AQA GCSE Psychology Paper 2: Social context and behaviour June 2025 question paper 8182/2

Both dispositional and social factors affect conformity.

Which of the following is the best definition of ‘dispositional factors’?

Shade one box.

Read the following description of a study.

Write a suitable null hypothesis for the described study of conformity.

Give one conclusion the psychologist could draw from the described study of conformity.

Use the results to explain your answer.

Asch used a very similar procedure to the one described.

Briefly evaluate Asch’s study of conformity.

Read the following conversation.

What is meant by ‘social loafing’?

Refer to both Anna’s and Mari’s comments in your answer.

Piliavin’s subway study involved an actor who pretended to need help.

In one variation, the actor had a large, fake, facial scar.

Identify one factor affecting bystander intervention that Piliavin could have been studying in this variation of his study.

Briefly explain your answer.

Briefly explain two strengths of field experiments.

Refer to Piliavin’s subway study in your answer.

Read the following article.

How can Milgram’s Agency theory be used to explain Participant A’s behaviour?

Refer to the article in your answer.

Researchers used a questionnaire to study personal space.

They asked 2000 people how many metres they prefer to stand away from a stranger.

The results are shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 The preferred number of metres participants said they like to have between themselves and a stranger

Which of the following best identifies the type of graph shown in Figure 1 ?

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Calculate the range for the number of metres the participants prefer to stand away from a stranger.

Show your workings.

Psychologists have found evidence that non-verbal behaviour is innate by carrying out research with neonates and the sensory deprived.

Explain what is meant by ‘neonates’ and ‘the sensory deprived’.

The sensory deprived

Explain why a case study can be seen as a suitable method for researching the non-verbal behaviour of the sensory deprived.

Outline Darwin’s evolutionary theory of non-verbal communication.

Imagine that you have been asked to conduct a study to investigate the use of postural echo in a conversation. Use your knowledge of psychology to describe how you would do this.

In your answer:

• give a description of the procedure you would use

• name the type of data you would collect.

Describe and evaluate Yuki’s study of emoticons.

Researchers wanted to compare the use of different scanning techniques to identify brain functioning.

In the study, there were 40 participants who had experienced a recent brain injury. All of the participants had a CT scan and a PET scan of their brains.

The researchers recorded how many different areas of damage they identified using each scanning method.

Results are shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 The total number of different areas of damage identified using CT and PET brain scans

Which is the correct ratio for the number of different areas of damage identified using CT scans compared to the number of different areas of damage identified using PET scans?

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The PET scans showed 50% more areas of damage than the CT scans did.

Write 50% as a fraction.

Calculate the mean number of areas of damage that were identified per participant when CT scans were used.

Show your workings.

Name the experimental design being used in the described study of scanning techniques.

Discuss why the researchers may have found the results they did.

Use your knowledge of CT scans and PET scans.

The following diagram of a sensory neuron is not complete.

Complete the diagram by drawing the missing part(s) within the circle.

Identify the parts labelled A and B and write your answers in the spaces provided.

Briefly explain the function of a sensory neuron.

The brain contains four lobes.

Briefly describe each of these structures and their basic function.

Hebb’s theory of learning and neuronal growth suggests that repeating the same task allows us to develop stronger cell assemblies.

You have been asked to conduct an experiment to investigate Hebb’s theory. You need to do this without the use of brain-scanning techniques.

In your answer, outline the following information:

• a description of the task you will use

• an appropriate hypothesis for your experiment

• the sampling method you will use and a description of how you will carry this out.

Which two of the following are not symptoms of unipolar depression according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)?

Shade two boxes.

Complete the following sentence.

When the ICD is being used to diagnose unipolar depression, both the

Give three examples of the social effects of significant mental health problems.

Briefly outline Kaij’s twin study of alcohol abuse.

Kaij used questionnaires in his twin study of alcohol abuse.

Explain one strength and one weakness of using questionnaires in psychological research.

Briefly evaluate the use of aversion therapy as an intervention for addiction.

Describe the role of neurotransmitters in synaptic transmission.

Discuss whether or not neurotransmitters can be considered to be involved in causing depression.