AQA A2 Psychology PSYA3/PSYA4 Revision Thread 2016

Yo this is great thanks a lot!!! You have a similar writing style to me so this helps too!!

Im doing Relationships Aggression and Intelligence. They seem to like doing splits in intelligence (like 4+8) and have done quite a few 4+16 in aggression, which is grim, do you think they could do that this year?

Also, in Jan 2012 for intelligence they did 8 AO1 marks for classical conditioning, then they wanted 16 AO2 marks on intelligence in non human animals which barely has anything to do with classical and is a whole different essay, so essentally they wanted us to evaluate something without writing any AO1 points about it, which frankly is harsh af. Do think this is likely to happen again? Tbf it was ages ago (idk have they changed the spec since?)

Wait, is the exam at 9.00 or 2pm?

right i've finished 'learning' they essays, what do i do now? i've just got together the ones that have been predicted but there are so many... shall i just try and go over them?

1.30

Have you memorized them all? So have you completed everything?

You write 5-6 pieces of evidence in 1 essay for unit 3? Surely that's way too many, I was told to write 3, or 4 if the studies are brief! How can you remember 5-6 studies for roughly 33 theories, that's like 165 studies!

does anyone have a aggression essay for group display? im desperate lol

well when i say i've memorised them, i have gone through each and summarised them and written flash cards for all but the ones that came up last year...

honestly there\s only one or two that i could write without my notes but i just find it far too much to memorise them!

I went through relationships and could recall the 5 essays i learnt i didnt go over aggression but will do later today or tomorrow, im doing sleep now but i have 7 essays to learn before tomorrow.....

No its not. Its at 2pm.

No its not. Its at 2pm.

It is definitely 1:30

can an evolutionary theory be reductionist and how accurate are loopa predictions usually?

It is definitely 1:30

My exam sheets says 1.30
Do people start at different times?

No its not. Its at 2pm.

Guys who are struggling to memorise the essays, try and create acronyms for each essay of the important studies or idas and write out the acronym before you practice the question trust me it has helped me a lot, but whatever works best for you

e.g. for nerual mechanisms on agg i remember WHS PB

Wagner et al 1997
Harrison 2000
Simpson et al 2001

Phineas Cage
Bard and Mount castle

And the rest of IDAS makes sense and flows as i write out the study

Mine says 1:15