I'm not sure if they're allowed in the exam though so I may have to take them off - but here's hoping!! Which spec is your English Language? And I know, I have a medical condition which makes my stamina really bad and so by the afternoon I'll basically be asleep Best of luck!!

aaah that helps so much thanks, beck is finally making sense to me now so if it comes up ill use beck and probably seligmans learned helplessness with the dog experiment , great for AO2 ethics!

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I did that last year! I chose Social Psychology and Phobias on unit 2.


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anyone else doing moral development, cognition and law, forensic?
any predictions??

noticed on my PSYB2 re-sit there were a lot of research based questions for example in section one there were 2 questions about counter-balancing. Kinda hoping that with the new syllabus coming in september that they're recycling questions

anyone else doing moral development, cognition and law, forensic?
any predictions??

noticed on my PSYB2 re-sit there were a lot of research based questions for example in section one there were 2 questions about counter-balancing. Kinda hoping that with the new syllabus coming in september that they're recycling questions

Good luck everyone.
Doing attachment, cognition and law, schizophrenia and mood disorders :-D

Do you have any predictions for the essay question on cognition and law? I'm stressing abit about it haha!


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No idea :-( It's the worst topic for me but either this or Stress so decided on cognition and law!

First two questions on substance abuse.. Fu*k.

Example of health promotion/education intervention? Had no idea.. 2 marks lost.
2 limitations of health promotion/education? Wtf? 4 marks lost..

What did everyone put for the a/b/c/d questions? I had B and C, but the second one I'm not sure..

Overall, wasn't that bad.. Nice 12 marker on mood disorders and substance abuse, ok 12 marker on social development..

Also, what did people put as to why it's good to observe same children over long period of time? I've put less extraneous variables as participant variables are constant = higher validity.. Not sure that's what they will be looking for.