OCR AS PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE
SOLUTION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Informed consent. Answer: When participants give consent having
been made fully aware of all aspects of the research.
●● Right to withdraw. Answer: The ability to pull out from any research.
●● Protection from harm. Answer: Ensuring the participant is constantly
protected from exposure to any sort of harm (social, psychological).
●● Deception. Answer: When a participant isn't fully aware of the
researching they are taking part in.
●● Confidentiality. Answer: Ensuring the privacy of the
participant/researcher is kept confidential.
●● Debrief. Answer: Especially important if consent wasn't fully
informed - there should be a standardised debrief following research
fully explaining research and checking the health for participants.
, ●● Biological area. Answer: The biological area seeks to explain mental
processes and behaviour by focusing on the function of the nervous
system.
●● 3 key assumptions of the biological approach. Answer: Differences
in behaviour are the result of different brain activity.
Difference in emotion, cognition and behaviour are genetic.
Brain activity will result in measurable/observable changes.
●● 2 strengths of the biological area. Answer: Highly scientific research
methods
Advanced understanding of injury/illness
●● 2 weaknesses of the biological area. Answer: Lacks ecological
validity due to methodology
Reductionist
●● Cognitive area. Answer: Information received from our senses is
processed by the brain and this processing directs how we behave and
what we do. These mental processes that cognitive psychologists focus
on include memory, perception, attention and language.
●● 2 key assumption of the cognitive area. Answer: Cognitive (mental)
processes are key to human behaviour.
SOLUTION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Informed consent. Answer: When participants give consent having
been made fully aware of all aspects of the research.
●● Right to withdraw. Answer: The ability to pull out from any research.
●● Protection from harm. Answer: Ensuring the participant is constantly
protected from exposure to any sort of harm (social, psychological).
●● Deception. Answer: When a participant isn't fully aware of the
researching they are taking part in.
●● Confidentiality. Answer: Ensuring the privacy of the
participant/researcher is kept confidential.
●● Debrief. Answer: Especially important if consent wasn't fully
informed - there should be a standardised debrief following research
fully explaining research and checking the health for participants.
, ●● Biological area. Answer: The biological area seeks to explain mental
processes and behaviour by focusing on the function of the nervous
system.
●● 3 key assumptions of the biological approach. Answer: Differences
in behaviour are the result of different brain activity.
Difference in emotion, cognition and behaviour are genetic.
Brain activity will result in measurable/observable changes.
●● 2 strengths of the biological area. Answer: Highly scientific research
methods
Advanced understanding of injury/illness
●● 2 weaknesses of the biological area. Answer: Lacks ecological
validity due to methodology
Reductionist
●● Cognitive area. Answer: Information received from our senses is
processed by the brain and this processing directs how we behave and
what we do. These mental processes that cognitive psychologists focus
on include memory, perception, attention and language.
●● 2 key assumption of the cognitive area. Answer: Cognitive (mental)
processes are key to human behaviour.
