AQA A Level Psychology Paper 2 (7182/2) - 22nd May 2024 [Exam Chat]

if i wrote negative distrubution and normal distrubution instead of negatively skewed would i lose marks?

sampling Q similar to todays paper
source https://pmt.physicsandmathstutor.com/download/Psychology/A-level/Past-Papers/AQA/Paper-2/June%202021%20MS%20-%20Paper%202%20AQA%20Psychology%20A-level.pdf
Answer was A field expt
A researcher placed an advert in a university psychology department asking for third year students to participate in a sleep experiment.
Each student had a sleep tracker watch to wear at home for the two-week study. Each morning they were asked to open the sleep tracker app to view their sleep quality data on their mobile phones. The students were unaware that the sleep data they could see on their phones had been manipulated by the researcher. Over the two weeks of the study, each student saw that he or she had had poor sleep quality for seven random nights of the experiment and good sleep quality for the remaining nights.
Every morning, after viewing the sleep data, each student completed a questionnaire about the previous night’s sleep. One of the questions asked the students to rate how well rested they felt, on a scale from 1–10, after the previous night’s sleep. Apart from this, students were asked to continue their normal everyday activities.
0 9 Which of the following best describes the experimental method used in this study?
Shade one box only.
[1 mark] A Field experiment B Laboratory experiment C Natural experiment D Quasi-experiment

Also everyone on tiktok is saying that aqa always puts 6 16markers throughout all three papers? so in paper three we will have 3 16markers! is this true? ive never heard of it before

sampling Q similar to todays paper
source https://pmt.physicsandmathstutor.com/download/Psychology/A-level/Past-Papers/AQA/Paper-2/June%202021%20MS%20-%20Paper%202%20AQA%20Psychology%20A-level.pdf
Answer was A field expt
A researcher placed an advert in a university psychology department asking for third year students to participate in a sleep experiment.
Each student had a sleep tracker watch to wear at home for the two-week study. Each morning they were asked to open the sleep tracker app to view their sleep quality data on their mobile phones. The students were unaware that the sleep data they could see on their phones had been manipulated by the researcher. Over the two weeks of the study, each student saw that he or she had had poor sleep quality for seven random nights of the experiment and good sleep quality for the remaining nights.
Every morning, after viewing the sleep data, each student completed a questionnaire about the previous night’s sleep. One of the questions asked the students to rate how well rested they felt, on a scale from 1–10, after the previous night’s sleep. Apart from this, students were asked to continue their normal everyday activities.
0 9 Which of the following best describes the experimental method used in this study?
Shade one box only.
[1 mark] A Field experiment B Laboratory experiment C Natural experiment D Quasi-experiment

icl i think you’re missing the fact that the study in today’s paper was testing for difference in play in different age groups, the age groups were 2 year olds and 4 yr olds. the age is the IV, the IV is a pre existing factor, so it’s a quasi experiment

guys I put covert observation🫠 how many marks was it? also for the distribution question, was that a 4 marker? what did u put for the two type1 error/significance questions?

well we will see whoever gets it wrong xan take the L game on.

If you're on about the type of experiment q it was 2 marks, distributions was 4 marks and for type 1 error it's because the calculated value is still signification at p<0.01

alright, thanks! Were the last two questions 5 marks total? I’m honestly just working out where ive fumbled the most💀

Will I get marks if i just outlined the role of the endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers in the sleep-wake cycle, then talked about research into this in the 16 marker, because i completely blanked that the question said discuss research. i feel like i have completely flunked this 16 marks 😭

with the 16 marker, i did ao1 of endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers, what they are, etc. also talked about how light travels to SCN then signals to the pineal gland, secreting melatonin (hope that's enough??).
then i did ao3 with siffre and his cave study for EZ ( then evaluated heavily with generalisability issues) and morgan's study with transplanting SCN neurons with manipulated sleep-wake cycle (then evaluated with difficult to extrapolate the results due to animal studies). do u guys think that's enough ao3, or should i have had one more point?

with the 16 marker, i did ao1 of endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers, what they are, etc. also talked about how light travels to SCN then signals to the pineal gland, secreting melatonin (hope that's enough??).
then i did ao3 with siffre and his cave study for EZ ( then evaluated heavily with generalisability issues) and morgan's study with transplanting SCN neurons with manipulated sleep-wake cycle (then evaluated with difficult to extrapolate the results due to animal studies). do u guys think that's enough ao3, or should i have had one more point?

They usually want 5 eval points bc it's 6 marks ao1 10 marks ao3

They usually want 5 eval points bc it's 6 marks ao1 10 marks ao3