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AQA Psychology Paper 1 Evaluation
Points WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Evaluate Asch's study - ✔✔+ High internal validity
+ Research support (Lucas et al 2006)
- Low external validity
- Ungeneralisable
Evaluate Types and Explanations of Conformity - ✔✔+ Research support for NSI (Asch)
+ Research support for ISI (Lucas et al)
- Lack of clarity (dissenters)
Evaluate Conformity to Social Roles (Stanford Prison Study) - ✔✔+ Real world
applications (Abu Ghraib)
+ Control of variables
- Individual differences
- Ethical issues
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Evaluate Milgram's Research - ✔✔- Ethical issues
- Lack of internal validity
+ Good external validity
Evaluate Situational Variables Affecting Obedience - ✔✔+ Unifrom research support
(Bickman)
+ Cross cultural replications
- Not that cross cultural
- Low internal validity
Evaluate Social-Psychological Factors in Obedience - ✔✔+ Research support
- Agentic state vs cruelty
+ Real world application (Tarnow)
Evaluate Dispositional Factors in Obedience - ✔✔+ Research support (Milgram and
Elms)
- Political bias (Christie and Jahonda)
- Limited explanation (ww2 germany)
- Methodological issues
Evaluate Resisting Social Influence - ✔✔+ Real world applications (Albrecht et all
smoking teens)
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+ Research support (smear campaign)
+ Research support (Holland)
- Limitation of LoC (novel situations)
Evaluate Minority Influence - ✔✔+ Research support for consistency(wood et al
metaanalysis)
+ Research support for deeper processing (martin et al)
- No real world dynamics
- Low external validity
Evaluate Social Change - ✔✔+ Research support (nolan et al)
+ Real world application (process research)
- No long term social change with NSI
- Limited role of deeper processing
Evaluate Coding of Memory - ✔✔+ Shows difference between stores
- Artificial stimuli
Evaluate Capacity of Memory - ✔✔+ Replication in future studies
-Overestimated stm
Evaluate Duration of Memory - ✔✔+ High external validity (bahrick)
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- Artificial stimuli (peterson)
Evaluate Multistore Model of Memory - ✔✔+ Research support (baddeley)
- Artificial stimuli
- Different types of stm (shallice and warrington)
- Outdated
Evaluate types of LTM - ✔✔+ Clinical evidence (Clive and KM)
- Clinical evidence
+ Neuroimaging (episodic rpfc, semantic lpfc)
+ Real world applications (Belleville)
Evaluate the Working Memory Model - ✔✔+ Research support (baddeley 1975)
+ Clinical evidence (shallice and warrington)
- Clinical evidence
- Lack of evidence from central executive
Evaluate Interference Theory - ✔✔+ Real world interference (baddeley and hitch rugby)
- Lab study
+ Interference and cues
Evaluate Retrieval Failure - ✔✔+ Research support
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AQA Psychology Paper 1 Evaluation
Points WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Evaluate Asch's study - ✔✔+ High internal validity
+ Research support (Lucas et al 2006)
- Low external validity
- Ungeneralisable
Evaluate Types and Explanations of Conformity - ✔✔+ Research support for NSI (Asch)
+ Research support for ISI (Lucas et al)
- Lack of clarity (dissenters)
Evaluate Conformity to Social Roles (Stanford Prison Study) - ✔✔+ Real world
applications (Abu Ghraib)
+ Control of variables
- Individual differences
- Ethical issues
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Evaluate Milgram's Research - ✔✔- Ethical issues
- Lack of internal validity
+ Good external validity
Evaluate Situational Variables Affecting Obedience - ✔✔+ Unifrom research support
(Bickman)
+ Cross cultural replications
- Not that cross cultural
- Low internal validity
Evaluate Social-Psychological Factors in Obedience - ✔✔+ Research support
- Agentic state vs cruelty
+ Real world application (Tarnow)
Evaluate Dispositional Factors in Obedience - ✔✔+ Research support (Milgram and
Elms)
- Political bias (Christie and Jahonda)
- Limited explanation (ww2 germany)
- Methodological issues
Evaluate Resisting Social Influence - ✔✔+ Real world applications (Albrecht et all
smoking teens)
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+ Research support (smear campaign)
+ Research support (Holland)
- Limitation of LoC (novel situations)
Evaluate Minority Influence - ✔✔+ Research support for consistency(wood et al
metaanalysis)
+ Research support for deeper processing (martin et al)
- No real world dynamics
- Low external validity
Evaluate Social Change - ✔✔+ Research support (nolan et al)
+ Real world application (process research)
- No long term social change with NSI
- Limited role of deeper processing
Evaluate Coding of Memory - ✔✔+ Shows difference between stores
- Artificial stimuli
Evaluate Capacity of Memory - ✔✔+ Replication in future studies
-Overestimated stm
Evaluate Duration of Memory - ✔✔+ High external validity (bahrick)
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- Artificial stimuli (peterson)
Evaluate Multistore Model of Memory - ✔✔+ Research support (baddeley)
- Artificial stimuli
- Different types of stm (shallice and warrington)
- Outdated
Evaluate types of LTM - ✔✔+ Clinical evidence (Clive and KM)
- Clinical evidence
+ Neuroimaging (episodic rpfc, semantic lpfc)
+ Real world applications (Belleville)
Evaluate the Working Memory Model - ✔✔+ Research support (baddeley 1975)
+ Clinical evidence (shallice and warrington)
- Clinical evidence
- Lack of evidence from central executive
Evaluate Interference Theory - ✔✔+ Real world interference (baddeley and hitch rugby)
- Lab study
+ Interference and cues
Evaluate Retrieval Failure - ✔✔+ Research support
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