AS Psychology AQA PSYA1/2 Revision Thread 2015!

yh i wrote about the other drugs as well as ect in detail. The question was around ect and drug therapies so talking about SD may have lost you marks unless your evaluation related to drugs in anyway.

I think the grade boundaries for an A for unit 1 could be around 58-60 and around 53-55 for unit 2.

Correct scattergram (1)
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What do they show other than relationship? (1)
One strength of correlations in stress research (2)
One weakness of correlations in stress research (2)
Outline findings from research into daily hassles (4)
Identify personality type (1)
Who is more likely to suffer negative effects of stress? Refer to psychological research (4)
Explain why Janet might be feeling stressed; refer to psychological research (4)
Outline one psychological method of stress management (4)
Why is failing to gain informed consent an ethical issue? (2)

Explain one or more ways in which psychologists attempt to overcome ethical issues (4)
Explain one difference between conformity and obedience (2)
Explain what is meant by 'normative social influence (3)
Explain what is meant by 'informational social influence (3)
Which boy demonstrates internal locus of control? (1)
Which boy demonstrates external locus of control? (1)
Which boy is more likely to resist the pressure to conform? Use knowledge of psychology to explain choice (4)
Explain how social influence research helps us to understand social change (4)
One limitation of 'deviation from ideal mental health' definition of abnormality (2)
Outline behavioural approach to psychopathology(6)
Evaluate psychoanalysis as a method for treating abnormality (4)

Discuss one or more biological therapies for treating abnormality (12)
Here's the questions that was posted earlier

Honestly man BZs come under treating abnormality because there ws a question on this in a paper for 4 marks and it said allow BZs but not BBS so if you talked about BZs reducing stress it counts and is valid because it treats abnormaity aas it is an anti anxiety drug so its fine they count but BBs dont that 12 marker was just so nice of AQA

Anyone have any idea as to what the grade boundaries may be?
How much to get an A?
Thanks

I think I might have seen once on a mark scheme stating that if a student has written about the wrong thing but has written a detailed answer on another topic by accident then a few marks can be awarded. I have no idea if the mark scheme will be this generous, but I wouldn't worry about it too much as some grade boundaries still allow you to lose 22 marks to get an A.

Only from looking at previous grade boundaries, I think it is normally around 50-53 for an A!

How many mark out of both paper together do you think it would be for an A?☺️


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I think last year it was 103 or 104 over all and the year before it was 49 and 52 so 101 out of 144, I think!

Does anyone know if this unit will be available next summer? Because of the introduction of the new spec I'm not sure if it will be available to sit or not.

We were told at school that if you have to re-sit and the spec has changed you will still sit an exam paper on the spec you learnt not the new one. It will be a specific re-sit paper I think!

We were told at school that if you have to re-sit and the spec has changed you will still sit an exam paper on the spec you learnt not the new one. It will be a specific re-sit paper I think!

Hiya... Did u actually include any research or researchers in your answer in any of the questions? O.o cuz it says include research findings or base on your psychological knowledge ( so on what you've revised) because in your answer above u didn't seem to put any research whatsoever, just your opinion .-.

Wih number 5 you didn't mention anything about consistency, augmentation principle etc.. There was a previous question on this in one of the past papers and on the mark scheme it says you had to include: consistency, flexibility, non-dogmatic etc...

Also with number 4, you put lack of control but did you back it up with a finding? Like for example, I put she had high workload etc and talked about johannson et al....

Don't take my word for it though, this is just what I think lol not to scare you but with the 4 markers you had to base it off a psychological research and if u didn't .-. Then you'd probably lose a lot of marks...

Your right! It will be a specific paper

Someone please answer this for me I would appreciate it cuz im not sure how much i would roughly get i was thinking 2-4For the 4 marker on findings on daily hassles I wrote that Kanner developed a 117 hassle scale and 135 uplifts scale and found that Daily hassles are more stressful that major life events because they are frequent and persistent while major life events are in frequent. He also found that the hassle scale tended to be a better predictor of stress than the srrs scale such as predicting depression and anxiety. Also ruffin found the accumulation effect where small persistent fequent daily hassles eventuall build up and lead to stress as they are persistent. How much out of 4 please

anyone please