A/A* psychology students how do you revise for psychology?

This includes the following questions:
What revision resources were the best quality?
What revision techniques did you use?
Any extra tips

Reply 1

colossal-sock

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This includes the following questions:
What revision resources were the best quality?
What revision techniques did you use?
Any extra tips

Use the pink and green hair girl textbooks
Make flashcards from them on anki, sure you are actively recalling the info. Make the info into questions and make sure you regularly do your flashcards
Then do some exam questions your teacher sets you or on PMT
I am predicted an A* for psychology

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lilerxn

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This includes the following questions:
What revision resources were the best quality?
What revision techniques did you use?
Any extra tips

Hey, I'm predicted an A* for psychology but I used to struggle with it (Got an E on my first test 😅). Honestly, blurting/brain dumping is godsent. It's basically where you write out or kind of mindmap the topic you want to focus on e.g. social influence but you do it from your memory. then once you've blurted all you can remember (don't worry if you can't remember much) you take a different colored pen and add to your blurt from your notes, or the textbooks. This highlights the things you already know, so you don't need to revise them in detail. Then you repeat it, just like flashcards. I did this mostly because making flashcards took way too long for me. Also, teaching the topic. If you can subject someone to listen about psychology then great but honestly teaching your wall the topic does the same thing.

Reply 3

CardiffUni Rep 3

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by 🐼PANDA🐼

This includes the following questions:
What revision resources were the best quality?
What revision techniques did you use?
Any extra tips

Hi there!

Amy from Cardiff Uni here 😁

As a Masters student on Cardiff's Children's Psychological Disorders course, and a recent graduate from BSc Psychology with Professional Placement (also at Cardiff), I can definitely give you some revision tips!

What revision resources were the best quality?
I would definitely recommend using flashcards. I found that making online flashcards, such as on Anki, was a lot more efficient than hand-writing them! This means that you'll have a lot more time to actually revise the flashcards, instead of spending all your time making them. Try to make these as early as you can, if you have any spare time- you'll be thanking yourself in exam season!!

What revision techniques did you use?
Alongside using flashcards, I think writing brief essay plans can also be excellent ways to revise A Level Psychology. Have a look at past paper questions on your exam board's website, and plan a few solid points regarding that topic, with some key studies and critical analysis points (e.g. lack of reliability, ecological validity). Check out mark schemes too for past papers, as this will inform you on what your specific exam board is looking for! 🙂

I hope I have helped in some way! Do you have any more questions regarding revision, applying to university etc.? 🥰

-Amy, Cardiff Uni Rep 3

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🐼PANDA🐼

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by colossal-sock

Btw this is a peel in that textbook and it doesn’t make sense to me, how does not knowing the purpose of behaviour mean we do not know its developmental importance?
P: Further limitation is that simply observing a behaviour does not tell us its developmental importance.

E: Ruth Feldman (2012) states that interactional synchrony (and by implication reciprocity) only gives names to patterns of observable caregiver and infant behaviour.

E: This suggests that research on interactional synchrony and reciprocity is not useful in understanding child development as it does not tell us about the purpose of observed behaviours.

L: This means that we cannot be certain from observational research alone that interactional synchrony and reciprocity are important for a child’s development.