OCR A Level Psychology Paper 2 2025 Qp

Download the official OCR A Level Psychology H567/02 Psychological Themes Through Core Studies question paper from the June 2025 examination series. This downloadable PDF contains the complete OCR A Level Psychology Paper 2 exam sat on Wednesday 21 May 2025, including core-study questions, debates essays, psychological applications, and extended evaluative responses in the original OCR exam format.

The OCR H567/02 June 2025 question paper covers major A Level Psychology core studies including Bandura et al. on aggression, Chaney et al.’s Funhaler study, Kohlberg’s moral development research, Moray’s auditory attention study, Grant et al.’s context-dependent memory experiment, Bocchiaro et al.’s whistle-blowing research, Maguire et al.’s taxi-driver study, Hancock et al.’s psychopathy language analysis, Gould’s critique of IQ testing, Piliavin et al.’s Subway Samaritan study, and Levine et al.’s cross-cultural altruism research. Students are required to answer short-answer and extended-response questions involving validity, ethnocentrism, social influence, memory, biological explanations, individual differences, and psychological applications.

Section B focuses on areas, perspectives, and debates in psychology, including applications of the cognitive area, the scientific nature of the biological area, comparison between biological and social approaches, and the individual/situational explanations debate. Candidates must support arguments using evidence from appropriate OCR core studies while demonstrating AO1 psychological knowledge, AO2 application, and AO3 evaluative reasoning skills.

Section C contains practical-application questions linked to altruism, helping behaviour, and social influence using evidence from Piliavin et al.’s Subway Samaritan study and Levine et al.’s cross-cultural altruism research. Students are required to explain diffusion of responsibility, simpatia, social explanations of helping behaviour, and methods for encouraging prosocial behaviour across diverse social and cultural backgrounds.

This OCR A Level Psychology Psychological Themes Through Core Studies question paper is ideal for timed exam practice, psychological-debate revision, evaluation training, and improving AO1 knowledge, AO2 application, and AO3 evaluation skills under authentic OCR examination conditions. Pair this paper with the official OCR H567/02 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 A Level Psychology students preparing for the 2026 OCR examination series, resit candidates improving essay-writing and evaluation skills, home-educated learners, and independent candidates studying OCR Psychological Themes Through Core Studies. It is especially valuable for students practising debates, practical applications, contextual psychological analysis, and AO1/AO2/AO3 assessment techniques 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, essay-planning workshops, retrieval practice, debate-evaluation sessions, and benchmarking student responses against live June 2025 OCR assessment standards.