AQA A2 Psychology PSYA3/PSYA4 Revision Thread 2016

QUESTIONNNN! I'm thinking I may have written the wrong numbers down on the side as I didn't see a certain question and dunno think I may have not correctly written the right numbers. Will this cause me to loose all the marks?!

what does everyone think the grade boundaries will be? want everyone to answer this question so we can find an average figure.

This is exactly me! I'm pretty sure I missed out the question about how to measure internal validity but I think I went on to answer the next question in its place and so on... I feel like the examiners will have common sense enough to know what we're talking about though (I hope). It seems to be a pretty common mistake.

what does everyone think the grade boundaries will be? want everyone to answer this question so we can find an average figure.

Literally that's the EXACT question I left out!! Because I remember reading it when I first read over but I don't remember answering it and think I've also done the next one in its place. Wahh, yes let's hope so

Help please! I realised that for the addiction 4 marker I misread the question as 'biological approach to addiction' rather than initiation to smoking, so I wrote about biological model on general addiction such as gambling and smoking and all of the stages will this mean I've lost the whole 4 marks??

What was media question for the first one, I think I did it wrong

Was it the scenorio one?
About childrens Tv programmes for Prosocial behaviour?

yeah. Did we have to provide details in how the programme should be created??

I can't remember

We had to offer advice on type of programme, charecters etc, and back it up with SLT and others like that i think, thats what i did anyway kept linking it back to the scenorio.

So this has been haunting me all night: for the question asking why random allocation of participants was used I had a mind blank and just wrote: to avoid researched bias/investigator effects e.g. this would avoid the researchers (unconsciously) picking all the individuals with higher anxiety scores to take part in the programme because they think that they are more likely to have at least some decrease in anxiety scores so it will make the programme seem effective. Therefore this would avoid invalid results.

Is that even a point?! Will I get any marks? When I got home I realised I should have just put to reduce the effect of participant variables...

I think I did it wrong but can you check if its right?
I was rushing that I couldn't think properly!

So, first I put forward the idea of SLT and outlined the theory (observation, imitation, vicarious reinforcement etc.) I also stated the idea of age, gender etc increasing the likelihood of the behaviour being displayed. I then explained how this theory can be used to explain pro-social behaviour.

I then have an example of a programme that they could put on tv. I don't know if this is right or if it makes sense, but I said that they could create a game show programme, where the people in that programme will be both girls and boys and children. I said that the programme will be centralised on teamwork and cooperation (pro-social behaviour') where teams have to work to win. The winning team gets medals. I said that tho supports SLT as it will increase the chances if this behaviour being displayed, for example, children may imitate this in school when they have to work in teams and cooperate. I said that , presuming that children of both genders will watch this, that's why the programme should include children and of both gender to incase the chances of it being displayed.

I then stated a study to back up the idea that promoting pro -social behaviour in the media had led to successful pro'-social behaviour. I used Lassie.,

Did I do it incorrect ? Was I meant to use an existing programme or will I still get marks?? I'm sure it said to create a programme

Also, was I meant to talk about more than one theory, or will one explanation suffice?? I didn't get the 'research' part so added one at the end bac k up my points that the media can be successful in promoting pro -social behaviour
I think I did it wrong!

I don't think you did, you should have saved yourself the hassle by using a superhero lol. The lassie study pretty much gives it away as to what you should use as the programme.


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What did people write for the research methods question where it said why did they use random sampling? And what did you write about how to conduct a random sample? Thanks