OCR Psychology G544 revision thread!

Im lost

my prediction is that physiological and developmental will come up as the last times they came up were in june 11 and jan 11. whereas cognitive and social have come up twice over the last 4 years!

why?



yep that's what I was thinking. Physiological would be a god send but it's unlikely as it came up for AS. Maybe developmental or psychodynamic.

Everyone's slightly confused about a procedure for correlations?

If you're using self report then the easiest way you can do it is a QUESTIONNAIRE (CLOSED QUESTIONS, LIKERT SCALE, DISTRACTOR QUESTIONS)

For example if I was measuring the relationship between exposure to sunlight and happiness then I'd start off like this:
(I've only done how to write the actual self-report, not about the sample etc but I would include that too and data analysis and all that stuff)

I will be using a questionnaire using closed questions and a likert scale. Participants will be handed an A4 sheet of paper with 10 questions on it and tested individually in booths. An example of a DISTRACTOR question is 'how many hours a day do you watch tv?' [1-3] [4-6] [6+] this will be to ensure the participants don't know the real aim of the study as they may display demand characteristics. An example of a closed question is 'How do you feel after a day in the sun? [happy] [relaxed] [amazing] [sad] to gather qualitative data and an example of a question using a likert scale is 'on a scale of 1-10 how happy do you feel after a sunny day?, 10 being very happy and 1 being very unhappy' [1(very unhappy)-------------------10(very happy)].

That's the basics. You include examples of one of each e.g. A closed question, distractor and one using a likert scale (don't bother with open questions because they're time wasting). Then include the conditions of the questionnaire - will the p's be given the questionnaires on computers? Or a sheet of paper? how many minutes are they given to complete it? Are they tested individually? Etc etc. (I haven't included most of these in my example because I cannot be bothered lol). Also don't forget to mention that at the end, you'll tell them the aim and debrief them and say that you'd ask them to not write names on their sheet in order to protect them from harm and protect confidentiality. Blah blah etc etc

Just make sure you know how to write a procedure - you don't have to have a standardised checklist because this can make it a bit too structured? Just think of the procedure and make sure you're including the things as you go along (doesn't have to be in order).

I'm so tired lol, stopping revision in like 30 minutes.

Hope this helps someone (even a little bit lol)

what studies would you use apart from freud for psychodynamic though? i have no idea!

Oh so you would compare the closed question with the likert scale one?

Freud and Thigpen and Cleckly. You could also use Yochelson and Samenow (from forensic, turning to crime, cognition) and maybe Lewinsohn (health, disorders, treatments) as that study investigated something to do with psychotherapy

sociallyinept you're the best please answer my question !! do you know any other studies that are holistic apart from wikstrom?

i understand by thigpen and cleckley, but why yochelson and samenow?

did they have a freudian nature to their interviews?

I said that Becker (from health, theories of health belief) is holistic because the health belief model was a cognitive model that considered lots of variables that could affect why people do not adhere. The last variable of demography also could be seen as supporting the social approach, so it is therefore a combination of cognitive and social factors

also, Thigpen and Cleckley? IQ tests and EEG were used, which is a variety of measurements used by a range of approaches

all the book says is that 'freudian-based therapy was used to find the root cause of their criminality in their previous lives.' whatever that means... hence why I'm skipping it lol

Guys which studies are you using for determinism and free will (apologies if this has been dealt with already)

I am still confused with correlation (((

I get correlation now, I just hope that the inferential statistic question/s we get are limited to 4 marks max as last time I checked I was taking psychology and not higher maths