AS Psychology AQA PSYA1/2 Revision Thread 2015!

For some stupid reason, for the 6 mark question asking the effect of anxiety on EWT, i wrote about the Memon study (age on accuracy) do you think i still might be able to get a couple of marks?!?!

Reply 1525

TrojanH

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Original post by Jimmy_G123

For the 12 marker for A02 i used the study of Hodges and Tizard for a study against the concept of Bowlbys Critical period, is this correct and will i get marks for it?!?!?!!?

depends on what you ACTUALLY wrote.. as long as you link it to disagree with the Critical period then yes it is relevant

Reply 1526

For the memory improvement, I talked about the method of loci?

Is this right?

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billymccreith

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Just to check; when asked to outline the MSM, we did not have to talk about specifics in terms of capacity, encoding, and duration (i.e the studies and what these were found to be?) I said it was linear, explained how information is transferred between stores and forgotten in quite a bit of detail, but simply said that each store was 'different' in terms of it's capacity, duration and encoding. Surely this would be unnecessary AO2 given the outline nature of the question?

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Original post by SEGHaynes

For some stupid reason, for the 6 mark question asking the effect of anxiety on EWT, i wrote about the Memon study (age on accuracy) do you think i still might be able to get a couple of marks?!?!

Possibly? I wrote about the weapon focus effect... Is that right?

Reply 1529

dottielottie

For the 'advantage of strange situation' I wrote about how it is a controlled observation which can be stopped if infants get way too distressed, would that be relevant ?

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Also, what do you think the grade boundaries will be like? in all the previous years its usually about 50 marks or more out of 72 to get an A. Do you think the same will apply roughly for this year?

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Original post by billymccreith

Just to check; when asked to outline the MSM, we did not have to talk about specifics in terms of capacity, encoding, and duration (i.e the studies and what these were found to be?) I said it was linear, explained how information is transferred between stores and forgotten in quite a bit of detail, but simply said that each store was 'different' in terms of it's capacity, duration and encoding. Surely this would be unnecessary AO2 given the outline nature of the question?

Hmm, I added it, just to be sure...

So I said something like "For information to be transferred to the STM, it must be attended to, once there it is encoded acoustically and information can be held there for approximately 18-20 seconds, as proposed by Peterson and Peterson..." etc, etc...

Reply 1532

Jimmy_G123

Original post by TrojanH

depends on what you ACTUALLY wrote.. as long as you link it to disagree with the Critical period then yes it is relevant

I wrote that they found adopted children still managed to form close bonds with care givers when interviewed at the age of 8, this suggests that attachment can happen outside of the the critical period so goes against this concept? would that get me a mark or two?

Reply 1533

Prina_R

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Was the EWT testimony I wrote about the weapon focus effect and loftus et al

Is this right?😔😔😔

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Original post by victoria1998

Possibly? I wrote about the weapon focus effect... Is that right?

yes weapon effect is right

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Original post by Prina_R

Was the EWT testimony I wrote about the weapon focus effect and loftus et al

Is this right?😔😔😔

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yep thats right

Reply 1536

Shamzy25

Original post by Prina_R

Was the EWT testimony I wrote about the weapon focus effect and loftus et al

Is this right?😔😔😔

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Yes! It was anxiety on eyewitness testimony. I used the weapon focus effect as well.

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Reply 1537

Prina_R

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For the advantage of SS I wrote about prior and glaser..how the SS helps with future situations. Eg) if you are securely attached then you have positive outcomes such as independence...is this right? :frown:

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Reply 1538

Original post by Shamzy25

Yes! It was anxiety on eyewitness testimony. I used the weapon focus effect as well.

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Would it have been okay to have just mentioned weapon focus effect? Did you have to mention more than one? I only did that one...

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_thequeen