Psychological skills Issues and debates

Worked examples (9)

• 1Select usable topic areas (4 marks)
• 2Show the safeguard and the cost as one decision (5 marks)
• 3Show the debate taking different shapes (5 marks)
• 4Name what a remedy does not repair (4 marks)
• 5The retrospective problem (4 marks)
• 6Where the guidelines stop (4 marks)
• 7The cost of not doing research (4 marks)
• 8Close with conditions (4 marks)
• 9Diagnose a Section E answer (5 marks)

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• 1Name the direction of a constraint (5 marks)
• 2Removable or intrinsic? (5 marks)
• 3Show the constraint across areas (5 marks)
• 4Why size does not save the literature (4 marks)
• 5Where practical and ethical constraints coincide (4 marks)
• 6Constraints shape which theories prosper (4 marks)
• 7Evaluate the remedies (5 marks)
• 8Is psychology unusual? (4 marks)
• 9What follows for reading the literature (4 marks)

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• 1Identify the level of explanation (4 marks)
• 2Apply the real test (5 marks)
• 3What the reduction buys (4 marks)
• 4What holism costs (4 marks)
• 5An area that is holistic and reduces (4 marks)
• 6Clinical psychology as the synoptic case (5 marks)
• 7Assess interactionism (5 marks)
• 8Explanation shapes intervention (4 marks)
• 9Diagnose a weak answer (4 marks)

Model answers (9)

• ✓Model answer — Edexcel WPS04 Section E style
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• 1Identify the approach and its commitments (4 marks)
• 2Complement or compete? (5 marks)
• 3Explain one behaviour from four approaches (5 marks)
• 4The approach determines the evidence (4 marks)
• 5Assess eclecticism (5 marks)
• 6How competitions resolve (4 marks)
• 7Where the choice of approach matters practically (4 marks)
• 8Is the plurality permanent? (4 marks)
• 9Diagnose a mid-band answer (4 marks)

Model answers (9)

• ✓Model answer — Edexcel WPS04 Section E style
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• 1Identify an imposed etic (4 marks)
• 2Distinguish alpha from beta bias (5 marks)
• 3Why accuracy does not settle it (5 marks)
• 4Identify the shared mechanism (4 marks)
• 5What a universal claim requires (4 marks)
• 6Androcentrism and its consequences (4 marks)
• 7The limits of cultural relativism (4 marks)
• 8Where the two biases differ (4 marks)
• 9Reach a judgement (4 marks)

Model answers (9)

• ✓Model answer — Edexcel WPS04 Section E style
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• 1Why criteria come first (4 marks)
• 2Falsifiability by area (5 marks)
• 3Objectivity, and whether psychology is unusual (4 marks)
• 4Test the paradigm criterion (5 marks)
• 5What is genuinely distinctive (4 marks)
• 6State what is clearly met, first (4 marks)
• 7Does difficulty replicating undermine the case? (4 marks)
• 8Answer by area, not by discipline (4 marks)
• 9What is actually at stake (4 marks)

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• ✓Model answer — Edexcel WPS04 Section E style
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• 1Use twin evidence in both directions (5 marks)
• 2Correct a heritability claim (5 marks)
• 3Relocate the debate (4 marks)
• 4Distinguish a model from a slogan (4 marks)
• 5Gene–environment correlation (4 marks)
• 6What epigenetics adds (4 marks)
• 7Present at birth is not genetic (4 marks)
• 8The balance differs by characteristic (4 marks)
• 9Why the misreading persists (4 marks)

Model answers (9)

• ✓Model answer — Edexcel WPS04 Section E style
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• 1Pair each stage with its enabling method (5 marks)
• 2Added rather than replaced (5 marks)
• 3Why introspection failed (4 marks)
• 4Ethical change and its cost (5 marks)
• 5Progress by narrowing (4 marks)
• 6Choose the right criterion for progress (4 marks)
• 7What is measurable shapes what is known (4 marks)
• 8When refutation did occur (4 marks)
• 9Diagnose a timeline answer (4 marks)

Model answers (9)

• ✓Model answer — Edexcel WPS04 Section E style
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• 1Apply the four features (5 marks)
• 2The same technique in two settings (5 marks)
• 3Dual-use knowledge (4 marks)
• 4Explanation as a form of control (4 marks)
• 5Refusing to apply psychology (4 marks)
• 6Knowledge enables resistance too (4 marks)
• 7The hardest case (5 marks)
• 8Refuse the loaded framing (4 marks)
• 9Reach a conditional judgement (4 marks)

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• ✓Model answer — Edexcel WPS04 Section E style
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• 1Why compliance does not settle it (5 marks)
• 2Predictable rather than accidental (5 marks)
• 3The group-to-individual gap (4 marks)
• 4The cost of not researching (4 marks)
• 5State the obligations specifically (5 marks)
• 6The question itself (4 marks)
• 7Why community involvement is methodological (4 marks)
• 8Sensitivity is a matter of degree (4 marks)
• 9A gap in principle (4 marks)

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• ✓Model answer — Edexcel WPS04 Section E style
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• 1Name the kind of contribution (5 marks)
• 2Why correcting intuitions matters most (4 marks)
• 3Applications across areas (5 marks)
• 4State where psychology stops (4 marks)
• 5Applications inherit the evidence base's shape (4 marks)
• 6Why some findings are applied and others are not (4 marks)
• 7Communication as part of the work (4 marks)
• 8Findings that specify what to do (4 marks)
• 9Reach a judgement (4 marks)

Model answers (9)

• ✓Model answer — Edexcel WPS04 Section E style
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