Comparing Approaches - Exam Questions & Revision - A-Level - AQA Psychology

This video is one of a series that talks through exam-style questions to support your revision and practice for AQA A-level psychology.

In this video, you have the chance to pause and try some exam-style questions, and then press play to hear me talking through how I would tackle each.

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[idkwhyimhere]

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[Anonymouswwse]

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[Carljefferson]

With the cognitive and biological approach comparison, could you talk about the idea of cognitive neuroscience bridging the gap between them. Maybe as a bit of your reductionism paragraph saying they can be combined to form a higher level of explanation together. I dont know if that would be relevant to a comparison or not

[niyajose]

thanks a lot for this sir !! btw would they ever ask to only contrast the approaches for a 16 marker so that any similarities can't be mentioned?

[daisylawrence]

Could another similarity be that both the biological approach and psychodynamic approach are deterministic? or is that too vague?
Also, could another similarity between the behaviourist and humanistic approach be that they have both contributed to real-world practice of therapy?

[YZ_]

You goat im just confused on comparison essays bro..
If it says outline biological, THEN compare with cognitive do you mention any evaluation or do you outline bio then go straight into yapping about bio vs machine reductionist/ Drugs vs CBT etc?

[Hm_-lmhw]

Hi thank you so much for the video. For an 8 marks question that say discuss can you do one elaborated evaluation or do you need 2? And in paper 1 I wrote a name wrong in an 8 marker but used the right evaluation would that reduce my mark due to inaccuracy? Also there was a questoon on explanations of obediemve 6 marks with application I only outline these 3 things and then linked it to the stem would you say that was enough for a six marks question legitimacy of authority, agentic state, autonomous state ?

[sagsprites]

for an 8 marker that's just discuss/compare and no outline, what does the ao1 consist of?

[amy.good]

so for comparison questions/essays do i not need ao3 paragraphs for the approaches?

[-gbx-]

Thank u sir, I wanted to ask something. In paper 1 there was a question comparing episodic and semantic memories and I dont know why I didn't keep it simple but I mentioned one difference being that episodic memories time-stamped and autobiographical whilst semantic is knowledge of facts and the world, i.e. capital cities. For the other difference I said that brain scanning evidence has found differences in the location of episodic and semantic memories and gave examples of the brain structures. Is this fine?

[dniz]

for similarity can you talk about real world applications??

[alexandra]

For the 16 marker, would you have to specifically refer to the idea that humanistic approach has little to offer psychology in A01 + A03 or would you just write a normal essay on humanistic + one other approach without mentioning whether is has little/much to offer psychology?