Grade - AS Subject : Psychology Worksheet No: 1
1. Arthur is conducting an experiment into memory for instructions with a group of children
with autism spectrum disorder. He thinks the children will remember the intructions better if
they are presented as a written story with pictures compared with reading the intructions
aloud.
a. Identify one variable that Arthur should control in his experiment.
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b. Outline why Arthur should use a sandardized procedure in his experiment.
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2. Tilly is planning to interview a group of parents about their attitudes towards aggression in
children.
a. Suggest one open question that tilly could use to collect data about people’s attitude
towards aggressive behviour in children.
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b. Suugest one strength of using open questions to collect data in Tilly’s study.
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Candidate Name : ___________________________
Candidate No. : ___________________________
3. Explain what is meant by the ethical guideline of ‘species’ in relation to animals in psychological research.
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4. Dement and Kleitman (sleep and dreams) asked participants to record their dream narratives. The words in
each narrative were counted.
a. Identify the type of data provided by counting the words in the narratives. Justify your answer.
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b. Explain one strength of collecting this type of data in this study.
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5. Glyn is conducting an experiment with an independent measures design. He is testing the effect of
background noise on social learning (learning by imitation). Glyn shows each participant how to build a
tower from blocks. Each participant then builds this tower, with either singing or silence in the background.
a. Explain what is meant by an ‘independent measures design’, including an example from Glyn’s study.
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b. Explain what is meant by a ‘control condition’, including an example from Glyn’s study.
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Candidate No. : ___________________________
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6. Ranya is collecting data about study habits after school. She is asking students in her school two questions: 1
How long do you spend studying per week after school? 2 Which subject do you prefer to study after school:
arts, languages, maths, or science?
a. Ranya will use two different measures of central tendency on her data, the mode and the mean. Explain
which measure of central tendency would be most appropriate for each of Ranya’s questions
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b. Explain how Ranya would calculate the range of hours spent studying per week after school.
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