Title Feb-March_2025_9990_42_QP - Crack A Level.pdf ✅

2 © UCLES 2025 9990/42/F/M/25 Section A Answer questions from two options in this section. Clinical Psychology Answer all questions if you have studied this option. 1 From the key study by Oruč et al. (1997) on mood (affective) disorders: (a) Outline the sample of participants used in this study. [4] (b) Suggest one reason why a control group of participants was used in this study. [2] (c) Explain two strengths of the sample used in this study, other than the use of a control group. [4] 2 (a) State two diagnostic criteria of gambling disorder. [2] (b) Suggest one way in which gambling disorder could be measured, other than by self-report. Your answer must be ethical. [2] (c) Explain two weaknesses of using a self-report to measure gambling disorder. [4] Consumer Psychology Answer all questions if you have studied this option. 3 From the key study by Hall et al. (2010) on choice blindness for food items: (a) (i) Identify two ways in which deception was used in this study. [2] (ii) Explain why each of these deceptions was necessary. [2] (b) Suggest one effect on the results if deception had not been used in this study. [2] (c) Explain one strength and one weakness of the use of field experiments to investigate choice blindness. [4] 4 (a) Outline two ways in which a gift can be wrapped. [2] (b) Suggest how an unstructured observation can be used to investigate gift-wrapping behaviour. [2] (c) Explain two strengths of using different features of observation to measure gift-wrapping behaviour. [4]

4 © UCLES 2025 9990/42/F/M/25 Section B Answer one question from this section. Clinical Psychology 9 (a) Plan a study using an online questionnaire to investigate whether rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) is effective as a treatment for depression. Your plan must include details about: • question scoring/interpretation • ethical guidelines. [10] (b) For one piece of psychological knowledge on which your plan is based: (i) Describe this psychological knowledge. [4] (ii) Explain how you used two features of this psychological knowledge to plan your study. [4] (c) (i) Explain one reason for your choice of question scoring/interpretation. [2] (ii) Explain one weakness of your choice of question scoring/interpretation. [2] (iii) Explain one reason for your choice of an ethical guideline that you followed. [2] Consumer Psychology 10 Point of purchase decisions include multiple unit pricing and suggestive selling. (a) Plan an experiment to investigate the effectiveness of suggestive selling on purchases from a supermarket. Your plan must include details about: • controls • directional or non-directional hypothesis. [10] (b) For one piece of psychological knowledge on which your plan is based: (i) Describe this psychological knowledge. [4] (ii) Explain how you used two features of this psychological knowledge to plan your study. [4] (c) (i) Explain one reason for your choice of controls. [2] (ii) Explain one weakness of your choice of controls. [2] (iii) Explain one reason for your choice of directional or non-directional hypothesis. [2]