OCR Psychology G544 (approaches and research methods) - 27th Jan 2012

messed up a little bit in the designing an experiment and on section B on experimental method I kept going on about lab experiments and then I realised its field and natural aswell fml

What did everyone choose for the correlation? I chose intelligence's relationship with academic achievement because they seemed easy to measure, unlike aggression and etc!

chose the same thing too! what did you choose for section b?

What did everyone choose for the correlation? I chose intelligence's relationship with academic achievement because they seemed easy to measure, unlike aggression and etc!

I found the section B of this exam incredibly easy! Could not believe social came up. In the core studies resit the other day Milgram came up on section B as well, both the easiest possible questions in my opinion. Did anyone else find section A really hard though!?!? What did people write about for their experiment?

To be honest I didn't really find it that hard, I did struggle with one of the questions and was stuck with what it meant until the very last minute when I finally understood what to write haha! The one about 'participant variable bias'.

For the correlation I chose the relationship between "intelligence and academic achievement". I said I'd get 30 college students to do an IQ test, and then correlate their IQ test result with their amount of GCSE's acquired at a C or above.
I felt silly because I kept explaining random things like, "this is my hypothesis", "this data is ordinal", and "the method is self-report", "I'd use the spearman's rank test", "my controls are"... I wasn't sure if I was meant to do that...

Yes - I struggled with this question as well! And I'm not sure either, I didn't really put that sort of stuff. My teacher told me to remember a simple 'who what where when how' as a guideline of what to put so I just stuck to that

Ha, I probably forgot to put enough info about "who, what, where, when, how" because my teacher said to remember MCPASSED, being:

Method
Controls
Practical
Allocation of participants
Sample
S ... unfortunately I've never been able to remember this S! :P
Ethics
Design

So I put that at the top of the page and crossed it off as I went

Oh dear - seems we've both been taught two completely different ways to answer the question haha! We were also told to give NO evaluation at all because we would get no marks for it (in the 19 mark question.) Let's just hope the mark scheme isn't really specific...

Yes it really concerns me when you realise we're told different things for the exact same paper! :/

Is 'participant variable bias' stuff like gender?