AS & A Level / Psychology / Biological processes and cognition Question practice
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Psychology Biological processes and cognition
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1 Explain how chemical transmission across a synapse differs from an electrical impulse travelling along a neuron. Easy 3 marks No calculator + 2 Explain one distinction between the roles of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches in a stress response and recovery. Easy 2 marks No calculator + 3 Fictional study: an imaging task shows higher activity in one brain region during face recognition than during object recognition. Analyse what this suggests and why it does not prove that region alone performs face recognition. Medium 4 marks No calculator + 4 Fictional study: identical twins are more similar on a trait than non-identical twins. Analyse a genetic interpretation and a limitation of the equal-environments assumption. Medium 4 marks No calculator + 5 Fictional case: a news article calls a neurotransmitter a single 'chemical cause' of motivation. Evaluate this explanation. Hard 4 marks No calculator + 6 Fictional case: a brain-injury case study is cited as proof that all language functions lie in one small region. Evaluate the evidence and generalisation. Hard 4 marks No calculator + Self-assessed Not marked yet
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