OCR A Level Psychology Applied psychology June 2023 question paper H567/03

Identify one specific disorder and outline an appropriate biological treatment for it.

Charlie is the manager of an office with approximately 100 members of staff. She is worried about mental health problems experienced by some of the people in her office. Charlie wants to find out whether her workplace could be causing these mental health problems.

What might a psychologist say to Charlie about whether the workplace could be causing some of her employees to have mental health problems?

Refer to either the humanistic or the psychodynamic or the cognitive neuroscience explanation

of mental illness to inform your response.

Outline the genetic explanation of mental illness.

Evaluate the usefulness of the genetic explanation of mental illness.

To what extent can historical views of mental illness be considered scientific?

5* Assess the contribution that the key research by Szasz (2011) makes to the topic of alternatives

to the medical model of mental illness.

OPTION 1

Child psychology

* Outline the key research by Wood et al. (1976) and explain what it tells us about cognitive

development in children.

* Discuss whether research into cognitive development and education is ethnocentric.

* Nina helps run teacher training courses. She is planning a session for trainee teachers on how they can improve revision or learning among the children they teach. Nina wants some guidance on cognitive strategies that she could include within this session.

Outline at least one cognitive strategy to improve revision or learning that a psychologist

might advise Nina to include in her session.

OPTION 2

Criminal psychology

* Outline the key research by Wilson and Kelling (1982) and use it to explain how the features

of neighbourhoods can influence crime.

* Discuss the freewill/determinism debate in relation to research into crime prevention.

* Many people travel to work by train. Some of these people cycle from home to their local railway station, and they leave their bikes at the railway station during the day. Taylor has the job of creating a cycle parking area at the local railway station. The bikes left there during the day need to be safe from being stolen.

Outline at least one crime prevention strategy a psychologist might advise Taylor to apply

when designing this cycle parking area.

OPTION 3

Environmental psychology

* Outline the key research by Black and Black (2007) and use it to explain the impact of

environmental stressors on our biological responses.

* Discuss research into stressors in the environment in relation to ethical considerations.

* Jamal is a student revising for his exams. He has tried studying at home and the town centre library, but he finds both environments stressful to revise in. Jamal is keen to do well in his exams and really needs somewhere suitable to do his revision.

Outline at least one strategy a psychologist might suggest for how Jamal could manage

environmental stress to be able to revise effectively for his exams.

OPTION 4

Sport and exercise psychology

* Outline the key research by Kroll and Crenshaw (1970) and explain what it tells us about the

relationship between personality and sport.

* Discuss the reliability of research into personality and sport.

* The heptathlon requires female athletes to compete in seven sports over two days. Events include the 200-metre sprint, the high jump, and javelin throwing. Mia is in charge of improving the performance of her country’s best heptathletes.

Outline at least one strategy a psychologist might suggest for how Mia could use knowledge

of personality to improve the performance of the heptathletes.