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I sat my IB Psych SL exam last year (anticipated yay!) and I have a fairly good understanding of how to structure a good response to P1 (which is pretty much the same for P2 as well). I thought I'd share. Before I start, I think it is imperative that you get in to the habit of planning your response - it doesn't take long, and it will save you!! It will make you organise your ideas logically and certainly improve the quality of your language. You will be forced to be prudent in your evaluation, and examiners will totally see that you know what you are talking about! The concise and general steps to planning and answering questions 1. Read the Q twice (or as many times…
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I've a question that has been bugging me since the beginning of the year, because as far as I have understood, we answer three short answer questions, one in each level of analysis, and write an essay. My teacher says that all short answer questions come from learning outcomes, but also that all essay questions are based on learning outcomes. But how does one distinguish between an "essay outcome" and a "short answer outcome"? Can anybody explain this to me? Is it simply a matter of how complex the question is? I'm confused.
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Hi all, thought I would just upload the IB Psychology HL revision guide I made for my CAS Major. This guide isn't perfect but from the feedback I got from my teacher and people that are using it I feel that it is a very solid revision guide. There is generally evaluation for most of research and I have lots of supporting and counter research provided. I hope this helps you guys revise because I know Psychology is a pain in the ass to revise for. Please don't take this work and say its your own, I spent a lot of time on it. By the way, in case your interested the major sources I used are the Pearson Baccalaureate Psychology textbook, the IB course companion and the oxford…
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Hello all I believe we are all studying hard for the May exam! I am sharing the same pain as well. However, I read the rubric for psychology's essays and I have to say that marks are easily obtained if you follow a certain structure in writing your essay. I wish we can all share essay structure techniques here and get feedbacks from others as well. Here are my techniques: - KNOW THE COMMAND TERM. I can't stress this enough. Every mark scheme will stress that, 'The answer satisfy the command term.' If you missed this step I don't think you will do well at all. How you break down the question and plan your essay are base on the command term. - Always plan before you writ…
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Here are the links to the notes and sample works for Psychology that we have on our Files archive. To be able to download files, you have to be a VIP member or a VIP subscriber. Please see the FAQ for information on how to become a VIP or how to buy a VIP subscription. If you want to donate and contribute files to our archive, please see this announcement or this FAQ section. Core stuff SL/HL Psychology Syllabus (First Exams 2011) Biological Level Cognitive Level Sociocultural Level Options Sample Exam Answers* Qualitative Research Methods HL Only Paper 3 Resources Internal Assessment Stuff Sample Internal Assessments Additional guides to assist you with y…
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So I thought I was all set up and ready, and did my IA recently. Let's just say it didn't go as well as it could. Several things went wrong. So I'm going to post them here so anyone else doing the IA can learn from my mistakes. 1. When you are recruiting people to be a part of your study, make sure you give them something physical with your information and officially take down their names and contact numbers. Make sure it seems like something that can't just be skipped if they feel like it, because apparently going to a Psychology study doesn't automatically rank as something important in peoples minds. I didn't do this and my partner ended up running around school recrui…
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For the SAQ command term “outline”, if I give more than a brief summary, can the marker dock points for not sticking to the command term requirements?
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I have chosen the Peterson and Peterson study for my HL Psychology IA. Please tell me if I made the right choice or not?
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Hey guys does anyone know what studies we need to know for paper 1 May 2020 exams?
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I am doing the Kahneman and Twersky 1974 study for my IA. I wanted to ask about whether there any previous experiment or framework that I can mention in my IA. Also , if there's any sample or site that you think would help it would be greatly appreciated.
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so I heard this site is great for solving ib related qs! so im starting my ibdp in a month or so and have a problem in deciding which subjects will be good for me. I know that in the future I want to pursue psychology and so I have gone with psych hl. but i don't know what other subject can aid my path. any views?
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Hi what are some good resources to use for psychology hl, like which textbooks? Any particular website? Online Teachers ?
