Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 2 June 2018 question paper 9PS0/02

Mundra is a clinical psychologist. She has to abide by the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) guidelines when she works with patients.

State one guideline from the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).

Describe how Mundra would use one guideline from the HCPC in her practice.

Archie carried out an interview looking at people’s attitudes to those with a mental health issue. He compared the attitudes of people who knew someone with a mental health issue with the attitudes of people who did not know someone with a mental health issue.

Archie used a Likert scale to gather his data, where 1 showed a positive attitude and 7 showed a negative attitude.

Archie’s median scores are shown in Table 1 below.

Analyse what Archie’s results show about people’s attitudes to those with a mental health issue.

Draw a bar chart to show the median results of Archie’s study using the data from Table 1.

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Erik has been asked to carry out a cross-sectional study of patients’ behaviour on a psychiatric ward.

Describe how Erik may obtain his sample for his cross-sectional study.

Erik has been asked to collect primary data as part of his cross-sectional study.

Describe how Erik could collect primary data regarding the patients’ behaviour.

Explain one strength and one weakness of a cross-sectional study.

Strength

Weakness

Evaluate one treatment for schizophrenia that you have studied.

During your course you will have studied Rosenhan’s (1973) study.

Evaluate Rosenhan’s (1973) study.

You will have studied one of the following disorders:

• anorexia nervosa

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

• unipolar depression.

Assess one biological explanation for your chosen disorder.

Jason carried out an experiment on the effects of leading questions on the accuracy of eyewitnesses’ recall. All participants had 15 questions in their interview.

He interviewed one group of participants who had five leading questions in the interview (Condition 1). The other group of participants had no leading questions in their interview (Condition 2).

Jason’s results are in Table 2.

Calculate the mean score for Condition 1 and the mean score for Condition 2 and complete Table 2 with your answers to two decimal places.

Helen works in Egton prison with offenders who have committed burglary. She is considering using a cognitive-behavioural treatment for the offenders.

Describe how one cognitive-behavioural treatment could be used by Helen for the offenders at the prison.

Explain one strength and one weakness of one cognitive-behavioural treatment for offenders.

Strength

Weakness

Rachel lives in an area that has a high incidence of criminal activity. Her older brother has frequently been in trouble with the police for anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. Rachel has recently spent the night at a police station for being drunk and disorderly.

Discuss self-fulfilling prophecy as an explanation of Rachel’s anti-social behaviour. You must make reference to the context in your answer.

Kylie witnessed a crime and had to go to the police station for an interview. The crime involved a robbery of a shop in a busy shopping centre. Kylie was walking past the shop with her friends when she heard the shopkeeper shouting for help, as the thief ran out of the shop. The police carried out a cognitive interview to gather as much information as possible from Kylie about what she witnessed.

To what extent would the cognitive interview be effective in gathering accurate information from Kylie about the crime she witnessed? You must make reference to the context in your answer.

Jason carried out an experiment on the type of toys children played with. He studied a group of boys and recorded how many times they played with cars (Condition 1) and how many times they played with dolls (Condition 2).

Jason’s results are in Table 3.

Calculate the mean score for Condition 1 and the mean score for Condition 2 and complete Table 3 with your answers to two decimal places.

Helen works with children with autism. This includes offering therapies that will help them.

Describe how one therapy could be used by Helen to help children with autism.

Explain one strength and one weakness of one therapy that is used to help children with autism.

Strength

Weakness

Rachel is a social worker who has worked with James for over 20 years. She has noticed that the attachment James had with his mother when he was young has affected his relationships with his partners and his children.

Discuss Bowlby’s theory of the internal working model as an explanation of James’s behaviour. You must make reference to the context in your answer.

Hattie conducted cross-cultural research into attachment types. She gathered data from two different cultures, one culture was in Europe and one culture was in Asia, and concluded that attachment types are due to nurture. Hattie came to this conclusion as she found that there was a difference in the number of children who were securely attached in the two different cultures.

To what extent is Hattie correct in her conclusion that attachment type is due to nurture? You must make reference to the context in your answer.

Jason carried out a study on attitudes towards drugs, comparing the attitudes of teenagers (Condition 1) and the attitudes of those aged over 50 (Condition 2).

Jason used a ranked scale to gather his data, where 0 showed a negative attitude towards drugs and 5 showed a positive attitude towards drugs.

Jason’s results are in Table 4.

Calculate the mean score for Condition 1 and the mean score for Condition 2 and complete Table 4 with your answers to two decimal places.

Helen works with people addicted to alcohol. This includes offering treatments for their addiction to alcohol.

Describe how one treatment could be used by Helen with people addicted to alcohol.

Explain one strength and one weakness of one treatment that is used with people addicted to alcohol.

Strength

Weakness

Rachel suffers from alcohol addiction. She started drinking alcohol at a young age, and now drinks excessive amounts of alcohol every day. If Rachel cannot drink alcohol at the start of the day, then she feels too unwell to go into work. Rachel’s parents were both treated for alcohol addiction.

Discuss one biological explanation for Rachel’s alcohol addiction. You must make reference to the context in your answer.

Ian carries out animal laboratory experiments to study drugs. He gave drugs to 35 monkeys and kept the monkeys in isolation during the experiment. After the experiment, Ian reintroduced the monkeys to their social group, but they were rejected by the other monkeys.

To what extent are animal laboratory experiments appropriate to study drugs? You must make reference to the context in your answer.