Hello year 12 and 13!
The idea of this site is to support you, especially in your revision for the exams. So when you get stuck on some of your work at home and need me to answer a question, you can post it on here and I can get back to you as soon as possible. Obviously at the moment the page is a bit bare, but as we use it more things will be added all the time.
Also, you can request me to post specific resources on here - I will put them up as and when I am asked for them.
The more you use this, the more it will work, and if you have a question, asking it may help other people that have similar issues.
Obviously, make sure that you use this as it is intended, and that nothing inappropriate gets put on here.
Hope you find it useful!
Miss Round
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i'm not sure if this is how i'm supposed to write on the blog but i'll give it a shot :)
ReplyDeleteoh and also i'm loving the lime green background!
i have just been doing theories of play, and you know the studies like Barlett and Warren et al and Watson. I don't seem to have many points of linking them to the psychodynamic theory. i haven't got positive and negative evaluations so please could you help me with thiss.
and also please could i have the treating crime booklet.
thankyouuu dear
Ruth x
Hi Ruth, yes, I think that's the best way to write on here!
ReplyDeleteYou need to relate the studies to how they show children using play to master their emotions - for example if they are anxious their play will reflect this. In general terms, the studies show the emotional significance of play. In terms of evaluating the studies, you need to consider the methods they used - can you really draw conclusions about why the children were playing as they were? Did they use scientific methods (e.g. galvanic skin response to assess anxiety) or subjective methods (teacher assessments etc).
I will get treating crime to you this week!
Hope that helps - let me know if that isnt quite what you were asking about.
its ruth :) - what a suprise!
ReplyDeleteoh dear just wrote you a huuugeeeee comment with all my questions on and it didn't work :)
so i have lots for you and ii've had the textbook and handouts out and this is my last resort befroe i accept that i will fail. :)
1) what is definition and evaluation for quota and systematic data, didn't really get definition in textbook, btw we haven't been taught this or i have alzheimers.
2) what is counterbalancing?
3) what is control of variables? i understand the term just not the actual definition.
4) what is definition of interpreting graphs?
5) what is definition and evaluation of content analysis - pretty sure haven't been taught that either.
6) again i understand term 'observation' but is definition as simple as when researcher observes/watches individual/group? positive evaluations?
7) would definition of questionairre be 'researcher asks ps set of questions usually given on piece of paper so can be filled in privately'?
that is alll :)
thankyou lots :) x
Stop being silly, you won't fail. Especially not with these answers! When you say that you haven't gone over things, there is probably information on it in the handouts.
ReplyDelete1. I think you are talking about sampling not data here, right? Systematic sampling involves just selecting every 'nth' person in a population. So, if I wanted to research something and the target population was the 6th form I might get an alphabetical list of everyone and then choose every 3rd person or every 5th person or every second person (depending on the number of participants I wanted). Thats quite a good way of getting a representative sample.
Quota sampling is when you want your sample to represent the population by making sure that the proportions of certain groups are the same. An example: I want to get ten participants from a selection of 100 people, and in that 100, 40% are emos, 50% are chavs and 10% are goths. In my ten participants I would make sure those proportions are represented, so I would have 4 emos, 5 chavs and 1 goth.
I am going to post each answer seperately as they will be long!
Counterbalancing is used to get rid of order effects – fatigue and practice effects (you know this bit? E.g. if a participant does task A and then task B they might get bored and do worse on task B, making the results unfair). You have half the participants in a repeated measures design do task A and then task B, the other half do task B then task A. Order effects will still happen, but they will have an equal effect on task A and task B, making it more fair.
ReplyDelete3. Controlling variables is simply limiting confounding factors that may affect the results of a study. For example making sure that variables in the environment are constant throughout a study. This means that we can be more sure that it is the IV that is affecting the DV rather than some other factor.
ReplyDelete4. You don't need to be able to define interpreting graphs, you need to be able to do it!
ReplyDelete5. Content analysis should be in your handouts, if not page 393 to 394 in your textbook give a good description and gives evaluation - will you have a look and let me know if you dont understand those bits and i will write more on here?
ReplyDeleteBasically it involves looking through some form of the media (e.g. newspaper) and looking for reoccuring themes, so, for example, you might take a newspaper and look for the number of times it refers to mental disorders, count them up, and count how many of those references are positiv, negative or neutral, then you could conclude something about how the media portrays mental illness.
