By tim, on October 8th, 2011 at 8:23 pm Having spent the day going through the group processes block, I’ve now decided that if I get the choice, I’d rather answer a question centred on conflict and prejudice than intragroup processes and entitativity. This goes against what I’d originally planned for this block, which was to primarily focus on intragroup processes, but I’m glad I’ve recognised that now, rather than in the pavilion at Derbyshire County Cricket Club next Thursday afternoon!
It’s not that the subject matter of entitativity is difficult to remember – it’s just that answers to previous year’s questions seem more difficult to structure than those . . . → Read More: DD307 revision – group processes revisited
By tim, on September 23rd, 2011 at 6:00 pm I’ve been refining my revision strategy for DD307 over the last couple of days within the three blocks I’ve decided to study (Block 3 – Social Judgement; Block 5 – Group Processes; Block 6 – Production of Knowledge).
I’ve decided to focus the majority of my future revision efforts on a single chapter from each block. Unsurprisingly, as the discursive critique is the only one I’m really comfortable with, all three of my selected chapters pit the social cognitive against the discursive perspective. As none of these chapters came up in a TMA question, I figure that it’s a reasonable . . . → Read More: My DD307 revision strategy refined
By tim, on September 20th, 2011 at 8:35 am Imagine my delight when I woke up to this email from the OU today:
Dear Tim Personal Identifier: ******** You will have received a message about an updated version of the Examination Arrangements booklet for October Examinations. As the module you are studying does not conclude with an examination please ignore the message sent to you regarding the Examination Arrangements booklet. It was sent to you in error. I am sorry for any confusion this may have caused you. M Bell Senior Manager, Examination Operations Please do not reply directly to this message as this mailbox is not monitored. We will . . . → Read More: Bulk email SNAFU
By tim, on September 18th, 2011 at 9:29 pm I appear to have become better at critical social psychology (orange line) and worse at biological psychology (blue line) as the year has progressed!
However, if I somehow manage to end up with EMA and examination marks in both similar to the last TMA scores, I’ll be very happy indeed.
By tim, on September 7th, 2011 at 8:46 pm There’s nothing like an OUPS revision weekend to reignite my enthusiasm for psychology and focus my mind on the task in hand – the exam on the afternoon of 13th October. When I got home on Sunday evening, I decided that this week needed to be ‘mopping up week’. My list of tasks was/is as follows:
1. Decide which three of the four blocks from the course I’m going to revise. That task was easy and I’d already come to the conclusion that the block on social selves (2) was going to have to go, as it has four chapters . . . → Read More: Mopping up week
By tim, on August 29th, 2011 at 9:05 pm My attempt to complete DD307 TMA06 and the SD226 EMA in a bank holiday weekend has now finished. Strictly speaking, it’s ended in failure, but only just. At the end of the weekend I now have a complete DD307 TMA06, a complete Q1 for the SD226 EMA, as well as draft answers and notes for the remaining two questions and experimental project writeup. A couple more evenings work this week should get me there I think.
Which should leave me in a more relaxed mood for the OUPS DD307 revision weekend at Warwick University on Friday and give me a . . . → Read More: Mission improbable – the end of the beginning
By tim, on August 10th, 2011 at 9:23 am I didn’t manage to get DD307 TMA05 done before I set off on holiday, so my laptop and books all came with me. It somehow felt appropriate though to be writing about intergroup conflict while I was watching the news from home. I hope everyone who reads this blog has managed to stay safe.
In the end, I managed to write what I hope is a half decent essay. Billig’s criticism of SIT is quite a slippery one to get to grips with. I’m just concerned that my essay really wasn’t critical enough and rather repetitive in some places. . . . → Read More: Nearly there
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