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Year 11 QCE Psychology sample questions

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Year 11 QCE Psychology practice questions

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Sample QCE Year 11 Psychology questions

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QCE Year 11 Psychology Individual development hard brain model

1. A brain diagram highlights a frontal control area while a student compares two risky choices. Which interpretation is best supported?

QCE 11 adolescent executive-control model frontal choice control
Choices
  • Ongoing development of executive control
  • Only basic hearing is involved
  • The response is a spinal reflex
  • Memory storage is absent
Explanation:

Frontal control areas support planning, inhibition and decision-making, which continue to develop during adolescence.

QCE Year 11 Psychology Development and data hard psychology data graph

2. A scatterplot shows perceived peer support and wellbeing score generally rising together. Which statement is most defensible?

QCE 11 peer support wellbeing scatterplot support wellbeing positive
Choices
  • Peer support is positively associated with wellbeing in this sample.
  • Peer support proves every wellbeing score.
  • The variables are negatively associated.
  • No relationship can be inspected from the graph.
Explanation:

The upward pattern supports a positive association, but it does not prove that peer support alone caused the wellbeing scores.

QCE Year 11 Psychology Research methods hard experiment design

3. A study diagram compares a breathing-preparation group with a quiet-reading group before both groups rate test anxiety. What is the independent variable?

QCE 11 breathing and anxiety experiment breathing reading rating
Choices
  • Preparation activity
  • Anxiety rating
  • Participant surname
  • The consent form
Explanation:

The researcher changes the preparation activity, while the anxiety rating is the measured outcome.

QCE Year 11 Psychology Ethics hard ethics flow

4. An ethics-flow diagram shows an adolescent participant receiving plain-language information, agreeing to take part, and being told they may stop. Which principle is shown most directly?

QCE 11 adolescent research consent flow info agree stop
Choices
  • Informed consent and right to withdraw
  • Covert observation without approval
  • A double-blind design
  • Random assignment only
Explanation:

The participant is given information before agreeing and remains free to withdraw from the study.

QCE Year 11 Psychology Wellbeing model hard wellbeing model

5. A biopsychosocial model lists caffeine intake, self-talk and teacher feedback around exam stress. Which factor is social?

QCE 11 exam stress biopsychosocial model bio teacher self-talk
Choices
  • Teacher feedback
  • Caffeine intake
  • Self-talk
  • Heart rate
Explanation:

Teacher feedback is social because it comes from interaction with another person in the learning environment.

QCE Year 11 Psychology Learning hard conditioning model

6. In a conditioning sequence, a sound logo is repeatedly paired with a pleasant image until the sound alone produces a positive response. After learning, what is the conditioned stimulus?

QCE 11 sound-logo conditioning sequence sound image response
Choices
  • Sound logo
  • Pleasant image
  • Researcher's notebook
  • Random allocation
Explanation:

The sound began as neutral and became the conditioned stimulus after being paired with the pleasant image.

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Year 11 · QCE Psychology · Test mode · 10 questions · 10 min
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