AQA A2 Psychology PSYA3/PSYA4 Revision Thread 2016

What a02 points did you write for schizohprenia?

I felt like I kinda made up studies in mines because I forget them kinda

I really liked it! I mainly focused on the biological explanations. How about u?

How was it ordinal data? It's definitely interval. My textbook even gives an example of test scores as interval data, which is similar to anxiety scores.

Tbh i forget the names so I made the names up
I did a study on promotion and said that tv promotes smoking and I evaluated the study on it.
I then said gambling is shown as being posiive on tv (good reactions of winning lottery) and we have lottery advs that advertise gambling
Then he quit smoking because of promotion and then I outlined a study then evaluated it

Then I did quite a lot of a02 and spoke about other factors such as out genetics which could have made him because addicted and then also our environment

Hr could have started gambling because he was poor and wanted some money...
SO basically I spoke about it being reductionist.

Idk if i did good on it or not lol

same but you know how it says discuss two explanations of phobia, did that mean they wanted you to talk about psychological and biological? I'm a bit worried lol

Nah, you can talk about any as if they wanted that they would've said something like 'discuss one psychological and biological explanation for phobias' so I think we're okay x

yeah i did both of them

I wrote about conventional and atypical antipsychotics. For AO2 I wrote about the side effects of both like tardive dyskinesia, compliance with medication, their effectiveness as they only treat the symptoms they're not a cure, I mentioned PET scans and post mortem studies and how the medication may lead to more dopamine receptors and that they are not suitable for everyone - the elderly and pregnant women cant take them.

I also wanted to mention ECT but didn't have enough time, what did you write?

Schizophrenia

one is fine! every mark scheme for one or more says to be aware of a depth/breadth trade off, so if you did one in loads of detail you can still get full marks☺️

That's what I was thinking! I put interval as well!


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I found that question quit tricky because i wanted to include lots of risk factors but it had to be based on media. So i talked about operant conditioning and how he may see his idol being rewarded for his behaviour so he would copy it (social learning theory). I said his age would affect his initiation and linked that to Sargent and Hanewinkel study on films depicting smoking. Other than that i just talked about his personality making him more influences by the film and other pieces of research. No clue if its right but i tried haha

I wrote abou drug therapy too. My a01 was terrible, so I didnt write much but hopefully my a02 was okay.
For a02 Isaid that it is not time consuming like cognitive so it would be good for busy people like people who work two jobs and wont have time to go to psychological therapies
Said it is free on nhs so people who have finacial difficulties can have a chance
Said you can get tardive dyskiesia
And that it can affect your daily life such as tiredness fatigue etc...
The drug may not be worth it because a 30 percent chance of dyskensia so much wont be able to risk it...

And i briefly outlined ect... and said that its not ethical to put electrodes on scalpes and its outdated and not enough research done on it because it was developed when science wasn't progressed enough so we cant use it today...not safe etc...

Overall i think i did terrible on it

I drew my graph in pencil cause i'm an idiot lol
do you think I will lose marks for this? will it show up???

I drew my graph in pencil cause i'm an idiot lol
do you think I will lose marks for this? will it show up???