Opinions on AQA AS Psychology Paper 1, 16 May 2016

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rrt2HqUeC1J-vqARIaUC4wdiucHdvnWouza-4uY3FUc/edit#heading=h.gfn9nqlkeb1b

There's also a prediction on grade boundaries on the unofficial MS - 54 for an A. Which despite my royal screw-ups, I think I may have scraped, or at least not be far-off.

For the Strange Situation 12 marker did you not have to talk about the stages???

For A01 I wrote the aim of the study, the 8 stages, how Ainsworth was looking for 2x separation distress, stranger anxiety and reunion behaviour, and the attachment types she identified along with the behaviours each would likely show in the Strange Situation?

Then for A03 I made one evaluation point about the method, discussed Main & Soloman's Type D attachment and explained Kagan's critisism of the Strange Situation (too much empathsis on the role of the mother, not enough of temperament..). Is this alright?

For the Strange Situation 12 marker did you not have to talk about the stages???

For A01 I wrote the aim of the study, the 8 stages, how Ainsworth was looking for 2x separation distress, stranger anxiety and reunion behaviour, and the attachment types she identified along with the behaviours each would likely show in the Strange Situation?

Then for A03 I made one evaluation point about the method, discussed Main & Soloman's Type D attachment and explained Kagan's critisism of the Strange Situation (too much empathsis on the role of the mother, not enough of temperament..). Is this alright?

We've finished it now, just doing to aesthetic clean ups

Okay I finished cleaning up the mark scheme (unofficial).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rrt2HqUeC1J-vqARIaUC4wdiucHdvnWouza-4uY3FUc/edit#heading=h.mtydh6607362

guys, does anyone know if these exams are counted by uni's? I guessing they are as otherwise how would we get conditional offers next Jan/Feb..

guys, does anyone know if these exams are counted by uni's? I guessing they are as otherwise how would we get conditional offers next Jan/Feb..

I felt so bad after that exam, I've been getting A grades consistently all year and then boom new wording, I mean they replaced "outline and evaluate" for "discuss" and what does "psychological research show" plus my timing was really bad and i had to rush the twelve markers I didn't even outline the studies or findings, just evaluated it. Goodbye A grade! Although i felt a bit better after seeing the unofficial mark scheme, i think i got about 40+ marks on the smaller questions combined but idk how many I'd give myself for the twelve markers and the one on the IWM. I'm just praying for a nice paper two, a generous examiner, and low grade boundaries. So hopefully a B

So; I went through the paper picking and choosing which I felt comfortable answering first. 25-minutes to go and most-way through the last 12-marker I flicked through to see what I had left, saw just one question which I hadn't quite finished and did that. Then went back and finished the 12-marker.

10-minutes left and I do another flick through - realized I'd forgot about the Strange Situation 12-marker and Internal Working Model 6-marker....PANIC.

Wrote like a bat out of hell - invigilator kept telling me to 'stop writing' at the end.

In hindsight I feel answered all those that I did well, except self-report which I'm a bit iffy about. And I outlined the strange situation and evaluative points (I put in 5), forgot the findings though. But only probably scraped a couple of marks on internal working model. I feel sick because they weren't hard questions and perfectly answerable for me, I just screwed-up and the wording of the paper really threw me out of my stride too. I'm better on the second paper, so hoping to get near-enough full-marks there.

Those that feel deflated too - onnwards and upwards, let your worries for this exam spur you on, and come back stronger for the next. We can do this!!

If you get a high B in paper one and an A in paper two what would that average out to be?

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Possibly an A, if the A is a moderate or high A.

So there's still hope for me to get an A if I don't flop on paper two :'

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Well done yesterday everyone I've added a link to the completed unofficial markscheme in the first post of this thread, and included a poll so you can share how you think you did.

Thank you to everyone who collaborated on setting up the markscheme It was really awesome to see everyone working together like that! I wish it had been a thing when I was doing my exams

Hey guys for the STM question (4marks) I did not really mention any other researches beside Baddeley and Hitch but stated all the features will I get full marks?


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Can someone advise me on what mark I would get for the WMM questions for putting this: explained the CE, forgot to evaluate it with Bravers evidence..explained the phonological loop and Visio-spatial sketch pad and evaluated them with Baddleys's dual task performance and Shallice and Warrington KF as support for the WMM. Stupidly, I then started talking about STM and Petersons+Petersons study and evaluated that!! ☹️ I was about to explain the Episodic Buffer but ran out of time, simply said that it was added to the model by Baddley in 2000 :/ I'm guessing I would have gotten 7 or 8 out of 12 on that?? Opinions?

I would say 7/8/9
At least you didn't talk about types of LTM like I did (absolute nightmare!)