Aqa a-level psychology: Paper 1 unofficial mark scheme *04/06/18

No problem, I don't mind clarifying! What you just stated there is exactly what you were basically meant to do. I also mention Lucas A03 point= shows ISI, and I talked about the engineering students to also support individuals difference when it comes to ISI. And I said the conformist time leading to NSI.

But yeah saying about Asch asking participants to write down answers which shows NSI.

Thank you, hope English goes just as well! Got any exams coming up other than psych on Fri?

i feel the exact same way! the wording really confused me and i quickly assumed it was a question on normative/informational influence so i did an essay on that but then everyone after the exam said they spoke about asch and i panicked...

That’s the mistake I think for a01 I did link aschoff original study to Nsi and then he variation including groups size etc to isi

But my a03 I talk about asch lab study advs and disadvantages

Then ethical issues second evaluation

Then Perrin and spencer

My ao3 I never link to isi and nsi though

How many marks u reckon I would get out of 16 ?

I wrote about Deutsch and Gerard - normative and social influence. I know it said research however I used it in my evaluation (i think)

NSI -
strength - Asch's research
weaknesses - Mcghee and Teevan individual differences
ISI-
strength - Lucas research (maths difficultly)
weaknessess - Perrin and spencer (enginering pupils)

I am hoping to gain some credit still

Oh amazing!! Im pretty sure thats what i did 🙈🙈 thank you for clarifying!

You sound like you really know your stuff - im sure youll smash english! I have geography on friday too - wont be a fun day!

No problem! I sure hope, I do well for English- last year was a joke of a year, we had soo many different teachers. But this year has been good to me, went from C's to A's, which I hope will transfer into these English Lit exams.


Hope you do well for your Geography, its the human exam right? My friend says she enjoys only certain aspects of the paper- I'm sure you'll be fine!

Well, you still did make the links which was what they were really asking from you. Maybe you might have need some more elaboration to get more marks esp. in the evaluation. So I'm guessing about 11 or 12 out of 16, but that would be a harsh assessment. I believed it would be marked down due to the fact you needed to link Asch's research if you were going to talk about it more to NSI and ISI and done the same with evaluation, so 2 marks down in A03 and likewise for A01.

Again, I am in no way claiming to be a professional, so this is just speculation, but I hope this helps and gives you some piece of mind, so you can rock Paper 2!

3) Give one strength of the working memory model? (4 marks)
- support for the existence of the visuo spatial sketchpad due to the dual task performance- Baddeley (1975) found that participants had difficulty performing 2 visual tasks (tracking a light + describing the letter F) than one visual and one verbal task. This is because the 2 visual tasks have to compete for space in the VSS whereas the visual and verbal task doesn't have to do this.

5) Gave a little scenario about poor Aaron leaving an exam feeling bad because he did his exam in an unfamiliar room and he had studied both Spanish and French and felt like he mix up a lot of the words. Discuss one explanation of forgetting a refer to Adam and his situation? (4 marks)
- I said retrieval failure, but leaned more of my explanation on context-dependent forgetting. I pick up on the 'unfamiliar room' meaning he didn't have the same contextual cues he had at learning and at recall, then I applied it to his scenario.

6) Briefly evaluate the explanation for forgetting you just stated previously? (4 marks)
-Godden and Baddeley (1980) replicated their study but instead of testing recall they tested recognition. Found no context-dependent effects in any of the 4 performance categories, shows context dependent effects only occur when tested with recall rather than recognition.

for 3 i said that the model can be used to explain real life cases - used the example of KF who couldnt recall digits when the were read TO him but could when he read them himself, supporting the idea of different stores for STM, so it has huge explanatory power. do you think that sounds okay??

for 5 i spoke about anxiety and yerkes-dodson but then realised i was wrong and made it into anxiety within state-dependent forgetting? then for 6 i used Johnson and scott/palmer's weapon focus with anxiety and recall, as well as yuille and cutshall. do you think THIS sounds okay as well hahah. im just really worried ive lost loads of marks for misinterpretting!

Hi, my teacher responded by email today, so I thought I'd just post it:

Ohhh that means ive lost 8 marks 😭😭 thanks though x