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alevel psychology studies depth???

I just started alevel ocr psychology and my teachers given us the original articles of each study so we can go through and make notes for each one, but I'm not sure how in depth i need to go?
Like for Lee et als study into lie/truth-telling, the article says each story that the children were told. Im not sure if this is a dumb question lol but do I need to know all 8 stories? I obviously want to get as much detail as I can and I don't want to miss anything important, but my teacher never mentioned them so I wasn't sure if they were really necessary to know off by heart. so how much of the studies can I just summarise instead of memorising word for word?
Another part of that study is the full page of results with the mean and standard deviation of each age in each story in each condition because theres over a hundred bits of data there!! I'm obviously assuming I don't need all of it, but how can I tell which parts I do need?
We havent seen many exam questions yet so maybe part of the problem is that Im not really familiar with what kind of things they ask about
Thank you!

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by dxgfchvjbn
I just started alevel ocr psychology and my teachers given us the original articles of each study so we can go through and make notes for each one, but I'm not sure how in depth i need to go?
Like for Lee et als study into lie/truth-telling, the article says each story that the children were told. Im not sure if this is a dumb question lol but do I need to know all 8 stories? I obviously want to get as much detail as I can and I don't want to miss anything important, but my teacher never mentioned them so I wasn't sure if they were really necessary to know off by heart. so how much of the studies can I just summarise instead of memorising word for word?
Another part of that study is the full page of results with the mean and standard deviation of each age in each story in each condition because theres over a hundred bits of data there!! I'm obviously assuming I don't need all of it, but how can I tell which parts I do need?
We havent seen many exam questions yet so maybe part of the problem is that Im not really familiar with what kind of things they ask about
Thank you!

Hi @dxgfchvjbn

I did a different exam board so my experience might have been slightly different. I mainly just focused on key elements of the study such as the basic procedure, key results and then evaluation of the reliability and validity. I would recommend having a look at your specification to see if it mentions anything specific that you need to know about certain studies. There may be some studies that you need to know more about than others. That being said, it does not hurt to extend your learning about the studies now and then focus on the details closer to the exam.

It might also be a good idea to have a look at some exam questions and mark schemes. From my experience, I never felt that I needed to know all of the studies in depth as I would usually only refer to them for a short bit of each question.

Hope that helps!

Sophie.
BCU Student Rep.

Reply 2

Original post
by dxgfchvjbn
I just started alevel ocr psychology and my teachers given us the original articles of each study so we can go through and make notes for each one, but I'm not sure how in depth i need to go?
Like for Lee et als study into lie/truth-telling, the article says each story that the children were told. Im not sure if this is a dumb question lol but do I need to know all 8 stories? I obviously want to get as much detail as I can and I don't want to miss anything important, but my teacher never mentioned them so I wasn't sure if they were really necessary to know off by heart. so how much of the studies can I just summarise instead of memorising word for word?
Another part of that study is the full page of results with the mean and standard deviation of each age in each story in each condition because theres over a hundred bits of data there!! I'm obviously assuming I don't need all of it, but how can I tell which parts I do need?
We havent seen many exam questions yet so maybe part of the problem is that Im not really familiar with what kind of things they ask about
Thank you!

Hiya!

I do OCR and in Y13. First of all want to say that I hated AS and A2 content is so much easier and more interesting so don't be disheartened if you find it hard and boring.

As a rule of thumb know the:
Aim
Method/Design
Sample
Procedure (in as much detail as you can)
Results
Conclusions
And background e.g. for Milgram understand agentic state and Nazi ruling

It would also be helpful to make flashcards on key terms as it looks great if you use them in section B. For the ones with PAGES of numbers just memorise a few of them like for Bandura, only know the male child+male role model and female child+male role model. This way you can compare differences without needing to know crazy amounts. But you do need to know the stuff I mentioned and you CANNOT just summarise, trust me. This will not work for section A.

Hope this helps!!

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by SomehowAMedic
Hiya!
I do OCR and in Y13. First of all want to say that I hated AS and A2 content is so much easier and more interesting so don't be disheartened if you find it hard and boring.
As a rule of thumb know the:
Aim
Method/Design
Sample
Procedure (in as much detail as you can)
Results
Conclusions
And background e.g. for Milgram understand agentic state and Nazi ruling
It would also be helpful to make flashcards on key terms as it looks great if you use them in section B. For the ones with PAGES of numbers just memorise a few of them like for Bandura, only know the male child+male role model and female child+male role model. This way you can compare differences without needing to know crazy amounts. But you do need to know the stuff I mentioned and you CANNOT just summarise, trust me. This will not work for section A.
Hope this helps!!

Sorry forgot to mention I have made quizlet flashcards on these..
https://quizlet.com/user/Revision4Tuana/folders/psychology-core-studies?i=4ntt8h&x=1xqt
Feel free to look at these and use them! They arent complete yet but mostly done

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