6. Observations p384-385 Make sure you know what participant observations are compared to non-particpant (p obs - observer involved in task, non-p they arent) covert and overt (c- the subjects dont know they are being observed, o- they do know). The evaluations vary between these. Can post a link to a handout covering this that I gave to year 12 this year if you need more?
ReplyDelete7. Questionnaires can be done privately or face to face, improtant bit is they use questions and things like Likert scales. Often used to find out about opinions. p388 onwards.
ReplyDeletePhew, I have aching fingers from typing now. Let me know what else you need, or if anything unclear!
helloo :)
ReplyDeletefor clinical do i need to know the 5 key issues Fernando identifies from studies of ethnicity and mental health?
also what is flat and inappropriate effect?
also... i don't get this negative evaluation point for devaition from social norms.
'not all incidents of behaviour that don't conform to the social norm show abnormality in the sense it is mean in clinical psychology'
thankyouuu x
Hi Ruth
ReplyDeleteYep, learn Fernando.
Affect is emotion or mood. So if you have flat affect you are always in a neutral kind of mood - you dont get happy or sad. Inappropriate affect - you show the wrong mood - so laugh if you hear someone you know has died etc.
That evaluation point means that you can behave outside what deemed to be the normal way to behave, but it doesn't mean you are abnormal in terms of having a mental disorder. E.g. you might like custard on your steak and chips - its weird, as the rest of society doesnt do it, but it doesnt make you clinically insane
ok?
well .. i like custard on my steak and chips :)
ReplyDeletethankyouu :)
also ... the cognitive explanation for schizophrenia from the handout is really different from the textbook explanation. the textbook mainly talks about positive and negatvie symptoms and metarepresentation.
please could i have some past papers too :) x
Ahaha
ReplyDeleteYour insane Ruth =)
ANd Miss Round, erm - tomorrow (Tuesday) are you free at any time morning/afternoon?? To go through some clinical and criminal stuff?? Well, just a bit of everything in fact??
Thankyou muchly!!
It's Ryan too =)
Ruth - stick with the explanations from the handouts that you have been given. There will be various explanations that fit in with Cognitive ideas.
ReplyDeleteWill sort you out with some past papers later in this week.
Ryan - Haven't seen you so far today, will have lots of time to go over things next week especially
Miss Round I have been trying to do past papers and got the question evaluate Axlines case study of Dibs. Does it want you to evaluate case studies in general or just Dibs, and if so I dont have any points!! Emma
ReplyDeletehellooo :)
ReplyDeletei am absolutely pooing myself about these exams.
1) i don't have the treating crime booklet, please could you either put a link for it on here or please could you give me in on monday.
2) Bowlby said Attachment should be with mother rather than father but the only point i have on this is that there is dispute to whether or not Bowlby actually believed this. is that okay?
3) when describing ainsworth and bell's study should i describe the process of the strange situation or just say 'the strange situation'?
4) what type of study is melhuish and also James&Joyce Robertson?
5) i'm getting weee bit confused about synoptic. i don't seem to have that much info on it. is it possible for you to do us a model answer on nature-nurture like you did for is psychology a science?
thankyouuuuuu x
6) did the czech twins get put in institution as soon as their mother died for 11 months and then restored to their father and wicked stepmother?
ReplyDeleteHi Emma, the evaluation for Axline's study of Dibs can be things that apply to case studies in general (e.g. generalisability) which you should relate to this specific case (e.g. it was a study of only one child in a specific case etc etc). But there are other points specific to the case - these are points that are addressed in questions. Think about whether Dibs was really the one with the problem, should his parents have been targeted instead? Also, can we be sure that it was the play therapy that helped him, or would he have grown out of this anyway? Hope that helps a bit
ReplyDeleteHi Ruth, don't poo yourself.
ReplyDelete1. Yep, see me Monday
2. There are more criticisms of this - in one of the handouts there are quite extensive points about the fact that the quality of the relationship with the father in some cases is stronger than with the mother, that fathers play a different role but as important etc.
3. It depends how many marks the question is. If it is, for e.g. a 5 mark qu on 'describe A&B's study' then because you need aim, results, conclusion etc, a pretty brief description will do fine. If it was a 5 mark question that said 'describe A&B's procedure', then detail it. Read the qu carefully.
4. Good question - its not always that easy to pick out the method in a lot of research. Robertsons is a case study of John. Melhuish uses a variety of methods within the study including interviews and observations, so say that.
5.That is on its way to you on Monday, its sorted already.
