CAIE A-Level Psychology AS 3.1 As Level Content Core Studies Questions

Outline one assumption of the cognitive approach in psychology.

2 marks for full assumption.

1 mark for partial/brief assumption.

e.g., 2 marks

Information is processed through the same route in all humans: input - process - output, in a similar way to how information is processed by a computer.

People have individual differences in their cognitive processing such as with attention, language, thinking and memory (1 named).

e.g., 1 mark

Information is processed through the same route in all humans: input - process - output. People have individual differences in their cognitive processing.

There are other creditworthy responses.

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1 mark for result/conclusion.

1 mark for linking it to an assumption explicitly (not by name only: a relevant concept needs to be mentioned).

e.g.

Children correctly identified 99\% of the cartoon faces (1 mark result). This could follow the principles of input (see cartoon), process (memory of cartoon) and output (recall cartoon) (1 mark supported link).

Adults correctly identified 66\% of human faces (1 mark result). This shows that people do have individual differences in memory recall (1 mark supported link).

There are other creditworthy responses.

2

If the link is not with an assumption from 5a, can only be awarded the result/conclusion mark.

Cannot simply re-state the assumption for the $2^{\text {nd }}$ mark.

1 mark for definition

1 mark for example

e.g.,

This is when a person believes they are making an accurate choice, but it is not (1 mark: definition).

In the Pozzulo study this would be the children choosing a person in a line-up even though the culprit is not in the line-up (1 mark: example).

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