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OCR Psychology G544 revision thread!

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Original post by mkhan9035
Yeah i don't mind, i just can't upload word docs, like i wish i could because i had all these notes saved on my USB but i lost it, so i can only type the notes, so let me know which notes you want examples of and i'll slowly but surely get it posted for you.

Tbh, I need help for section B, I really do not know what to focus on. I was thinking of focusing mainly on methods and approaches and not so much issues as a whole
Original post by random1234567
Tbh, I need help for section B, I really do not know what to focus on. I was thinking of focusing mainly on methods and approaches and not so much issues as a whole


Well the only thing i can say is that OCR are getting clever by asking approaches, which are tied in with issues/debates, like i predicted behaviourist would come up, but no one saw the tie in with nature/nurture coming, so i'm not too sure what to say. When is your exam?
Original post by mkhan9035
Well the only thing i can say is that OCR are getting clever by asking approaches, which are tied in with issues/debates, like i predicted behaviourist would come up, but no one saw the tie in with nature/nurture coming, so i'm not too sure what to say. When is your exam?

The exam is next Wednesday, yes I dont mind the issues/ debates being linked to a section B question, but just not as a whole section
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Original post by random1234567
The exam is next Wednesday, yes I dont mind the issues/ debates being linked to a section B question, but just not as a whole section


That's fine then, just let me know what notes you need, and i'll do my best. Have you worked out what to revise? I think i saw someone post on the 1st page of the thread what hasn't been examined so take a look at that
Original post by mkhan9035
That's fine then, just let me know what notes you need, and i'll do my best. Have you worked out what to revise? I think i saw someone post on the 1st page of the thread what hasn't been examined so take a look at that

No, I am still thinking :eek:.
I was thinking of going over physiological, individual differences, longitudinal studies and observation for the moment. What do you think?
Original post by mkhan9035
Also a lot of you are asking for a model answer to a correlation 19 marker so this answer is the Q my Psychology teacher set for my mock exam and I got 19/19 for it. This isn't the ONLY way it can be answered, but it shows you how simplistic it needs to be. Hope this helps you all.


The aim of the research was to investigate the relationship between the number of friends a person had and how often they socialise per month. The first variable, 'friends', was measured by asking P's how many friends they had on the social networking site, Facebook. The second variable, socialising, was measured as a score between 0-30, where a score of 0 represented a person never socialises, and a score of 30 meant a person socialises every day.

The sample consisted of an opportunity sample of 10 students from a local college. They were found in the college canteen at 10am on a Thursday morning, and were the first 10 students that came into the canteen. The P's were asked if they'd like to take part in a psychology research study, and then were asked 2 q's using a verbal self-report. Firstly, P's were asked 'How many friends do you have on Facebook?' The score was recorded as a whole number. If P's didn't have a Facebook account, they were thanked for their time but weren't used as a P in the study. If they were unsure of the exact number of friends they had, we asked them to give an approximate figure. The second Q they were asked was, "How many times on average do you go out socialising in a month?" This was recorded as a score of between 0 (no times socialising in a month) and 30 (socialising every day of the month).

Once these q's have been asked, P's were thanked for their time and reminded of their right to withdraw their data. The data from each variable was plotted in a scattergraph for analysis.


Mark: 19/19


This is good but you haven't mentioned ethics (e.g. You'll gain consent from the principal of the college in order to allow the study to take place + informed consent from the participants themselves). Also, you haven't mentioned the statistical test that'll be used to analyse the data? (Spearman's rank in this case I think).

But your answer is so good lol I tend to waffle a lot. :|
Original post by socially inept
This is good but you haven't mentioned ethics (e.g. You'll gain consent from the principal of the college in order to allow the study to take place + informed consent from the participants themselves). Also, you haven't mentioned the statistical test that'll be used to analyse the data? (Spearman's rank in this case I think).

But your answer is so good lol I tend to waffle a lot. :|

Same, makes me hungry
Original post by socially inept
This is good but you haven't mentioned ethics (e.g. You'll gain consent from the principal of the college in order to allow the study to take place + informed consent from the participants themselves). Also, you haven't mentioned the statistical test that'll be used to analyse the data? (Spearman's rank in this case I think).

