Unit 1 PSYA1 AQA AS Psychology!

What did everybody write for the extraneous variables question?

It couldn't have been the mode since there was no number that appeared twice. Hence, I'm sure you could have either put the mean or median as long as you justified your answer.

How did everyone do in the essay question on Eye-Witness Testimony?

I included: the Yerkes-Dodson law, Weapon-focus effect, Yuille and Cutshall's armed robbery EWT interviews and somehow added in leading questions which seems quite irrelevant now that I think about it..

I was expecting soo much more on BOWLBY and LEARNING THEORYY!!! The 12 marker was a downer, i guess if u hadnt revised it, you were screwed!! But i think i made a load of crap up tbh!
Omg theres soo much i learned that didnt come up!!..Dont u hate it when that happens!?
The extrenous thing i missed out! .. ddnt understand it at all!

Im still confused about the 12 mark question. IT only said outline and evaluate research, so im guessing that findings wouldnt get any marks??? also how could you include the yerkes dodson law etc into that??

Erh, I hated the paper.
The January Unit 1 one was so much easier, damn it.

Ah well, good job I did well in January so sort of can afford to lose marks..

I didn't mention Misleading questions or age into the question. I mentioned:

Loftus' Weapon Effect
Loftus and Burns- (The one where the boy got shot in the face)
Yerkes Dodson Law
Christianson and Hubinette
Alexander
And I evaluated them as much as possible.


For the extraneous variable question I said that individual differences like intelligence, would be a problem and that this can be solved by using either a matched pairs design or a repeated measures design.

For the measure of central tendency question I chose the median because there were a couple of extreme scores which could have affected the mean. But with justification I'm sure the mean would have been fine to pick aswell.

The Lucas question I mentioned Hodges and Tizard too, the disinhibited attachement and elaborated.

The demand characteristics question was horrible, even my teachers said it wasn't good. 3 marks? Too much for that. It wasn't really clear what it was asking for. I put social desirability, the mother acting kinder towards the baby because thats what she thinks the experimenter would want to see and so she looks better etc. I don't think it was enough for three though... Because the baby certainly can't show demand characteristics!

I don't understand how the first question could be 3+3 marks... All I could think of doing was stating the technique, explaining it a bit and giving an example...

Overall, not a bad paper, however the january one was easier, which we did as a mock. It had a 12 marker on Bowlby's theory and the learning theory darn it! Nothing on MSM, hardly anything really on memory itself...

oh wow... you know you could have got away with only outlining one of those experiments then within the evaluation all you had to do is compare them with other experiments.... to be in the safe spot you could have outlined 2 case studies and for the evaluation jus compare them that would have easily given if not all most marks

I had a lot of extra space and some time to spare at the end.

Case studies? For what?

Bowlby and the Learning Theory was the 12 marker in January.

How did you justify your answer?
I put median then went on to actually calculate it

I put the mean and said that it takes all of the values into account.

it may or it may not be wrong, because there were extreme values which would affect the mean... so we really just need to see the marking scheme to see which was right and wrong :P

How comes you were doing unit 1 again if you did well the first time?