Free AQA GCSE Psychology (8182) Exam Questions and Answers

Which two of the following statements about the reconstructive theory of memory are correct? Shade two boxes.

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• AA. Cultural and social expectations will not affect recall.
• BB. Information flows through sensory, short-term and long-term memory.
• CC. Memory involves effort after meaning.
• DD. Memory is like a video recording.
• EE. The way we store and recall information is an active process.

Briefly evaluate the reconstructive theory of memory.

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Read the following article. TJ had a cycling accident which caused brain damage. He now suffers from some memory loss. He cannot recall what he ate or was wearing the day before. He remembers that London is the capital of England and that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris. TJ has also not forgotten how to play the piano and he can still ride his bike. Use the article to identify two examples of procedural memory, two examples of semantic memory and two examples of episodic memory. Write your answers in the correct boxes.

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Read the following article. TJ had a cycling accident which caused brain damage. He now suffers from some memory loss. He cannot recall what he ate or was wearing the day before. He remembers that London is the capital of England and that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris. TJ has also not forgotten how to play the piano and he can still ride his bike. Psychologists sometimes study unique individuals like TJ using a case study. Briefly evaluate the use of case studies in psychological research.

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You have been asked to investigate the effect of interference on the accuracy of memory. Describe how you would design an experiment to do this. You need to include: • what participants would be asked to do • a suitable hypothesis for your experiment • the results that you expect to find.

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Murdock investigated the effects of serial position on recall. Describe and evaluate this study.

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Gilchrist and Nesberg investigated the effect of motivation on perception. Which two of the following statements about their study are correct? Shade two boxes.

• AA. The control group perceived images of food to be brighter than the food-deprived group.
• BB. The independent variable was whether participants were deprived of food or not.
• CC. The participants were shown slides of four different meals.
• DD. The study used a repeated measures design.
• EE. The study was a field experiment.

Which one of the following is a description of occlusion? Shade one box.

• AA. Distant objects are seen or shown as being higher in the visual field compared to items that are nearer.
• BB. The larger objects in the visual field appear to be closer than the smaller objects.
• CC. Where an object covers part of another object in the visual field, it appears to be closer.
• DD. Where parallel lines appear to meet in the visual field, they are seen to be further away.

Read the following information. A researcher investigated the effect of emotion on perception. She used two groups of participants. Participants in Group A had been identified as having a mild fear of spiders. Participants in Group B did not have a fear of spiders. She showed each participant a photo of a spider. Then she asked them to estimate the length of the spider. She recorded the estimated length of the spider for each participant. The estimated length of the spider, in millimetres, for each participant in Group A and Group B is shown in Table 1. The range of estimated lengths for the spider for participants in Group B was 43 mm. Use the information in Table 1 to calculate the range of estimates for participants in Group A. Show your workings.

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Read the following information. A researcher investigated the effect of emotion on perception. She used two groups of participants. Participants in Group A had been identified as having a mild fear of spiders. Participants in Group B did not have a fear of spiders. She showed each participant a photo of a spider. Then she asked them to estimate the length of the spider. She recorded the estimated length of the spider for each participant. The estimated length of the spider, in millimetres, for each participant in Group A and Group B is shown in Table 1. The mean estimated length of the spider in Group A was 93 mm. Use the information in Table 1 to calculate the mean estimated length of the spider in Group B. State your answer using two significant figures and show your workings.

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