OCR AS psychology

The stimulus may be why the research was conducted, so for example, Milgram was testing his "Nazis are different" hypothesis. Piliavin's research stemmed from the murder of Kitty Genovese.

It's not necessarily background, and it is unlikely they will ask a question on background factor, but it is useful to back your answers up with more knowledge

How is the prep for psychological investigations going? I have a geography exam on monday and then psychology investigations on tuesday urrrg..

Any tips for this exam will be appreciated

I'm slightly terrified now its just round the corner. Lucky I have no exams between now and then, so hard core revision time.

Definitely. Last year we had a question along the lines of "a psychologist is sitting on a bench observing behaviour..."

and the answer would only receive a mark if the word "bench" was found in it. Annoying, but can bump your marks up

Hey guys!
Hope revision's going welll for all you. I found this powerpoint for revision notes for the investigations exam on monday. Hope you find it helpful and good luck everyone!


http://www.slideshare.net/jamiedavies/psych-investigations-revision-powerpoint?type=powerpoint

Thank you for your helpful post about context I'm just wondering, do you have the mark scheme for June 2013, or if not do you know where I can find it? I just did the past paper for it and realised I can't find the mark scheme -.-

I also did AS last year. I thought I actually did good on g541 and did bad on the studies, but turns out I spent too much time worrying about the studies that I ended up doing badly on psychological investigations. Because it's considered so easy, remember they put the pass rate high, so make sure you do spend some time on this one.
I was stupid -.-

No problem

I don't unfortunately, and I'm kinda confused as to why OCR haven't put the June 13 mark schemes online yet...they would be so helpful, sorry!

Do you know, I think a lot of people made that mistake, and it's only natural because core studies is worth so much of the AS grade . You're right about the pass rate being so high, on one of my g541 past papers, to get an A you could only drop 7 marks. Crazy!

Yeah it's really strange o.o thank you for replying anyway ^-^ Aww that is actually so horrible D: Scary stuff haha. And yeah, it was my fault though if I had started revising earlier I wouldn't be in this mess! I really hate myself for last year, I started revising really late so I just prioritised core studies. I didn't realise how important it was. For me, uni feels so far away in year 12. But it comes so soon O:

Yeah but you can't focus on last year, you gotta stay calm and ace it this year I came out of the g541 exam last year and thought I did crap. The two 10 markers killed me and I thought that I hadn't answered anything remotely well, but it turned out I only dropped three marks, so it definitely can be done, even when the exam seems like it went crazy bad. Uni comes around fast and hits you in the face hahaha. Make sure you start planning your personal statement early, believe me writing that is worse than revision

Lol how lucky.. I have geography on monday, psychology on tuesday, sociology on thursday and geography again on that friday .. arrrg

If I'm honest I'm not too worried about psychological investigations, I had a mock recently and got 55/60 with just a little revision I did in a free period before it. I'm bricking it for the core studies exam though, I've worked really hard this year and got a good grade in my mock so I'm hoping I can do just as well in the real exam, but I've been stressing out so much that I feel like I've forgotten everything :C

Next week I have psyc investigations exam, history and french, then the week after I have core studies, biology and another history. 6 exams in the next two weeks :'(

This powerpoint is really useful, thank you!!

Wow well done on the mock!
I'm not too worried about investigations either but then again it is easier to get an A in this one than it is in the core studies so I'm putting some work in today.
I have 5 exams in a week including 2maths a chemistry a biology and then psychology so I'm dying!

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Oh jeez, I'd hate to have so many in one week. One of my friends has 3 exams in one day, so I feel really sorry for her Still, hopefully your exams finish quite early? My last one is on the 2nd of June

Oh jeez, I'd hate to have so many in one week. One of my friends has 3 exams in one day, so I feel really sorry for her Still, hopefully your exams finish quite early? My last one is on the 2nd of June