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

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Could someone outline the individual differences approach for me please? :3

People are unique, so instead of studying the similarities between people it should be the differences that are studied between them. Behaviour which deviates from the norm is considered abnormal. Rules about what is normal won't apply to everyone. Behaviour can't be generalised to everyone, as people differ as individuals. Consequently, the approach utilises the case-study method which allows an in-depth investigation into abnormal behaviour and and typical areas of study include personality (Thigpen and Cleckley), addictive/problem behaviours such as Gambling (Griffiths) and abnormality (Rosenhan).

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mkhan9035

Original post by lankan-gurl

Does anyone think it is a risk to revise just the individual differences approach, the two perspectives and then 2 or 3 issues.. I really am not motivated to study the other approaches ..

I think 2 of them will have to come up and so long as you've revised them you should have covered your bases! I'm just trying to finish revising Reductionism then i'm calling it a day and revising Section A! I wish I could revise them all but I don't have the time or motivation!

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Cryl

Ok c: Any tips on section A? Observations? Does anyone have an essay on observations? :smile:

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mkhan9035

Original post by Cryl

Ok c: Any tips on section A? Observations? Does anyone have an essay on observations? :smile:

Unlikely it'll get asked as they asked it in Jan 2013

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Reply 484

lankan-gurl

Original post by mkhan9035

Which 2 do you think will come up? I'm hoping individual differences or one of the perspectives and agreed.. I definitely do not have enough motivation or time to revise everything else.. in a way i feel quite bad but its not like we didn't have other exams to revise for. :colondollar:

Reply 485

Cryl

Original post by mkhan9035

Unlikely it'll get asked as they asked it in Jan 2013

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Oh, I really hope so. Observation will make others in the exam hall observe my death. >.<

Reply 486

Cryl

Original post by lankan-gurl

I've called it a day. I'm going to go through everything in my head and may be on this thread, but I can't do detailed revision anymore. Exhausted. Revise individual differences c:

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eselle

Could someone read over my section B question B for the behaviourist perspective, I feel as if I've wrote irrelevant things

-Bandura study on aggression: when the children were exposed to an aggressive role model who would act violently towards the bobo doll through hitting, punching and kicking, the child would produce imitative aggressive acts compared to the children who were exposed to non-aggressive role model. This shows how behaviour can be learnt through social learning theory and how we can learn behaviours through observing another person. The study supports the way we learn behaviour from other people through imitating their behaviour.
-Watson and Raynor study on Little Albert: every time little albert was shown a white rat, the experimenters made a loud bang. He learnt to associate white rats with fear and so acquired a phobic response. This study shows that behaviour can be learnt through classical conditioning since little albert associated fear with the white rat, therefore he has learnt this behaviour.

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revise7869

Tbh for those who revising a few thinking they are likely to come up, its not safe to do so after the G543 option paper. In jan that paper didnt have any stress questions, and I revised stress the most thinking it would come up on the recent one, but there was no stress. OCR can soo unpredictable, having done two exams this summer both of which gave me abit of shock when i looked at the questions.

For those studying 2/3 approaches I suggest, just briefly outline all of them so your not completely blank if an unexpected question happens to come up.

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lankan-gurl

Original post by Cryl

I've called it a day. I'm going to go through everything in my head and may be on this thread, but I can't do detailed revision anymore. Exhausted. Revise individual differences c:

LOL I wish I could call it a day but it feels as though my brain hasn't taken anything ive learnt in :/

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idk_ben

Original post by mkhan9035

Thank-you!

Reply 491

sonia___x

can someone please post an example answer to Section A part b) the 19 mark question - I can't open documents on my laptop so please copy and paste it instead!

Reply 492

Bobby Greenberg III

Wilson and Daly, Brunner and Gudjonsson. Any other A2 individual differences studies out there?

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mkhan9035

Original post by lankan-gurl

Well I hope either Individual/Behaviourist comes up (as an approach) and Reductionism (as a debate) or maybe Case-Studies or Observations as a Section B question! i really don't know! And yeah, I had too many other exams to focus on but *fingers crosses* i got a high A in my G542 resit, and i've got an A in G541 and a B in G543 so ideally to get an A overall i need 64-70 ums on G544 (depending on Grade boundaries) but I want an A on this paper cause its so doable! Uurghh anyway good luck for tomorrow :smile:

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Reply 494

lankan-gurl

Original post by revise7869

True.. but is one to do at last minute? I'm mainly focusing on a few approaches; developmental, ind diffs and physiological not social or cog.. I think I know enough about social anyhow. Besides for the G543 predictions that people made about topics that hadn't come up so far I revised those and I felt quite happy when I saw those questions :biggrin:

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lankan-gurl

Original post by mkhan9035

I know, I had too many other exams to focus on but *fingers crosses* i got a high A in my G542 resit, and i've got an A in G541 and a B in G543 so ideally to get an A overall i need 64-70 ums on G544 (depending on Grade boundaries) but I want an A on this paper cause its so doable! Uurghh anyway good luck for tomorrow :smile:

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Thanks

Good luck to you too.