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Y12 - Practise Questions For MA1

This document provides 25 practice questions for a psychology exam covering multiple case studies. The questions assess understanding of the aims, procedures, results, conclusions, applications, debates, and strengths and weaknesses of studies like the Andrade doodling study, Dement and Kleitman's sleep and dreams study, Holzel et al's brain scans and mindfulness study, Pozzulo et al's eyewitness identification study, Baron Cohen et al's eye test, Milgram's obedience study, and Piliavin et al's subway Samaritans study. Students are asked to explain, describe, outline, evaluate, and design aspects of the research examples.

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Y12 - Practise Questions For MA1

This document provides 25 practice questions for a psychology exam covering multiple case studies. The questions assess understanding of the aims, procedures, results, conclusions, applications, debates, and strengths and weaknesses of studies like the Andrade doodling study, Dement and Kleitman's sleep and dreams study, Holzel et al's brain scans and mindfulness study, Pozzulo et al's eyewitness identification study, Baron Cohen et al's eye test, Milgram's obedience study, and Piliavin et al's subway Samaritans study. Students are asked to explain, describe, outline, evaluate, and design aspects of the research examples.

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PRACTISE QUESTIONS FOR MAI

PSYCHOLOGY 2023 – TERIM 1

1. State one aim of the study……..( learn aim for every case study) (2 marks)

2. Explain the sample characteristics of the Andrade doodling study( 2 mars)

3. Explain the nature vs nurture debate by stating suitable examples form the
study ( 4 marks)

4. Name 3 masculine and feminine toys used in the study of Hasset et al


monkey toy preferences (2 marks)

5. In the study by Dement and Kleitman (sleep and dreams), the procedure that
the researchers first used to measure participants’ estimations of REM sleep
duration was unsuccessful and had to be revised.

(a) Describe how the researchers first attempted to measure participants’


estimations of REM sleep duration.

(b) Describe the revised procedure used to measure participants’


estimations of REM sleep

6. Describe one assumption of the biological approach using an example from


the study of Holzel et al brain scans and mindfulness (3 marks)

7. Describe the assumptions of……..( learn for social, cognitive and biological
approach) ( 4 marks)

8. The study by Pozzulo et al. has an obvious real-world application where


the study's findings on false positive responding in young children can
inform the development of more effective eyewitness identification
procedures for young children. This can help to reduce the risk of wrongful
conviction based on mistaken eyewitness identification.
a. Outline two more possible real-world applications (5 marks)
9. Explain the procedure of the baron cohen et al eyetest (5 marks)
a. Describe one methodological problem that could arise if the child
participants were used in this study ( 2 marks)

10..Explain 2 useful applications of the findings of Baron cohen et al


eye test if the child participants were used in the study.

11. Describe the conclusion from the study pozzulo et al line up study ( 5
marks)

12. Studies in cognitive psychology could be used to help workers doing


repetitive jobs who find it hard to concentrate.
a. Describe how the results of the study by Andrade doodling could be applied
to help with this problem. ( 5 marks)

13. . Studies in social psychology can be applied to train military personnel.


Suggest how the procedure of the study by Milgram (obedience) could be
applied to help with this training. Your suggestion must be ethical. (5
marks)

14. Outline one ethical and one practical problem that occurred in the
conducting of the subway Samaritans study by piliavin (5 marks)

15. Two friends, Aarav and Kyra, are discussing the study by Andrade
(doodling) in terms of the debate about individual and situational
explanations. Aarav believes this study supports the individual
explanation but Kyra believes this study supports the situational
explanation.
a. Outline why you think either Aarav or Kyra is correct, using evidence
from the study(5 marks)

16. Outline the debate abut individual and situational explanations in


psychology (5 marks)
17. Evaluate the strength and weakness of the theory…………( learn for every
case study : GRAVE (6 marks)

18. Describe what is meant by the theory of mind ( 5 marks)

19. Explain one similarity and one different between piliavin et al and one
other core study from social approach ( 8 marks)

20. Explain the procedure of the perry et al study ( 8 marks)

21. evaluate the result and conclusion of the monkey toy preferences case
study (6 marks)

22. Danvir is planning a laboratory experiment about doodling but is worried


that the findings may not generalize well to the effects of real-world
doodling
Design a natural experiment to test one factor that could affect
doodling.(10 marks)

23. Explain the different ethical issues in psychological research with suitable
examples from the case studies (10 marks)

24. Evaluate the study Milgram experiment in terms of 2 strength and 2


weakness. At least one of your evaluation points must be about the use of
qualitative or quantitative data. (10 marks)

25. Evaluate the study by baron cohen et al eye test in terms of 2 strengths and
2 weaknesses. At least one your evaluation points must be about
generalizations (10 marks)

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