AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009

What is TSR? At least he answered one question right though. My mate thought 'yield' meant go against not conform to. So she answered the 'why do people yield to majority influence' completely wrong haha. She wrote why people go against it.
I thought it was alright too, only my mate and me were doing PYA1. Quite a lot of people had to resit PYA3.

my school started exam an hour late at 2.44pm and so i didn't manage to leave school til 4.
i only revised attachment yesterday morning before exam and stuff i briefly read over came up - bonus.
i thought i would fail and i don't (hope) i haven't.

1a) A + C
b) MSM = bla bla bla basics
c) was it about girl not being able to remember what she revised but could remember mag.
Sort of struggled on this.. made it up. just put limitations of msm and somehow linked it to rehearsal. was v.iffy question.

2) a) cannot remember for life of me.. um IV and DV maybe
IV = the way in which the diff groups memorised word or something like that
DV = the amount of 2nd words correctly recalled
and then something about independent group design thing (i think)

at one point i started writing about experiment being controlled and extraneous variables... don't know whether i was meant to. for diff q tho

oh like q6 (maybe) with the 2 ways of studying boys behaviour from mother whilst in hosp.. i put physical and verbal behviour?? eeeek
and then way in which i could observe this = watch him whilst he was playing with his toys.. haha oh dear.

cultural variations was a bit iffy too. i think im going to give up remembering q's.
if anyone can put me out of my misery and tell me whether any of my answers so far are right??
please
oh and if anyone can remember any more questions minus ones i said plus 12 mark thingy then will be much appreciated.
thanks

Ah right okay haha. Most of the people have done the new spec haven't they? What is the structure of those exams like do you know?

I got 54 in the mock and the teacher said it was a B.
But anyone else know for sure about the grade boundaries?
I thought it went really well - didn't know what to put for the teacher remembering faces one but apart from that I answered everything and felt pretty confident about all of that!

and the IV was the words the investigator chose to put on the list i think..

No, it was which way the ppts were asked to memorise the words; either through just mesmorising it or creating images.

yeah thats what i put....

do you know if i'd get the mark if i put independent measures instead of group??...i know its only worth one mark but its really bugging me

No, it was which way the ppts were asked to memorise the words; either through just mesmorising it or creating images.

do you know if i'd get the mark if i put independent measures instead of group??...i know its only worth one mark but its really bugging me

my school started exam an hour late at 2.44pm and so i didn't manage to leave school til 4.
i only revised attachment yesterday morning before exam and stuff i briefly read over came up - bonus.
i thought i would fail and i don't (hope) i haven't.

1a) A + C
b) MSM = bla bla bla basics
c) was it about girl not being able to remember what she revised but could remember mag.
Sort of struggled on this.. made it up. just put limitations of msm and somehow linked it to rehearsal. was v.iffy question.

2) a) cannot remember for life of me.. um IV and DV maybe
IV = the way in which the diff groups memorised word or something like that
DV = the amount of 2nd words correctly recalled
and then something about independent group design thing (i think)

at one point i started writing about experiment being controlled and extraneous variables... don't know whether i was meant to. for diff q tho

oh like q6 (maybe) with the 2 ways of studying boys behaviour from mother whilst in hosp.. i put physical and verbal behviour?? eeeek
and then way in which i could observe this = watch him whilst he was playing with his toys.. haha oh dear.

cultural variations was a bit iffy too. i think im going to give up remembering q's.
if anyone can put me out of my misery and tell me whether any of my answers so far are right??
please
oh and if anyone can remember any more questions minus ones i said plus 12 mark thingy then will be much appreciated.
thanks

Ok, to put my mind at ease, for the last question I covered the learning theory, in detail, which took about a page, and then the evolutionary theory in a bit less detail but still covered the main points. It filled all the space but I didn't include any strengths or weaknesses of either theories. So will that mark me down?

Nobody replied to this so I thought I'd give some support.

The 12 mark questions are marked half/half for description/evaluation (or, AO1/AO2). You'll probably get the full 6 marks for AO1 due to your in-depth description of Learning Theory (which would probably get you 6 marks on it's own if you covered it all) PLUS Evolutionary Theory.

However, you can only get maximum 6 marks for describing. For evaluation (AO2), the mark scheme says "either a wide range of evaluation in shallow detail, or a smaller range in greater detail". I'm assuming since you only did a little bit about Harlow you'd maybe get 1 mark maximum.

Sorry.