AQA GCSE Psychology Paper 2

The following definition of 'deindividuation' is not complete.

Deindividuation happens when someone loses their _______________ .
This causes them to feel less responsibility for their actions.

You have been given four suggestions of what the missing words are.
Complete the definition by identifying the correct missing words.

The 'cost of helping' affects bystander intervention.

Use an example to describe how the 'cost of helping' could affect bystander intervention.

Outline one factor that affects obedience.

Read the following conversation between two psychology teachers.

Mrs Kaur: I have been thinking about giving my Year 11 students a group project.
Mr Clarke: I won't be doing that with my students because I want to make sure they all take part.
Mrs Kaur: That's why I am going to set the project up so that I can easily identify what each student has done.

What is meant by the term 'social loafing'?
Refer to the conversation to support your answer.

Read the following information.

Researchers wanted to find out how personality traits affect whether or not people will say something when they witness anti-social behaviour (eg littering or vandalism).

Participants were given a questionnaire to rate themselves on a number of different personality traits. The personality traits included confidence, extraversion, respect and self-control.

Participants were also asked how likely it is that they would say something if they saw someone doing something anti-social.

The researchers' results showed a number of correlations between the likelihood of saying something and the bystander's dispositional factors.

Outline one strength and one weakness of using correlations in psychological research.