AQA PSYCHOLOGY

AQA PSYCHOLOGY: OCD EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE GRADED A++ What does OCD stand for? Obsessive compulsive disorder Name two behavioural characteristics of OCD Compulsions Avoidance Describe compulsions Repetitive behaviours which temporarily relieve anxiety Name the emotional characteristics of OCD Anxiety and distress Depression Guilt and disgust Describe anxiety A feeling which implies the urge to repeat behaviour What are the cognitive charact...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY - FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++ Offender profiling Turco: Biographical sketch gathered from information taken at a crime scene A behavioural and analytical tool used to help investigators accurately predict and profile the characteristics of unknown criminals Top-Down approach - from the work of the USA FBI in the 1970s - FBI gathered data from in depth interviews with 36 sexually motivated killers eg Ted Bundy - Murdere...

AGRESSION (AQA PSYCHOLOGY) EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% GUARANTEED PASS (Neuronal and hormonal explanations) What did Papez (1937) and Maclean (1952) identify in the limbic system? Cingulate gyrus, hypothalumus, fornum and amygdala How is the amygdala an important prediction of aggression? Its speed and sensitivity of responses to stimuli can be used as a predictor What did Gospic et al (2011) do and what did they find? They carried out fMRI scans on pp...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY- AGGRESSION EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE Limbic System The central area of the brain that regulates motivational and emotional urges. Amydala Main role is to process emotion. Serotonin Exerts a calming inhibitory effect on neuronal firing in the brain, and the amygdala. Hippocampus Involved in the formation of long term memories which allows us/animals to compare a current threat with similar past experiences . What do animal stu...

ADDICTION AQA PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% GUARANTEED PASS Define physical dependance - a state of the body due to habitual drug use -which results in withdrawal syndrome when drug is reduced or stopped -occurs when a withdrawal syndrome is produced Define psychological dependance -compulsion to taking drug and compulsion to experience the effects -Increase in pleasure when doing the specific thing E.G smoking Define Tolerance -Individuals respon...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 2 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE Who was Wundt? The 'father of psychology' What did Wundt do? Opened first lab in Leipzig, used introspection to study consciousness What is introspection? A method where subjects analyse their own thoughts and feelings in relation to a stimulus (studies sensation and perception) using a standardised procedure What are the limitations of introspection? Subjective, unfalsifiable How did Wu...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY: RESEARCH METHODS EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% VERIFIED GUARANTEED PASS What is an independant variable? Variable manipulated by experimenter What is a dependant variable? Variable measured by experimenter What is an extraneous variable? Variables that effect the DV other than the IV What are 2 ways of minimising extraneous variables? Standardised procedures, randomly assigning participants What is a standardised procedure? Ensure conditions se...

RESEARCH METHODS AQA PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED 100% GUARANTEED PASS Aims Developed from a theory and is a general statement that describes the purpose of the investigation Hypothesis Statement made at the start of a study and clearly states the relationship between variables Can be directional (one-tailed) or non-directional (two-tailed) Directional anticipates what sort of difference Non-directional just states there is a difference (natur...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY RELATIONSHIPS EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE Trivers (1972) Emphasised that the female makes a greater investment of time, commitment and resources before, during and after the birth of her offspring. Fisher (1930) The sexy hypothesis states that a female mates with a male who has a desirable characteristics and this sexy trait is inherited by her son. This increases the likelihood that successive generations of females will mate wi...

GCSE AQA PSYCHOLOGY - MEMORY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED GRADED A++ the flow of information through memory sensory memory -> short term memory->long term memory the flow of information in memory encoding-> storage->retrieval encoding when you change information so that it can be stored storage holding information in the memory system retrieval recovering information from storage what is meant by the mulitstore the idea that information pass...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY ALEVEL (APPROACHES) EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% VERIFIED GRADED A++ Introspection The examination of ones own thoughts and feelings Behaviourist approach Focuses on behaviours that can be observed and measured Classical conditioning Learning through association Operant conditioning Learning through reinforcement and punishment Positive reinforcement Receiving a rewards when a behaviour is performed Negative reinforcement When a behaviour i...

SCHIZOPHRENIA PSYCHOLOGY AQA EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED RATED A++ Inter-rater reliability Two or more health professionals come to the same diagnosis Criterion Validity Different methods of assessment come to the same diagnosis Co-morbidity Two or more conditions occur simultaneously Symptom overlap The same symptoms occur within different conditions Cheniaux et al (2009) Two psychiatrists independently diagnosed 100 patients using two different asses...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY, APPROACHES IN PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE When did the emergence of psychology as a science occur? When Wilhelm Wundt set up the first psychology department at the University of Leipzig in 1879. Who was Wilhelm Wundt? A German professor who taught biology and philosophy. What is Wilhelm Wundt commonly referred to as? Father of psychology Why is Wilhelm Wundt the 'father of psychology'? He set up the first psycholo...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY GENDER EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025 Sex The biological differences between males and females Gender The psychological and cultural differences between males and females Sex-role stereotype A set of beliefs and preconceived ideas about what is expected or appropriate for males and females Gender identity disorder (GID) Sex and gender don't correspond Androgyny Displaying a balance of masculine and feminine characte...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY STRESS EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++ Sympathomedullary Pathway Sympathetic Nervous System Alerted as soon as a stressor is perceived Adrenal Medulla Signal is sent via central nervous system to the Adrenal Medulla which releases adrenaline and noradrenaline into the blood stream Adrenaline and Noradrenaline affects target organs e.g. heart, muscles, heart rate ↑, blood pressure ↑, pupils dilate When the threat has passed, the paras...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED GRADED A++ LATEST UPDATE What was Asch looking into? If participants would conform to the majority. What did people measure? - A Lines How many trials were there (asch) 18 How many participants were there (asch) 123 Who were the participants (asch) USA male undergraduates How many confederates in one group (asch) 6-8 How many out of the 18 trials did the confederates have to give the wrong answer? (...

ATTACHMENT - AQA PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED RATED A++ Briefly evaluate research into caregiver-infant interaction (4 marks) - Babies cannot communicate, so only inferences have been drawn - The studies are well-controlled - Practical issues such as babies are often asleep or being fed, it may be hard to get hold of a large sample - Research may be socially sensitive What is Reciprocity? (1 mark) It's a two-way process that involves turn-takin...

AQA PSYCHOLOGY - APPROACHES IN PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED 2024/2025 The Learning Approach Behaviourism and Social Learning Theory Behaviourism A way of explaining behaviour in terms of what's observable and in terms of learning. Classical Conditioning Learning by association. Occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired together - an unconditioned stimulus and a new 'neutral' stimulus. The neutral stimulus eventually produces the same respo...

APPROACHES (AQA PSYCHOLOGY) EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED 2024/2025 Bandura Researcher who developed social learning theory Biological Approach An approach to psychology focusing on the body, especially the brain and nervous system Biological Structures Are organs (such as the brain) and systems (such as the nervous system) that influence human behaviour. Classical Conditioning A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate...

Self-report A self-report is any method that involves asking a P about their feelings, attitudes, beliefs and so on. Examples of self-reports are questionnaires and interviews. Self-reports are often used as a way of gaining Ps' responses in observational studies and experiments. Questionnaire Questionnaires are a type of self-report method that consist of a set of questions usually in a highly structured written form. Questionnaires can contain both open questions and closed questions and P...