OCR A2 Psychology: G544: Approaches and Research Methods - Monday 17th June 2013

If you look at the general pattern, the grade boundaries are getting slightly higher each year. The only exception is Jan 11 where it's been the highest of all. If you can get 60+ on that paper, then you'll be fine

Can anyone mark this?

http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/63506-question-paper-unit-g544-approaches-and-research-methods-in-psychology.pdf

Here's the scenario, and I chose option C.

My sample will be 17 - 16 year old college students in a large sixth for college. I will gather 20 of them, 10 which will be males and 10 will be females. I will use volunteer sampling to to publicise my experiment by sending a mass email to all students aged 16 - 17. I will select 20 participants but only those who consent to it. I will reply to their emails with a consent form and tell them the time (13.40) and the date (the next day) and the place (a room) of the experiment.

I will use independent measures design to split the participants into two groups: males and females, therefore this would be a quasi experiment. Once the participants are in the room, I will tell them to sit and show them 20 pictures of clothes on a powerpoint screen in front of them. Each slide will contain an article of clothing and will last for 30 seconds. After 20 pictures of clothing, I will hand the participants an A4 piece of paper with several closed questions including "In slide, was the colour of the clothing red or green? [] red [] green". There will be 20 questions in total regarding the appearance of the clothes shown, and a mark will be awarded for each correct answer. I will give the participants 60 seconds to complete the questions.

After 60 seconds, I will debrief the participants and collect their responses. I would then add up all the correct scores out of 20 for each gender (male and female) and calculate the mean. I will then put this data in a raw table, after which, I will put it into a bar chart. In the X axis, I will put genders 'male' and 'female' and put the mean total number of correct details identified in the Y axis, and make the bar chart accordingly.

I will use mann-whitney statistical test as my data is ordinal and I have independent measures design. My level of significance P < 0.05 to make sure my results are not due to chance.

[[I typed it exactly as I wrote it out. Help please! Mark out of 19? Improvements?]]

Can anyone give a model answer for a similarities and differences question between the Individual Differences approach and the Physiological Approach? Just so I know how i'd structure it


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One thing I've noticed in terms of whether it's realistic, 60 seconds to answer 20 questions is pretty quick? And I'm not sure you need to put the test you'd use down.. But in general that seems like a very strong answer

I just use this guide, so make sure you've done it all!

In the b) question of Section A (13+6 marker), remember to include the following;

my teacher says she was fairly confident that cognitive approach wont come up this year in section b. and predicts either one of the perspectives (behavourist/psychodynamic) . but for me section b isnt that hard part, im more worried about the second part to section a, the (13+6) marker. im not very creative and i always forget some elements of the method to include

Does anyone know if case study can come up in section A?
I'm sure it's only Self report, Experiment and Correlation right?

Hi all, just want to share this as many people are finding the psychodynamic perspective hard. Here is mine...

Outline psychodynamic approach
The main assumption is that behaviour can be explained in terms of inner conflicts of the unconscious mind the id, ego and superego. The id is the pleasure seeking desire, ego controls the desire of id and superego is seen as conscience that maintains balance between id and ego. The ego deploys defence mechanisms strategies such as repression and displacement to protect or minimise the psychological discomfort from the conflicts between superego and the id. It emphasises the structure of personality and early childhood experiences which are responsible for forming ‘models of the mind’.
Two pieces of research
One piece of research is by Thigpen and Cleckley who aimed to describe a specific disorder - multiple personality disorder. In a case study, the article outlines Eve’s 3 different personalities (Eve Black, Eve White and Jane) and how they each revealed themselves to the therapists. They tried to reveal the unconscious mental processes and the conflict between the id, ego and superego that may result in multiple personality disorder. They found that traumatic experiences in Eve White’s childhood caused her developing ego to split, creating two different ‘selves’ — Eve White and Eve Black — in the unconscious mind of the patient.

Another piece of research is by Yochelson and Samenow who aimed to investigate the make-up of criminality in 255 male participants over 14 years. His study was based on 255 male participants who confined to the hospital who had had been found guilty. A series of psychodynamic therapeutic practices were involved with the offenders where the purpose and goal was to locate the root cause of their criminality.