AQA Psychology - End of course Quiz

Question 1

A 5% chance of a fluke is often expressed as...

Accepted Answer

p=0.05

Question 2

Harlow's study supports Bowlby's monotropic theory

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True

Question 3

Are you going to smash your exams?

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Yes, Indubitably, Absolutely

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a result of maternal deprivation, according to Bowlby?

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Being a bad dancer

Question 5

Women look for...

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Resources

Question 6

Which debate centres on whether general laws should be formed?

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Idiographic nomothetic

Question 7

Which approach is the most deterministic?

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Behaviourist, Biological

Question 8

Which word is the term for the different reproductive pressures on each gender?

Accepted Answer

Anisogamy

Question 9

Rejecting the experimental hypothesis when they should accept it.

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Type 2 error

Question 10

Which term describes understanding a culture's norms and values before a study?

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Cultural relativism

Question 11

Irregular serotonin levels have been linked to OCD. But are levels too high or too low?

Accepted Answer

Too low

Question 12

Which of the economic theories of relationships is the most holistic?

Accepted Answer

Rusbult's investment model

Question 13

Which approach is the least scientific?

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Humanistic

Question 14

Which of the following studies looked at interactional synchrony?

Accepted Answer

Meltzoff and Moore

Question 15

Which of the following is a short summary of a study, at the beginning of the journal?

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Abstract

Question 16

Which approach believes that we are born as a "blank slate"?

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Behaviourist

Question 17

How can the two-process model explain phobias?

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Classical then operant conditioning

Question 18

Concurrent validity is the extent to which a new measure...

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... agrees with a pre-existing measure

Question 19

Which of the following is not a valid level of parasocial relationships?

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Creepy-sleazy

Question 20

Which type of LTM could HM still form?

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Procedural

Question 21

Which test would be used for a study with nominal data, testing difference + repeated measures?

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Sign test

Question 22

Which debate would you see the word 'heredity' in?

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Nature nurture

Question 23

What was different in the brains of London taxi drivers?

Accepted Answer

Larger hippocampi

Question 24

Where insecure-avoidant attachment highest, in the Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg study?

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West Germany

Question 25

Spot the positive symptom

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Hallucinations

Question 26

Which area of the brain is in charge of speech production?

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Broca's area

Question 27

Which study supports the diathesis-stress model?

Accepted Answer

Tienari et al

Question 28

Which of the following shows the average spread of scores from the mean?

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Standard deviation

Question 29

How is STM encoded?

Accepted Answer

Acoustically

Question 30

Which of the following is at the peak of a distribution curve?

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Mode

Question 31

Which definition of abnormality cannot account for eccentric people?

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Deviation from social norms

Question 32

Which side of the brain would you find our language centres in?

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Left

Question 33

Which approach led to the development of CBT?

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Cognitive

Question 34

Which of the following is NOT an explanation of obedience?

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Normative social influence

Question 35

Typical and atypical antipsychotics are dopamine ....

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antagonists

Question 36

How could you make a negatively skewed distribution more normal?

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Make the test harder

Question 37

Cheniaux et al found low inter-rater reliability in diagnosis of schizophrenia

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Hazan and Shaver's study best supports which element of Bowlby's monotropic theory?

Accepted Answer

Internal working model

Question 39

Which of the following are family explanations for SZ?

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Double bind, High expressed emotion

Question 40

Which of the following would lead to an increase in resisting conformity and/or obedience?

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An internal locus of control

Question 41

Which would be a good example of a gate to use in an 'absence of gating' explanation?

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Having a stutter

Question 42

What are the three factors that affect a minority influence?

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Consistency, flexibility, commitment

Question 43

Which of the following is an endogenous pacemaker?

Accepted Answer

The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)

Question 44

Little Albert supports which explanation of phobias?

Accepted Answer

Behaviourist

Question 45

Which approach involves psychic determinism?

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Psychodynamic

Question 46

What percentage of participants conformed at least once in Asch's line study?

Accepted Answer

75%

Question 47

Which of the following is NOT feature of mediational process in social learning theory?

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Reinforcement

Question 48

Which of the following is not an element of the cognitive triad? Negative views about...

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Puppies

Question 49

Which of the following is a method used to analyse qualitative data?

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Thematic analysis

Question 50

What would you NOT be asked to do in the cognitive interview?

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Report only the important details

Question 51

Which gland is often known as the 'master gland'?

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Pituitary

Question 52

What type of test would be used for a correlation of stress scores and salary?

Accepted Answer

Spearman's Rho

Question 53

Which type of gender bias is when genuine gender differences are exaggerated?

Accepted Answer

Alpha

Question 54

Which of the following is a socially sensitive conclusion?

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Aggression is determined by genes

Question 55

Which study supports the retrieval cue failure theory of forgetting?

Accepted Answer

Godden and Baddeley

Question 56

Which of the following factors is known to affect frustration levels?

Accepted Answer

The justification for the frustration, Proximity to the goal

Question 57

Which of the following is not a valid explanation of institutional aggression?

Accepted Answer

Nachos model

Question 58

Which of the following is NOT a problem with ethological explanations of aggression?

Accepted Answer

It is too holistic

Question 59

Where did Milgram's location variation take place?

Accepted Answer

Bridgeport

Question 60

Which verb produced the slowest estimated speed?

Accepted Answer

Contacted

AQA Psychology - End of course Quiz

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AQA Psychology - End of course Quiz

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