Psychological skills: methods, review of studies, issues and debates
From Paper 1: Foundations in psychology
5(a)6 marks
Compare the social and biological approaches in how they explain human aggression.
From Paper 1: Foundations in psychology
5(b)12 marks
To what extent can the cognitive and learning approaches be considered scientific?
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
1(a)2 marks
A psychologist investigated whether hours of sleep correlate with errors on a reaction task. Write a directional hypothesis.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
1(b)2 marks
The psychologist used opportunity sampling of eight students. Give one weakness of this sampling method for this study.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
1(c)6 marks
Data:
Participant
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Hours slept
5.0
6.5
7.0
8.0
5.5
9.0
6.0
7.5
Errors
12
13
9
6
10
7
14
8
Calculate Spearman's rho. Show your working.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
1(d)3 marks
The critical value for N = 8 (one-tailed, p ≤ 0.05) is 0.643. Explain whether the result is significant.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
1(e)3 marks
Explain why the psychologist cannot conclude that lack of sleep causes errors.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
1(f)4 marks
Explain one threat to validity and one way of improving reliability in this study.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
1(g)4 marks
The psychologist also interviewed participants about how tired they felt. Explain how thematic analysis could be used on these data.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
2(a)4 marks
Describe the procedure of one contemporary study from social psychology (for example Burger, 2009).
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
2(b)8 marks
Compare Milgram (1963) with one contemporary study you have learned in terms of methodology and ethics.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
2(c)12 marks
Evaluate the use of brain scanning in biological psychology, with reference to at least one study you have learned.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
3(a)4 marks
Explain one ethical issue in research using animals in psychology.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
3(b)8 marks
Discuss how psychological knowledge has been used as a means of social control.
From Paper 3: Psychological skills
3(c)20 marks
Evaluate the contribution of psychology to understanding the nature–nurture debate. You must refer to at least three topic areas you have studied.
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