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This resource contains the complete set of questions from the Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE Psychology Paper 1 examination, May 2025 series. It provides authentic exam-style questions that closely reflect the structure, content, and level of difficulty of the official Edexcel assessment. Paper 1 assesses students’ understanding of key psychological topics such as memory, cognition, behaviour, and research methods. Students are required to demonstrate knowledge, apply psychological concepts, analyse evidence, and evaluate studies in context. Question types include multiple-choice, short-answer, structured questions, and extended evaluation tasks, designed to test comprehension, analytical reasoning, and evaluative skills. This document is ideal for revision, exam preparation, and classroom use. Students can practise applying psychological theories to scenarios, structuring responses effectively, and developing evaluative skills. Teachers can use it for mock exams, homework, or targeted practice on key topics. By practising with these real exam questions from May 2025, learners can strengthen understanding, build confidence, and improve performance in GCSE Psychology Paper 1.

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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1)
Thursday 8 May 2025
Morning (Time: 1 hour 45 minutes) Paper
reference 1PS0/01
Psychology
PAPER 1


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PEARSON EDECEL LEVEL1/LEVEL 2 GCSE PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 1
QUESTIONS MAY 2025
Instructions

•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
•• Answer all questions.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.

Information

•• The total mark for this paper is 98.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
• Instructure
questions marked with an asterisk (*), marks will be awarded for your ability to
your answer logically, showing how the points that you make are related or
follow on from each other where appropriate.

Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Try to answer every question.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.
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, SECTION A

Development – How did you develop?




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Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.
Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you change your mind about an
answer, put a line through the box and then mark your new answer with a cross .
1 Identify two findings from Gunderson et al. (2013).

A Boys received more process praise than girls.

B Praise of any type was on average 8% of all utterances by parents.

C Person praise at 14–38 months was significantly correlated to children’s
entity (fixed) motivational framework at 7–8 years old.
D Boys received more person and other praise than girls.

E Process praise at 14–38 months was significantly correlated to incremental
(malleable) motivational framework at 7–8 years old.




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(Total for Question 1 = 2 marks)

2 Describe the difference between the conventional and post-conventional stages of
morality.

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, 3 Alessia is a teacher at a school and is trying to help students learn a new concept in
science class.




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Alessia split her students into three groups to see who would learn the new concept
the most effectively.

• Group 1 – the students were asked to do a very easy task about the new concept,
with only very simple activities included.

• Group 2 – the students were asked to do a reasonably difficult task about the new
concept, with some slightly more challenging activities included.

• Group 3 – the students were asked to do a very hard, complex task about the new
concept, with only extremely challenging activities included.

Alessia asked her students to do the activities in their groups over the course of a
week during lessons. At the start and the end of the week the students took the same
test about the new science concept.

Alessia wanted to make some conclusions about how the tasks given affected the
students’ performance in the test.




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Figure 1 shows the average performance of the three groups at the start and the end
of the week.

A comparative bar chart to show the average test performance (%)
on the new science concept at the start and the end of the week
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90
80
70

Average test 60
performance (%)
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40
30
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10
0
Start of the week End of the week
Time of test
Key

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3


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