AS & A Level Psychology (9990) — October–November 2024, Paper 23

Outline what is meant by the term 'random sampling'.

In a laboratory experiment, the happiness of participants is being compared in two situations: • with other people • without other people. Identify the dependent variable (DV) in…

In the study by Fagen et al. (elephant learning), most of the data collected was quantitative. Some qualitative data was collected, including an initial observation that one…

Studies in social psychology can use stooges or imagined people to cause participants to respond. In the study by Piliavin et al. (subway Samaritans), stooges were used as…

Pozzulo et al. (line-ups) calculated the mean number of correct identifications of human faces per child. Explain how the researchers calculated this mean in this study.

Describe laboratory experiments and field experiments, using any example(s).

Daiyu is conducting a case study about a seven-year-old child with autism. She is interested in the child's interactions with their family and other children. Suggest two…

Hazel is conducting a study in a park to compare the behaviours of adults who have children with them and adults who do not have children with them. She plans to record three…

Hudson is planning to correlate how much a person wants to sleep (sleepiness) and the amount of time since their last meal. He will ask people to estimate the amount of time since…

Zeta notices that people respond in different ways to advertisements for products. People may find the advertisements funny, annoying and/or informative. She is interested in…