Psychology PY4 (WJEC)

I actually think I lacked a01. And I think I found it hard because I know I have probably just 7 marks out of 25 for disorders and about 18 for nature nurture. I hope my py2 picks up more marks now.

Totally messd up .. hoping i get the a01 points..not too sure about evaluation i just sucked at that .. i just kept saying reductionist / scientific etc. =/

What did you mention for nature nurture?? I hardly evaluated



LOL same pretty much reductionist/no cause and effect/scientific/too simplistic/supports basic predictions/flawed/gender bias/external validity :\ lmao that's pretty much all my evaluation was based on

For nature nurture essay I just said how one point supported one side. Then I did ao3 like stress Diathis model and discussed concdance rates and gene environment reactions

What is A03? Evaluation??? I hardly had any evaluation




Erm for disorders of mem:

Amnesia - characterized by a temoporary or permanent loss of memory. Anterograde and retrograde amnesia.

Clivee wearing who developed both - I said this provides in depth detail qualititatyive blah but findings of brain damages patients can't be generalised to wider populations so lack of extgernal validity i think?

Psychogenic amnesia - result of traumatic events or psychological cause with absencve of biological brain damage.. Kopelman & taylor found that 30-40% of murders of family members or crimes of passion have no recollection - i said this supports the basic assumptions of the amnesia but lacks validity cos they could be lying, exaggerating the truth or something and so it's not a reliable source of data (interviews are subjective) or something :\

Erm Alzheimers - degeneration of memory system

Genetic cause - Matt Ridley and his findings - i said this provides strong support but is not absolute so doesn't exclude other factors. it's reductionist as it doesn't take into account other factors? i think

Brain Structures - forgot the names of the study and wrote Berg et Al but i think that's werong hahaha. neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (not sure if i actually wrote that) i think i said it's good methodology or something but no cause and effect can be established :\



i'm now thinking of looooads i could have included but didnt :| can't remember fully..

theories of crime:

early bioligical theories: lorenz, gall's idea of phrenology and lambroso
Genetic explanation - Jacobs and Katz idea of XYY supermale but this is gender bias as doesn't explain why women commit crime and only can account for 3.5% so other factors are involved
Testosterone - I messed this bit up!! couldn't remember the findings so it was REALLYYY vague but i remembers it's something about correlation so i wrote about no cause and effect or whatever and also gender biased

ermmm

Psychodynamic and Freud saying it occurs as a fixation. I said during the phallic stage but it's oral stage i think so that's all gonna be wrong didn't know how to evaluate i just said it accounts for emotional factors and provides in depth info :\ but it hink he said women have lower morality in which case they'd commit more crimes but they dont?

And differential asoociation theory which i sort of forgot it was all a bit muddled as well and i had no studies to support it :\ evaluation w\ sa bit week




sorry about the typing, today my typos are because of my thumb hurting like mad!! Also I went to the toilet half way through the exam and GOT LOCKED IN

Also, the bits that i included in intended as evaluation id on't think they'll be noticed to be ebaluation, they seem like they cvould be either :~(

Wow that definitely sounds grade a standard. I tried following the breif plan you said about disorders before in a post. But I seriously ****** it up. Like I just said some studf about psychofenic amnesia and dissociative disorders. Then I didn't know if the matt ridley thing was alzheimers or amnesia so I left it out. And talked about berg and amnesia then I said what antergrsde and retrograde were but with no explanations lol so yeah my plan was crap. I just hope some peopel.did worse and the grades are attainable. This girlin my class only learnt theories of crime for forenics and it came up whereas I learnt aall of memroy. But th one didnt know came up. life isn't fair

Yeah my thumbs hurt aswell and I'm using my HTC to text. I was. REally thirsty but forgot to talking my water to the exam

Oh and with messy handwirting my essay lengths were

4 sides for controv
7 sides for theory of crime
6 for my relationships
3 for my memory essay =/

I found the 3 marker hard aswell melon! lol
I cant exactly remember what I wrote but I probs got just the one mark.

The exam was tough imo. As I said before about the girl and me. It seems like a lot of the paper is down to luck. If free will or the bias essays came up I could have done better. And if any of the other memory essays came up I could have done better. Results day perhaps we can ressurect a PY4 result thread.

you are probably going to be a bit freaked out... but I had a dream last night and it was about this paper going seriously wrong and for some odd reason - dont even know how you look but yeah you were in it!!!
The invigilator left the room for about 2 minutes and me and you were sitting next to each other and I asked you why the questions were all wierd like some questions were worth 10 marks for a memory essay but 45 marks for a controversy essay and there was some maths involved. We were both freaked out. And you started to worry about your A* and I was stressed about needed this A (if I dont get it then I have to go to a crap uni)
I woke up then. And then went to sleep since it was 5am and had another version where it was just me and I started to get really stressed.

