Cambridge Past Paper Questions

In the study by Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test), there was more than one control condition.

Describe the differences between a field experiment and a natural experiment, using any examples.

Dipa is studying memory using a brain scanner. She is testing the hypothesis that ‘There will be a positive correlation between level of brain acti...

Hugo is using a questionnaire to find out about people's helping behaviour in the daytime and at night.

Keelan has collected data about children's aggression. He has several different types of data.

Peter is studying psychology at university and has decided to conduct an experiment about positive emotions and pulse rate because he believes that...

Psychology and abnormality Answer all questions.

Psychology and consumer behaviour Answer all questions.

Psychology and health Answer all questions.

Psychology and organisations Answer all questions.

Billy has a fear of the dark, and has read about Freud's psychoanalytic explanation of phobias. Billy thinks this is a good explanation for his fea...

Joe the Camel most easily recognised by children According to Paul Fischer, young children see, understand and remember advertising. Given the heal...

The field experiment by Savage and Armstrong (1990) investigated the effect of consulting style on patients' satisfaction using a random sample of ...

In the study by Giacalone and Rosenfeld (1987), the Sabotage Reasons Questionnaire asked workers to rate each of the sabotage methods on a 7-point ...

'A token economy used for patients with schizophrenia in hospitals only makes them behave better for the staff.' To what extent do you agree with t...

'People who buy products will always dislike customer-focused sales techniques compared to product-focused or competition sales techniques.' To wha...

'Counting pills is the only valid way to measure adherence to medical advice.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use examples of res...

'Groupthink always has negative consequences.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use examples of research you have studied to suppor...

From the study by Yamamoto et al. (chimpanzee helping):

From the study by Piliavin et al. (subway Samaritans):

From the study by Saavedra and Silverman (button phobia):

The original 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' test had two problems. It used 25 pairs of eyes and two response options for each pair.

Dement and Kleitman (sleep and dreams) collected quantitative and qualitative data.

From the study by Milgram (obedience):

Two friends, Aarav and Kyra, are discussing the study by Andrade (doodling) in terms of the debate about individual and situational explanations.

Evaluate the study by Bandura et al. (aggression) in terms of two strengths and two weaknesses. At least one of your evaluation points must be abou...

Ethical guidelines should be followed in all psychological research.

There are different types of interview. Two types are structured interviews and semi-structured interviews.

Laney et al. (false memory) used control groups.

From the study by Pepperberg (parrot learning): Explain whether generalisations could be made from the results of the parrot in this study to other...

In the study by Schachter and Singer (two factors in emotion), the 'mean number of acts initiated' was calculated for the euphoria group.

Describe why psychologists operationally define the independent variable and the dependent variable in experiments, using any examples.

Robin is conducting a questionnaire study about children's use of social media, which will collect qualitative and quantitative data.

Hua is conducting a correlational study about birds feeding in her garden. Hua finds that when it is sunnier, the birds feed more. She also finds t...

Bella is conducting a laboratory experiment to find out about people's fear of animals. She asks each participant if they have any phobias. If the ...

Jim is planning an observational study about the way people respond to facial expressions. He intends to go to a train station and either smile or ...

Explanations of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) explanations of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) genetic biomedical biochemical neurologic...

The study by Atalay et al. (2012) used several different ways to investigate which product on a shelf in a shop customers were more likely to choos...

The graph below is from the study by Yokley and Glenwick (1984) on the immunisation of pre-school children. intervention period first follow-up pe...

'I really lack motivation. What I need is ERG: existence, relatedness and growth.'

Three decision-making strategies are compensatory, non-compensatory or partially compensatory.

One cognitive limitation/error in group decision-making is a 'sin of commission'.