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Title: Psychology
Post by: ~Mimi~ on September 30, 2009, 06:28:47 am
Hey everybody!

I was wondering if anyone here has taken Psychology A-levels before and could tell me regarding how difficult they found it, recommended books, etc?
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: xxemoxx on October 03, 2009, 09:52:29 pm
Im taking AS psychology now..
For AS it has 20 core studies.. and you can always ask for my help if you want to.. though i have just started.. but its going nice.. we did 4/20 core studies yet.
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: Ukhti-R on October 03, 2009, 10:01:39 pm
Im taking osychology too :D
sof ar just studied 3 expreiments, Milgram, D&K, and pilivian ..what bout u guys ?
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: Ukhti-R on October 04, 2009, 01:18:00 pm
im thinking of taking it in oct/nov 2010 after my may/june ones are over.  But ppl at my skool have prbbly never heard of this course!

do u think i could do it alone? is there like a proper textbook for it? or is it random?here and there.piece it together...?is it hard? do u like it till now Roxy and xxemoxx?

Lol, yeah.. in places like Saudi... no one takes psycholgy and stuff.. as long as you have a good teacher to teach you, or as long as you think you can study by urslef then thats oryt ia xD
We havent been given a text book, our teacher just gives us notes and stuff.. thats it really // and so far, so good.. but with 15 experiements to learn.. Im sure it;ll get harder..
andyway.. good luck :)
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: Eamyzz on October 16, 2009, 12:52:32 am
does any1 no any psychology teacher in Jeddah ??????? :-\
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: xxemoxx on November 12, 2009, 07:27:50 pm
@ Roxy..
There are 20 core studies not 15.
We just complete Cognitive and Development.. [8 studies]
now started Social.. Milgram..
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: Ukhti-R on November 12, 2009, 07:31:05 pm
@ Roxy..
There are 20 core studies not 15.
We just complete Cognitive and Development.. [8 studies]
now started Social.. Milgram..

hmm.. that's odd.. our teacher said that there are 15.. are you doing OCR ?
umm.. we done with Milgram, Maguire, Pilliavin, Sperry, Demeent and Klietman, and Reicher and Haslam.
we;re nowon the experiments, observational methods and stuff..
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: applesauce on November 15, 2009, 08:14:35 am
I did AS Psychology with CIE. I got a B, but only because I went with little to no preparation. I new only 2-3 studies REALLY well to attempt questions on them in Section B (you need to attempt like 3/4 10 marks questions on your chosen study). And I was SUPER lucky 'cause the studies I knew really well came up in Section B!

I am now doing A2 Psychology (Health and Abnormal), but I plan to give AS along with A2 in May June to get an A overall. :p
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: PsychGirl on June 08, 2013, 08:21:17 pm
I did AS psychology last year and it's not that bad. Know at least 8 points for the description part of the study and then 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses you'll be fine. Most strengths and weaknesses apply to all studies so that shouldn't be a problem.  Anyone writing A2 psychology Edexcel Unit 3 this Monday? what do you think will be the 12 mark question?
Title: Re: Psychology
Post by: NotAbod on June 08, 2013, 09:45:56 pm
I did AS psychology last year and it's not that bad. Know at least 8 points for the description part of the study and then 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses you'll be fine. Most strengths and weaknesses apply to all studies so that shouldn't be a problem.  Anyone writing A2 psychology Edexcel Unit 3 this Monday? what do you think will be the 12 mark question?
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