AQA GCSE Psychology Paper 2: Social context and behaviour June 2022 question paper 8182/2

People in crowds may join in with anti-social behaviour because they lose their sense of personal identity and feel less responsibility for their actions.

Which one of the following factors causes this?

Shade one box.

A psychologist did a study to find out more about conformity.

She put participants into different sized groups.

She asked them to solve an easy maths problem. Then each person gave their answer to the problem out loud. In every group, there was only one true participant. The other people in the group were actors. The psychologist asked the actors to purposely give a wrong answer. The true participant always answered last.

The psychologist recorded how many times the true participant gave the same wrong answer as the others in the group. She believed this happened because they had conformed.

Her results are shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Total number of times the true participants gave the same wrong answer as actors in different sized groups.

Use the results in Table 1 to draw a histogram.

Provide a suitable title and labels for your histogram.

What is the ratio of the number of times the participants gave the wrong answer when the group size was 2 compared to when the group size was 6?

Write this ratio in its simplest form.

Outline one conclusion that the psychologist could draw about conformity from the results in Table 1.

In research investigating conformity, participants are often not told the real reason for the research. This goes against the British Psychological Society guidelines on ethical issues.

Justify the use of deception in studies of conformity.

Read the following conversation.

Social factors can affect obedience.

Use your knowledge of social factors to explain Nathan’s likely behaviour.

Refer to Nathan being told to help carry shopping bags and when he was told to put the rubbish into the bin.

Read the following conversation.

Name one dispositional factor and one social factor that can influence bystander intervention.

Explain how factors that affect bystander behaviour may have stopped Aiden and Reena from offering their help in the described situation.

Describe and evaluate Adorno’s theory of Authoritarian Personality.

Animal communication has a limited number of functions when compared with human communication.

Which of the following is not a function of animal communication?

Shade one box.

Describe the results from Von Frisch’s bee study.

Briefly evaluate Von Frisch’s bee study.

Read the following conversation.

Outline the difference between non-verbal communication and verbal communication.

Refer to the conversation above in your answer.

Imagine that you have been asked to conduct a study to investigate the idea that non-verbal behaviour is learned. Use your knowledge of psychology to describe how you would do this.

In your answer include:

who your target population would be

a description of the procedure you would use and what data you would collect

one ethical consideration you would need to consider and how you would deal with this.

Briefly describe the fight or flight response and Darwin’s theory of non-verbal communication as evolved and adaptive.

Discuss whether or not the fight or flight response can be used to support Darwin’s theory of non-verbal communication. Use your knowledge of both in your answer.

Which two of the following statements about the James-Lange theory of emotion are correct?

Shade two boxes.

Read the following information.

From the information, identify two examples of situations where sensory neurons would have been involved and identify two examples of situations where motor neurons would have been involved.

Write your answers in the correct boxes.

This outline of the brain shows the temporal lobe. This is one of four lobes in the brain.

On the outline, sketch the location of the three other lobes. Label these three lobes and the cerebellum.

Outline of the brain:

Read the following article.

Briefly explain localisation of function in the brain.

Refer to the article in your answer.

Briefly describe Penfield’s study of the interpretive cortex.

Evaluate Penfield’s study of the interpretive cortex.

You have been asked to compare the different scanning techniques used to identify brain functioning. To do this, you are going to interview people who use scanning techniques to carry out their jobs.

You need to:

• write one appropriate question that you could ask your participants

• explain whether the data you collect from the interview will be quantitative or qualitative and why this type of data would be suitable

• identify one ethical issue you would need to consider and how you would deal with this issue.

Research suggests that nurture plays a role in people experiencing depression.

Which of the following is not a way that nurture can influence depression?

Shade one box only.

Briefly evaluate the theory that nurture influences depression.

Read the following conversation.

Explain what is meant in psychology by ‘mental health’.

Refer to the conversation in your answer.

Researchers carried out a study into the effectiveness of antidepressant medications. 150 people took part in their study.

The target population for the study were patients from the Good Health Medical Centre in London. They had all been diagnosed with unipolar depression within the past 6 months and were aged between 25 and 42 years of age.

Explain how researchers would select a random sample from this target population.

Identify one strength and one weakness of random sampling.

Figure 1 Bar graph to show the total number of participants who felt their mood improved a lot, a little or did not improve at all within two weeks of starting a course of antidepressants.

Complete Table 2 using the information from the bar graph.

Table 2 Total number of participants who felt their mood improved a lot, a little or did not improve at all within two weeks of starting a course of antidepressants.

Calculate the percentage of participants who stated that their mood improved ‘ a little

Show your workings.

Aversion therapy and self-management programmes are both used as interventions for addiction.

Explain how aversion therapy is used as an intervention for addiction.

Use your knowledge of both the reductionist and the holistic perspectives to compare aversion therapy with self-management programmes.