State a fully operationalised non-directional (two-tailed) hypothesis for this investigation. (2) January 2019
Suggest one weakness with the opportunity sampling technique used by Sebastian in this study. (2) June 2018
Explain one strength of the sampling technique used by Marco in his investigation about employees helping each other at work. (2) October 2019
Describe how Caleb could use a laboratory experimental method to test rehearsal. (2) January 2018
Compare the use of field experiments with the use of laboratory experiments in psychological research. (6) June 2018
Describe one reason why Sebastian may have used an independent groups design in this study. (2) June 2018
Identify the experimental/research design used by Marco in his investigation. (1) October 2019
Explain two weaknesses of using case studies of brain damaged patients to investigate human memory. (4) January 2018
Define what is meant by participant observation. (1) January 2018
Define what is meant by structured observation. (1) January 2018
Describe how Elijah could have designed his interview questions. (2) June 2018
Suggest why Kathryn chose to use a correlation research method for this investigation instead of a longitudinal method. (2) October 2019
Explain one weakness of Kathryn using a correlation research method for this investigation. (2) October 2019
Describe why Orla used a longitudinal research method for her investigation. (2) January 2020
Compare the use of longitudinal research with cross-sectional research. (6) January 2020
Describe how PET scanning could be used by Arina to investigate how the brain responds when a person is told a joke. (4)
Justify the use of brain scanning/neuroimaging as a way to increase the credibility of case studies of brain damaged patients. (2) January 2018
Describe one difference between PET brain scanning and fMRI brain imaging. (2) January 2018
Explain one strength and one weakness of using PET scanning in psychology. (4) June 2019
Draw a histogram to represent the data in Table 3. (3) June 2018
Draw a bar chart to show the data for the themes of strength and kindness for men and women shown in Table 2. (3) October 2018
Draw a bar chart to represent the data in Table 1. (3) October 2019
Identify the type of correlation shown in Figure 1. (1) January 2020
Explain, using the data shown in Figure 1, one conclusion Zoe can make from her investigation. (2) January 2020
Calculate the range for the data in the category of ‘plays alone’. (1) January 2018
Describe one reason why the range is not a useful measure of dispersion for the data in the category of ‘plays alone’. (2) January 2018
Calculate the occurrence of kindness for women as a percentage of all occurrences of kindness. (1) October 2018
Calculate the occurrence of pride for women as a fraction of all occurrences of pride. (1) October 2018
Calculate, using the data in Table 3, the difference in the total number of homework tasks completed on time between Condition A and Condition B. (1) October 2018
Determine, using the data in Table 3, how many students showed no improvement in homework tasks completed on time. (1) October 2018
Complete Table 2 with the estimated total time to complete the maze for Condition A and Condition B. (2) June 2019
Calculate the mean score of Condition B in Table 2 to four significant figures. (1) June 2019
Calculate the percentage of students who did not complete the questionnaire. (1) October 2019
Calculate the ratio of students with more friends studying the same subject to those having more friends studying a different subject. (1) October 2019
Explain, with reference to the data in Table 1, one conclusion Daisy could make about college students’ friendship groups. (2) October 2019
Calculate what percentage of the total available passersby Zoe sampled. (1) January 2020
Calculate the standard deviation for the data gathered by Matheus by completing Table 1. (4) January 2020
Give two reasons why the standard deviation may be a better measure of dispersion than the range. (2) January 2020
Calculate chi-squared for this data by completing Table 4 below. (4) January 2019
Describe whether the results of this study are significant or not, with df1 at p0.05 for a two-tailed test. (2) January 2019
Calculate the T value for the data gathered by Alejandro by completing Table 4. (4) October 2018
Determine whether this result is significant for a one-tailed directional test at P0.05 where N=7. (1) October 2018
Complete Table 2 to show the level of measurement required for each statistical test. (2) January 2019
State the level of measurement for this data. (1) January 2018
Skylar decided to conduct a statistical test on her data. Explain which statistical test Skylar should use for her investigation. (3) June 2019
Complete Table 4 and calculate chi-squared for Ahmed’s investigation. (4) June 2019
Describe why Kathryn would use Spearman’s rank to test the significance of the data she gathered from the adult prisoners. (2) October 2019
Describe two ways Ferdinand could have made his thematic analysis about gender bias reliable. (4) October 2018
Explain two strengths of Ferdinand using a thematic analysis to investigate gender bias in how sportsmen and sportswomen are portrayed in the media. (4) October 2018
Suggest how Elijah could have analysed his interview responses to generate quantitative data to find any similarities. (2) June 2018
Give one strength of using qualitative data to investigate people’s experiences of flying. (2) June 2018
Describe three ethical considerations Louis should have considered when he used animals during his investigation. (6) January 2019
Explain two weaknesses, other than ethical issues, of Marco’s investigation about employees helping each other at work. (4) June 2019
State one improvement Sebastian could make to the interference task in his study. (2) June 2018
Explain two improvements that Louis could make to his investigation about the effects of sleep disturbance on appetite in rats. (4) January 2019
Explain one extraneous variable that Ahmed could have controlled for when conducting his investigation. (2) June 2019
Explain one way Zoe could have increased the accuracy of the quantitative data she collected. (2) January 2020