Free Pearson Edexcel GCSE Psychology (1PS0) Exam Questions and Answers

Identify the number of 20 x 28cm pictures the participants were shown in Piaget and Inhelder’s (1956) Three mountains task.

• AA. 8
• BB. 9
• CC. 10
• DD. 11

Identify the overall sample size in Piaget and Inhelder’s (1956) Three mountains task.

• AA. 90
• BB. 100
• CC. 110
• DD. 120

Malik and Ruhi are trying to solve a puzzle. After every attempt, Malik is told that he has high intelligence. After every attempt, Ruhi is told that she must try harder and not give up. State, according to Carol Dweck’s mindset theory, which type of mindset Malik is most likely to develop.

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Malik and Ruhi are trying to solve a puzzle. After every attempt, Malik is told that he has high intelligence. After every attempt, Ruhi is told that she must try harder and not give up. State, according to Carol Dweck’s mindset theory, which type of mindset Ruhi is most likely to develop.

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Mario is a teacher who works at a primary school. His new class of pupils are struggling with their physical development. Explain, using Daniel Willingham’s learning theory, one way Mario could support his pupils’ physical development.

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Mario is a teacher who works at a primary school. His new class of pupils are struggling with their physical development. Explain one strength and one weakness of using Daniel Willingham’s learning theory with Mario’s pupils. Strength: Weakness:

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Janet is a psychologist investigating cognitive development. She visits a local primary school and uses a task to assess the stages of cognitive development of the pupils at the school. Firstly, sweets were arranged in Line A. • Line A: Ten sweets in a row with 1cm between each of them. Then, later the sweets were arranged in Line B. • Line B: The same 10 sweets in a row but with 2cm between each of them. Danielle says there are 10 sweets in line A, but she says there are 20 sweets in line B. Explain what stage of cognitive development Danielle is in according to her response. You should refer to a theory in your answer.

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Janet is a psychologist investigating cognitive development. She visits a local primary school and uses a task to assess the stages of cognitive development of the pupils at the school. Firstly, sweets were arranged in Line A. • Line A: Ten sweets in a row with 1cm between each of them. Then, later the sweets were arranged in Line B. • Line B: The same 10 sweets in a row but with 2cm between each of them. Danielle says there are 10 sweets in line A, but she says there are 20 sweets in line B. Janet collects data on how children at Danielle’s school perform in the task. She splits the children by age (in years), from 5 to 11 years old, with 50 children in each age group. Their performance is shown in Figure 1. Bar chart to show the number of children aged 5–11 years who gave the correct answer to the cognitive tasks Explain two conclusions you could make from Figure 1 about the cognitive development of the children at Danielle’s school. Conclusion one: Conclusion two:

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State one finding of Peterson and Peterson (1959).

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Identify the stimulus that participants had to learn in Peterson and Peterson (1959).

• AA. Word lists
• BB. Trigrams
• CC. Numbers
• DD. Lights