Anyone else taking AS level Psychology?

[Gemrlou]

What do you think of it?
I am proper loving it.
My favourite subject everrr!
=]]]

[Sponge'K'nob]

i did AS psychology.
what a load of bullshit.
what do you like about it?

[Gemrlou]

Everything. lol
The analysing.
The fact its completely new and different to anything i'd done before.

[Sponge'K'nob]

lol yeah this time last year i loved it.
attachment is a very good topic, get to watch this video about this girl called genie.
but when you get 18 mark questions its very hard to grasp the concept.
if you need any help with anything then you can always ask me :)

[Gemrlou]

Thankyou. =]]

[Nintendus]

By the looks of it everyone is doing it, I believe it is the most popular course.

I plan to stay well away, the very idea of the course sickens me to the centre of my being. Well that is a slight exxageration, suffice to say I do not like it very much.

[VampyrMaggot]

i love it also. all the freud shit was slightly messed up, but hey. on to research methods and thinkin about coursework at the mo, tis interestin. its isnt my fave subject tho. ALL HAIL FILM STUDIES! yeh, im doin a spakker course........

[Darts]

I'm on A2 now and I STILL love it! I didnt get to watch the genie video but we did the study.

It's a fabbity fab subject!!! :D

[Luke]

I dropped it on the second lesson.

Sociology and Media. Now there are two GOOD AS subjects.

[Gemrlou]

Biology, chemistry and psychology all the wayyy!

[Nintendus]

Everyone does Psychology, so you have to be absolutely amazing at it to stand a chance of getting in at one of the top universities.

[Darts]

Actually not that many people do, people start taking it and then realise it isnt just talknig to people about their problems etc, so they drop it when the essays start.

[clueless]

I'm taking Psychology too.

Forest: What 'module' are you doing in sociology? The family or mass media? We had a class vote on it and the family won. Unfortunately.

[Nintendus]

Actually not that many people do, people start taking it and then realise it isnt just talknig to people about their problems etc, so they drop it when the essays start.
No more people drop it than they do other subjects. Not to mention I find the subject immoral and de-humanising. It is a lughable science at best, dealing with loose facts and generalizations.

[Luke]

I'm taking Psychology too.

Forest: What 'module' are you doing in sociology? The family or mass media? We had a class vote on it and the family won. Unfortunately.

We're doing family, education and something else lol. Forgot though.

I'm top of my class with 22/40 and then 24/40.

P.S The school isn't very clever as a whole.

[Darts]

No more people drop it than they do other subjects. Not to mention I find the subject immoral and de-humanising. It is a lughable science at best, dealing with loose facts and generalizations.

It is somewhat of a pseudo-science but its valuable for a lot of things and has helped improve a lot of situations. Often puts a more clear definition on things that are almost common sense to some people, but thats something to work from. And then there's allsorts more.... but I suppose you have to want to learn it to appreciate it.

An it's not just for people who cant do science and maths either I'll have you know lol.

[Hevz]

Biology, chemistry and psychology all the wayyy!

I'm doing those three subjects and sports as well. Psychology is probs one of my favs although i'm kinda likin chemistry!

Are you finding the 18 mark questions easy?

[clueless]

We're doing family, education and something else lol. Forgot though.

I'm top of my class with 22/40 and then 24/40.

P.S The school isn't very clever as a whole. Ahh, right. We're taking the same module then, though i really wanted to do Mass Media which is way more interesting than the family and education, but oh well. Can't be helped.

18 markers aren't all that difficult. Sociology papers have two 20 markers, too. I'm used to writing long essay answers for various subjects and providing evidence to back up what you've said is like second nature to me. Fortunately.

[Nintendus]

An it's not just for people who cant do science and maths either I'll have you know lol.
I wouldn't mind if it was. They are my two weakest subjects. Predicted Bs in both at GCSE level, although I want at least one of them to be an A.

[Darts]

I got B in maths and I got entered for triple award science an got A,B and C. B in biology and C in chemistry which I like cos its alphabetically correct lol. Don't ask me how I got an A in physics, that was never meant to be.

But if you think 18 mark questions in psychology are hard, wait till you get onto the 24 mark ones! lol. But after you get the hang of an 18 the rest are easy, simply because they're the same but longer.

In business I have to write 40 mark essays and 40 mark business analysis reports, actually in the exam, and THAT's a bugger lol.

[VampyrMaggot]

lol yeah this time last year i loved it.
attachment is a very good topic, get to watch this video about this girl called genie.
but when you get 18 mark questions its very hard to grasp the concept.
if you need any help with anything then you can always ask me :)

we watched a documentary on wild/ferral/abused children, and it had a section about genie. so sad :(

i was doin soci as well but dropped. it. i only did it cos it sounded interestin, but i really wanted to drama but it didnt fit the time slots with my other subjects. i dropped it cos i basically wanted to focus on my other 3. we were doin family, education and i think religion is the other bit (but thats A2) but all we ever learnt about was the class system. our teacher delighted in tellin us EVERY lesson that he was "a professional", so was in Social Class 3. and that basically all we learnt, from the time i was there (half a term). that our teacher was in Social Class 3.

waste.

of.

time.

[Luke]

we watched a documentary on wild/ferral/abused children, and it had a section about genie. so sad :(

i was doin soci as well but dropped. it. i only did it cos it sounded interestin, but i really wanted to drama but it didnt fit the time slots with my other subjects. i dropped it cos i basically wanted to focus on my other 3. we were doin family, education and i think religion is the other bit (but thats A2) but all we ever learnt about was the class system. our teacher delighted in tellin us EVERY lesson that he was "a professional", so was in Social Class 3. and that basically all we learnt, from the time i was there (half a term). that our teacher was in Social Class 3.

waste.

of.

time.

My sociology teacher is interesting. Obviously, he's a teacher so he's apart of the middle class in society but he doesn't see it that way. He comes from a working class background in Kent and he used to be a truant, a waster and a racist. He was only interested in football and actually had a few trials in his time, one being with Leyton Orient. He turned his life around and went to Uni and is now a teacher. He's passionate about sociology and is a Marxist. His views are similar to mine. To be proud to be a working class lad from a working class family who lives in a working class part of the city.

[VampyrMaggot]

My sociology teacher is interesting. Obviously, he's a teacher so he's apart of the middle class in society but he doesn't see it that way. He comes from a working class background in Kent and he used to be a truant, a waster and a racist. He was only interested in football and actually had a few trials in his time, one being with Leyton Orient. He turned his life around and went to Uni and is now a teacher. He's passionate about sociology and is a Marxist. His views are similar to mine. To be proud to be a working class lad from a working class family who lives in a working class part of the city.

lucky u! havin a decent teacher. all ours did was: talk about the class system, pretend to be a scolop with no eye (something about evolution...can't remember what it had to do with soci tho!), sing to us in french, talk about his wife, talk about how he has Social, Cultural and Material Capital (social class 3) and what books he reads to his nephew to give him Cultural Capital.

but most girls in my class didnt mind. "oh, he has such a gorgeous smile! *swoon* his eyes.......his accent...." god, he's a married man, old enough to be their dad! grrr.

anyway, back on topic.....thinkin about psychology coursework atm. no idea what to do. but we'v only just started ethics, so we'v got abit of time before we hav to do it, so its all good

[jem]

Im taking it!
its the 1 subject i like.
Totally wanna do psychology at uni