Edexcel A-Level Psychology Foundations (social, cognitive and research methods) overview quiz quiz

35 per cent

65 per cent

50 per cent

100 per cent

They all share an authoritarian personality formed by a strict upbringing in childhood

They conform to the social norms of the group and copy what everyone around them is doing

They enter an agentic state and pass responsibility to the authority

They obey because they are offered a financial reward for completing the task

Attention, retention and reproduction of the observed behaviour

Encoding, storage and retrieval of the information in memory

Diathesis, stress and relapse in the development of disorders

Categorisation, identification and comparison

Realistic conflict theory

The authoritarian personality

Social identity theory

The dopamine hypothesis

Semantically

Acoustically

Visually

Procedurally

The phonological loop

The visuo-spatial sketchpad

The central executive

The episodic buffer

Memory works as a literal recording that plays events back exactly as they happened

Short-term memory has an unlimited capacity for storing information indefinitely

Forgetting is caused only by the gradual decay of the memory trace over time

Memory is reconstructive and shaped by schemas

New learning disrupting old learning

Old learning disrupting new learning

A memory fading over time

The absence of retrieval cues

Opportunity sampling

Stratified sampling

Volunteer sampling

Random sampling

Mann-Whitney U for an unrelated independent groups design

Chi-square for nominal data in an unrelated design

Wilcoxon signed-ranks

Spearman's rho for a test of correlation

Greater than 0.05, so a larger probability counts as a significant result

Exactly 0.5, meaning a fifty per cent chance the result is due to chance

Greater than 0.1, which is the conventional threshold used in psychology

Less than or equal to 0.05