Exam Tip

Work out how much time you have per mark for your exam questions and only spend that amount of time answering each part of each question.

For AQA-A:

Part (a) on an AS question paper is only worth 6 marks, no matter how good your answer is!
Part (b) is also only worth 6 marks
Part (c) is worth 60% of the question

If you do not answer part (c) you can only get 40% of the marks for that question - assuming the answers for (a) and (b) are perfect. 40% is only just a grade E

Operant Conditioning and Remote Controlled Rats

This week's resource of the week is this very interesting video clip showing how the decisions of rats can be controlled by directly manipulating the reinforcements they receive through stimulation of the pleasure centres in their brains. In essence, this produces a remote controlled rat. As well as being an interesting example of operant conditioning, it also raises issues regarding free will and determinism.