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Section B, Question 6(c)Question part (c)
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Report-based difficulty · MediumAverage marks: 45% of available · official reportFull marks: 31% of students · official report
c. Propose how one affective and one cognitive effect of poor sleep quality would impact the performance of long-distance runners. 2 marks Affective Cognitive
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d. Another aspect of food intake that impacts sleep quality is the timing of meals. With reference to zeitgebers, explain how the timing of meals could be used to improve the sleep
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e. The ASBQ includes the following question: ‘Over the recent past, how often did you use an electronic device within 1 hour of going to bed?’ Predict and describe the impact on th
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Question 7 (10 marks) For a Psychology practical investigation, Arlo decided to examine whether an awareness of Lazarus and Folkman’s Transactional Model of Stress and Coping had a
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a. Write a possible hypothesis for Arlo’s experiment. 3 marks
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b. One participant in Arlo’s investigation suggests that working on the school community project alone, while stressful, would be beneficial for their own development. State the pr
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c. The informed consent document did not share the true aim of the experiment with participants. Assess whether this breaches ethical guidelines. 2 marks
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d. This experiment used a between-subjects design. This page is blank. Examination continues on the next page.
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i. Outline one benefit of using a between-subjects design for this experiment. 1 mark
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ii. Summarise how a within-subjects design could be used in a new experiment with the same aim. 3 marks
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Question 8 (5 marks) Children learn how to hold a pencil at an early age. As they develop writing skills, this grip is improved to allow them to form letters. The images below show
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Question 9 (10 marks) The method of loci is a mnemonic commonly used to increase the encoding, storage and retrieval of information. The diagram below illustrates the steps involve
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