Edexcel A Level Psychology Paper 1 June 2024 question paper 9PS0/01

Jacinda and Nicola are sisters who got into an argument about a dress they share that they both want to wear to the same party. Jacinda said the dress is her favourite and that she wants to wear it for the party. Nicola said the dress looks better on her so she should wear it, not Jacinda.

Using realistic conflict theory, describe why Jacinda and Nicola argued about the dress.

Noah investigated locus of control as a personality factor affecting obedience. He sampled 24 participants. Noah gave each participant a questionnaire containing 30 Likert scale questions to test whether they demonstrated traits for an internal or external locus of control. Noah found that participants demonstrated traits of an internal locus of control.

Convert Noah’s findings from a fraction into a percentage.

Suzanne conducted an interview with 20 participants about their likelihood of obeying an authority figure. She described several scenarios of situations where instructions had been given by a person in authority.

Suzanne first asked her participants to state ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ as to whether they would follow the instructions in each scenario. She then asked further questions about why they would or would not obey based on their response.

Explain one strength and one weakness of Suzanne using an interview to ask about participants’ likelihood of obeying an authority figure.

Strength

Weakness

Discuss the key question you have studied from social psychology.

In your studies of cognitive psychology, you will have learned about how developmental psychology looks at the influences on memory as the brain ages.

Describe one developmental influence on memory.

In your studies of cognitive psychology, you will have learned about how individual differences influence memory.

Describe one individual difference that influences memory.

Dylan is eight years old and is learning how to spell six words for a spelling test in school. He has copied out each word ten times to practise writing them. Each time Dylan copies a word out, he says each letter of the word out loud. He asks his Dad to test him on the spellings. Dylan spells five out of the six words correctly.

Using the multi-store model of memory, describe how Dylan was able to remember the spellings for five out of the six words.

Explain one weakness of using the multi-store model of memory to account for Dylan’s memory of the words.

Evaluate the use of experimental methods when researching memory.

Jude’s manager at work shouted at her for a mistake that another employee made. When Jude tried to explain this, the manager just shouted louder and made nasty comments. Jude was very angry and upset, but felt she could not say anything to the manager as she was worried she may lose her job.

Jude decided to go to the gym to take part in a kickboxing session after work. After taking part in the kickboxing session, Jude felt much calmer.

Using catharsis, describe why Jude felt calmer after the kickboxing session.

Dan is 15 years old and is playing in a school football match.

During the football match, an opposition player tripped Dan over when he was about to try and score a goal. The referee awarded a penalty kick to Dan’s team. In response, the opposition player shouted and swore.

Dan took the penalty kick and scored a goal. He laughed at the opposition player and made offensive gestures towards him. Dan and the opposition player then started to fight each other and both of them were sent off the pitch.

Describe how hormones could account for the football players’ aggression.

Amari carried out a correlational study to investigate whether there was a relationship between the hours someone spends on social media in a day and the hours of sleep they get per night.

The results from Amari’s investigation are shown in Table 1.

Complete Table 1 and calculate the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient for Amari’s investigation.

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient_........

In your studies of biological psychology, you will have learned about the effect of recreational drugs on the transmission process in the central nervous system.

Discuss the effects of recreational drugs on the transmission process in the central nervous system.

You must make reference to examples of recreational drugs in your answer.

Mischa is investigating the healthy and unhealthy food choices made by people and decides to use the observational method. For one day, he observed the food purchased by customers in a local café. Mischa gathered quantitative data in his observation.

Describe how Mischa could use tallying to gather his quantitative data.

Describe the sampling technique used by Mischa to gather the participants for his observation.

Explain two improvements Mischa could make to his investigation.

Explain one strength of Bandura et al.’s (1961) Bobo doll experiment.

Evaluate Pavlov’s (1927) experiment with salivation in dogs.

Assess the ethical issues of research conducted in biological psychology.

To what extent is research in social and cognitive psychology socially sensitive?