EDEXCEL A-LEVEL PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 1 (9PS 01) - 17th May [Exam Chat]

Hey fellow Psychology Students!
Recently, I've been looking at ways to expand on the success of the weekly Study Together sessions we’re running every Tuesday evenings (https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7443741) and one idea we’ve had is to run similar sessions for students studying Psychology .
The idea would be to have weekly sessions lasting an hour where you can come online and revise Psychology with other students. It feels like it could be a great way to build confidence with the content, as well as being a fun and sociable way to get some studying done.
Please let me know if this is something you would be interested in! If so, please comment on this post!

Predictions?

I have this feeling a key question will come up, I really hope it isn't the biological key question...
Does anyone have any predictions on what they think the issues and debates questions will be??

From my memory, I think there was a key question last year

nah there wasn't i recently did the 2023 papers. there was no key question

Ooh. There will be a key question then. They’re lovely anyways

my teacher predicted the key question to be learning and i rlly hope its that one omg

OMG can you help me then!!!!???? im struggling to understand how i would write an answer for the key questions especially biological key question and learning theories key question!!! if you have any like essay format for key questions could you send it please!!

nah there wasn't i recently did the 2023 papers. there was no key question

Bob was there any case study or interview questions in 2023 paper?

for paper 1, I can't remember it that well but i think there was only an interview question in paper 2 2023 the clinical section. for paper 1, there was an 8 marker on agency theory, schema theory, phobias and for the biological section it was i think hormones i dont really remember. issues and debates there was question on animal ethics .

Predictions?

for learning,the key question is how anorexia is caused by social media so (you can copy this format for anything so)
AO1: symptoms, features of anorexia (basically describing the key question)
AO2: how can learning/or any approach explain this so
ao1: anorexia is a condition that is ____ (explain)
list some symptoms (body dysmorphia, etc)
throw in some stats for ex like it’s common to start developing in 10 yr olds
then for ao2 pick things out of learning psych that can explain how anorexia is caused, so
operant conditioning : person may be rewarded via compliments for ex a family member complimenting them when they look “skinny” or at a low weight (this is positive reinforcement, u can also define it) Then explain how this will cause behaviour to be more likely to happen again (the person will want to stay “skinny”)
social learning theory: role models in social media, for ex size 0 models are the same gender (hence why anorexia is more prevelant in females), they are older and have a higher status in society, then explain using ARRM (attention, retention, motivation, reproduction). These young girls will have low self esteem so they will want to reproduce size 0 model behaviour (being skinny)
you can also incorproate vicarious reinforcement (size 0 models are rewarded)
for the bio key question, there has been a question on the paper before (sorry idk which one ) so you can look at the indicator content there and basically follow the same structure
edit: you can include research in ao2 (ex. bandura for slt)
edit: this is 8 mark plan btw

Omg thank god the horrible research methods are gone. I haven’t revised those much and know them vaguely so thank you!! And did you get my post to help you tackle key questions??

for paper 1, I can't remember it that well but i think there was only an interview question in paper 2 2023 the clinical section. for paper 1, there was an 8 marker on agency theory, schema theory, phobias and for the biological section it was i think hormones i dont really remember. issues and debates there was question on animal ethics .