Comparison of Approaches (AQA A Level Psychology): Exam Questions

40 mins8 questions
11 mark

Which approach would explain mental illness as the result of being conflicted due to childhood experience?

  • The behaviourist approach

  • The cognitive approach

  • The humanistic approach

  • The psychodynamic approach

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22 marks

Outline how the behaviourist approach would treat mental illness.

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31 mark

Which type of determinism is relevant to the cognitive approach?

  • Soft determinism

  • Hard determinism

  • Environmental determinsm

  • Psychic determinism

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14 marks

Explain how the biological approach would explain mental illness compared to the humanistic approach.

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24 marks

Identify one assumption of the psychodynamic approach. Explain one difference between the psychodynamic approach and social learning theory.

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34 marks

Compare research methods used in the behaviourist approach with research methods used in the humanistic approach.

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18 marks

Compare the humanistic approach with the psychodynamic approach.

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216 marks

Outline the cognitive approach. Compare the cognitive approach with the behaviourist approach.

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