AQA AS Psychology PSYA1/PSYA2 Revision Thread 2016

Monday is just memory and developmental with a lot of research methods thrown in! No psychopathology until next week! It's on the paper with stress and social.

Paper 1: Social Psychology, memory and attachment (with research methods incorporated)
Paper 2: approaches with bio psychology, psychopathology and research methods
This video is good for research methods, and also has many good revision studies for paper 1 too.
https://youtu.be/8OnL5tm0cmk

Exam is tomorrow and I'm doing last minute revision now.

What kind of research method questions do you think will be incorporated

your exam is on a sunday?!

Upps no it's on monday sorry..

Can someone explain Moscovici's procedure and findings? I didn't think we needed to know it in much detail but my teacher told me it was one of the big studies we need to know and I don't really understand it...
Thanks :-)

Most likely asking about research methods used in a given study. Like it will tell you about a study such as a memory test and ask short answer questions like what experimental design was used, weaknesses of it and what controls were used.

How many confederates were there in Asch's study?
Because I get different numbers on different websites so is it ok if I say 6 confederates and 1 true participant?

My book says between 6 and 8. But is it really necessary to state the amount? I just learn it as the naive participant was put into a group with the other participants being confederates. I hope that's fine, I'll definitely state the amount if I still remember it. Just hope it doesn't make a difference.

My book says between 6 and 8. But is it really necessary to state the amount? I just learn it as the naive participant was put into a group with the other participants being confederates. I hope that's fine, I'll definitely state the amount if I still remember it. Just hope it doesn't make a difference.

Hey guys, predictions on 12 markers on Monday ?!! MOST LIKELY to come up ??

Does anyone know the difference between mundane realism and ecological validity as well as external/internal validity. Also do we need to know how to do the sign test

They're similar but different types of representativeness:
Mundane realism is whether the results of the experiment can be applied to everyday life and ecological validity is if the results will bear the same outcome in different environmental settings.

However internal validity is to do with the methodological part of the experiment - does the experiment study what it is meant to? Are there any flaws in the method? E.g. if an experiment is meant to study the effect of sleep and test grades, it will have high internal validity if it does exactly that.

External validity is the same thing as representativeness and generalisation of the study. If the experiment can be generalised, it is said to have high external validity.

Hope it makes sense!