Predictions for A level Psychology AQA 2023

Original post by lcvedingdong

I know it's fairly early but what are your guys' predictions for psychology a level AQA 2023 exam? paper 1, 2,3.

I feel like for social influence and memory the later topics will be a 16 marker

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lcvedingdong

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I can imagine a 16 marker that has never been done before to come up for memory such as types of long term memory

Original post by Neymarswho1730

I feel like for social influence and memory the later topics will be a 16 marker

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Original post by lcvedingdong

I can imagine a 16 marker that has never been done before to come up for memory such as types of long term memory

Yeah and I think for paper 2 there will definitely be a stats test question

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Badbooks12

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Original post by lcvedingdong

I know it's fairly early but what are your guys' predictions for psychology a level AQA 2023 exam? paper 1, 2,3.

Feel like there’ll be an essay question on attachments

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Original post by Badbooks12

Feel like there’ll be an essay question on attachments

Yeah same maybe on strange situation

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Does ‘outline research into theory x’ means studies on theory x or is it the whole theory

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Original post by Neymarswho1730

Does ‘outline research into theory x’ means studies on theory x or is it the whole theory

it's studies, but feel free to outline key points of the theory but link it to a study

eg outline research into the behaviourist approach : -a key point of the behaviourist theory is that behaviour can be learnt by consequences shown by skinners research on rats ( outline skinners reasearch)

the evaluate THE RESEARCH ONLY so in this case how skinners research was a lab exp or how because its animals it lacks ecological validity

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Original post by TT-tan

it's studies, but feel free to outline key points of the theory but link it to a study

eg outline research into the behaviourist approach : -a key point of the behaviourist theory is that behaviour can be learnt by consequences shown by skinners research on rats ( outline skinners reasearch)

the evaluate THE RESEARCH ONLY so in this case how skinners research was a lab exp or how because its animals it lacks ecological validity

Thanks!

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ssana.khz

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Original post by Neymarswho1730

I feel like for social influence and memory the later topics will be a 16 marker

For memory I don’t think that there will be a 16 marker on EWT, it came up last year

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Original post by ssana.khz

For memory I don’t think that there will be a 16 marker on EWT, it came up last year

Same, I fear it might be on something like cognitive interview but I would have no idea how to structure a 16 marker on that as i have 2 eval points max

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Original post by TT-tan

Same, I fear it might be on something like cognitive interview but I would have no idea how to structure a 16 marker on that as i have 2 eval points max

Which ones do you already have

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discordhmmm

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isnt cognitive interview apart of EWT? so if EWT came up last year u might not have to worry

Original post by TT-tan

Same, I fear it might be on something like cognitive interview but I would have no idea how to structure a 16 marker on that as i have 2 eval points max

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lcvedingdong

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Original post by TT-tan

Same, I fear it might be on something like cognitive interview but I would have no idea how to structure a 16 marker on that as i have 2 eval points max

2 evaluation points are fine (what my teacher told me), as long as your outline is great and matches the requirement for level 4 which is outstanding knowledge. Evaluation isnt counted separately rather, it is counted as an overall answered used through levels.

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Original post by Neymarswho1730

Which ones do you already have

just the effectiveness and I could quote the Gieselman study and the fact it's costly

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Original post by discordhmmm

isnt cognitive interview apart of EWT? so if EWT came up last year u might not have to worry

That's true but I feel like AQA has been leaning toward application questions more recently and cognitive interview is easy to put an application question on, I do think psychopathology will have an application question too

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Original post by TT-tan

That's true but I feel like AQA has been leaning toward application questions more recently and cognitive interview is easy to put an application question on, I do think psychopathology will have an application question too

Applications are quite nice, im just dreading the long answer questions

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Original post by Neymarswho1730

Applications are quite nice, im just dreading the long answer questions

For an A* 12 out of 16 is enough as long as you nail the research methods and short mark questions

Also about EWT I have seen the 2022 paper and the EWT was 4 marks so perfectly reasonable to show up as a 16 marker

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