AQA GCSE Psychology Paper 1: Cognition and behaviour June 2022 question paper 8182/1

Which two of the following statements about the reconstructive theory of memory are correct?

Shade two boxes.

Briefly evaluate the reconstructive theory of memory.

Read the following article.

Use the article to identify two examples of procedural memory, two examples of semantic memory and two examples of episodic memory.

Write your answers in the correct boxes.

Psychologists sometimes study unique individuals like TJ using a case study.

Briefly evaluate the use of case studies in psychological research.

You have been asked to investigate the effect of interference on the accuracy of memory.

Describe how you would design an experiment to do this.

You need to include:

• what participants would be asked to do

• a suitable hypothesis for your experiment

• the results that you expect to find.

Murdock investigated the effects of serial position on recall.

Describe and evaluate this study.

Gilchrist and Nesberg investigated the effect of motivation on perception.

Which two of the following statements about their study are correct?

Shade two boxes.

Which one of the following is a description of occlusion?

Shade one box.

Read the following information.

Table 1 The estimated length of the spider, in millimetres, for each participant in

The range of estimated lengths for the spider for participants in Group B was 43 mm.

Use the information in Table 1 to calculate the range of estimates for participants in Group A.

Show your workings.

The mean estimated length of the spider in Group A was 93 mm.

Use the information in Table 1 to calculate the mean estimated length of the spider in Group B.

State your answer using two significant figures and show your workings.

Read the following information.

Outline one binocular depth cue that affects how people judge distance.

Refer to Ava’s experience in your answer.

Describe Gregory’s constructivist theory of perception.

Bruner and Minturn investigated the effect of expectation on perception.

Describe this study.

Evaluate the research method used in this study.

Which one of the following is an example of a visualiser learning style?

Shade one box.

What is meant by ‘praise’ in the context of learning?

50 teachers were asked whether they were more likely to praise student effort or student performance.

37 of these teachers said they were more likely to praise student effort.

Calculate the fraction of teachers who were more likely to praise student performance.

Read the following information.

Explain the role of nature and nurture on the brain development of a baby before it is born.

Refer to Doctor Kumar’s and Doctor Andersson’s comments in your answer.

Describe and evaluate the ‘policeman doll study’ carried out by Hughes.

Read the following information.

Describe and evaluate Dweck’s mindset theory of learning.

In your answer, refer to the mindset encouraged by both restaurant businesses in this information.

Which one of the following is a feature of an interview?

Shade one box.

Which one of the following is most likely to achieve a representative sample?

Shade one box.

Name the descriptive statistic that is calculated by ordering the values in a set of data then selecting the middle value.

Define what is meant by ‘secondary data’.

Read the following information.

Identify the dependent variable and both conditions of the independent variable in this experiment.

Write your answers in the correct spaces provided.

Dependent variable

Independent variable

Figure 1 Bar chart to show the number of participants who did and did not clean their desk in the smell and no smell groups.

The results of this experiment are shown in Figure 1.

Use this information to complete the table below.

33.3% of participants cleaned their desk in the no smell group.

Calculate the percentage of participants who cleaned their desk in the smell group.

Use the information from Question 22.2.

Show your workings.

State whether the environmental cue of smell did or did not influence participant behaviour in this experiment.

Use the data in Figure 1 to explain your answer.

Name the experimental design used by the psychologist in this study.

Explain your answer.

Experimental design

Explain your answer

Explain one weakness of using the experimental design you named in Question 22.5

Evaluate the use of correlations in psychological research.