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

Did it matter if our study had no conditions? Everyone else was talking about how they did theirs with groups of participants (male/female, age etc) whereas mine was just looking at attitudes in general. Otherwise, I didn't find it too bad!

Dude, calm down I only blagged it cause i didn't revise it properly idgaf


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I am calm, just asking some questions man, we all took the same exam, I just want to find out what other people have written. I'm kind of offended by your stance.

I am calm, just asking some questions man, we all took the same exam, I just want to find out what other people have written. I'm kind of offended by your stance.

I'm just curious, but what kind of stuff did you write for the outline the nature-nurture debate? I just want to compare my answer with someone else

I didn't put mine into conditions either, just a questionnaire on attitudes. Im sure the only thing the instructions specified was that it was a questionnaire on a self-selected sample...I hope!

Well, from past mark schemes I remembered that examples of studies were not needed for full marks.

So I just wrote down:

The Nature-Nurture debate is the extent of which behaviour can be said to result from our biology, genes and hormones (Nature) or our interaction with others and the environment (Nurture).







I guess you could further bolster your answer by providing studies which fit into each category but I did not do that.

I'm just curious, but what kind of stuff did you write for the outline the nature-nurture debate? I just want to compare my answer with someone else

Is it wrong to have a rating scale questionaire part of a question to ask p's how stressed they felt on a scale of 1 to 10????

There's nothing offensive about what i said to you! If your idea about "discussing" exams is putting people down about what they write then you're being offensive! It probably did say "assess the reliability of the questionnaires" and you're probably right but in the heat of the moment i thought it was asking about test-retest etc whatever i did it wrong, so what big deal, i know what grade i need to get to get into uni, so take your attitude elsewhere


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I said that the NN debate discusses how we acquire particular behaviours; are they learnt, as the nurture side of the debate suggests, or are they innate and present from birth, as supported by the nature side. The nature element of the debate looks at our genes and other biological factors, and is often linked to the physiological approach. On the other hand, the nurture side suggests that we are all born a blank slate and learn everything after birth, as supported by the behaviourist perspective.

Yeah, that's what I picked up on as well and I have a habit of underlining every important point in the question to make sure I'm answering about the right thing. It never outright said it, so I hope we've done okay! Which topic did you pick?

I said that the NN debate discusses how we acquire particular behaviours; are they learnt, as the nurture side of the debate suggests, or are they innate and present from birth, as supported by the nature side. The nature element of the debate looks at our genes and other biological factors, and is often linked to the physiological approach. On the other hand, the nurture side suggests that we are all born a blank slate and learn everything after birth, as supported by the behaviourist perspective.

All I simply did was clarify what the actual question said, never did I once put you down in any way, shape or form. I do not have an attitude, this forum is for us students to talk and discuss the psychology exam, you seem to be enforcing some idea that you're being attacked. I am not attacking you, I simply pointed something out and corrected you. I believe you really need to calm down, you're over-escalating the situation.

Is it wrong to have a rating scale questionaire part of a question to ask p's how stressed they felt on a scale of 1 to 10????

Omg haha same! I'm there with my highlighter for all the key words cos I'm so ditzy I know I'd miss something if not haha I'm positive there was no mention of using experimental conditions etc. but I'm sure that means you could choose whether you wanted to do so or not and you wouldn't be marked down for your choice, only your quality of writing I did attitudes to stress and put up posters in a sixth form and students could come and answer a questionnaire then I did nature/nurture for B(: you?

4 marks there for sure! That's a really good answer o: Thanks!

Omg haha same! I'm there with my highlighter for all the key words cos I'm so ditzy I know I'd miss something if not haha I'm positive there was no mention of using experimental conditions etc. but I'm sure that means you could choose whether you wanted to do so or not and you wouldn't be marked down for your choice, only your quality of writing I did attitudes to stress and put up posters in a sixth form and students could come and answer a questionnaire then I did nature/nurture for B(: you?

I did attitudes towards the death penalty and said that I'd use an online questionnaire linked in a thread on a student forum (AKA TSR )And then I also did nature/nurture!

There definitely wasn't a mention of conditions, or even the word experiment, so I'm hoping we're okay! I was just worried mine would be more like an opinion poll than a study!