The patient–practitioner relationship: past paper questions
Real questions on the patient–practitioner relationship
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- 9990/32 · May/June 2026 · Q10a[2]
From the study by Savage and Armstrong (1990): Outline how one practitioner style affected patient satisfaction.
See it on the paper → - 9990/32 · May/June 2026 · Q10b[2]
Explain one reason why the effect of practitioner style on patient satisfaction is deterministic.
See it on the paper → - 9990/33 · May/June 2026 · Q10a[2]
Outline how a practitioner could use the clinical interview to measure pain.
See it on the paper → - 9990/33 · May/June 2026 · Q10b[2]
Explain one reason why the clinical interview to measure pain uses the idiographic approach.
See it on the paper → - 9990/41 · May/June 2026 · Q4c[4]
Explain one strength and one weakness of using a face‑to‑face interview to investigate how people defend their space in a queue. Health Psychology Answer all questions if you have studied this option.
See it on the paper → - 9990/43 · May/June 2026 · Q5a[4]
Outline two reasons why participants were excluded from the study.
See it on the paper → - 9990/43 · May/June 2026 · Q5b[2]
Suggest one reason why participants were sent a second questionnaire one week after completing the first questionnaire.
See it on the paper → - 9990/43 · May/June 2026 · Q5c[4]
Explain two strengths of excluding some participants from studies on patient satisfaction.
See it on the paper → - 9990/31 · October/November 2025 · Q2a[2]
Outline what is meant by ‘cultural differences’.
See it on the paper → - 9990/31 · October/November 2025 · Q12a[6]
Describe what psychologists investigating practitioner diagnosis have discovered about: • making a diagnosis (disclosure of information, false positive and false negative diagnosis), and • presenting a diagnosis.
See it on the paper → - 9990/31 · October/November 2025 · Q12b[10]
Evaluate what psychologists investigating practitioner diagnosis have discovered about: • making a diagnosis (disclosure of information, false positive and false negative diagnosis), and • presenting a diagnosis, including a discussion of validity. Evaluation in your answer can include strengths, weaknesses and a discu...
See it on the paper → - 9990/33 · October/November 2025 · Q12a[6]
Describe what psychologists investigating practitioner diagnosis have discovered about: • making a diagnosis (disclosure of information, false positive and false negative diagnosis), and • presenting a diagnosis.
See it on the paper → - 9990/31 · May/June 2025 · Q9[4]
Suggest why a doctor might make a false positive diagnosis.
See it on the paper → - 9990/32 · May/June 2025 · Q11a[4]
Suggest how Dr Brown could change the style of her consultation to increase patient satisfaction.
See it on the paper → - 9990/41 · May/June 2025 · Q10c(iii)[2]
Explain one reason for your choice of dependent variable. Health Psychology
See it on the paper → - 9990/32 · October/November 2024 · Q10a[2]
There are two practitioner styles: doctor‑centred (directed) and patient‑centred (sharing). Outline one of these practitioner styles in relation to an individual explanation.
See it on the paper → - 9990/32 · October/November 2024 · Q10b[2]
Outline one weakness of an individual explanation, using an example from practitioner styles.
See it on the paper → - 9990/41 · October/November 2024 · Q5a(i)[2]
Outline how participants were recruited for the study.
See it on the paper → - 9990/41 · October/November 2024 · Q5a(ii)[2]
Outline how participants were randomly allocated to the conditions of the study.
See it on the paper → - 9990/41 · October/November 2024 · Q5b[2]
Suggest one problem if participants had not been randomly allocated to the conditions of the study.
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What examiners said
For psychological knowledge, it was essential to include McCarthy’s marketing mix model because McCarthy outlined the four Ps of product, price, placement and promotion. Without this knowledge, it would be difficult to achieve any marks for this question part. For methodological knowledge, candidates’ responses were sometimes limited to ‘a questionnaire’ without providing full detail of what it in...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9990/41 Q6(b) (Cambridge)
Candidates need to ensure they understand the strengths and weaknesses of face-to-face interviews. Weaker answers did not relate strengths and weaknesses to patient medical knowledge.
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9990/42 Q3(d) (Cambridge)
There were some very good answers in response to this question. The debate usually focused on the strengths of disclosing information to a computer with the Robinson and West study being used to support the points being made. This was often followed by the weaknesses of diagnosis by computer. Strong answers also brought in information from other studies making the point for example, that computers...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9990/42 Q11 (Cambridge)
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