AQA A2 Psychology PSYA3/PSYA4 Revision Thread 2015

1 - endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers - use these keywords and don't confuse them. You need to go through your essay and change where you've written exogenous pacemaker

2 - "Jetlag occurs after a rapid change in exogenous pacemakers, e.g. aeroplane travel"
Previous point, and also reword it to - Jet lag is a result of the exogenous zeitgeber that is aeroplane travel

Your AO2/3 is really good, your only issue is your AO1 and that quite major mistake (you'd lose a ridiculous amount of AO1 marks because of this, so it'll end up maybe as a band 3/4 or 5 marks)

Hope that helped

Hi, I had a go at marking your essay. A02 is really good but A01 needs improving. I did write some notes on your essay for just general pointers but it did help me if you don't mind me saying.

Also also, does anyone have any good and detailed Research Methods notes they wouldn't mind sharing? I haven't touched RM hahaha.... :/

Thank you, that helps a lot
Im glad you pointed out the zeitgebers and pacemakers, i used that because in our class our teacher said we can use pacemakers on both as we were getting them muddled but obviously not! Shes a really bad teacher so ive basically had to teach most of the sleep module to myself

Yeah has anyone got any tips for revising this? Don't even know where to start
So many essays to learn I feel like I should neglect this altogether and wing it.

Will do! And oooh I hope it's not evolutionary explanations... will that fall under biological explanations?

Also is biological explanations an umbrella term for hormonal/neural/evolutionary or can they specify (in terms of a 24 marker)?

The issue is that it's worth the most marks in unit 4!

They should specify. Its incredibly vague to just say biological explanations. Obviously they have said social psychological explanations, which would apply to deindividuation and social learning. But im not wholly convinced that evolutionary explanations go under biological theories..i dont know. But yeah..theyd be more specific.

Anyway, here are predictions from my psychology teacher; she is correct pretty much all the time. I think we are all expecting this, but my topics seem to not always be very prevalent in the thread so here we go.

RELATIONSHIPS: maintenance, breakdown, early experiences
GENDER: bio explanations, evolutionary, dysphoria
SLEEP: infradian, evolutionary, sleepwalking

DEPRESSION: psych explanations, bio treatments, issues with diagnosis
ADDICTION: cognitive explanations for smoking, risk factors, psychological interventions

Hmmm.. my teacher for Eating and Relationships always tells us that Evolutionary falls under Biological...

Thanks for the addiction predictions . Although what made her think gender dysphoria was likely? I've got it down as unlikely.

Hmmm.. my teacher for Eating and Relationships always tells us that Evolutionary falls under Biological...

For biological explanations, evolutionary does fall under biological and they can specify for either neural or evolutionary, or just generally biological.

I'm absolutely atrocious at research questions where you have to make up your own study and all... Do they come up every year?? I've not really looked at many past papers so I haven't rly noticed

They don't come up EVERY year, but there wasn't one last year if I recall my teacher saying - which means there probably will be

God darn it I feel like I'm just too busy to be learning research methods mark schemes. I've been completely abandoning unit 4 this year I forgot the essay part even existed.


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