Practise Edexcel Psychology questions distinguishing primary and secondary data, then evaluating cost, reliability and usefulness in psychological research.
Rendi wanted to test how obedient the other students in her psychology class were to authority figures. She designed a questionnaire to gather quantitative data.
Explain how Rendi could use secondary data to improve the reliability of her research into obedience.
AO2 (1 mark), AO3 (1 mark)
Credit one mark for accurate identification of improvement in
relation to scenario (AO2)
Credit one mark for justification of improvement (AO3)
For example:
- Reliability can be improved by comparing secondary data
from previous studies on obedience to her own data (1)
this helps confirm that her results are similar to previous
findings showing consistency across studies into
obedience (1).
Look for other reasonable marking points.
Generic answers score 0 marks.
(2)