6. Yes, she died, they got put into care, he remarried, they returned.
i don't really get Bartlett (1984) Warren et al (2000) and Watson (1994)
ReplyDeleteare these evalauations of psychodynamic theories of play?
when would i include them?
i really don't get what warren et al actually did, it doesn't seem to make sense!
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alsoo ... i don't seem to have or can get from edexcel website any past [paers on child.
ReplyDeleteanywhere i can get them from?
x
alsooooooo again ...
ReplyDeletefor criminal psychology you know the research method for media agression.
correlational - eron and huesmann
field - leyens et al
lab - bandura
what is natural observations?
i don't seem to have anything for that?
x
Ok, yep I will talk to you about those studies on Monday - they are to evaluate psychodynamic theories of play though.
ReplyDeleteI have given out a booklet of past papers for child - you got it when you did the child mock. The edexcel site isnt always that helpful.
There is a naturalistic study on media aggression from Charlton - based on St Helena. A very brief summary is that it looked at the effect of the introduction of Tv on children's behaviour on the island - did it make them more aggressive? The observation showed that it didn't. It's naturalistic because the researcher didn't manipulate the variables - TV was being introduced to the community anyway. So that makes it ethical in relation to Bandura. Obviously though, you can't really generalise the results from St Helena - a little island - to the rest of the world. I can get you more notes on this
thankyouu thankyouuu.
ReplyDeletewould what you've written be enough detal to write or would i need to put more?
would it be possible to get another child research past papery thing as mine vanished into thin air.
thankyouu roundy x
Hi miss Round, for research methods what are the entire list of types of studies which may be shown, so far Ive got from the booklets:
ReplyDeleteLab studies
Field studies
Natural studies
Naturalistic observation
Controlled observation
Participant observation
Case study
Correlational studies
Interviews
Questionnaires
Surveys
Do we actually need to know all of these like including the partcicipant observation and all the different questionnaires and interview types?
Ruth - You shouldn't need much more detail that that - usually qus on that type of thing are in general what research methods are used to look at imitation of violence and to evaluate those. Yep, I will give you a new set of papers if you promise not to lose anymore!!!
ReplyDeleteEmma - Yes you do need to know them, basically you need to know how to describe an evaluate them, and things about the different types come into this. You need to know content analysis as well, which I will recap on Monday morning.
Enjoy your weekends!
herro :)
ReplyDeleteyou know evaluation points like Patton and Gardner and Spiz and Wolf. are they evaluations of MDH or attachment types?
i only seem to have criticisms of attachment types and one strength.
x
hii :)
ReplyDeletejust been doing a child past paper, which i'll give you on monday.
i struggled with the question : distinguish between individual and parallel types of play (2) i think they're really similar. please could you help me on this.
and....
decribe and evaluate cultural differences in peer relationships. (12)
i think i was fine with the describe bit but struggled on evaluation. x
hello! Individual play - the child isn't influenced by others around them - parallel - the shild is influenced by things going on around them more - not actually playing with other children but might be influenced by choice of toys or what other children are doing(so they might copy other children's ideas of play).
ReplyDeleteEvaluate bit - use Shapira and Madsen, Sherif, Tajfel as +ves, use individual differences and the fact that collectivist cultres are becoming more and more influenced by individualistic ideas as -ves. See me tomorrow if you dont understand
herroo :)
ReplyDeletenot sure if you'll get this in time so you might be the reason i fail - jokee.
please could you outline types of schizophrenia for me because its confusing my brain.
x
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ReplyDeletev briefly - catatonic schizophrenia- symptoms related to movement
ReplyDeleteparanoid S- have delusions etc
disorganised S - mood related and speech related symptoms
Undifferentiated - doesnt meet any of the above subtypes
hii :)
ReplyDeletedo you just need to know 1 study for each apporach? beacuse i thought you had to know more but in the key studies booklet you gave us its just one for each study?
do we need to learn cognitive and cod-dev as separate approaches?
ReplyDeletedo we need to learn social? its in textbook and one of the booklets but not on that mahoosive grid with the different approaches on?
A study for each approach should be enough, but you will probably know more anyway. You also need to make sure you have the studies for nature and nurture etc as well.
ReplyDeletenope, you can lump cog and cog dev together for this exam. social is less important in this exam usually, but make sure you know a few of the studies in this area, especially milgram.
okaaay marvellous.
ReplyDeleteare the studies just heston and gottesman and shield for nature/nurture?
i don't seem to have anything on gottesman and shields.
also ... i don't really ger the difference between moral and social. some points like ecological validity seem to come up in both?
please could we go over this and social control tomorrow please?