AQA GCSE Psychology Paper 1: Cognition and behaviour June 2019 question paper 8182/1

Ben can list all of the planets in our solar system. What type of memory does Ben use to recall his list of planets? Shade one box.

Which two of the following statements about the multi-store model of memory are correct? Shade two boxes.

Outline two features of long term memory.

Read the following information.

Explain how context can affect the accuracy of memory. Refer to Samir’s experience in your answer.

Read the following information.

Use your knowledge of interference to explain Samir’s behaviour.

Evaluate the theory of reconstructive memory.

Describe Murdock’s serial position curve study. Evaluate the research method used in this study.

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Which is the best explanation for the visual illusion known as the ‘Necker cube’? Shade one box.

What is meant by ‘sensation’?

Name two monocular depth cues.

People often incorrectly think the two horizontal lines in the Ponzo illusion are of different lengths.

Use your knowledge of Gregory’s constructivist theory of perception to explain the Ponzo illusion shown in Figure 1.

A researcher studied the effects of emotion on perception.

Two weeks before Christmas, he asked a group of children to each draw a picture of a Christmas tree with presents under it.

Two weeks after Christmas, he asked the same children to each draw a Christmas tree with presents under it.

He counted the number of presents that the children drew before and after Christmas.

Table 1 shows the mean number of presents drawn by children before and after Christmas.

Identify the type of data that is shown in Table 1 and explain your answer.

Use your knowledge of how emotion affects perception to explain the results shown in Table 1.

Outline Gibson’s direct theory of perception.

You have been asked to investigate the effect of motivation on perception. Explain how you would design an experiment to do this.

You need to include the following information in your answer:

• the experimental design you would choose and why this would be suitable

• what you would ask the participants to do and what data you would collect

• the results you would expect to find from your experiment.

Which of the following best describes the function of the brain stem? Shade one box.

What is meant by ‘learning styles’?

Vicky is a verbaliser. Describe two ways in which Vicky could revise for a History test using this learning style.

Read the following information.

Use Piaget’s theory of cognitive development to explain the different hiding behaviours of Ella and Jake.

Briefly evaluate Piaget’s theory of cognitive development.

Describe and evaluate Willingham’s learning theory.

Read the following information.

Sketch a frequency table the researcher and her assistant can use to collect their results.

Other than ‘making phone calls’ include two categories of behaviour in your frequency table.

Outline two ways the researcher and her assistant could make sure they have high interobserver reliability in their study.

The people in the café do not know that a study is taking place and that they are being observed. This means they did not agree to take part or give the researcher permission to record their behaviour. Therefore the researcher did not get consent from the participants in her study.

Explain what is meant by ethical issues in psychological research.

Explain how the researcher might deal with the lack of consent in this study.

Read the following information.

Write a suitable hypothesis for this study.

What is meant by an ‘extraneous variable’?

Identify one extraneous variable the researcher needs to consider and suggest how this variable may affect the results if she does not deal with it.

Outline one problem that might occur because the researcher is using a questionnaire to collect her data.

After the questionnaires were completed, the researcher used the answers to record the daily phone use of the males and females. The results are shown in Table 2.

Table 2: The daily phone use of males and females.

Use the graph paper to sketch a suitable bar chart to show the mean results shown in Table 2. Provide a suitable title and labels for your diagram.

Calculate the range for the daily phone use of males and females.

Range for females:

Use the ranges you calculated in Question 25.1 to write one conclusion the researcher could draw from the information collected in her questionnaires.