AS & A Level Psychology (9990) — May–June 2024, Paper 22

State the two main features of a case study.

Kanav wanted to recruit participants from his town for his study. He put an advertisement into the window of every shop in his town and used all the people who responded as his…

A study has the hypothesis 'Four-year-old children make more language mistakes than eight-year-old children.' State whether this hypothesis is a: • directional hypothesis •…

The study by Hassett et al. (monkey toy preferences) used animals. Outline two named ethical guidelines in relation to the use of animals in this study.

In the study by Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test), a control task was used to be certain that the AS/HFA participants could use information from pictures of eyes to make simple…

Describe how variables in correlations can be measured, using any example(s).

Chyou is conducting a self-report about students' subject choices. Four of her questions are: A Describe how much you like maths. B How much do you enjoy studying science? 0 = do…

Daku is observing the obedience of boys and girls to teachers and older pupils when they are waiting for their lunch. Fig. 8.1 is a graph of Daku's results. Fig. 8.1 is a bar…

Carol is investigating how music in a sports centre affects the amount that people exercise. On each visit she listens to the music that is playing. She measures the music by…

Chloë is studying behaviour in the workplace. She wants to investigate how people behave during mealtimes at work. A range of food is available to the workers, which can be eaten…