AQA A Level Psychology Paper 1: Introductory Topics in Psychology June 2022 question paper 7182/1

Which factors affecting minority influence are illustrated by the following examples?

For each example, write the correct factor in the space provided.

Members of a religious group give up their Saturday mornings to distribute leaflets about the importance of worship.

An environmental group acknowledges that recycling can be time-consuming while emphasising its importance for the future of the planet.

All of the members of the ‘Flat Earth Society’ agree that the Earth is flat and not round.

Name one explanation of resistance to social influence.

A teacher was absent and left work for students to complete during the lesson. Some students in the class did not do the work their teacher had left for them.

Use one possible explanation of resistance to social influence to explain why this happened.

Describe how situational variables have been found to affect obedience. Discuss what these situational variables tell us about why we obey.

Briefly outline one way in which researchers have investigated the capacity of short-term memory.

Briefly outline one way in which researchers have investigated the duration of short-term memory.

A student showed participants a film of a car accident. After watching the film, each participant was asked to write down what they had seen. The student was surprised to see that the descriptions of the accident were quite different.

The student’s psychology teacher suggested that the participants’ recall might be improved by using cognitive interview techniques.

Suggest two cognitive interview techniques that could be used to improve participants’ recall of the film.

Rory is talking with his grandparent and playing a game on his phone at the same time. The game involves matching blocks of the same colour to complete vertical and horizontal lines. It is only when his grandparent asks him to describe his route to school that Rory puts down his game so he can concentrate fully on his answer.

Discuss the working memory model. Refer to Rory’s behaviour in your answer.

Which two of the following attachment concepts were not introduced by Bowlby?

Shade two boxes only.

Outline one example of cultural variation in attachment.

Lenny is being interviewed for a TV dating show. He describes his approach to relationships:

“My friends would say I’m scared of commitment and need to settle down. I suppose they’re right, I’m in my late thirties now. I fall in love constantly but my relationships never last more than a few weeks. My mum left when I was very young, I don’t know if that has something to do with it…”

Explain how, according to attachment research, Lenny’s early experience might have influenced his later relationships.

Outline Lorenz’s and Harlow’s animal studies of attachment. Discuss what these studies might tell us about human attachment.

Describe the statistical infrequency and failure to function adequately definitions of abnormality.

Outline one limitation of systematic desensitisation as a treatment for phobias.

A biological psychologist wanted to see if there was a positive correlation between heart rate (measured in beats per minute) and levels of a stress hormone (measured in micrograms) in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). She wrote a directional hypothesis and collected data from 20 people with OCD.

The psychologist chose to use the Pearson’s r test to analyse the data because she was testing for a correlation.

Explain one other reason why the psychologist used a Pearson’s r test in this study.

The calculated value of r for the Pearson’s test was + 0.42.

Which one of the following scattergrams best represents a correlation coefficient of +0.42?

Shade one box only.

The researcher used the following table of critical values.

Table 1 Critical values of r for Pearson’s test

Calculated value of r must be equal to or more than the critical value for significance to be shown Degrees of freedom (df) = N – 2

Is the psychologist’s calculated value significant? With reference to Table 1, explain your answer.

Discuss the genetic explanation for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).