Psych Mock

Question 1

Findings from lees study

Answer 1

- PRO-SOCIAL/TRUTH TELLING
No significant cultural difference 
Canadian age made no difference 
China rating decreased with age 
-PRO-SOCIAL/LIE TELLING 
No significant cultural difference 
Canadian negative but score increase with age 
Chinese start negative turn positive with age

Question 2

3 independent variables from simons and Chabris

Answer 2

• whether the gorilla was the unexpected event or the umbrella lady was
• whether they were given the easy or hard task (number passes or passes Ariel and bounce)
• wether they were counting the white team passes or the black team could passes

Question 3

Nature/Nurture Debate

+core studies

Answer 3

Nature

• people’s behaviour is a result of their genetics
• baron-Cohen = autism from young age
• Casey = low/high delayers for whole life
• kohlberg = moral development stage happen in same order to everyone

Nurture

• people behaviour is a result of how they have been brought up
• Levine = simpatia culture
• Bandura = social learning
• Grant = context-dependent memory

Question 4

Why lees study is snapshot

Answer 4

• as he asked three separate aged group of children at 7,9,11 he didn’t follow one group around and sped up the study
• this also minimised the drop out rate as the longer the study goes on the higher the drop out rate will become

Question 5

What materials did kohlberg use in his study?

Answer 5

• the moral dilemmas e.g the heinz dilemma

- the sample (75 boys)

Question 6

Weaknesses of the behaviourist perspective

Answer 6

The behaviourist perspective believes that people are born tabula rasa and learn everything after birth

• ignores then influence of nature on behaviour not taking account of the role of genetics
• the lessons behaviourism teaches us can be difficult to apply, and can be used inappropriately
• because of the abundance of lab experiments the perspective lacks ecological validity and fails to resemble real life behaviours

Question 7

Compare biological and developmental areas in relation to the free will/ determinism debate

BIOLOGICAL

Answer 7

Biological

• how biology, especially neurobiology, affects behaviour and vice versa
• Deterministic = biology is determined from birth can’t be easily changed
• free will = as you can adapt the structure of your brain through activities

Question 8

Compare biological and developmental areas in relation to the free will/ determinism debate

DEVELOPMENTAL

Answer 8

Developmental

• how our thinking changes and develops as we get older and how we learn and form personalities
• Deterministic = everyone goes through the same stages of moral development in the same order
• free will = different cultures have different ways of thinking and behaving

Question 9

Why is Casey’s experiment quasi

Answer 9

• as the independent variable, if the participants are high/low delayers, is naturally occurring

Question 10

A strength of Casey’s study being quasi

Answer 10

• is that it allows the researcher to measure naturally occurring variables
• also as the IV is naturally occurring this increases the ecological validity