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So I am in the first year of IB and have been doing Psychology HL on Pamoja (self-taught) for approximately half a year and have not made any progress. I am very lazy but recently decided to actually start working. Now I don't really know where to start. Any advice? perhaps about which ressource I should be using?
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Helloo there, I'm planning to do an EE on Eng A Lang and Lit and my tentative RQ is "How has the role and perception of women in Western 19th-20th century society changed through the lens of the appearance of women cigarette ads?" Is this specific/good enough? I'm also worried that my RQ is more suitable for an IA rather than an EE.
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Hey guys! So I have to submit my psych IA (Loftus and Palmer) really soon and I'm having trouble justifying my reason for choosing an opportunity sample. This is what I wrote: "Participants were gathered using an opportunity sample. There were 21 participants in total, with 11 participants from a homeroom class in Group 1, and the 10 remaining participants from a psychology class in Group 2. We organized them based on their classes so it was easy to find a time where all participants in a group were free. Afterwards, the groups were randomly allocated one of the two conditions" My teacher said to extend the justification further but I'm not sure how. I …
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I have a topic idea, but am seeking advice as well as help forming a question. I plan on researching the effect bilingual education (second language acquisition?) has on childhood development within psychology. I plan to look specifically on education and brain development. First off, does that seem like a possible topic? I've never taken a psychology class, and my school does not offer DP psych. Any advice on how to approach it in a psychology standpoint would be very appreciated! Secondly, I need help refining a question. I think I will word it as: To what extent does second language acquisition affect childhood development? or something like that. I'm ha…
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Hello!! I am writing my psychology IA right now, but now I'm at the result section and I don't understand a thing! My teacher does not explain this well, and he doesn't seem to be certain about what he's doing. There was actually a few people last year who failed their psychology, mainly because of their IAs so I'm a bit terrified! I'm a HL student, so I will need inferential statistics but how does that actually work?? For example, my teacher said I should use the General Linear Model, but I don't know if I'm allowed to use that.. I haven't found anyone who have used it before, but it does calculated the level of significance. Also, do I need a graph or somethi…
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Hey guys, im in MYP 5 right now and start DP/IB next year. I was wondering whether I should do Self Taught Psychology instead of an art. Im really bad at music and art, but im ok at theatre, but i dont really like it. Would it be better doing self taught psych instead of theatre?
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If my IV is Comorbidity n DV is Quality of life in Amputees, how can I operationalise this?
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Im sure we all know what the DSM-5 is...My teacher wants the original DSM-1 and I want to find it for her; If anyone knows anywhere I can purchase one PLEASE let me know and help me out! Thanks so much
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Hello Guys, I am in my year 2 and I have completed 4 core chapters and one whole optional Chapter ( health Psychology) and now we are on abnormal and is it really true that we only have to study 2 out of 3 subtopics of the optional chapters? Thank you
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Hi IB Survival, So for this club I'm involved in, I've created a mock Psychology Paper 1. I've written the questions so they cover what I feel are the most emphasized parts of the new (2019 exams onwards) syllabus. I've also created a markscheme written in the IB style. I hope some of you find the paper and markscheme helpful. If you really want to practice for your exams, obviously go with the official released May 2019 papers and 2018 specimen papers. But if you want more practice, my exam doesn't share any questions with May 2019 and only 3 similar questions to the specimen. Maybe it will be good practice for those of you who have mock exams in January or Feb…
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I am just starting IB psychology HL on Pamoja and I am lost. What should I do? How do I catch up all the work and with what ressources? help
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Psychology IA Statistics Help (Tversky and Kahneman 1974) I chose to do my IA on the Tversky and Kahneman 1974 experiment on the anchoring bias. Basically, it was an independent samples design. In condition A, the participants were asked to estimate a numerical expression in ascending order 1 X 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 x 8. In condition B, it was presented in descending order 8 X 7 X 6 X 5 X 4 X 3 X 2 X 1. I already ran the experiment, but my problem is with getting the statistics. As it is independent measures, my teacher said to use the Mann-Whitney test. However, when I input my data, I get this notification: The sum of ranks for samples A and B combined does n…
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hello guys, this is regarding my psychology IA. I did my experiment on the self-serving bias and on Monday I have to submit my first draft. but I'm actually struggling writing my introduction what all do I need to include and write about, how to start. my teacher said not to mention the attribution theroy. she said to talk about the socio-cultural biases because SSB falls under cognitive bias but I'm soo confused. please, i really need help. can anyone help to outline my introduction about what all i need to talk? please, your help would mean a lot.
