2024 Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE 9PS0/03 Psychology Advanced PAPER 3: Psychological Skills Mark Scheme Plus Question Paper Merged

2024 Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE 9PS0/03 Psychology Advanced PAPER 3: Psychological Skills Mark Scheme Plus Question Paper Merged Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided. SECTION A Research Methods 1 Pets and social media study Researchers wanted to investigate the perceptions of people with pets on social media websites. Some people use social media websites/apps to look for new friends and others to connect with existing friends. Researchers wanted to investigate how women perceive men on social media websites in relation to a pet being in the profile picture. The researchers devised a questionnaire to assess how men were perceived in two pictures by women. One picture was a man alone and the other was the same man holding a cat. Women aged 18–24 were asked a number of questions regarding personality characteristics of the man in the two pictures. The women rated the man in the two different pictures for extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness. • Extraversion (categorised by active, sociable, talkative behaviour) included statements such as ‘the man would be outgoing’. • Agreeableness (categorised by cooperative, compliant, good-natured behaviour) included statements such as ‘the man would sympathise with others’ feelings’. • Conscientiousness (categorised by careful, thorough, organised behaviour) included statements such as ‘the man would pay attention to details’. Each participant rated the man on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree), as shown in Figure 1.