AQA AS Psychology PAPER 1- 15th MAY 2017 *Unofficial Mark Scheme*

Yeh it's not hard either, it's just so boring that I can't remember it and normally fall asleep.

I don't think they will go over board with the boundaries as people got confused on lots of questions and made silly mistakes (especially 12 marker) so I reckon they will increase maximum 2 marks for each boundary so 47 C 52 B 57 A . It is only
the second year of the specification.

Omg that's so cool! We do A Streetcar named desire too, plus the poems of the decade and Frankenstein and Never Let me Go

How did you find the English test today?

I talked about Stanley which I think it went really well, poetry was okay I did the Inheritance question compared to Genetics. Normally I love poetry, but I just wasnt feeling the question.

I talked about Stanley too! I talked about him in terms of vulnerability and masculinity and whilst it is difficult to sympathise with him, it is understandable in some ways why he behaves in the ways he does. I wasn't really feeling poetry today either- I did the identity question but I'm terrified bc I ran out of time and didn't get an awful lot in about structure

For the interference question wrote what it meant ( proactive and retroactive) and outlined Schmits study to do with the street signs and wrote 4 evaluation points . How many marks will that get me guys?

If explained well it should get you anywhere between 10 to full marks. Especially if you explained the study well and evaluated accordingly!

Hi, Thanks for this,

For the interference essay, i began with the study by McGhee and McDonald then messed up. I know the essay was based on interference only but I got mixed up, I wrote

'A type of retrieval failure is proactive interference this is ........ Another type of retrieval failure is retroactive interference .....'


Do you think the fact I mixed it up with retrieval failure and referred to it as this will loose me loads of points even if I did explain it correctly after?

thanks

I talked about the study being tested in artificial settings which lacks ecological validity and mundane realism and mentioned that this decreases the external validity of the results as the task is something people wouldn't do on a regular basis so could increase the likelihood of demand characteristics occurring which affect the results. However on the other hand the experiment did have internal validity as the variables of the experiment are being controlled which helps to keep the experiment fair (this is easily replicated)
Another evaluation point I talked about was the extraneous variables that could have affected the experiments results e.g people walking to school as a kid so more likely to remember street names . This could influence the data and findings of the experiment to support the interference theory as a whole . However baddely and hitch have also carried out research and this study helps to prove the interference theory as a real reason for forgetting.
How many marks would I get for that evaluation?
P.s I mentioned the screw you affect to mess with the data.

Hey, what do you think is likely to come up on paper 2?

Also, for the criticism of Bowlby i wrote that he did not take cultural differences into account. For e.g infants who are born in collectivist cultures are less likely to be affected as they may form multiple attachments and therefore have many caregivers. Whereas in individualist countries infants may be more impacted by maternal deprivation as less attachments are formed and therefore more reliant on mother

would that's be right because i just made it up on the spot?

I wrote that Bowlby over exaggerated the Critical Time, many orphans still form stable relationships in their adulthood even if they were deprived of their maternal figures in the 30 months period.

Does anyone think the two-process model may come up. I know it hasn't done so before but in paper the last question was classical and operant conditioning so I'm just curious seeing as the two questions are based on the same process.?

Possibly the Biological Approach either in Approaches or Psychopathology.

Synaptic Transmisson

Fight or Flight(Maybe teacher even thinks that we could be told to evaluate it!)

Ellis' ABC Model

Explaining Classical Conditioning

Evaluating the treatment used for phobias

Probably a diagram of the body asking you to label the PNS, CNS etc.

Lots of scenario's where you have to use research methods


*All of these predictions are what my class/teacher came up with

I'm deadass so mad omg I got the percentage question wrong bc I havent done maths in 2 years and I got the memory criticism question wrong bc I thought they wanted us to just talk about the criticisms because it said 'address' ? if they had structured the question more clearly I would've put improvements :/ I hope paper 2 goes better

Yeah, I think thats a good evaluation point you made!