Psychology J203,01 November 2021 , OCR GCSE Past Papers with Mark Schemes

1. Criminal Psychology and Behavior Analysis | Identifying types of crimes, evaluating Cooper & Mackie’s (1986) study on video games and aggression, and discussing reinforcement and rehabilitation in criminal behavior.

2. Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Growth | Identifying Piaget’s conservation study weaknesses, analyzing learning styles, interpreting cognitive development stages, and applying Dweck’s mindset theory to education.

3. Psychological Problems and Mental Health | Understanding the ABC Model of depression, analyzing the historical shift in mental health attitudes since the 1959 Mental Health Act, and evaluating biological explanations of human behavior.

4. Social Learning and Criminality | Criticizing the Social Learning Theory of crime, discussing neuropsychology in psychoticism and extraversion, and calculating statistical measures from psychoticism scores.

5. Correlational Research on Exercise and Happiness | Formulating variables, predicting correlation direction, outlining research procedures, and addressing ethical concerns and gender bias in psychological studies.

6. Reliability and Statistical Interpretation | Selecting appropriate graph types, ensuring study reliability, and explaining weaknesses in using correlation for psychological investigations.