Higher Psychology 2015 Exam

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What's the best revision books? Plan to do Psychology next term

It'll be a new higher so I dont know how much will be different but the 'higher psychology' textbook by Morag Williamson, Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan is good :smile:

Thanks

Original post by Mattown

Whats everyones predications im doing conformity and Obedience, intelligence , memeory, early socialisation?

I think a question on conformity will come up and for memory I think one of the following: STM/LTM, models of memory or theories of forgetting. I don't think resisting social pressure nor eye witness testimony will come up.

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.A_C.

I think the memory, stress, research methods and conformity/obedience sections will be okay. I'm concerned about atypical behaviour because there are so many possibilites - definitons, approaches, therapies etc.. Is it worth learning therapies since they came up last year?

Reply 44

12345helppp

Original post by Mattown

Whats everyones predications im doing conformity and Obedience, intelligence , memeory, early socialisation?

I'm doing the same topics !

I'm thinking:
Conformity
Theories of Intelligence (hopefully!!) or uses of IQ testing
Working memory model & Theories of Forgetting (dreading this :frown:

!!)
Privation and/or separation (possibly), mary ainsworth, behaviorist theory (this one i'm really not sure about!)

What are you thinking ??? :smile:

Reply 45

najbelike

Good luck for tomorrow everyone! What has everyone learned? I've done conformity and obedience, medical model, behaviorist model, psychodynamic model, the 2 models of memory, theory of forgetting, stress management, GAS, flight or fight response I'm completely winging the research methods 😂

Reply 46

.A_C.

Original post by najbelike

Have you not learned any therapies? Are you adamant that only approaches will come up cos I hope that is the case! xD I'm most woried about atypical but the other stuff should be okay :smile:

Good luck to you too!

Reply 47

najbelike

Original post by .A_C.

Have you not learned any therapies? Are you adamant that only approaches will come up cos I hope that is the case! xD I'm most woried about atypical but the other stuff should be okay :smile:

Good luck to you too!

Nah I've learned therapies aswell I'm most worried about stress because I have a feeling transactional model and individual differences will come up and I know **** about them :frown:

Reply 48

.A_C.

So what did you think then?! :smile:

I predicted memory the individual differences/enviromental but transactional did not come up! EWT came up as well :redface:

I didn't revise for it haha :L Also I knew it could be a correlation and conformity would come up too. (as predicted). However, I'm surprised with definitions of atypical behaviour, luckily I revised for it tho :s I really wanted behaviourist approach tho tbh.. -_- Excuse my terrible scribbles on the paper D:

Reply 49

.A_C.

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Reply 50

lunamorrissey

What did you all think? Personally wasn't happy about the stress questions at all! but the atypical was just what i wanted! old higher

Reply 51

Charlotte B

Original post by lunamorrissey

What did you all think? Personally wasn't happy about the stress questions at all! but the atypical was just what i wanted! old higher

I couldn't remember studies for the environmental sources and the individual differences and atypical behaviour, I just went blank! Liked the rest of the paper!

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Reply 52

.A_C.

Original post by lunamorrissey

What did you all think? Personally wasn't happy about the stress questions at all! but the atypical was just what i wanted! old higher

Hello lunamorrissey, I thought the EWT question was not good solely because I didn't revise it. But hey it's only 8 marks. The research methods was really good and so was the conformity question and sort of the atypical question. Stress was okay I just spoke about glass et al and his noise experiment and brown and harris no friends thing, For individual differences I wrote about freidman and rosenman personality and age. Not too bad paper for last year of higher, could have been worse!! We also have our projects as well :smile:

What sort of studies did you discuss for atypical behaviour definitions?

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Reply 53

lunamorrissey

Charlotte B- I completely agree that question was awful I didn't know a thing!
AC- thankfully I had revised that study, but it was a really surprising question tbh! Research methods was ok except the graph and correlation questions I had no idea :s-smilie:

Oh I completely forgot all those studies!! I just wrote about overcrowding :frown:

And for the atypical I spoke about: depression affects 27% of elderly people (NIMH,2001) for statistical infrequency.
For deviation from social norms i spoke about: Szasz (1974) claimed that mental illness wassimply a way to exclude non-conformists from society.And Cochrane, African-Caribbean immigrants are seven timesmore likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia .
Not sure if they're right but I had practiced that question a bunch from the past papers so was happy with it! What about you?

Reply 54

.A_C.

Original post by lunamorrissey

Oh I completely forgot all those studies!! I just wrote about overcrowding :frown:

Ahh at least for the envriomental/individual differences you put down some studies, better than none! Also I wrote about the NIMH as well! Did you metion Jahoda (1958 I think ) by any chance? I had a feeling correlation would come up because there hasn't been one since 2010. I can give this big f-off psychology book that I didn't useback to my father now:

Reply 55

lunamorrissey

Original post by .A_C.

I didn't mention Jahoda I only did 2 definitions because I ran out of paper and was not going to put my hand up!! :tongue:

lmao, and ohh I had no idea what it meant! ahha yass! also how did you get those pictures of the exam paper???? because of the no phone rule?

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Reply 56

.A_C.

Hello again, sorry I forgot to reply to you just remembered you messaged back! I can't remember if you said you were doing sociology, if so how did that go? :smile:

Sounds kinda sad but I miss going to college once a week to do Psychology, it was like a ritual! Saying that, I would always over indulge at Mcdonald's now and then xD

Reply 57

.A_C.

ooh yeah also I didn't take those pictures of the paper in the exam hall, I took them on my desk at home! I probably could have got a away with it tho, since there was only one invigilator 'watching us' when he was drinking a cup of tea reading a newspaper xD