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Question 22

A cognitive psychologist suggests that while a person's working memory capacity is limited by biological factors, the individual still has the conscious choice to employ different rehearsal strategies to improve their recall.

Explain how this psychologist's view illustrates the concept of soft determinism.

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  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Debates

276 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Debates, covering Nature/nurture, Freewill/determinism, Reductionism/holism, Individual/situational explanations, Usefulness of research, Ethical considerations, Conducting socially sensitive research, and Psychology as a science. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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