Strengths

• understanding of obedience and Milgram
• procedures of the contemporary studies

Suggests that expected standard is likely to increase as this is an area candidates are very good at- the bar will be rising i- maybe the level of detail expected will become higher.

Weaknesses

• giving strengths and weaknesses of the working memory model
• the social practical; when talking about improvements you need to say how or why this alteration would improve the practical; you need to be able to describe and evaluate all the processes involved in the practical and be clear as examiners don’t now what your project was about
• writing a hypothesis
• the skill of application; using the character name alone is not enough to gain credit! Every point needs to link hooks from the scenario to key psychological concepts.
• structuring of response content
• assessment objective requirements, e.g. the difference in the taxonomy of questions
• differentiation of responses to answer the question being asked
• generic and limited evaluation of studies
• Overly detailed description of studies leading to a lack of balance in the response, limiting the mark bands.
• Forgetting to make conclusions at any point in the essay

Advice: Chains of reason in essays must be underpinned with AO1 knowledge and
understanding points.