But your answer is so good lol I tend to waffle a lot. :|


I was told by my teacher who's an OCR examiner I wouldn't need to, because the follow up questions (i.e the other 21 marks) would usually ask you about things like that, as the whole point of the 19 marker is description, and replicability! You won't get any marks for evaluation. I mean I got an A on this exam following her advice so she obviously wasn't wrong! :smile:


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Does anyone know what studies can be used for individual differences apart from AS ones? Really struggling with this approach and think it might come up.
Original post by mkhan9035
I was told by my teacher who's an OCR examiner I wouldn't need to, because the follow up questions (i.e the other 21 marks) would usually ask you about things like that, as the whole point of the 19 marker is description, and replicability! You won't get any marks for evaluation. I mean I got an A on this exam following her advice so she obviously wasn't wrong! :smile:


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Can you sit the exam for me?
Original post by random1234567
No, I am still thinking :eek:.
I was thinking of going over physiological, individual differences, longitudinal studies and observation for the moment. What do you think?


It sounds good, like i said whichever ones you want model answers for, just let me know.


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Original post by mkhan9035
It sounds good, like i said whichever ones you want model answers for, just let me know.


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Ermm, possibly individual differences and psychodynamic please...
I do not know how to get 12 marks for part C, maybe A and B
Original post by gra1616
Does anyone know what studies can be used for individual differences apart from AS ones? Really struggling with this approach and think it might come up.


You'd only need to use AS studies. I don't think A2 studies tie in so much. Thigpen and Cleckley, Griffiths and the other one (i can't remember) are the best studies you'd need to use. With approaches the only studies you should aim to use are AS! With debates/issues you should aim to use a mixture.


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Original post by random1234567
Can you sit the exam for me?


Haha it would be a massive cram, baring in mind when i sat this exam, i only revised the night before (no lie) and just revised behaviourist perspective and weirdly that came up, otherwise i was dead haha, and still got an A! But it helped I resat core studies as all that stuff was still in my head. Don't worry you'll be fine :smile:


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Original post by random1234567
Ermm, possibly individual differences and psychodynamic please...
I do not know how to get 12 marks for part C, maybe A and B


Sure i'll definitely post them for you tomorrow, i'm tired now lol.


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I'm really not confident with the AS studies though. I was told Daly and Wilson could be used for Individual differences as it looks at the differences in gender?
Original post by gra1616
Does anyone know what studies can be used for individual differences apart from AS ones? Really struggling with this approach and think it might come up.


Gudjohnsson (false confessions) and that's probably about it. Although if you do health there probably are a lot.
Original post by gra1616
I'm really not confident with the AS studies though. I was told Daly and Wilson could be used for Individual differences as it looks at the differences in gender?


Tbh you're probably right. I'm not too sure, but just do what works best for you. What makes you not so confident with the AS studies, is it for part (b) or the whole questions (A-E)?


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Original post by mkhan9035
I was told by my teacher who's an OCR examiner I wouldn't need to, because the follow up questions (i.e the other 21 marks) would usually ask you about things like that, as the whole point of the 19 marker is description, and replicability! You won't get any marks for evaluation. I mean I got an A on this exam following her advice so she obviously wasn't wrong! :smile:


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I'm still a little sceptical about leaving it out because it's not really evaluation by mentioning ethics because you need to make it obvious that your study is ethical. Also with the data analysis if the follow up questions don't ask about it then what..? I think I'll just add it in because that's how I was taught I guess lol.

Have you got any tips for correlations e.g. How you'd write a procedure? That's the only thing I'm struggling with tbh
Original post by jodie.irwin27
topics that haven't come up as a whole yet:
individual differences
psychodynamic
behaviourist
validity
observation
ethnocentrism
is psychology a science
determinism vs free-will
reductionism vs holism
usefulness of psychological research


however DO NOT rely on this, because some approaches have repeated - the cognitive and social approach.

and here's the june13 paper and mark scheme :smile:


Just a heads up they asked Behaviourist with Nature/Nurture last year (the June 2013 paper) so i doubt they ask it again as a sole question :smile:


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