Questions in Section A assess candidates on their knowledge of the historical context of mental health, the medical model and alternatives to the medical model in psychology. This article considers three of the most common types of Section A short-response questions that typically range between 3 and 5 marks.
Questions often ask for an outline of the main historical views of mental illness, definitions of abnormality or ways of categorising mental illness. When answering such questions, you usually need to outline two or three points. These questions do not require you to provide details from key research studies, but it is good to include psychological concepts from such studies – for example, the reliability of diagnosis. These questions may be linked to a short initial scenario, as in this first example.
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