AQA GCSE Psychology Paper 1: Cognition and behaviour June 2024 question paper 8182/1

One factor that can affect the accuracy of memory is context.

Which two of the following are most likely to occur due to context?

Shade two boxes.

Table 1 includes some of the main features of the multi-store model of memory.

Three main features are missing from the table.

Complete all three missing parts of Table 1.

Write your answers in the correct spaces.

Explain what is meant by the ‘primacy effect’ in recall.

Read the following information.

Write two fifths as a decimal.

There were 200 participants in the study.

Calculate how many participants did not describe details of the wedding.

Show your workings.

The researcher claimed that his report on the study also contained qualitative data.

Use the description of the study to justify the researcher’s claim.

Ivan was a participant in the study. The researcher asked Ivan about a primary school camping trip to Snowdonia. Ivan remembered that Snowdonia is in Wales. He also recalled celebrating his best friend’s birthday during the trip and learning to paddle a canoe. As an adult, he still enjoys paddling a canoe on a nearby lake.

Episodic, procedural and semantic are different types of long-term memory.

Identify one example of each type from Ivan’s discussion about his school trip.

Write your answers in the correct spaces.

The theory of reconstructive memory states that people recreate their memories by actively using what they already know and believe about the world.

Describe and evaluate one study that has investigated reconstructive memory.

Name one binocular depth cue.

Jess is travelling by train and has a window seat. She likes to watch the trees and buildings pass by through the window.

Explain why the speed of the passing trees and buildings helps Jess to perceive how far away they are.

Use your knowledge of motion parallax.

Describe one result from Gilchrist and Nesberg’s study into the effects of motivation on perception.

Outline one strength and one weakness of Gilchrist and Nesberg’s study into the effects of motivation on perception.

Sketch the Ponzo illusion.

Use the space below for your sketch.

Outline how psychologists explain the Ponzo illusion.

Read the following information.

Table 2 shows the results from the study.

Table 2 The number of times the distance was correctly estimated within one metre by participants viewing familiar and unfamiliar objects

Identify the dependent variable in this study.

The psychologist claimed that the results of this study allowed conclusions to be drawn about the influence of past experience on perception.

Outline one conclusion that the psychologist could draw.

You have been asked to investigate the effect of emotion on perception.

Explain how you would design an experiment to do this.

You need to include the following information in your answer:

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

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

• the results you would expect to find from your experiment including both conditions of the independent variable.

Which one of the following is a feature of Willingham’s ideas about learning?

Shade one box.

Briefly evaluate Dweck’s Mindset Theory of learning.

Hassan is 8 years old and has asked his sister Rubi for help with his maths homework. Rubi is 13 years old. Rubi is able to solve the maths problems in her head, but Hassan has to count using his fingers.

Explain why Hassan and Rubi use different methods when solving maths problems.

Use your knowledge of Piaget’s stage theory of cognitive development.

A researcher wants to investigate the most common behaviours displayed by children during the sensorimotor stage of development.

The researcher and an assistant decide to carry out a controlled observation study.

One behaviour being observed is ‘shaking a rattle’.

Describe how you would carry out this controlled observation study.

You need to:

• identify a suitable age range of the target population

• suggest two suitable behaviour categories that could be used during the observation. Do not include ‘shaking a rattle’ as one of your categories

• briefly describe two ways the researcher could make sure there is interobserver reliability

• identify one way the researcher could make sure her study is carried out in an ethical manner.

Psychologists have developed many ways to study the brain. A psychologist called Penfield used a method called the Montreal procedure to study the cortex. The method involved gently stimulating parts of the cortex with electricity. Participants were asked to describe any sensations that they experienced.

Outline early brain development.

Discuss the appropriateness of Penfield’s method to investigate the brain before birth and during the early years of life.

Which of the following is a reason why the range might be calculated in psychological research?

Shade one box.

Sketch the shape of a normal distribution on the graph paper.

Clearly label where the mean score would be on your sketch.

Read the following information.

Write a suitable alternative hypothesis for this study.

Identify one extraneous variable that might affect the results of this experiment.

The bar chart in Figure 1 shows the number of people who visited Waterlake Park in the 7 days before and after the introduction of the DinoCatch app.

State the number of people who visited the park on the Tuesday (Tu) after the DinoCatch app was introduced.

Outline two conclusions that can be drawn from the data in the bar chart.

At the end of the 14-day study, the researcher interviewed 10 participants about their experiences of using the DinoCatch app. She wanted to find out if there was a correlation between time spent outdoors and improvement of mood.

She asked the participants how many hours they had spent outdoors playing DinoCatch during the 7-day period after the app was released. She also asked participants to rate how much their mood had improved on a scale of 0–10.

A rating of 0 meant that their mood had not improved at all.

A rating of 10 meant that their mood had improved a lot.

The results are shown in Table 3.

Table 3 Number of hours playing DinoCatch and mood improvement rating

Use the graph paper to sketch a scatter diagram to show the results given in Table 3

Provide a suitable title for your scatter diagram and a label for the x axis.

Estimate the mood improvement rating for someone who played the app for 20 hours.

Use the results from the study to help you.

The researcher concluded that playing DinoCatch caused participants’ mood to improve.

Suggest why the researcher is not correct to draw this conclusion.

Explain what is meant by the psychological term ‘sample’.

Name one sampling method that psychologists might use in their research.

Outline and evaluate the use of interviews in psychological research.