OCR Psychology G544 revision thread!

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

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


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Tbh I just find individual differences difficult as a whole but for b I would struggle to write about AS studies as I haven't even looked at them for a year.

Tbh I just find individual differences difficult as a whole but for b I would struggle to write about AS studies as I haven't even looked at them for a year.

Ah okay I see, well i'll post some model answers tomorrow and it might help you structure an answer to it


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


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Ahhh revising for psychology again is sooo much stress. I need 163 Ums for an A so this paper has to be 90% to cover for the other one.

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


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I was hoping to do this as I need to focus on chem which is monday... but I'd rather not risk it!

you know for section A, it often says in section A 'you must collect at least ordinal level data'. My teacher says this means you can collect interval or ordinal when you say this, but not nominal? Just to check, is this correct?

also, I know nothing about the AS individual differences studies.. so I was wondering whether you could use A2 studies that use an idiographic approach, such as McGrath, as they used a case study on one individual? because that's what individual differences studies do a lot? :/

Yeah in reference to ordinal level of data you should just collect ordinal or interval and not nominal, because that's what it usually asks in the question and mark schemes. And in reference to A2 studies i genuinely don't know because i only revised AS studies when i did it because i hated the A2 studies, but i have posted a model answer for the individual differences approach above ^^ so check it out

thank you so just to summarise, if it says collect at least ordinal, I can collect just internal if I choose to?

Well i'd only do what the question asks tbh.

Nominal data = It involves data being in categories or frequencies e.g. frequency of how many people said ''yes'"
Ordinal data = involves numbers that can be put in order but don't have any mathematical properties, like rating scales. It's like a ranking order (individual scores and not necessarily equal units).
Interval data = involves using a scale that has equal intervals between the units (e.g minutes or seconds)

Hope this helps.

that's what I don't understand though, what the question is asking! I am so confused. I would usually try to collect ordinal, but sometime's it's hard to add a rating scale to measure one of the variables. Therefore my teacher said that because it says at least ordinal level data, that interval data would be just as acceptable. But I don't really see how.. surely you need some kind of ordinal data too?