AQA PSYA3 - 28th January, 2011

is anyone else doing aggression, gender biological rhythms/sleep or is that just me lol

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Anyone got any revision tips? I feel like I'm going to fail this unit!
I'm doing biological rhythms and sleep, aggression and gender.

oh great.. i hate cognitive development so much im going to teach myself aggression!
Are you in uni? lol im a bit confused that's why

Right, looking at the mark schemes, would it be risky for me to skip the topics that came up in those two exams in my revision? I mean, it's a new spec, so they have a lot to pick frm when writing questions, I feel it is unlikely they will do any of the questions they have done n the past 2 papers. So, if I g off those I can skip all cultural stuff to do with relationships, not learn about one type of eating disorder, and not learn about social psychological theories of aggression.. or is that all risky? Tbh I know all of that already apart from the cultural relationship stuff... and I hate relationships with a passion so if I can cut down on one bit of it it would be great

I was supposed to be going to uni but chemistry ****ed my life lol. So i'm taking a year out and taking the chemistry exams again

Those are the exact 3 topics I'm doing! Want to be revision buddies?
I actually don't have a clue about anything atm, my brain needs to start working!

Those are the exact 3 topics I'm doing! Want to be revision buddies?
I actually don't have a clue about anything atm, my brain needs to start working!

Hey one of my topics is cognitive development but its just terrible literally.. its beyond boring and its so depressing.. so me and my friend decided to self teach aggression.. it looks ok.. i was wondering how the topic is? Is it difficult in terms of the content.. what you need to memorise etc?

In relationships alone, there are at least 74 cited studies.

This means there will be about 200 in the entire PSYA3 paper if the other topics are of similar breadth, not to mention the biology in eating behaviours. FML. Seriously, FML. What on earth am I doing with my life that I need to remember 200 studies for one exam. I just a made a list.

Bossard, Festinger, Murstein, Silverman, Reidel and McKillip, Byrne, Singh and Ho, Kendal, Rubin and Peplau, Kerckoff and Davies, Sprecher, Gruber-Baldini Schaie and Willis, Rusbult and Van Lange, Clarke and Mills, Duck and Miell, Smith and Mackie, Rosenblood and O'Connor, Homans, Thibaut and Kelly, Argyle, Impett Beals and Peplau, Rahgan and Axom, Jerstad, Walster, Van Ypren and Bruunk, De Maris, Dwyer, Miell and Groghan, Duck, Cunningham, Waynforth, Bruce and Young, Langois, Singh, Dunbar and Waynfoth, Buss, Buss and Schmidt, Gross, Pawlowski, Bailey and Zucker, Kenrick, Sprecher, Clarke and Hatfield, Ellis and Symons, Dawson and McKintosh, Norman and Kenrick, Bowlby, Ainsworth Bell and Staydon, Waters Whipman and Sroufe, Jacobson and Willie, Libermann, Parke, Russell and Finnie, Dunphy, Bee, Moore, Feeney and Noller, Hazan and Shaver, Zimbardo, Hamilton, Rutter Quinton and Hill, Sternberg and Beal, Main Caplan and Cassidly, Hartup, Moghaddam Taylor and Wright, Batabyal, Iwao, Umadevi Ventkataramaiah and Srinivasalu, Gupta and Singh, Yesma and Athappily, Xiaohat and White, Zaidi and Shurayayi, Berry and finally, FINALLY Srinivasalan and Lee.

Wtf.

Anyone got anything on sleep? The biological rhythms and pacemaker crap especially? Did last years exam question on it in class today and completely screwed up. Just CANNOT get my head round it for some reason

Anyone else worried about the fact that we have to do 3 25-mark essays with only half an hour for each? It seems completely ludicrous! I've looked at examples questions and they are very demanding, requiring two pages or thereabouts? And five minutes planning time isn't that.

How are you going to plan your time?

Depends on what mark your aiming for, but i've been told by an ex-examiner for the course that for an 'A' you need to be writing 3 pages.
I'm finding it pretty difficult to write that much in 30 mins, i'm hoping that with tons of practice over christmas i'll manage to get an A in my january module.

What topics are you doing?

I'm trying to convince my teacher to give me her powerpoint presentations on that. They were really good. She said she will decide tmrw so I'll post them up here if she lets me.
I don't actually get her when she says all I will do is copy them and not make my own notes. Isn't that what I'm meant to do copy and put in my own words???

Thanks so much! Quote me when you do, I get a bit lost in these threads! I'm surprised she doesn't want to give you them though! Ours are overly keen to give us stuff, to the extent where I've got paperwork coming out of my ears! I just need the biological rhythms a bit more simply explained >.<

Yeah will do

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