The S-cool website has some revision resources that may be useful. For both year 12 and 13 the research methods resources might be worth a look at. The memory bit might be useful to unit 1 retakers, the abnormality and psychopathology bits for Unit 4 and attachments for Unit 5.
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/alevel/psychology.html
https://eiewebvip.edexcel.org.uk/pastpapers/ This is where you can get a (limited) selection of past papers and mark schemes. Year 13 - there are a few on here for unit 6 (synoptic) I think. Year 12 - there are past Unit 1 and 2 papers but remember that the course has changed.
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ReplyDeletethe nature nurture debate. is interactionist Ao2? i was going to write essay in order of nature then nurture then interactionist. that okay?
also ... what studies do you use for psychology as a science?
Hi Ruth, for the debates A01 is one side and A02 the other, (i.e. Ao1=nature AO2=nurture) so when you talk about interactionist approaches, you get the marks for saying which bit of the approach is nature and which is nurture - so you get both AO1 and 2. Psych as a science - you could back this up with a study that is scientific (e.g. a lab study, maybe Loftus and Palmer or Craik and Tulving?) and then you could use one that isn't scientific as an example of the other side (e.g. Freud - Little Hans)
ReplyDeletei've learnt heston and vaugn and leff. do i need to learn the nature/nurture ones for depression too?
ReplyDeleteHello its Eva!Do we definately not have to learn social as an approach ?? its contributions etc ??? x
ReplyDeleteis lab studies the only method that produces quantitative data alone?
ReplyDeletedo all the other methods produce both?
Ruth, yes, learn the depression ones too. Lab experiments (remember to call them experiments) are one of the only true quantitative methods (can use correlations and brain scans as e.g.s too). The others tend to produce qualitative data that can be turned into quantitative.
ReplyDeleteEva- social isn not normally focussed on, but make sure you know the key assumptions and a couple of the studies - Milgram, Hofling, Sherif - and their contributions. Ok?
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ReplyDeletei'm sturggling abit with the cog approah in terms of explaining how it adopts an interactionist approach. i can't really explain it in detail.
i know its nature because its linked with how the mind processes information.
i know its nature because it relies on the information we recieve from environment but i wouldn't know what else to say.
That's right, you could also give an example...like cue dependant forgetting - it is looking at our memory processes being linked to cues in our environment
ReplyDeleteoh god i haven't learnt key assumptions of sociall.
ReplyDeletewould we be asked about contributions to society on an approach?
Yes, you could be asked contributions to society or psychology of an approach
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