2025 AQA GCSE PSYCHOLOGY Paper 2 Social Context and
Behaviour Question Paper & Mark Scheme (Merged) June 2025
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GCSE
PSYCHOLOGY
Paper 2 Social Context and Behaviour
Thursday 15 May 2025 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
Materials For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you may use:
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Instructions
B
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. C
Answer all questions. D
You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside
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the box around each page or on blank pages.
If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of
this book. Write the question number against your answer(s).
Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to
be marked.
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The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 100.
Question 19 is a synoptic question in which you will be rewarded for your ability to draw together
different areas of knowledge and understanding from across the full course of study.
Questions should be answered in continuous prose. You will be assessed on
your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
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Social influence
Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
Only one answer per question is allowed, except where stated otherwise.
For each question completely fill in the circle alongside the appropriate answer.
CORRECT METHOD WRONG METHODS
If you want to change your answer you must cross out your original answer as shown.
If you wish to return to an answer previously crossed out, ring the answer you now wish to select
as shown.
0 1 Both dispositional and social factors affect conformity.
Which of the following is the best definition of ‘dispositional factors’?
Shade one box.
[1 mark]
A External events which may affect a person’s behaviour or choices
B Personal characteristics which may affect a person’s behaviour or choices
C The effect that being part of a large group has on a person’s choices or
behaviour
D The effects that other people can have on our choices or behaviour
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0 2 Read the following description of a study.
A psychologist conducted a study to see if the level of conformity is affected by how
many people are present.
The psychologist made groups of either 3 or 8 people. Only one person in each
group was a true participant. The same procedure was carried out in all of the
groups.
The psychologist asked each group to compare the length of 3 different lines to the
length of a single line. She asked each group member to say out loud which of the
3 lines was the same length as the single line. She asked the true participant in
each group to say their answers last. The true participants did not know that
everyone else in the group was an actor and was deliberately giving the wrong
answer.
0 2 . 1 Write a suitable null hypothesis for the described study of conformity.
[2 marks]
The psychologist’s results showed that when the group size was 8, the participants
gave the same wrong answer as the actors 83% of the time. This compared to only
34% of the time when the group size was 3.
0 2 . 2 Give one conclusion the psychologist could draw from the described study of
conformity.
Use the results to explain your answer.
[3 marks]
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Behaviour Question Paper & Mark Scheme (Merged) June 2025
[VERIFIED]
Please write clearly in block capitals.
Centre number Candidate number
Surname
Forename(s)
Candidate signature
I declare this is my own work.
GCSE
PSYCHOLOGY
Paper 2 Social Context and Behaviour
Thursday 15 May 2025 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
Materials For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you may use:
Section Mark
a calculator.
A
Instructions
B
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. C
Answer all questions. D
You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside
TOTAL
the box around each page or on blank pages.
If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of
this book. Write the question number against your answer(s).
Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to
be marked.
Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 100.
Question 19 is a synoptic question in which you will be rewarded for your ability to draw together
different areas of knowledge and understanding from across the full course of study.
Questions should be answered in continuous prose. You will be assessed on
your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
IB/G/Jun25/G4002/E6 8182/2
, 2
Do not write
outside the
There are no questions printed on this page box
DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PAGE
ANSWER IN THE SPACES PROVIDED
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, 3
Do not write
outside the
Section A box
Social influence
Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
Only one answer per question is allowed, except where stated otherwise.
For each question completely fill in the circle alongside the appropriate answer.
CORRECT METHOD WRONG METHODS
If you want to change your answer you must cross out your original answer as shown.
If you wish to return to an answer previously crossed out, ring the answer you now wish to select
as shown.
0 1 Both dispositional and social factors affect conformity.
Which of the following is the best definition of ‘dispositional factors’?
Shade one box.
[1 mark]
A External events which may affect a person’s behaviour or choices
B Personal characteristics which may affect a person’s behaviour or choices
C The effect that being part of a large group has on a person’s choices or
behaviour
D The effects that other people can have on our choices or behaviour
Turn over for the next question
Turn over ►
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outside the
box
0 2 Read the following description of a study.
A psychologist conducted a study to see if the level of conformity is affected by how
many people are present.
The psychologist made groups of either 3 or 8 people. Only one person in each
group was a true participant. The same procedure was carried out in all of the
groups.
The psychologist asked each group to compare the length of 3 different lines to the
length of a single line. She asked each group member to say out loud which of the
3 lines was the same length as the single line. She asked the true participant in
each group to say their answers last. The true participants did not know that
everyone else in the group was an actor and was deliberately giving the wrong
answer.
0 2 . 1 Write a suitable null hypothesis for the described study of conformity.
[2 marks]
The psychologist’s results showed that when the group size was 8, the participants
gave the same wrong answer as the actors 83% of the time. This compared to only
34% of the time when the group size was 3.
0 2 . 2 Give one conclusion the psychologist could draw from the described study of
conformity.
Use the results to explain your answer.
[3 marks]
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