AQA A2 Psychology PSYA3/PSYA4 Revision Thread 2016

When doing evaluations regarding methodology for instance, when evaluating a study that links with a biological/psychological/evolutionary explanation of something, what's the best way to link it back to the initial explanation?

For example, if an individual conducted a longitudinal study when researching the biological approach to aggression, and you wished to say that it paints a more representative picture of the effects of cortisol on aggressive behaviours, creating a more realistic view, how do you link this back to suit the original theory?

I've read on some examiners reports that you don't get marks for your evaluations if the don't link back to the original theory, so i'm very confused because in most methodological evaluations, you're simply evaluating research into the theory/explanation, rather than the theory/explanation itself?

If anyone has good notes on research methods I could really appreciate it! I could send you any of my notes and essays for gender, aggression, eating behaviour, schizophrenia and media! Thank you!

I don't do aggression, but ultimately something like:

The longitudinal nature of _______ study increases the reliability of findings, as the behaviours observed (sorry I'm guessing) are likely to be representative of everyday life in children. This therefore increases our confidence in the validity of the _______ approach, as studies used to support it are genuine (or provide reliable findings).

Hope that helps!

How do you turn a piece of research into either ao1 or ao2?

How much IDA do you actualy have to put in to get high marks?

with like collectivist having arranged marriages and such you can just word it like this, go into more detail though.
AO2
Goodwin et al findings challenge this as they found that only 8% of Hindu Gujarati couples living in Leicester had completely 'arranged marriages'. 73% of these couples were introduced by third parties and had considerable choice about when they wanted to get married
-> This highlights the importance of cultural differences that researches need to consider

I thought you don't use ida in psya4?

Wheres everyone at in terms of revision? Ive finished one section and have done bits for other two but still need to memorize another 15 essays in 5 days. Anyone else need to do more?

I've got 15 also and it doesn't help that I can't seem concentrate! I haven't learnt any more essays today or yesterday and I feel like I've forgotten the ones I've already learnt!

Hahah same, i always say im going to learn 5 today and end up scraping 2... It takes me an hour or so to full learn then 30 mins to do timed essay. But i procrastinate so much and it feels like time goes so quickly when trying to learn an essay,,,,

At least psay4 is shorter and only has two sections where need to memorize names... Im fairly strong on research methods and brushing up on past papers and MS to find out the correct answers it should be fine hopefully.

How do you write "effective" IDA???? What IS effective IDA?!?!?! Isn't that subjective? Lacking validity and reliability?!!!

If Kohlberg comes up for Gender im screwed.. it came up in 2013 and i hate it!!!

Well, I would love it to come up. So one of us will be disappointed

I could pm you my cultural essay if you want? My teacher said it was a*/ A standard of that helps!

Hey would you be able to pm this to me please? I'm really struggling with that topic