Decision making and interpretation of data:
List A from Topic A (Social), as appropriate
List B from Topic B (Cognitive), as appropriate.
Suggest one reason why Marianne chose not to include children under the age of 12 months old in her research about the development of language. (2) June 2018
Suggest one improvement Charlotte could make to her investigation. (1) October 2018
Justify the use of quantitative data in research. (1) January 2017
Justify the use of a random sample instead of a volunteer sample in developmental psychology. (2) January 2018
Explain one improvement that Jared could make to the method he used to gather his data. (2) January 2019
Explain two reasons for using open-ended questions in psychological research. (4) January 2019
Describe how Precious would carry out a meta-analysis into the universality of attachment types. (3) June 2019
Justify why Marcus used a Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test on his data. (3) January 2020
Identify the type of correlation shown in Figure 2. (1) June 2018
State an appropriate statistical test for the data gathered by David. (1) June 2018
Calculate the percentage of children who correctly answered that the number of buttons was the same for both rows in Figure 1. (1) June 2018
Convert the data shown in Table 1 for Condition B to a percentage of all the children in the investigation. (2) October 2018
Calculate the chi-squared for the data gathered by Charlotte in her investigation by completing Table 2. (4) October 2018
Give one conclusion that can be drawn from the data in Table 1. (2) January 2017
Give one conclusion that could be made from this study. You must refer to the data in Table 1. (2) January 2018
Calculate the total mean number of imitative physical aggressive acts copied from all aggressive adult role models by male children. (1) June 2017
Draw a bar chart to illustrate the data given in Table 2. (3) October 2017
Calculate the mean percentage score for all conservation errors made by the six year olds. (1) January 2017
Predict the percentage of conservation errors in volume for nine-year-old children based on the current trend in the data. (1) January 2017
Calculate df for Jared’s chi-squared test by substituting into the formula. (2) January 2019
Calculate the ratio of males to females for attachment type B, using the data in Table 1. (1) January 2019
Complete Table 2 and calculate the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test for Nina’s data. (4) June 2019
Interpret the data shown in the histogram in Figure 1. (1) June 2019
Calculate Spearman’s rank for the data gathered by Sophia. (3) October 2019