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Does someone have essay samples on some human relationship's objectives
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I want to do my EE on the psychological effects of solitary confinement but I'm unsure of how to phrase my KQ or how to narrow down my question. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
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Hi! I was wondering if anyone could offer any help/advice with my EE, I came up with the question and everything. I'm basing my EE on the participation in sports and how it helps develop social skills. What I really need help with is the case studies, I was hoping someone would know of any resources or studies used that involved this topic. Also what parts of psychology would fit best in this topic -developmental, sociocultural, human relations, cognitive, etc...
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I´m taking HL psych. and I´m worried for the exam because of the huge amount of studies I have to memorize. I was wondering if anyone has any tips for studying or memorizing studies??
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Im having trouble deciding on what question should I pick to do my EE. I have some of them here and I’d appreciate if you guys told me the better one from your point of view. To what extent is the influence of sleep on emotional and cognitive processing a primarily trait? To what extent does emotions affect with the cognitive process? To what extent are dreams related to psychosis? To what extent is schizophrenia and dreaming linked? The role of REM sleep in cognitive processing. I’d love suggestions, opinions or anything you want to say! Thanks in advance.
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Hi, I have decided to do my EE on psychology, and could it be more into criminal psychology? I am asking here because my teacher was like I will check that and he never gave me the answer also do I have to conduct any experiment for my EE? My friend said that I have to do the experiment on which I will write EE (I know that I have to do an experiment for IA but what about EE)??
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Hi! I really need some help with the ERQ for Animal Research in Bloa There are 3 potential practice questions that we are supose to write a practice ERQ on, but I dont know which studies to use for each of them and what information to include! 1)Discuss the value of animal models in the study of the brain and behaviour 2)Evaluate one evolutionary argument to explain one human behaviour 3)Discuss how genetic simillarities help psychologists in the study of genes and behaviour These are the studies that we can use: Roger's and Kesner, Meany Stydy on Stress Hormines, Rosenzweig study, Romero et al study. Endophenotype Argument, Harlow's Monkeys …
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Need help on answering SAQ the right way. Always falling short of what the mark scheme requires. Can someone post a sample question and answer for Paper 1.
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Hey guys. I found out that the syllabus changed for IB psychology today, and my class doesn’t know about it. And I don’t have an updated textbook. How do I write the essay now? And should I buy a new textbook or use my Pearson?
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I formed a question already but I'm not sure if it is specific enough. I've actually altered it multiple times, so I'll also list those out as well. Please give me some feedback on these potential research questions!! I know they seem really similar but I want to choose one that's specific enough. 1. To what extent does birth order play a role in determining personality? 2. To what extent does birth order influence intelligence? 3. To what extent does birth order play a role in career choices? 4. How are Freud and Jung's views on the psychoanalytic theory of dreams (theory of the unconscious) similar and different?
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hello everyone!, I'm currently doing the extended essay on psychology and my research question is; "Does the increasing use of social media promote teenage depression?". I have been told that there are many research studies done recently about the topic, however, I couldn't find them online. Could anyone help cuz I gotta start writing the essay soon?
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Hello! I am in the first year of IB and my teacher has decided that we should submit our final psychology IA-s in January 2019, so we should be done by now. We submitted the first draft and my teacher didn't give me that much feedback. is any of you interested to give me a feedback or that would help me with improving? it would help me a lot.
