Cambridge Past Paper Questions

Dan is looking for a correlation between the amount children play and how aggressive they are. He is not sure whether children who play more will b...

Zho is investigating how quickly fish learn to respond to different coloured lights. She trains fish in two tanks to swim to the end of the tank fo...

Ella is conducting a laboratory experiment to find out whether singing helps people to relax. She is using a repeated measures design and will use ...

Dr Bell is interested in how aware people are of the two factors involved in emotion according to the two-factor theory. He wants to know if people...

Dement and Kleitman (sleep and dreams) found a positive correlation between REM duration and the number of words used to describe the dream.

In the study by Yamamoto et al. (chimpanzee helping), the researchers needed a reliable procedure for testing the tool choice made by the chimpanzees.

In a study about sharing, pairs of friends were given questionnaires. The questionnaire had only two questions: 'rate your own willingness to share...

Sometimes it is more appropriate to use one measure of central tendency than another. State one reason why it may be better to use the mean as a me...

Describe the ethical guidelines of 'right to withdraw' and 'deception' in research with human participants, using any examples.

Dr Bahl wants to know about the emotions of people who spend their leisure time in different ways. He intends to use a questionnaire to collect inf...

Martha wants to conduct a study using a naturalistic observation of children playing. She is planning to observe the children in her local school.

Otto's aim is to investigate which age groups of internet users are most likely to play internet-based games.

Cecile has ten parrots that can answer questions about shapes. She is interested in whether there is a difference between the ability of parrots to...

In the study by Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test), a correlation was found.

In the study by Pepperberg (parrot learning), many variables were controlled.

Section B Answer all questions in this section. Carol is interested in theory of mind. She is comparing adults in 'caring' jobs such as nursing wit...

Misha and Dalman are conducting interviews with elderly people to find out how their dreams have changed with age. Misha thinks it is essential to ...

Aram plans to use a controlled observation to record the behaviour of children in the play area of a classroom.

Section C Answer all questions in this section. Elio is planning a field experiment to investigate whether office layout affects laziness. The two ...

Miller (2010) described the case study of 'John' who received impulse control therapy. John was a 35-year-old successful banker, but had a long his...

Gil et al. (2009) identified five shopper profiles. One type is the Raider, who walks fast, makes decisions quickly and has a preference for main a...

Newspaper headline: What I say is not what I do. Health research suggests that what people say they do, does not match what they actually do. This ...

'The harder I work the more I get paid. It is hard work, but pay is all I need to support my family. Do I get bored? Yes, of course I do. Do I have...

'The biochemical explanation is the only scientific explanation for impulse control disorders.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? Us...

'The AIDA model, which identifies the stages of the advertising process, applies to all cultures.' To what extent do you agree with this statement?...

'Medical techniques, such as drugs, are all a person needs to reduce long-term stress.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use exampl...

‘There are no positive outcomes of group conflict.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use examples of research you have studied to s...

The Generalised Anxiety Disorder assessment (GAD-7) was developed using questionnaires with 2740 patients, followed by a telephone interview with 9...

A study by Snyder and DeBono (1985) used students to investigate how high self-monitors and low self-monitors evaluated different types of advertis...

Model of decisions to seek or delay medical treatment (Safer et al., 1979) [Figure 3.1]

To test commitment, Mowday et al. (1979) developed and validated the Organisational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ). Three items from this questionn...

People who have been bitten by an animal may interpret this experience in different ways, and for some a phobia develops.

'Cognitive explanations of depression are too reductionist to be useful.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use examples of research...

'Situational factors affect behaviour in retail/leisure environments; individual factors do not.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? ...

'A clinical interview will always reveal more about pain than any psychometric measure.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use examp...

'Measuring sabotage using a questionnaire will never provide useful data.' To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use examples of researc...

'The biochemical explanation is the only scientific explanation for impulse control disorders.'

'The AIDA model, which identifies the stages of the advertising process, applies to all cultures.'