OCR Psychology G544 June 18th 2012

Hmm, thats a hard one! if it were the exam now i'd do this:

Similar: useful implications, individual differences (rosenhan) highlights how poorly people with mental illnesses are treated, and highlights how practitioners made type I and II errors cognitive (loftus and palmer) can be useful for eyewitness testimonies as provides evidence that our memory is not as reliable as we thought

Difference: cognitive attemps to explain human behaviour as a whole, and generalises the findings world wide, whereas individual differences attempts to explain the complexity of human behaviour by studying the differences in people.

second para is really poor, maybe someone else has a better suggestion!

Thats good! I just thought of cognitive= lab experiments but individual differences=case studies? even though not always!

No, not all of the AS studies are longitudinal (Pilivain is snapshot, people get confused because it was conducted over a 2 month period but there were 103 micro studies within it)

Holistic studies:

Thigpen and Cleckley (looked at different ways in trying to cure eve)
Wiktrom (looked at situational (crimogenic environments) and disposotiional ways (low morality) to explain turning to crime)

Can anyone suggest any studies that produces qualitative data ? I only have Raine et al's study into brain abnormalities through PET......Im trying to cover everything that could possibly come up in section B's research method part

TY xx

Dont worry, those second sets of questions will not come up...

Eeek, im not sure if the rest are snapshot! I would assume so, but don't quote me! Basically, anything that involves them revisiting the same set of participants and re testing them over a significantly longer period of time on the same things is longitudinal (as you already know!) so if youre stuck just think does it do that?

Thank you! That would be a good idea to do, & I hope longitudinal wont come up.
Have you got any idea on why Freud (I dont understand his study) is longitudinal apart from that it was carried out over along period of time?

If a question such as compare the experimental method and self-report method comes up, if I use 2 differences/similarities with 2 researches for each point (4 in total) be enough to cover the entire 8 marks ?

Thankyou!
What is a difference between individual differences approach and cognitive approach thanks!

ty ella (I guess thats ur name hehe ) you are a star ! Just major panicking right now haha, trying to cover everything for research method since I am refusing to do the approaches side of section B....I know its dangerous but I just feel that if I cover everything now...there would be no danger about this

If a question such as compare the experimental method and self-report method comes up, if I use 2 differences/similarities with 2 researches for each point (4 in total) be enough to cover the entire 8 marks ?

A2 studies for indiv differences please anyone? And how they relate to the approach if possible.

I use daly and wilson because it generalises the difference between men and women, i guess yochelson and samenow too as looks at cognitive differences between criminals and non criminals

can anyone suggest what to revise?
i've been going over the approaches and learning the assumptions and two studies to go with it, and other studies that are applicable... i know the strengths/weaknesses (well they can be made up lol) but anyone suggest anything else?

also any tips for section A for the 19 marker when it comes to writing it quickly and not using up all the time as i find i spend ages on it?

thanks x