Section A Environment Questions

Section A questions These will generally be on one or two of the strands from one topic area & focus on one evaluation issue. Environmental stress: noise. 1. (a) Outline one study of noise in which high levels of noise affected helping behaviour (6) (b) Discuss the ethical implications of studying the effects of noise on helping behaviour (10) 2. (a) Describe one study which looks at the negative effects of environmental noise (6) (b) Evaluate the ecological validity of studying environmental noise in a laboratory (10) June 2002 3. (a) Explain what is meant by noise & what causes it. (6) (b) Discuss the role of individual differences in the perception of noise (10) 4. (a) Describe one study which demonstrates the positive use of sound. (6) (b) Evaluate the usefulness of this research …… OR….. (b) Discuss the difficulties of investigating the positive use of sound (10) June 2004 5. (a) Describe one study investigating the negative effects of noise on performance or health (6) (b) Evaluate methods used to investigate the negative effects of noise (10) Jan 2005 Climate & Weather 6. (a) Briefly describe evidence which claims that high temperature causes aggression (10) (b) Discuss the deterministic view that high temperature causes aggression (10) Specimen 7. (a) Describe one study which suggests a link between temperature & social behaviour (6) (b) Discuss the ethical implications of studying the effect of temperature on social behaviour 8. (a) Describe one study which demonstrates the effect of either the climate or weather on behaviour (6) (b) Discuss the extent to which the effect of either the climate or weather determines behaviour (10) Jan 2003 9. (a) Describe one study which considers the effect of climate &/or weather on behaviour (6) (b) Discuss difficulties in investigating the effect of climate &/or weather on behaviour (10) Jan 2005 Personal Space & Territory. 10. (a) Describe one study which considers the invasion of personal space (6) (b) Discuss the strengths & weaknesses of using the field experiment method to PS (10) Spec 11. (a) Outline one study of personal space in which invasions of PS were used to gather data (6) (b) Discuss the ethics of studying personal space where invasions of personal space are used (10) Jan 2002 12. (a) Describe one method used to measure personal space (6) (b) Compare & contrast this method with other methods (10) 13. (a) Describe one study which considers the invasion of personal space (6) (b) Discuss the generalisability of research findings of studies into personal space (10) 14. (a) Describe one study which demonstrates the effects of invasion of territory (6) (b) Discuss the problems of measuring the effects of invasion of territory (10) June 2003 15. (a) Describe one study investigating the effects of invasion of personal space (6) (b) Discuss ethical issues of investigating invasion of personal space (10) June 2006 Architecture & behaviour: housing design & urban renewal. 16. (a) Outline the effects of urban living on health & social behaviour (6) (b) Discuss the explanations given for the effects of urban living on health &/or social behaviour (10) 17. (a) Outline one example of urban renewal & building design & describe the effects (6) (b) Discuss the deterministic view that the built environment effects people's health & social behaviour 10 18. (a) Outline evidence on one effect of urban living on behaviour (6) (b) Evaluate the methodology used to investigate the effects of urban living on behaviour (10) Jan 2004 19. (a) Outline research into one effect of urban living on behaviour (6) (b) Discuss the difficulties of investigating the effect of urban living on behaviour (10) June 2005 Environmental cognition. 20. (a) Describe one study investigating cognitive maps (6) (b) Discuss the reliability of research investigating cognitive maps (10) Jan 2003 21. (a) Describe one study investigating cognitive maps (6) (b) Discuss the difficulties in investigating cognitive maps (10) Jan 2004 22. (a) Outline one model or study of the scenic environment (6) (b) Discuss difficulties psychologists could have investigating the scenic environment (10) Jan 2006 Density & crowding. 23. (a) Describe one study which investigates crowding in animals (6) (b) Discuss the extent to which animals can be used to explain human behaviour (10) Jan 2002 24. (a) Describe one study which demonstrates the effects of crowding on social behaviour (6) (b) Discuss the generalisability of research investigating the effects of density & crowding (10) June 2006 Crowds & collective behaviour. 25. (a) Describe one explanation of crowd behaviour (6) (b) Discuss the ethics of studying the behaviour of crowds in emergency situations (10) June 2003 26. (a) Outline one explanation of crowd behaviour (6) (b) Evaluate different explanations of crowd behaviour (10) June 2004 27. (a) Describe one piece of research on crowds in emergency situations (6) (b) Evaluate methods used to investigate crowds in emergency situations (10) Jan 2006 28. (a) Briefly describe two explanations that psychologists would give for unruly crowd behaviours (6) (b) Discuss the research methods used to study the behaviour of crowds (10) 29. (a) Describe one example of the behaviour of a crowd in an emergency situation (6) (b) Discuss explanations for behaviour of crowds in emergency situations (10) Environmental Disaster & Technological Catastrophes. 30. (a) Outline the effect on individuals of one technological catastrophe (6) (b) Discuss the advantages & disadvantages of using the self-report method to study the effects of technological catastrophe (10) June 2002 31. (a) Describe one study investigating a technological catastrophe (6) (b) Discuss the ethics of investigating Technological catastrophes (10) June 2005 32. (a) Briefly outline responses to disasters or catstrophes (6) (b) Discuss the problems of obtaining evidence about people’s responses to disasters/catastrophes (10) A2 Environmental Psychology Section A questions