Exam-style questions by topic — Eduqas A-Level Psychology
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Algebra
A psychologist reports that the probability of obtaining the observed result if the null hypothesis were true is 0.03. Which symbolic statement correctly expresses this probability as being below the 0.05 level?
Practise AlgebraArithmetic and numerical computation
In an observation study, 20 of 50 recorded cases fall into one category. What percentage of the cases is this?
Practise Arithmetic and numerical computationComponent 1: Behaviourist
In systematic desensitisation, what is the purpose of teaching the client relaxation techniques?
Practise Component 1: BehaviouristComponent 1: Biological
A patient with severe, treatment-resistant depression has a small area of brain tissue destroyed surgically to relieve symptoms. Which statement best explains why this is classed as a biological therapy?
Practise Component 1: BiologicalComponent 1: Cognitive
A psychologist argues that to understand behaviour we must study processes such as attention and memory that occur between a stimulus and a response. Which cognitive assumption does this illustrate?
Practise Component 1: CognitiveComponent 1: Positive
A client keeps reliving anxious thoughts about an upcoming exam. A mindfulness-based therapist is most likely to respond by guiding the client to do which of the following?
Practise Component 1: PositiveComponent 1: Psychodynamic
In the psychodynamic approach, which part of the personality operates on the pleasure principle and demands immediate satisfaction?
Practise Component 1: PsychodynamicComponent 1: Psychology: Past to Present
Milgram found that obedience dropped when the experimenter gave commands by telephone rather than face to face. Which conclusion about the social implications of his findings is best supported by this variation?
Practise Component 1: Psychology: Past to PresentComponent 2: Deciding on a research question (knowledge and understanding of)
A psychologist compares obedience scores of participants tested alone versus in a group. Which option correctly states the dependent variable and gives a valid operational measure of it?
Practise Component 2: Deciding on a research question (knowledge and understanding of)Component 2: Descriptive statistics (knowledge, evaluation, interpretation, estimation and calculation of)
A set of scores is 4, 6, 9, 11, 15. What is the range of this set?
Practise Component 2: Descriptive statistics (knowledge, evaluation, interpretation, estimation and calculation of)Component 2: Ethics (knowledge, understanding and application of)
A researcher argues that a signed consent form guarantees valid consent. Which criticism of this claim is most defensible?
Practise Component 2: Ethics (knowledge, understanding and application of)Component 2: Experimental design (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)
A researcher finds that participants score higher on a second test simply because they have already practised the first. Which feature of a repeated measures design does this illustrate, and how is it best addressed?
Practise Component 2: Experimental design (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)Component 2: Graphical representation (knowledge of, and be able to construct and interpret)
A histogram is drawn for continuous scores grouped into classes. What is the key feature that distinguishes a histogram from a bar chart of discrete categories?
Practise Component 2: Graphical representation (knowledge of, and be able to construct and interpret)Component 2: Inferential statistics (knowledge, appropriate application and interpretation of)
A researcher wants to test whether there is an association between two categorical variables, each with two or more categories, using frequency counts. Which inferential test is appropriate?
Practise Component 2: Inferential statistics (knowledge, appropriate application and interpretation of)Component 2: Levels of measurement (knowledge and understanding of)
Which of the following sets of data is an example of nominal measurement?
Practise Component 2: Levels of measurement (knowledge and understanding of)Component 2: Location of research (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)
A researcher studies children's play by watching them in their own playground without arranging any activities. Which advantage of field research does this best illustrate?
Practise Component 2: Location of research (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)Component 2: Methodologies (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)
A researcher needs to identify the precise location of a tumour and its boundaries within brain tissue before surgery. Which scan is best suited to showing this structural detail?
Practise Component 2: Methodologies (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)Component 2: Participants (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)
A researcher compares systematic sampling with random sampling for a large, unordered population list. Which evaluation of systematic sampling is most appropriate?
Practise Component 2: Participants (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)Component 2: Personal investigations
A student stores participants' completed questionnaires in a locked cabinet and reports results using code numbers rather than names. Which ethical requirement is being met?
Practise Component 2: Personal investigationsComponent 2: Principles of research (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)
A psychologist argues that Milgram's (1963) findings lack ecological validity. Which reasoning best supports this criticism?
Practise Component 2: Principles of research (knowledge, understanding and evaluation of)Component 2: Reliability (knowledge, understanding and application of)
Which statement best describes what internal reliability refers to in a psychological measure?
Practise Component 2: Reliability (knowledge, understanding and application of)Component 2: The role of the scientific community in validating new knowledge (knowledge, understanding and application of)
A study reports a surprising result that no other laboratory has obtained. How does peer review most appropriately respond to this situation?
Practise Component 2: The role of the scientific community in validating new knowledge (knowledge, understanding and application of)Component 2: Validity (knowledge, understanding and application of)
A researcher checks whether a new depression questionnaire gives scores similar to an established depression questionnaire given at the same time. Which type of validity is being assessed?
Practise Component 2: Validity (knowledge, understanding and application of)Component 3: Addictive behaviours
A person who has sustained damage to frontal brain regions shows poor impulse control and develops problem drinking. Which biological explanation does this case illustrate?
Practise Component 3: Addictive behavioursComponent 3: Applications
Which feature is a recognised characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Practise Component 3: ApplicationsComponent 3: Autistic spectrum behaviours
A researcher evaluates PECS and RDI as interventions for autistic children. Which conclusion best reflects the evidence base for these methods?
Practise Component 3: Autistic spectrum behavioursComponent 3: Bullying behaviours
Which individual difference is most directly associated with a tendency to misinterpret neutral social cues as hostile, thereby increasing the likelihood of aggressive responses in bullying situations?
Practise Component 3: Bullying behavioursComponent 3: Criminal behaviours
The disinhibition hypothesis explains some criminal behaviour as resulting from which biological process?
Practise Component 3: Criminal behavioursComponent 3: Cultural bias
In a study, a researcher concludes that a non-Western culture's child-rearing practices are 'less advanced' than Western practices. This conclusion reflects:
Practise Component 3: Cultural biasComponent 3: Ethical costs of conducting research
A psychologist studying drivers' hazard perception uses a simulator that can induce mild motion sickness. Which combination of risk management techniques most appropriately addresses this specific risk?
Practise Component 3: Ethical costs of conducting researchComponent 3: Non-human animals
Two people agree that a dog and a pig can both feel pain. One still argues the pig's pain matters less because pigs are farmed for food. How would a psychologist analysing speciesism most likely evaluate this argument?
Practise Component 3: Non-human animalsComponent 3: Schizophrenia
Which social psychological explanation of schizophrenia focuses on the emotional climate in the family, particularly criticism and over-involvement?
Practise Component 3: SchizophreniaComponent 3: Scientific status
A study asks participants to describe their feelings about personal growth in open-ended interviews. Which approach's methodology does this best illustrate?
Practise Component 3: Scientific statusComponent 3: Sexism
A theory of adult development describes marriage as the marker of maturity and treats long-term same-sex partnerships as a variant of that path. Which criticism of the theory is most appropriate?
Practise Component 3: SexismComponent 3: Stress
A person who is relaxed, patient and rarely feels time pressure is most likely to be classified as which personality type?
Practise Component 3: StressHandling data
A class experiment uses a related design with 12 participants and ordinal data. A Wilcoxon signed ranks test gives an observed T of 9. The critical value at the 0.05 level for a two-tailed test with n = 12 is 13. What is the correct decision and reasoning?
Practise Handling data
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