Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 June 2018 question paper 9PS0/01

Milgram carried out some valuable research into obedience, including a number of variation studies.

Describe the procedure of the Rundown Office Block (Experiment 10) variation study.

Tim and Laura are undertaking a practical investigation using a questionnaire into in-group favouritism at their college.

Suggest one open question and one closed question Tim and Laura could use in their questionnaire.

Open question

Sherif et al. (1954/1961) conducted The Robbers Cave Experiment.

Explain one strength of Sherif et al. (1954/1961).

Assess how individual differences (personality and gender) affect obedience.

Mr Robinson has asked geography students and mathematics students to take part in an experiment. He asked both sets of students to learn a list of 20 words. The mathematics students were given an interference task before retrieval of the word list. The geography students did not have an interference task.

Table 1 shows the results of Mr Robinson’s experiment.

Calculate the mean number of words retrieved by the mathematics and geography students and complete Table 1 with your answers.

You must give your answers to one decimal place.

Explain one strength of Mr Robinson using quantitative data in his experiment.

Mo and Akeem witness a man steal a bag in a restaurant.

Using schema theory, suggest why Mo and Akeem may recall the scene in the restaurant differently.

Evaluate the working memory model (Baddeley and Hitch, 1974).

Describe the process of synaptic transmission.

Rafiq carried out a correlational study to investigate whether there was a relationship between age and number of hours of sleep per night.

Rafiq used a non-directional (two-tailed) hypothesis.

Explain whether Rafiq’s data were significant at p<0.05 and if the research hypothesis should be accepted.

Discuss the key question you have studied from biological psychology.

Mandeep and Priya used a content analysis to investigate how gender is presented in two children’s television programmes. To record the data a tally chart was used.

Table 3 shows the data they gathered.

Draw a bar chart to show the total number of sporty males and sporty females shown in Table 3.

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Explain one conclusion that could be drawn from Mandeep and Priya’s investigation.

Explain one methodological issue there may have been with Mandeep and Priya’s content analysis.

Jodi attended a number of birthday parties when she was younger. At all of the parties there was a clown who burst a balloon which scared Jodi. Jodi is now fearful of clowns.

Using your knowledge of classical conditioning, explain how Jodi developed a fear of clowns.

When studying learning theories you will have covered the observational research method for human research.

Evaluate the usefulness of observational methods for studying human behaviour.

Discuss the practical issues faced by psychologists when designing and implementing research in learning theories and biological psychology.

To what extent do social psychology and cognitive psychology consider human behaviour to be determined by nurture?