Psychology (PSYA2) - Tuesday 20th May 2014 - PM

Original post by zazadee_

Anyone know what came up in January 2014?

There was no january exams 2014 but in 2013 june it was Daily hassles and Life changes 12 marker

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allee002

Does anyone have any notes on the stress topic?!?!? Studies and/or the different pathways (SAM and HPA)

i am panicking !!!!

Reply 65

Gnfnco

Could someone post up 12/12 essay question examples - Would be very helpful :smile:

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Original post by Charybde

Do we need to know Hardiness Training as well as Stress Inoculation Therapy and drug therapy, or are the latter two efficient? I can never seem to remember anything about Hardiness Training, and looking through the syllabus it just says 'including Stress Inoculation Therapy and drug therapy' so I don't want to waste time revising something which I probably won't remember in the exam and that I don't really need.

Okay cool! So isn't that things like Systematic Desensitization, Flooding, and Aversion Therapy? Do we need to know all of these, or is one in detail sufficient? I only seem to have in-depth notes on Systematic Desensitization, with brief mentioning to Flooding and Aversion Therapy as evaluation.

For a 12 marker, know at least 2, just to cover your back, three would be better! I mean, for a 6 marker, you could just do SD, but 12 you wanna get as many as possible right? :-) Those three are the three I remember too, as they're easy to evaluate, but in the conclusion ensure you have Mowrers two factor therapy :smile:

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moey3

Original post by lucindaellaaa

I'm in my third year and I am resitting this exam because I was one mark off an A over all -.- BUT I need help, I have no notes!

Can anyone tell me the variations of Asch's study? I vaguely remember there one about black prisoners? I can't remember the study or the name of the researcher! Help would be appreciated :smile:

Read your post..

I'm in the same situation!
I was one mark off A for both PSYA1 and PSYA2...kind of annoyed me..
I'm retaking unit 3, and both these units as this is the only subject i can realistically get an A.

My teachers had given us booklets (which i kept)...so am just reading through those, and starting on exam papers...though kind of slightly worried....hardly done anything! (Done the same thing where I've neglected psychology (sigh...never learn from mistakes :frown:

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MollyMcFly1

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Original post by lucindaellaaa

For a 12 marker, know at least 2, just to cover your back, three would be better! I mean, for a 6 marker, you could just do SD, but 12 you wanna get as many as possible right? :-) Those three are the three I remember too, as they're easy to evaluate, but in the conclusion ensure you have Mowrers two factor therapy :smile:

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Please could you elaborate on Mowrers two factor therapy? I've not heard of this and it sounds interesting. Also, how would you evaluate Aversion therapy please? I've only studied SD...

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Uberphuq

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There are so many different studies that colleges teach... I feel sorry for the people marking this things haha, just reading though some replies and I was like, what da fudge is dat? but then I realised

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Original post by MollyMcFly1

Please could you elaborate on Mowrers two factor therapy? I've not heard of this and it sounds interesting. Also, how would you evaluate Aversion therapy please? I've only studied SD...

Mowrer basically suggests that to remove abnormalities such as phobias to use a mixture of operant and classical conditioning, instead of just SD of classical (associating the phobia with relaxation) I think it would be an excellent conclusion point as it just criticises every other therapy! Erm, aversion therapy would probably be more ethics, as the example i was given was an alcoholic associating the favourite drink with being violently sick, so harm mostly! I think if you use SD and flooding (very unethical) and use Mowrer you'd be okay! :smile:

there aren't many studies to evaluate other than on SD :smile:

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Original post by moey3

Read your post..

I'm in the same situation!
I was one mark off A for both PSYA1 and PSYA2...kind of annoyed me..
I'm retaking unit 3, and both these units as this is the only subject i can realistically get an A.

My teachers had given us booklets (which i kept)...so am just reading through those, and starting on exam papers...though kind of slightly worried....hardly done anything! (Done the same thing where I've neglected psychology (sigh...never learn from mistakes :frown:

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I'm only resitting this one as I resat unit 1 3 times and never got my A :frown:

it's so frustrating isn't it? I'm working hard now to get the A! It sucks that I don't have all the material I had to do it off my own back wah :frown:

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MollyMcFly1

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Original post by lucindaellaaa

Mowrer basically suggests that to remove abnormalities such as phobias to use a mixture of operant and classical conditioning, instead of just SD of classical (associating the phobia with relaxation) I think it would be an excellent conclusion point as it just criticises every other therapy! Erm, aversion therapy would probably be more ethics, as the example i was given was an alcoholic associating the favourite drink with being violently sick, so harm mostly! I think if you use SD and flooding (very unethical) and use Mowrer you'd be okay! :smile:

there aren't many studies to evaluate other than on SD :smile:

Aaah brilliant thank you very much!! All I had for SD were small evaluation studies: Ohman said that it wouldn't be as effective in treating phobias with an evolutionary origin because they helped our ancestors to survive so are harder to shift (heights, the dark etc). Wolpe found that 80-90% of patients improved after 25-30 sessions and Klosko compared SD with drugs and a placebo and found SD more effective than both. :smile:

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Cara_rose

Original post by allee002

Does anyone have any notes on the stress topic?!?!? Studies and/or the different pathways (SAM and HPA)

i am panicking !!!!

Good notes can be found on this blog:
http://alevelpsychology.co.uk/?q=node&page=1
If you just have a look through.

Also: http://a-levelpsychologyaqa.blogspot.co.uk/

Has some very good general PSYA1 & PSYA2 notes.

Don't panic, you'll stress yourself out :wink:

(See what I did there)

Anyway, hope this helps :'3

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Cara_rose

Original post by QUANTAM

How many words should be realistically in a 12 mark essay?

It does depend on the quality of what you've written, but in the past I've managed to write full mark model answers for 12 mark questions which range anywhere between 300 and 500 words :3

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Cara_rose

Original post by lucindaellaaa

I'm in my third year and I am resitting this exam because I was one mark off an A over all -.- BUT I need help, I have no notes!

Can anyone tell me the variations of Asch's study? I vaguely remember there one about black prisoners? I can't remember the study or the name of the researcher! Help would be appreciated :smile:

Variations of Asch's Study:

Lucas et al (2006)
- Difficult variation
- Lower one's self efficient as an individual (confidence in one's own abilities), the higher the rate of conformity

Asch
- Varied the size of the majority (1,2,3,4,8,10 or 15 confederates)
- 1 vs 1 -> 3% conformity
- 3 vs 2 -> 33% conformity
- Too many in the majority also lowered rates of conformity
- Max conformity rates at a 3:5 person majority
- Also found that if just one confederate agreed with the true participant, then independency is much higher

Asch and Perrin & Spencer
- Time of investigation
- Conformity rates higher in 1950s as a result of McCarthyism

Smith & Bond and Asch's Meta Analysis
- Place & culture
- Conformity rates higher in collectivist cultures opposed to individualistic
- Fiji (58% conformity) vs Belgium 14%
- These figures were compared against the 1991 average conformity rate of 37.1% and 25.3 % relative.

Hope this help :3

Reply 76

allee002

Original post by Cara_rose

Good notes can be found on this blog:
http://alevelpsychology.co.uk/?q=node&page=1
If you just have a look through.

Also: http://a-levelpsychologyaqa.blogspot.co.uk/

Has some very good general PSYA1 & PSYA2 notes.

Don't panic, you'll stress yourself out :wink:

(See what I did there)

Anyway, hope this helps :'3

Thank you so much!!!!

Reply 77

studentwiz

Does anyone have a 12 marker for systematic desensitization ?

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