Sample Internal Assessments
38 files
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STM Recall (SL)
Replication of Tulving and Pearlstone (1966)
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Psychology HL IA marked 7
An Experiment Investigating the Effect of Anonymity on the Likelihood of Cooperation.
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Eyewitness Testimony I (SL)
An experiment investigating the effects of suggestion on human memory. A replication of Loftus & Zanni (1975).
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Eyewitness Testimony II (SL)
An experiment concerning the effects of manipulated contextual clues on eyewitness
memory. A replication of Loftus & Palmer (1974).
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Levels of Processing and Recall (HL)
Investigation of Craik & Lockhart's (1972) on semantic and superficial processing on memory recall.
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Short-term Memory and Chunking Theory (HL)
Investigation of Miller's Magic Number 7.
A good example of what not to do in your IA.
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Visual Aids and Rehearsal (HL)
An extension of Paivio's work to see if pairing pictures with words affects recall.
An example of what not to do.
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Recalling Word Pairs (SL)
The effects of imagery and rehearsal on memorizing and recalling word-pairs. A replication of Paivio (1971) investigating the dual-coding theory of cognition.
Grade awarded: 17/20
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Preconceived Ideas (HL)
How does a preconceived idea of a person as warm or cold determine students’ impressions of other personality characteristics?
Study based on 'The warm-cold variable as an experiential exercise' (Biggs & McAllaster, 1981)
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Intervention on Information Recall (SL)
An investigation on the effect of intervention on information recall. Experiment based on the original of Heyer & Barret (1971) supporting the Working Memory Model of Baddeley & Hitch (1974)
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Familiarity of Names (SL)
An Experiment to Investigate the Effect of Familiarity of Names in Lists on the Recall and Estimation Abilities Due to the Availability Heuristic
A replication of a study by Kahneman & Tversky (1973)
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The Stroop Effect (SL)
SL Internal Assessment replicating experiment 2 from:
Studies of Interference in Serial Verb Reactions (Stroop, 1935)
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Eyewitness Testimony (SL)
SL IA replicating the findings from the original study:
Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction: An Example of the Interaction Between Language and Memory (Loftus & Palmer, 1974)
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