OCR AS Psychology: G542: Core Studies - Wednesday 5th June 2013

I'm doing A-level psychology in a year (doing all the As and A2 exams in the same year hahah I wouldn't recommend it)
At my sixth form we do just over 72 studies for A2 but it's like flipping As on its head. In As you have to remember everything about the studies and use a bit of your own knowledge to back it up whereas in A2 it's like 80% your own knowledge and then you just need to know bits of the studies to put in your answer.
Hope that makes sense, I wouldn't panic about A2 hahah

Does anybody know how I could answer......
How can the individual differences approach describe mpd?

I'm really struggling

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This is all there is to say about the sample: the split brain subjects were 11 patients who had already had a commisurotomy (splitting of the corpus callosum) before the study. Therefore opportunistic. all subjects had a history of severe epilepsy which had not responded to drug therapy. 2 of the patients had been operated on a while before the experiment but the other 9 had only recently undergone the surgery

The individual differences approach focusses on abnormality and personality differences such as in Thigpen and Cleckleys study on a woman called Eve who had multiple personality disorder. the results showed that one of her personalities Eve White had a higher IQ (110) than another of her personalities Eve Black (104). EW was also shy and demure, whereas EB was outspoken and flirtacious. therefore the researchers could conclude that this woman had mpd as she could switch between completely different personalities

Woooow I'm just wondering what studies do you know?! And yes if your teacher can't tell you those then that is one useless teacher! Good luck anyway

Whoops I meant explain not describe but.thank u that helps me start it off.....
Any tips on how to convert it into an answer for how can it explain mpd??

Thank you so much once again

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I answered it for 'explain' because its unlikely that they'll ask for describe. (PS I checked the mark scheme and its right)

What the purpose of the Strange stories task and the importance of the Sally Anne test

What the purpose of the Strange stories task and the importance of the Sally Anne test

Someone please help, what types of quantatative and qualitative data are found out in riech + haslam? Also are psychometric tests quantatative?!?! PLease help!!!

Hey guys I'm only doing L+P, Maguire and Baron Cohen for Section B and Behaviourist and Physiological for Section C. Is it too risky or is everyone else doing that as well? I can't remember everything, so I'm trying to cut things down majorly!

I hope Validity will be the issue that comes up. You can write tons for Baron and Cohen and validity.

What the purpose of the Strange stories task and the importance of the Sally Anne test

that's really risky because you'll need knowledge from all the studies for section a. I can give you pointers for any of the studies if you want?

like what? i can think of the control tasks and how they controlled for face perception and recognition of emotion (also gender task controls for demand characteristics)..
the strange stories task indicated concurrent validity
umm..and the comparison groups in the sample, how can you relate that to validity?



strange stories task was used to check the validity of the eyes task, the sally anne test was important as the results from it showed that adults with autism could pass the test with no problem, suggesting that they had an intact theory of mind. however this was not valid as the test was designed for 6 year olds with autism so was too easy for adults with autism. this created a ceiling effect for the adults. therefore, the autistic adults may not really have an intact theory of mind, hence why Baron Cohen developed 'the eyes task'

Aw thank you, that'll be great, I've done general stuff for Section A but nothing in detail can you give me some pointers please?

I only know Milgram for section B so I'm going to cry


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