Formula sheets, the key method steps for every topic and 8 practice problems, with full solutions at the back.
Lists of similar-sounding letters (B, G, V, T) are harder to recall immediately than dissimilar letters (F, K, Y, W). This suggests short-term memory:
Glanzer and Cunitz had participants count for 30 seconds between hearing a list and recalling it. Which result did they find?
Scaffolding refers to:
Ainsworth's sensitivity hypothesis proposes that secure attachment results mainly from:
Deindividuation refers to:
Zanna and Cooper gave participants a placebo pill, telling some it would make them tense. After writing a counter-attitudinal essay, those told the pill causes tension showed little attitude change. This supports the idea that:
Which statement about the monoamine hypothesis of depression is most accurate?
A man says that a famous singer is secretly in love with him and sends him coded messages through her songs. Apart from this, his thinking and behaviour are normal, with no hallucinations. Which diagnosis fits best?
Answer: A · Mainly codes verbal information acoustically
The phonological similarity effect shows that verbal short-term memory relies on sound-based codes. Long-term memory relies more on meaning.
Answer: B · The recency effect disappeared, but the primacy effect remained
The delay displaced the last items from short-term memory, removing recency. Early items had already been rehearsed into long-term memory, so primacy was unaffected.
Answer: A · Support given to a learner that is reduced as competence grows
Wood, Bruner and Ross described scaffolding as adjustable support that helps a learner work within the zone of proximal development.
Answer: C · The caregiver responding promptly and appropriately to the infant's signals
Ainsworth argued that caregiver sensitivity and responsiveness predict secure attachment. Critics such as Kagan emphasised infant temperament.
Answer: D · Loss of self-awareness and personal responsibility in groups or anonymity
Anonymity and group immersion can reduce self-awareness, making behaviour that violates norms more likely.
Answer: C · Dissonance involves arousal that people try to explain
When participants could misattribute their discomfort to the pill, they had no need to change attitudes. This suggests dissonance is an unpleasant arousal state.
Answer: B · It links depression to low monoamine activity but struggles to explain the delayed drug response
The hypothesis grew from the effects of drugs on monoamines. The delay of several weeks before benefit suggests that downstream changes, such as receptor adaptation, matter too.
Answer: C · Delusional disorder, erotomanic type
Delusional disorder involves one or more delusions for at least a month without meeting criteria for schizophrenia, and functioning is not markedly impaired apart from the delusion. Erotomanic delusions concern another person being in love with the patient.
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