WJEC A-Level Psychology Unit 2 Psychology: Using Psychological Concepts overview quiz quiz

Approaches and therapies

Contemporary debates and research methods

Behaviours and controversies

Personal investigations and applied methods

There will be no difference in recall between the two groups

There will be a difference in recall between the two groups

Participants in the quiet room will recall more words than those in the noisy room

Recall will be measured as words correct out of 20

The dependent variable

The confounding variable

The extraneous variable

The independent variable

Repeated measures

Independent groups

Matched pairs

Stratified design

Consistency of a measure over time

Whether findings generalise to real-life settings

Whether every member of a population has an equal chance of selection

Agreement between two observers

Opportunity sampling

Volunteer sampling

Random sampling

Systematic sampling

All 40

26 (65 percent)

14 (35 percent)

None

People only obey when they are naturally aggressive

Ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority even when ordered to harm another

Obedience is entirely determined by genetics

Moral reasoning develops in fixed stages

The trolley problem

The Heinz dilemma

The marshmallow test

The Stroop task

Conventional, pre-conventional, post-conventional

Oral, anal, phallic

Pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional

Id, ego, superego

It used an all-male sample, so it may be gender-biased

It used electric shocks on participants

It studied only animals

It had no theoretical basis

The ethics of neuroscience

Conditioning children

The reliability of eyewitness testimony

The importance of mothering

They are identical

An extraneous variable could affect the DV; a confounding variable varies systematically with the IV and spoils the conclusion

An extraneous variable is always controlled; a confounding variable never is

A confounding variable is the variable being manipulated

Vague and general

Operationalised, with variables defined in measurable terms

Always directional

About animals only