Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 June 2022 question paper 9PS0/01

In your studies of social psychology, you will have conducted a practical investigation.

Describe how you gathered qualitative data in your social psychology practical investigation.

Describe how you gathered quantitative data in your social psychology practical investigation.

Explain one improvement you could make to your social psychology practical investigation.

Belinda investigated whether personality had an impact on levels of obedience at work. She selected 10 senior managers from different companies, five with high scores for authoritarian personality traits and five with low scores.

The participants were asked whether they would dismiss an unpopular employee based on false allegations if the company director told them to.

The results of the investigation are shown in Table 1.

Draw a bar chart to show the number of participants with high scores for authoritarian personality who would and would not dismiss the employee.

Assess how far culture can influence prejudice.

Lei investigated the effect of word length on short-term memory capacity. She used a volunteer sampling technique to gather 20 participants. Lei allocated her participants randomly to one of two conditions.

• Condition A: participants are given 14 monosyllabic words (words with only one syllable such as cat, tub, or red) to learn in 30 seconds.

• Condition B: participants are given 14 polysyllabic words (words with more than one syllable such as elephant, happiness, or carpet) to learn in 30 seconds.

Lei recorded the number of words recalled correctly by participants.

State the fully operationalised independent variable (IV) and dependent variable (DV) in Lei’s investigation.

Independent variable (IV)

Using the Mann-Whitney U value that you calculated for 4(b), determine whether Lei’s data were significant at p ≤ 0.05 for a directional (one-tailed) hypothesis.

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

In your studies of cognitive psychology, you will have learned about one of the following contemporary studies in detail:

• Schmolck et al. (2002)

• Steyvers and Hemmer (2012)

• Sebastián and Hernández-Gil (2012).

Evaluate your chosen contemporary study.

Tabitha wanted to investigate whether there is a difference in brain activity when people are exposed to aggressive stimuli and non-aggressive stimuli. She decided to gather a sample of female participants aged between 20 years old and 30 years old.

Describe how Tabitha could use a volunteer sampling technique to gather participants for her investigation.

Tabitha decides to use a PET brain-scanning technique for her investigation.

Describe how Tabitha could use a PET brain-scanning technique for her investigation.

Explain one strength of Tabitha using a PET brain-scanning technique for her investigation.

Explain one improvement that could be made to Tabitha’s choice of participants.

Jinal wants to find out about recreational drug use and early childhood experiences. She has decided to focus on nicotine as the recreational drug.

She intends to see how often people use nicotine and find out about any negative life experiences they had experienced during early childhood.

Jinal believes that the more negative life experiences a person has, the more nicotine they will use.

Discuss how Jinal could use a correlational research method for her investigation.

You must make reference to the context in your answer.

Ruhee receives reward points at school when she behaves extremely well, helps other students, and does extra research for her homework tasks. When she has 25 points, she can get a free snack at break time from the canteen. Ruhee always works hard to receive the points.

Using operant conditioning, describe why Ruhee works hard to receive the points.

Victor went to a local restaurant for a meal with friends. He ate pasta with a fish sauce but shortly afterwards he felt very poorly and was sick.

Two weeks later Victor walked past the restaurant and could smell the same fish sauce, which made him feel sick, so he hurried past. When his friends invited him to the restaurant again, Victor said he did not want to go.

Using classical conditioning, describe why Victor may no longer want to go to the restaurant.

Explain two weaknesses of classical conditioning as an explanation of human behaviour.

Evaluate Bandura’s (1965) Bobo doll experiment with vicarious reinforcement.

Assess how far learning theories can be considered reductionist.

To what extent does nurture influence cognitive and biological psychology?