AQA A-level Psychology Paper 1 (7182/1) - 19th May 2023 [Exam Chat]

AO1:
Define anxiety and eyewitness testimony
Anxiety has a negative effect on eyewitness testimony (Johnson and Scott)
Anxiety has a positive effect on eyewitness testimony (Yuille and Cutshall)
(These studies would both be AO1)

A03:
-Yerkes Dodson law
-Pickel and weapon focus effect due to unusualness
-Lack of control in field studies
-Ethical issues e.g. deception, psychological harm

Hi, thanks for the help with structuring the anxiety ewt essay, it has helped a lot!

One other question, when evaluating the Monotropic theory (Bowlby's theory) do you think I can point to the limitation of the Critical period with evidence from Koluchova (1976), I know that this is more of a marternal deprivation issue, but I feel like I can manipulate the point for this topic as well.

Does anyone have evaluation they can share for the definitions of abnormality, I'm worried it will come up as a big question?

Does anyone know if we have to use numbers from studies to get marks? E.g. Nestadt et al found 68% concordance rate in OCD for MZ twins and 31% for DZ twins. Or can we just say MZ twins concordance rate was higher than DZ twins.

can you be asked to compare learning and monotropic theory? what would u say

can you be asked to compare learning and monotropic theory? what would u say

i think numbers are more detail so higher marks but not for small studies- nestadt is an important one so yes

Do you guys think having both a gender bias and a culture bias paragraph for evaluation is too much? 2/4 paragraphs on that.

no cus u can apply it to legit everything so its good if u ever forget smthin

Yh I was thinking for Asch you can get 2 nice paragraphs for culture and gender bias that are pretty detailed

So do you think Yuille and Cutshall, Johnson and Scott and the speed for Loftus and Palmer are important?

dont learn the speeds just remember that the difference between 'contacted' (verb which produced lowest average estimations of speed) and 'smashed' (verb which produced highest estimations of speed) was 8.7mph (you can just learn the difference for studies instead of 2 separate percentages)

hi guys, im a bit anxious currently because my uni offer is on the basis of my getting an A in psyc, so does anyone have any tips for me? idk what to do

Hi, I need some help structuring one of my 16 maker essays. I've heard that anxiety affecting EWT is quite likely to show up, so wanted to have one planned.

So far this is what I am aiming to do:

A01 Para 1: Johnson and Scott (1976)- Negative Effect (I can write a lot about this study and go into weapon focus etc.)

A03 Para 2: Contradict previous study with Yuille and Cutshall (1986)- Positive Effect (Not sure if I should use this as A01 or A03, so please help me here)

A01 Para 3: Yerkes and Dobson Law to explain contradicting evidence

A03 Para 4: Deffenbacher's meta-analysis to support Inverted-U theory

A03: Limitation of Johnson and Scott- so use Pickel's (1988) findings

A03: Limitation of Yuille and Cutshall- post-event discussion etc.

Do you think this layout would be enough to get full marks in A01, I am unsure whether I should use Yuille and Cutshall as A01 or A03.