AQA A2 Psychology PSYA3/PSYA4 Revision Thread 2016

What did you put for the question asking why they chose a one-tailed test to analyse their data?

Thanks

that first one is wrong. It was asking you to write a hypotheses for the small scale investigation not the whole investigation.

You should have written it like this:
'the greater the anxiety score on the questionnaire the greater the level of anxiety'.

I said other research may of found a relationship

Yeah I nearly fell for it too.

yooo same!!!
schizophrenia: outlined conventional antipsychotics + ect (history of ECT + brief procedures because didnt really have enough for just conventional antipsychotics to beef out the ao1). evaluation: Davis et al meta-analysis showing conv. antipsychotics are effective therefore useful, however Vaugh and Leff found only significant reduction in relapse if home environment is negative, so suggested a more holistic treatment is required. Ross and Read's comments about the validity of the review as drug withdrawal was probably a more important factor. ECT: Tharyan and Adams, however no longer appropriate as it is a dangerous therapy.
media:
application question - brief outline of SLT and discussed parental mediation, suggested programme could use characters the kids can identify with, should not mix prosocial and antisocial messages, prosocial messages should be explicit, should have a note to watch with parents and for the parents to engage in instructive parental mediation (gave e.g.'s relevant to each part).
evolutionary explanations of attraction of celeb. - miller's ideas of neophilia, attraction to creativity and the world of fantasy, sexual selection in females look for creative displays, celeb. gossip as a way of relaying information about potential mates and now for those we admire. eval: Shiraishi et al finding variations in genes controlling expression of MAOA linked to celeb attraction, suggesting its passed on, not useful because doesnt explain why we would be attracted to creative individuals therefore we do not know the adaptive mechanism behind it so evolutionary explanations are not useful.

dw about the 'one psychologist found' thing, my friend mentioned no names in her mock and got an A* for the quality of her arguements!!

That first one is wrong. It was asking you to write a hypotheses for the small scale investigation not the whole investigation.

You should have written it like this:
'The greater the anxiety score on the questionnaire the greater the level of anxiety'.

Surely it is right because in the text they tell you that a high score on the questionnaire means you have a high level of anxiety so why would they be asking you to repeat what they've just told you?
Also it didn't say about the questionnaire but what they called the whole procedure(I can't remember exactly what they called it)

Wow you smashed it!!
I was sat there for ages thinking how i could beef my essays out so some stuff may not be relevant!
Schizophrenia-
Drug therapy-antisychotics-atypical and typical explanations and examples then i spoke a little about the explanation just to make it more understandable but only breifly as unlikely to get marks for it. Then used a study for effectiveness of them.
Then evaluated with a few studies remembered a few names otherwise just explained the findings. Then spoke about drugs not working for all patients and some stats.
Then the diagnosis issue and that you need a diagnosis to get the treatment and many go undignosed for...reasons.
Then about severe side effects and then less serious and a study about relapse and refusal of drugs.
A paragraph about dosages and individual differences. Mentioned the free will debate and a few other things that i cant remember.
Mentioned ECT but that its not used anymore for..reasons then concluded with drug therapt has revolutionised the treatment of schizo. People living at homes monioring themself and not in unstimulating institutions etc.
Wrote the Pro social media further up.
Hovland and Yale was pretty straight forward added a few studies in for the crack.
Evolutionary- wrote about humans before tv and celebs, mates etc who are creative, neophilia and put darwin and ducks studies in.

Research methods threw me a little but to say we had to self teach im happier with this than last week!

What were the questions on the back? I have a sick feeling I missed them out - may just be my brain working overtime though!?

i swear the answer is the anxiety scores will be lower, measured by a questionnaire, after the 6 week anxiety management period? Because that whole stem is referring to a small scale investigation???

whoa thanks!! feel it went pretty well considering i was bricking it the night before haha.

sounds like an ace answer!!! schizophrenia and media questions were pretty nice!

That first one is wrong. It was asking you to write a hypotheses for the small scale investigation not the whole investigation.

You should have written it like this:
'The greater the anxiety score on the questionnaire the greater the level of anxiety'.

What were the questions on the back? I have a sick feeling I missed them out - may just be my brain working overtime though!?

i swear the answer is the anxiety scores will be lower, measured by a questionnaire, after the 6 week anxiety management period? Because that whole stem is referring to a small scale investigation???

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Thankyou😄, sounds terrible but im hoping some struggled so the grade boundries arnt too high i need atleast a B for uni 😐
Youve made me so happy saying that about names haha, gave me some hope!

Do you guys kno if we can resit the a2 exams next year?

I think you were meant to write because they used a directional hypothesis, that they asked us to write earlier. I was gonna write that ^ but then it said a "new anxiety programme" so there was no previous research indicating that it would work.