Prioritising revision for Paper 3

Paper 3 Possibilities
For all of you tking Paper 3 in January, here as promised are Mystic Miss Wood's predictions. Be assured that I am not psychic, despite my unprecedented success in the past, this is a guide of possible questions only. However, ignore at your potential peril! Here are a selection which have not come up in most recent cycle:

Potential essays include...
1. An essay on obedience: could be focused on reasearch in general (studies and theories) or they may make theories explicit - this has appeared for some time!
2. A general question on ethics, e.g. somethign along the lines of how successful psycholiogists have been in overcoming ethical issues in social psychological research.
3. An essay on minority influence; be prepared for somethign potentially slightly more tricky than a simplemoutlien and evaluate as this was the last question on this topci seen in Janaury 2007. Focus could be on explaining minoorty influence rather than studies of...

Potential a and bs
1. Criticisms have not featured for a while: you should knwo all your criticsms really well to this end but I think there may be a focus on Asch this time around.
2. Aims have also not featrued lately; again know them all really well but be aware Asch may be on the horizon.
3. I predict a 6 marker on either findings or conclusions; again this could be on majority influence research and you therefore need to know more than just basic Asch and include for example, Asch variations, Bond and Smith, Perrin and Spencer, Williams and Sogon, Larsen etc.
4. I also predict that resisting conformity and obedience could appear
5. As could explanations of obedience, e.g. agency theory, authoritarian personality theory
6. With regard to ethics I would not be surprised to see something like Identify three ethical issues and select one say how psychologists have dealt with this issue.

Hope this has given you some food for thought....as said previously this is only my reflections no more valid than what you could have done for yourself by looking back at past papers to see what has come up in the past, baring in mind the most recent paper is not yet up on the website (May, 2007) although I have copies of this that you can see.