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Section A – answer all Research methods – How do you carry out psychological
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questions in this section research?
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Sections B to F – select Section B: Criminal psychology – Why do people
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two sections from B to F. become criminals?
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Section C: The self – What makes you who you are? 23
these sections.
Section D: Perception – How do you interpret the world
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around you?
Section E: Sleep and dreaming – Why do you need to sleep
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and dream?
Section F: Language, thought and communication – How do
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Research methods – How do you carry out psychological research?
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Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you change your mind about an
answer, put a line through the box and then mark your new answer with a cross .
1 Gary conducted an experiment to test whether there was a difference in the ability
of boys and girls to conserve number. He sampled 50 boys and 50 girls aged
six years old.
Gary showed them the image in Figure 1.
Figure 1
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Gary asked each child to say whether the top row of buttons contained more, less, or
the same number of buttons as the bottom row.
(a) Identify the independent variable in Gary’s experiment.
(1)
A age
B gender
C ability
D conservation
(b) Give two ways that Gary could ensure his experiment is ethical.
(2)
, The results of Gary’s experiment are shown in Table 1.
Number of children Number of children Number of children
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who said the top who said the top row who said the top
row contained less contained the same row contained more
buttons than the number of buttons as buttons than the
bottom row the bottom row bottom row
Boys 5 13 32
Girls 1 25 24
Table 1
(c) Calculate the percentage of girls who said that the top row contained the same
number of buttons as the bottom row, out of all the children in the experiment.
(2)
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Percentage ..............................................................
(d) Calculate the range for the number of children who said the top row contained
more buttons than the bottom row.
(1)
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