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Now, remember that the syllabus changed in May/June 2012, so I also suspect they'll be throwing in some of the studies new to the syllabus which didn't appear in past papers quite as often until now, such as Emphasizing / Systemizing predicts entry into Physical or Natural sciences (Billington et al.), Mirror gazing in BDD disorder and such. I personally hate the new studies added to the syllabus and much preferred the old ones, but I guess we'll just have to learn them by heart! Since most questions in section A require an answer of one to two sentences, and Section B has been notably shortened with the new syllabus, yet the time for the examination remains the same, you will most likely have a lot of time to answer all the questions. The problem with psychology though, is that if you don't know the question, you won't know it no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. In Maths, sometimes you'll have no idea how to solve a question, and then you'll think about it for a while, and the answer/method will occur to you and you'll end up getting the correct answer. With psychology though, if you just don't know if Hans's favourite colour was purple or orange or green or Oedipus complex, the chances are you won't remember it no matter how much time you spend trying to. So just make sure you are well preprepared for the exam with many details of the studies under your belt and a good knowledge of the results of all the studies when you enter the examination room and you'll finish that exam in half an hour! Good luck btw! They helped me a lot! Through mutual help and understanding we will all achieve perfect results! Onwards to victory!
These might be of some use hopefully.
Oh alrighti have this one already but thanks for helping
well good luck for that paper. May God bless us with a significantly low grade threshold like that of summer 12, of 51/80 for an A ^-^Oh alright
There's not a lot to base a prediction on for section B, but i wouldn't worry too much about it, i personally prefer it over Section A, since you have a choice, there's always going to be one that you have lots of knowledge of, and relevant well structured answers can easily score 8 or 9 out of 10
Read examiner reports of recent papers to see what the examiner is looking for, they help alot. Thank you so much everybody! Also very glad to see my post helped people and encouraged them too see how realistic getting an A is! A big thanks to you mate! And a final thanks to mariamf for her glossary of terms, I'm sure they will come in useful to improve our scientific language when answering questions! Let's review how we're doing with the studies: We can do them with joined forces though! Let's keep it up! 
Wow, I just woke up and logged-in to xtremepapers and I'm thrilled to see this thread thriving and more and more people joining in! I'm so so happy that more people are sharing their revision notes and helping each other out!
Alright gang, the exam is in approximately 24 hours, so let's make a game plan here so we can all help each other and make the most of the last-minute revision time we have left! As wise words of wisdom say: "Failing to plan is planning to fail!" so let's plan to succeed to get perfect results tomorrow!
First of all, a huge thanks to Sarosh Manzar for uploading his compilation of samples and quantitative results of many of the studies! I, myself, think the compilation is brilliant and very helpful and will be of huge help to all of us when we're revising late in the evening tonight!
A big thanks to xxfarhaxx too for her very comprehensive summary of the taxi drivers study! I know I, for one, will definitely be using it to revise, so thank you very much once again!
I personally think the only and the most important thing we can do right now to get us ready in the best way for tomorrow is to read over and make as many short yet comprehensive summaries of the required studies as possible so we can remember the really key points and the important details for the exam! So that's exactly what I'm gonna do, and I will be sharing my summaries in this thread when I finish them
That's a total of 9 studies done with then! Still 11 more to go though! Phew!
- Milgram, Freud, Zimbardo, Tajfel, Piliavin and Bandura are, I would say the most famous and the most important studies (at least I know I personally spent around 50% of my studying psychology learning them, if anybody thinks different, let him/her please say so) so I am going to suppose we are all very familiar with them by now and should know them more in-depth and better than the other studies, so I think Sarosh Manzar's quantitative results and samples are the only revision we really need for those studies! Therefore, I won't dedicate as much time to them.
- Recalling routes around London, the Revised Eyes test study and the Billington summaries are published in this thread by Sarosh Manzar, xxfarhaxx and yours truly!
As for myself, I will now have to turn off my internet (I can never work properly with the internet on, I just find it too distracting) and will be dedicating the next two-three hours to summarizing the following studies:
I expect it will take me about three hours (I type really slow lol) to summarise the two of them comprehensively and effectively. I will be returning here as soon as I'm finished to publish them here to help anybody who might find them helpful!
- Held, R. and Hein, A. (1963) - Movement-Produced Stimulation in the Development of Visually Guided Behavior - Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Langlois, J.H., Ritter, J.M., Roggman, L.A. and Vaughn, L.S. (1991) - Facial Diversity and Infant Preferences for Attractive Faces - Developmental Psychology
That my plan for now, I hope somebody else decides to join in and summarize some more studies today. Personally, I think the next two most important studies which have the least information about them on the internet are Nelson, S.A. (1980) - Factors Influencing Young Children's Use of Motives and Outcomes as Moral
Criteria and Mann, S., Vrij, A. and Bull, R. (2002) - Suspects, Lies, and Videotape: An Analysis of Authentic High-Stake Liars, but of course that's just my opinion and anybody might disagree with me and you are all free to do what you like, it's important to do what you enjoy and not have to force yourself to do it!
See you all when I'm finished with the summaries! Brillant job everybody so far!
Can't wait for the summaries. As for my part, ill finish the remainder of 7 studies in my document on samples and results doesn't seem that way at all xDIf you are sure it's a good summary of Langlois then I'll leave that to you then! Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!I am thrilled to see the enthusiasm you have to help everybody study xD I'm glad I ran into this post
and seriously you type slow?
I just think we can all use all the help we can get during this last-minute revision time and I'm more than happy to help anybody who finds use in my summaries! My philosophy is "If you want to go quick, travel alone, If you want to go far, travel with others!". And right now we need to go far and fast through the road to perfect results, so we need to travel together and help each other! And yea, I type really slow. It took me like half an hour to type that first message I posted in this thread! It's excellent!check it out! do let me know if its missing anything
A huge thanks for uploading it! I'm off to do my job with the summaries then! See you all in about two-three hours!
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