Unofficial exam paper for A Level Psychology Research Methods, 3rd set [48 marks]

This is the 3rd in a set of unofficial exam papers for the Research Methods Section of the Psychology A level exam.

The stimulus provides information about an experiment that tests the difference in accuracy of recall between anxious and non-anxious participants for neutral events.

• This paper tests:
• Hypothesis Direction
• Hypothesis Writing
• Identification of ethical issues
• Addressing ethical issues
• Demand Characteristics
• Assessing validity of a questionnaire
• Calculation of percentage decrease
• Significant figures
• Interpretation of a table of descriptive statistics
• Identification and justification of a suitable inferential stats test
• Testing for significance using a critical table
• Type 1 error
• Writing a debrief
• Design a study (12 marks) (An observation study to provide information and justification for the type of observation, operationalised behavioural categories, time/event sampling, assessment of reliability of data)

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