Aqa Psychology Paper 1 2024 With Complete Solutions Graded+ A

AQA PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 1 2024 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED+ A 1. What is obedience? - answer-A form of social influence in which an individual follows a direct order from a figure of authority. 2. What was Milgram's (1964) study? - answer-Milgram (1964) sought an answer to why such a high proportion of the German population obeyed Hitler's commands to murder over 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and other social groups during WW2. 3. Procedure: 40 US men were given the role of TEACHER through a fixed draw - ordered to administer (fake) electric shocks to LEARNER (confederate) by an EXPERIMENTER, increased by 15 volts with each mistake made on memory task - reaching 450 volts. 4. Findings: no ppts stopped before 300 volts and 65% went all the way to 450 volts. Many showed signs of stress, most objected by continued anyways (qualitative observations). Findings were unexpected - 14 students introspectively predicted that no more than 3% of the participants would continue to 450 volts. 5. Conclusion: 'German people are NOT different' - US ppts obeyed even when they knew they might harm another person. 6. Evaluate Milgram's (1964) study: - answer-Ethical issues - ppts were deceived. They thought that the allocation of roes was random, but it was predetermined. They also thought the shocks were real. Milgram dealt with this by debriefing participants. However, Baumrind (1964) criticised Milgram for deceiving his participants - lasting psychological consequences for ppts and researchers. 7. Research support - findings were replicated in a French documentary (Le Jeu de la Mort) - their behaviour was almost identical to that of Milgram's ppts - nervous laughter, nail-biting and other signs of anxiety. Supports Milgram's findings about obedience to authority, and demonstrated that the findings were NOT just due to special circumstances...