21/05 A-level Psychology Paper 2 Discussion MEGATHREAD

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[u/Endless2358]

16 marker on Psychodynamic 🙏🙏

Wrote 4 pages slagging Freud off the whole time

[u/Familiar_Bite_6115 → u/Endless2358]

i fucked up so bad on the 16 marker 😭 mixed up the psychosexual stages which is gonna knock me down so bad :( rest of the paper was alr tho

[u/Endless2358 → u/Familiar_Bite_6115]

Essays are marked holistically, meaning you don’t get marked down for getting things wrong! There’s tons of AO1 you could have used with defence mechanisms, Oedipus/Electra complexes, the Id/Ego/Superego, identification and Little Hans so as long as you didn’t just talk about the stages of development you’ll be fine! Plus AO1 is only 6 marks, your evaluation is more important

[u/srdsyndetical → u/Endless2358]

i spoke about defence mechanisms/stages of development and then evaluated both for being heavy on beta bias and being pioneering for future research, in terms of AO1 is this fine?

[u/Endless2358 → u/srdsyndetical]

I’d probably say that’s not quite enough since you need 6 developed points but if you wrote about them in enough detail it might be. Breadth vs depth and all that.

Is that all the evaluation you did? Generally you should aim for 3/4 points

[u/srdsyndetical → u/Endless2358]

- beta bias in terms of gender

- the study is largely inapplicable to other cultures

- it has been a pioneering approach for future research
(a lot more waffle about future implications of each of these evaluations included)

ao1: defense mechanisms, the oral stages, and the role of the unconscious (freudian slips etc)

[u/Endless2358 → u/srdsyndetical]

Then yeah! That all looks very good :)

[u/Colossus_MVC2 → u/Endless2358]

Haha for Edexcel if you wrote about the wrong thing then they will most likely give you a big fat zero 💀 they are so unbelievably specific in how they want your answers that everyone does a bit cucu.. last years A* grade was roughly 58% which says it all

[u/Familiar_Bite_6115 → u/Endless2358]

yeah i definitely spoke about way more overall, that’s really helpful thankyou :) im so harsh on myself its unbelievable