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A-LevelPsychologyConsumer BehaviourMay/June 2021Paper 4 Q215 Marks

Newspaper headline: Your brain goes shopping. You go shopping and you see a product. By the time you decided to buy it, some brain regions already knew what you were buying and how much it cost. These brain regions are the neural predictors of purchases, studied by Knutson et al. (2007).

Q: What topic does this question test?

This question tests Consumer Behaviour in A-Level Psychology (syllabus code 9990). It is worth 15 marks.

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About This A-Level Psychology Question

Topic

This structured question tests Consumer Behaviour in A-Level Psychology (syllabus code 9990). It is worth 15 marks.

Source

This question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Psychology May/June 2021 examination, Paper 4 Variant 2.

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