Thursday 30 May 2013

Past paper questions (June 2012)

Happy Thursday guys! Hope your revision is going well; here's some past paper questions from last year's paper to keep you going. I'll be doing these over the next day and a half, so if you've got a query, leave a comment!

Forensic Psychology

1. TURNING TO CRIME       
(a) Describe how social cognition can explain criminal behaviour (10) (b) Evaluate the validity of research into cognitive explanations of criminal behaviour (15)

2. MAKING A CASE
(a) Describe how top-down typology is used to create a profile (10) (b) Assess the usefulness of qualitative and quantitative data when creating a profile (15)

4.  AFTER A GUILTY VERDICT      
(a) How can probation serve as an alternative to imprisonment? (10)(b) Evaluate limitations of research into alternatives to imprisonment (15)


Health and Clinical Psychology6.  STRESS 
(a) Describe self-report as a method of measuring stress (10) (b) Compare different measures of stress (15)

7.   DYSFUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOUR    
(a) How has dysfunctional behaviour been defined? (10) (b) To what extent may diagnoses of dysfunctional behaviour be considered ethnocentric? (15)

8.   DISORDERS    
(a) Outline a cognitive behavioural therapy as a treatment for one disorder (10) (b) Assess the effectiveness of treatments of one disorder (15)



3 comments:

  1. Hey :) This is really helpful, but I have a problem with evaluating in the 15 markers e.g. Reductionism or Holism? Individual or situational explanations of behaviour? I'm stuck on Frowd's study of facial recognition :/ Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks :)

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    1. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Frowd's study, but a good place to start might be looking for the paper's abstract online for a good summary of the key points. For evaluation, you need a few points for each, and to expand them to a reasonable degree given the time limit. Below I've posted some links for the help I have on this website, which should help to clarify my advice.
      http://ocra2psychologyg543.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/reductionism.html
      http://ocra2psychologyg543.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/tackling-part-b-questions.html
      http://ocra2psychologyg543.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/issues-and-debates-in-psychology-how-to.html

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