OCR As Psychology Paper 2 2025 Question Paper

Download the official OCR AS Level Psychology H167/02 Psychological Themes Through Core Studies question paper from the June 2025 examination series. This downloadable PDF contains the complete OCR AS Psychology Paper 2 exam sat on Tuesday 20 May 2025, including core-study questions, psychological debates, practical-application tasks, and extended evaluative essay questions in the original OCR exam format.

The OCR H167/02 June 2025 question paper covers major AS Psychology core studies including Bandura et al. on aggression, Chaney et al.’s Funhaler study, Casey et al. on delay of gratification, Baron-Cohen et al. on autism in adults, Freud’s Little Hans case study, Milgram’s obedience study, Bocchiaro et al. on whistle-blowing, Grant et al. on context-dependent memory, and Loftus and Palmer’s eyewitness testimony research. Students are required to answer short-answer and extended-response questions involving methodology, reliability, ethnocentrism, disorders, memory, obedience, and contextual application of psychological theory.

Section B focuses on areas, perspectives, and debates in psychology, including the cognitive area, the behaviourist perspective, eyewitness testimony, and the individual/situational debate. Students must evaluate the situational position using evidence from behaviourist core studies and demonstrate AO1 knowledge, AO2 application, and AO3 evaluative reasoning in extended 12-mark responses.

Section C contains a practical application scenario investigating peer influence using an online trust game and fMRI analysis. Candidates are required to discuss ethical concerns, validity, determinism, peer pressure, neural explanations of conformity, and strategies for reducing negative social influence using psychological knowledge and evaluation skills.

This OCR AS Psychology Psychological Themes Through Core Studies question paper is ideal for timed exam practice, debate evaluation, practical application revision, and improving AO1 knowledge, AO2 application, and AO3 evaluation skills under authentic OCR examination conditions. Pair this paper with the official OCR H167/02 June 2025 mark scheme on markscheme.net for complete examiner-standard revision and self-assessment. Updated for the 2025/2026 academic year, fully mobile-friendly, and instantly downloadable.

This document is designed for AS Level Psychology students preparing for the 2026 OCR examination series, resit candidates improving Core Studies performance, home-educated learners, and independent candidates studying OCR Psychological Themes Through Core Studies. It is especially valuable for students practising psychological debates, contextual application, evaluation of research studies, and AO1/AO2/AO3 exam technique under real OCR exam conditions.

Teachers, Psychology departments, tutors, revision-course providers, intervention coordinators, and parents can use this official OCR question paper for mock examinations, debate-evaluation workshops, retrieval practice, essay-planning activities, and benchmarking student responses against live June 2025 OCR assessment standards.