Psychology A Unit 3 AQA - 17th June 2011

yeah same i really hope it comes up! not because its the best topic in the world but just because i am going over it loads!!

ok cool thanks!

For Frustration-Aggression I've put that frustration doesn't always lead to aggression, and Berkowitz has adapted the model to include aggressive cues in the environment that may make it more likely that individual will behave aggressively. Also, you can use lynching cases, such as Sam Hose to support the model, as he was not a threat to the community, but the lynching took place in times of social and economic tension, and therefore he was used as a 'scapegoat'. You can then criticise it that it uses secondary materials (such as newspaper reports) rather than systematic observations and it has negative social implications - as crowds are labelled as irrational and dangerous.

Hope that helps x

tbh I have more AO1 points on meat but not many evaluative! what evaluative points do u have taste averision?

yeahh I just read that one.. added it on my notes, but I dno how u would evaluate it apart from the obvious that they used animals in the study! well this study supports the idea of taste aversion - that the animals do learn to avoid the food as they had been ill because of it?!
you could also talk about the link between food and odour so for example once our ancestors had eaten poisoned food, they knew how to avoid it because of the odour?

haha me too! what other topics are you doing?

simplying mentioning the study in an evaluative way will give you A02, ie the concept of taste aversion is supported by Garcia et al..., then the typical however the extrapolation of results might not be fully approprate, however it is unethical to conduct a study like this upon humans (more IDA)

thats a good point thanks

doing sleep and relationships...then research methods, phobias and media for unit 4! what about you?

yeahh exactly! fingers crossed we ace it!

Can somebody please shake me and get into my head that I need to start my revision?!?!?!!?

Ugh

yep!! fingers crossed eh

After listing all of the studies I should know for ALL of the topics together, I've added them up and there's 70 of them... Do you have any tips on how to memorise them? I'm really struggling...

After listing all of the studies I should know for ALL of the topics together, I've added them up and there's 70 of them... Do you have any tips on how to memorise them? I'm really struggling...
My topics are:
Biological rhythms and sleep (disrupting bio. rhythms, nature of sleep, insomnia)
Relationships (sexual selection, early/adolescent exp.)
Aggression (lynch mobs, neural&hormonal)

Regarding Herman and Macks experiment, basically they had a group of dieters, and a group of non dieters. They then gave both groups either a high calorie preload (a browine, or milkshake) or a low calorie preload (a cracker). A preload's just a snack thing before the experiment.

After this, they allowed both groups access to food, kind of like an experimental buffet, and found that when the non dieters were given a high preload, they didnt eat much at all, when they were given a low preload, they ate a lot of food.

Dieters on the other hand, when given the high pre load ate a lot more food than when given the low calorie preload, this shows that the dieters had lost their restraint over their eating, and just thought "Fu*k it, I've already had a brownie, lets go all out."

So yeah, Non dieters with low preload - Ate the most
Non dieters with high preload- didn't eat much
dieters with low preload- ate the least
dieters with high preload- ate a lot, well over the non dieter w/ high preload.

Hope that kinda helps, I was going by the 1975 study