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Our psychology IA is based on Peterson and Peterson experiment (1959). We are performing an exact replication of the original experiment and in that there is only one group (experimental) for which a repeated measures design has been used. However, according to the new IB guidelines, for the analysis bit we are required to apply both inferential and descriptive statistics. For inferential statistics we need a control group too, so that we can compare but there is no room for a control group in the original replication. In other words it won't make sense to have a control group. Is it still possible to do the IA without inferential stats? Can anyone suggest any …
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Hi, this is my first year as a diploma. So for my extended essay, I chose psychology as my subject. And my topic is the influences of parenting style on the behavior of an ADHD child. I'm still brainstorming about which behavior might be suitable for my EE. I came to a conclusion on self-confidence, and anxiety. Any tips regarding my EE topic? Or any advice for a suitable behavior I should research on? THANKSSS~
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Long story short, my IB Psych SL class was recently collapsed into an 'independent study class' following some issues with our previous teacher, and we're working on revising our IA drafts with guidance from our coordinator (who teaches psych, but not at IB level). We've just been given access to a number of materials (including the correct rubric) for the IA for the first time, and one of my classmates is freaking out because of the condition that conformity and obedience studies are not ethically acceptable to replicate. He replicated Asch 1951, the one with the lines and the confederates, and at the time our previous teacher didn't say anything about it, but suffice it…
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Hey everyone, I am doing my psych IA on Loftus and Palmer 1974. What is the correct way to operationalize the IV? Can it be done this way: The independent variable is the intensity of the critical word used in the leading question. Thank you.
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Hi! Anyone knows how to memorize all the Psychology HL studies for the exam, and actually remember them?
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I'm doing Psychology HL and my IA is about Elliot et al= how color affects performance attainability to an individual. Since there are changes in IA's, I'm really confused what to put on exploration. Can I have at least bullet points or tips what to put for exploration? Thank you
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im new to this site and i dont know how it works but i need help with my psychology EE. i want to do it on dissociative identity disorder because it fascinates me a lot, however, i havent researched a lot about it, i just know the basics and some things a few articles have mentioned. I need to come up with my research question soon, so do any of you guys have any idea about websites i can use for legitimate research for psychology (not only DID but in general as well)??
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Is there a minimum word limit for long answer/essay questions (which are 22 marks, section B in paper 1 and in Paper 2)? My teacher says that it is obligatory to write more than 1000 words, but I haven’t seen such a criteria in the official subject guide. Do you guys have any idea?
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Hello, I would like to know how many times is my IB Psychology teacher allowed to give me feedback? Is the maximum number of written and oral feedback different? Can my Psychology teacher give feedback on all my IA drafts regardless of the number of drafts? I tried to find the information via google but failed to do so. Any link to some reliable source where it answers my question would be really appreciated though I would gladly accept any answers regardless of whether it's backed up with some source or not ☺️
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For my Psychology Extended Essay I'm interested in the topic about gender roles but I'm still not quite sure on which aspect of it that I would like to focus on. I found tons of articles and journals about gender roles, gender differences, the biological and sociocultural aspects of gender, etc, which make me even more confused. Any suggestions on interesting specifics or aspects of that particular topic?
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Hello, I am in the process of writing theory and planning part of my IA, ready to conduct the experiment beginning of September. I have chosen to replicate Loftus, Miller and Burns (1978). In this study the participants are show a series of 30 coloured slides depicting a red Datsun driving down a road, stopping by an intersection with wither a stop or yield sign (two conditions) and then getting into an accident with a pedestrian. I can not find the original slides (or any) online and have not actually seen them and so cannot be sure what the exact series of events is, thus I cannot make an animated replica of it. Has anyone else done this and has the …
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Hi, I am doing a Psychology IA on the effect of music on test performance, and am struggling to find a theory or model that describes what I am investigating. If any of you guys have perhaps done a similar study, and have a theory or model you are happy to share, that would be greatly appreciated. The original study I am using is attached below. Thanks, Altre01 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066931/
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hello everyone!, I'm currently doing the extended essay on psychology and my research question is; "Does the increasing use of social media promote teenage depression?". I have been told that there are many research studies done recently about the topic, however, I couldn't find them online. Could anyone help cuz I gotta start writing the essay soon?
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