AQA A2 Psychology PSYA3/PSYA4 Revision Thread 2016

who revises reading notes lol

revision comes from writing the notes

i bin my notes every year so if i decide to resit i have no excuse for new notes lmao

Alright for people who actually had teachers.. my notes are my course 😂 therefore if i throw them away ill have nothing if i have to resit. I doubt id resit anyway but still, holding on to them untill results day!

Was the directional hypothesis on the small scale study of the questionnaire or on the actual anxiety programme itself because everyone seems to be confused? :L

Does anyone know whether you can get an A overall if you get a C at AS and an A* at A2

Does anyone know whether you can get an A overall if you get a C at AS and an A* at A2

I did them both.

I can't exactly remember what the question but was it to provide the televsion company ideas to promote social behaviour on tv by creating a programme?

I don't know if I did it right, but outlined SLT (observation, imitation, vicarious reinforcement) and also stated factors such as age, gender etc. I gave an idea of a programme they could create to be on the TV. I said that they could create a TV game show programme where children on that programme have to work in teams and cooperate (pro-social behaviour) to win. The winning team gets medals. I therefore argued that this would support SLT and promote pro-social behaviour, as children may imitate such behaviours because of the reward the children got in the programme. I also stated that the ages of the children in the programme and genders (presuming that both girls and boys will view the programme) will increased thevlikihood of the behaviour being imiated . I therefore argued that this viewed behaviour may also have effects in real life, for example they might imitate this behaviour in school, when they're made to work in teams and cooperate, thus promoting pro-social behaviour.
I then used lassie to illustrate how there is evidence that pro-social behaviour can how pro-social behaviour in the media can have a positive effect.

I hope I did it right and the evidence is sufficient
Do you think I'll get good marks for that??

I thought the question was referring to the writing a directional hypothesis for the small-scale investigation, which is also known as a pilot study? The stem stated that the small-scale investigation took place 'before' the main investigation took place (6 week anxiety programme)

The small-scale investigation (pilot study) was simply just to check the appropriateness of the questionnaire in measuring anxiety and has nothing to do with the anxiety programme which would be carried out in the main investigation.

So imo I think the correct directional hypothesis would be 'as scores obtained from the questionnaire increases, the level of anxiety will also increase.'

I disagree the study was still carried out with the anxiety manegment programme, regardless if the aim was to check the questionnaire. Im pretty sure the answer was that anxiety scores would be lower before programme than after.

how do you think they went?

I disagree the study was still carried out with the anxiety manegment programme, regardless if the aim was to check the questionnaire. Im pretty sure the answer was that anxiety scores would be lower before programme than after.