I think it was actually alriiiiiiiiiight. The controversy essay was good (so glad cultural bias didn't come up!). The disorders of memory panicked me, but then somehow I had a lot to write so..yay! Then I thought I'd do schizophrenia first as I knew it best...looked at the clock just after starting it, to see there were only 20 mins until half 3..to do 2 essays :O! So rushed the majority of that essay- missed out lots of details and then after starting the theories of crime essay realised the sociology exam finished at half 3, psychology at 4, so then spent 50 mins on theories of crime...hopefully its amazingness will make up for the rushed schizophrenia essay but who knows? I'm so silly..
/story

There was a sociology exam at the same time???

What did you write for schizophrenia? I sort of forgot to do psychological causes only spent about half a page on them spent too long on physiological :\

Which controversy did you do?? and hahaha fifty minutes on theories of crime!!! lots of evaluation?

Ohhh how big is your writing?!?! SEVEN SIDES for theories of crime?!?!?1 what did you write??? and what EXACTLY did you write for the genetics/environment i mean did you talk about each approach and how it is either genetics or environment??? and hwo did you evaluate except for the stress diathis model thing whatever it is



I think it was the wording of it. What is 'genetic influence' wth ¬_¬ i wrote that it's basically when genes are the main influence on behaviour LOL! talk about stating the obvious ahahahah.

And HAH worrying too much about the exam eh? could explain why you had the dream And I have mentioned a few times that I want an A* but tbh i don't think i'll get one heard they're going to mark harshly this year and the bit of evaluation that i DID do was actualy vague

Nooo it was the day before. I kept getting confused between them!

Schizophrenia (S), I started off with physiological explanation such as genetics-PPP3CC gene faulty (48% concordance rate MZ twins, 17% DZ) then went on to brain chemistry such as too much dopamine (supported by research linking cannabis use to S, as it binds to dopamine receptors yadayadayada)
Psychological- family dysfunction, such as children being placed in double bind situations (Bateson) causing confusion and self doubt.
Then finally, about links between social class and S. Lower classes more prone to S due to stressful situations. Black people concentrated in the working class, thus could this explain why they are 9x more likely to be labelled S.
Further evidence- Kety's adoption study to support genetic explanation and Linda Hart's personal experience to support the family dysfunction explanation.
Methodology- Physiological explanations claim the methodological high ground due to scientific research, etc. However, is reliability necessarily more important than validity, such as that Linda Hart's diary provides?
Usefulness- treatments.
Power & media - Psychiatrists push genetic explanations as they favour the biological model, prescribe drugs to vulnerable people, however do they simply deal with the members of society that society feels uncomfortable with?..blah blah blah..Films such as A beautiful mind provide hope to S, as Nash was able to have a job and go on to win the nobel prize, after recieving talking treatments and chemotherapy (supports psychological and physiological)
Bias- Cultural and publication bias.
Conclusion- bit of both. If it was entirely genetic the concordance rate of twins would be 100% so psychological factors obviously have an important part to play......think that's about it

I did genetic v environmental factors (my favourite controversy )

And yeah...50 mins allowed me 8 pages of evaluation! rofl! If I was marking that one answer I'd give it 30 marks at least Alas, my schizophrenia essay suffered immensly but hey ho

What was your favourite question?

I did the same thing where i said that genes influence behaviour.and made up some useless info that made no sense.

For the essay I wrote ...
How locke said tabula rasa and we learn from environment. Such as the flynn effect shows iq increasing. didn't say by how much since I forgit.
Then said about black people.getting fewer gcses so there mmay be a nature erfect. But then said of good role.model may effect behaviour. Then said most psychologists kno that its never anture or nurture. It's acombination but question is what contributes more. Then shields view of whether iq. is affexted by environment using twin studiwa. then kamin crtiticising his method. Then spoke about diathesus stress model showing an interaction view. Support is holland but I think I wrote hollind instead eeeek.
Then about plomins view of. Genes interacting wuth environment. And one sejtence about phenotype showinn actual behaviour and geneotype showing potetial.
Then said Hebb saying what contributes more to an area of arectangle. The width or length. And said ill let th examier decides lol.

Thats it. So I only did tiny bit about ao2. Mainly uses research and facts which is ao3. Hopefully got 17 in that essay.


For foresnics my writing was massive thats why i need 7 aides.
I wrote about bowlby maternal attatchment. Rutter developmet of it. Then without a atudy talked abiut aygression in men. Ainsworth saying doesn't explain why there is fraud which dsnt need aggression.
Then Crowe adoption study about inheriting crime gene. Then edlington boys commuting crime . Lack of role models so links to bandura aocial learning theorty.and thhen did farringtons study showing broken families lead to problems so environment is factor.
Only real.piece of.ao2 was the fact I saws it isn't due to one factor. these theories pose a threat to law since it assumes we freely choose to be criminals which may not be truue. Reduxtiionist to way one theory.

Oh my God that is a heck of a lot for 10 minutes!! And what kind of evaluation did you have for theories of crimes?? what theories did you actually have?

wow sounds like you did awesome