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(a) Piaget believed that children pass through four stages of development.
Write the name of each stage next to the appropriate age.
Appropriate age
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(b) Outline the main features of one of Piagets stages of cognitive development.
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(c) Evaluate Piagets theory of cognitive development.

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(a) Outline two key assumptions from the Social Approach.

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(b) The field experiment is a research method commonly used in the Social Approach.
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Involves asking people questions to discover opinions

and attitudes.
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A case study carried out in the area of cognitive psychology was HM, who
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surgery left his memory severely affected.
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(b) Outline one research method other than case studies of brain-damaged patients which
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(a) Draw a circle around each of the three concepts that relate to Social Identity
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Social learning
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(b) Outline how one theory of prejudice other than Social Identity Theory explains how
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(c) One application of the Social Approach is the reduction of prejudice. Outline one
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(a) (i) Identify one study from the Cognitive-developmental Approach.

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(b) Psychological studies can be evaluated in terms of supporting or opposing research

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Describe and evaluate psychological research into eyewitness testimony.

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