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Hello, I'm currently writing my IA in Psychology HL about Loftus and Palmer 1974. For calculating the inferential results I have used the Mann-Whitney U test and justified it by saying that I used an independent meeasure design in my experiment. I don't really know if that's enough for justifying it or if I should include other reasons? Thank you for the help.
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Hi All, I am doing my Psychology IA on Loftus & Palmer. But, my results are opposite of the actual study. What should I do now? If I am to use my current results (which is opposite of Loftus & Palmer), do I have to mention studies done to support the opposite? I could not find any studies which shows the opposite. Thanks a lot.
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Please help!!! Need any ideas or info on how to find contradictory study for Neisser's 1964 study (the similar letters and numbers one)
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hello, does anybody know what where the questions for the Psychology Paper 1 and paper 2 in the Nov. 2015 exams ?
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The question is: Explain how one principle that defines the biological level of analysis may be demonstrated in research. I think of explaining the following principle: "behavioural patterns can be inherited". I want to use Kendler (2006) IS twin study a research method? Or should I talk about correlational studies? Thank you in advance!
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Hello, right now we are doing attribution theory and I need your help. What are some of the differences between Abu Ghraib and Stanford Prison Experiment? Thanks
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Hi everyone, I'm starting my revision plan for my exams taking place in may and I'm wondering what the IB psychology TZ2 questions were for last year's exam paper 1 and for the option abnormality so i can know what to focus my revision on. Any information would be appreciated Thank you
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I'm a grade 10 myp student in Ontario Canada and I had to take two HL courses for next year, so I took Psych as one of them. However I'm afraid now that I made the wrong decision cause I'd hate it if Psych required too much socializing! OK, let my describe myself. I'm that loner who often sits all alone in class, spends most lunches in the library studying alone, and I absolutely hate group work! Cause usually when there's a group activity I need to go to some random group of people and ask them if I can be in their group, or worse go to a teacher and tell them that I couldn't find a group! Oh God I absolutely hate group work. I'm asking this because I've been reading Psy…
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For our IA we have to have a hard copy of the original study we're replicating, and I can't find any online! The hard copy is due Friday, so any help or links to studies would be appreciated.
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Core Paper 1 SAQ Concluding Comments
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Hi everyone! My IB Psychology teacher always advises us to end our SAQ responses in Paper 1 with a 2- to 3-sentence conclusion that includes an evaluation of the study we used. However, I've read on several websites that this is not required (and even not recommended), as SAQs do not address the evaluation criterion (as essays do). When I told my teacher about my thoughts, she said that what I pointed out was valid, but IB examiners tend to be very subjective in marking the papers. What do you think???
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I have to select my courses for IB soon (in 6 days). I have to decide between History HL and Psychology HL. Right now I'm leaning towards History HL, but I'm afraid I'll lose interest. I find Psychology and History equally as interesting currently. Do you guys find Psychology HL interesting?
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Hi All, I am replicating Loftus & Palmer for my HL IA. How many surveys do I need to conduct? Also, which studies rejects reconstructive memory? Thanks a lot.
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Can it be claimed that experimental trials can be used as part of the research method in an organizational case study?? The Pearson Psychology textbook says this is fine, but I've heard that in previous years marks were deducted from Paper 3 responses that referred to the experimental method as a valid component of the case study method.
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Hello everyone. I've conducted two tests, an independent t-test and a Mann Whitney U test for my psychology IA, but they give different results! The t-test confirms my research hypothesis, while the Mann Whitney U test disproves my hypothesis. The Mann Whitney U test, according to cranepsych, appears to be more acceptable by the IB for use in the inferential statistics section of the IA, but the t-test can also be used if it is properly justified!!... What should I do?? Should I go with Mann-Whitney OR the t-test??
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the question: Examine how research methods may be used for the BLOA My teacher hasnt told us anything about command terms, but i'm writing this essay and its starting to sound like "evaluate" please help
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Today i went to my EE supervisor with a slight change in narrowing down my research question for Psychology. Im looking more towards long term affects of temperament in children. She told me to look up Thomas and Chess and all i can find are books, i was hoping for a PDF of their study but i cant seem to find it anywhere, please help
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Hi! I am writing my IB exams in May 2016. To be honest, I am a little anxious about my Psychology HL grade. I certainly aim to get 7, but my class is the fourth IB class in our school, and in the last third classes nobody got 7 in Psych HL. There were only two 7 in SL. Is it really so difficult to get this mark on the exam?
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Hi, so I'm wondering if there are any simple psychology experiments which could be ran by three individuals which take no longer than 1 and a half hour? If there are some good sites or any that have been done in the past that have been successful and was able to collect a good amount of data, that would be great. Thanks.
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How do I format SAQs and LAQs? My teacher keeps telling me different things and its really confusing Can someone tell me the formats for writing LAQs? Like what to include in the paragraphs I know we need 4-5 paragraphs, intro and conclusion and usually written last Thanks!
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I am having some trouble with my study guide for SCLOA (sociocultural levels of analysis). Im also having troubles figuring out how to evaluate theories as a whole.... There are also some specific topics that im having trouble with if anyone could help with notes, studies, or where to find information (LOA or CC?), it would be greatly appreciated - Study to prove that peoples schemas are resistant to change - roles of situational and dispositional factors (studies) - formation of stereotypes and effect on behavior - compliance techniques - conformity any help would be greatly appreciated,
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Hi all! I'm writing my Psych IA conclusion and I'm stuck with a potentially huge problem because I'm not sure I wrote my results up right. I'm afraid to disclose much in here, publicly, because of originality, etc, and I'm doing the experiment alone, so I don't really have anyone to consult with. (And my teacher would never work during the holidays.) Can anyone help who's gotten a good grade from their IA and/or did well in Psychology? Please let me know (write here & I'll PM you -- or PM me directly) if you may be able to help. Thank you so much!!
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I struggle to add in critical-thinking into my response of these essays
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What are the elements you need to include in order to get a good grade?
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Hello I am currently completing my IA in psychology HL. I am conducting an independent design study to collect ratio data (speed in km/h). I was wondering what kind of statistical tests I should use? one that I expect to use is the t test (should I do the paired or the unpaired t test?). What else should I use? If you must know, I am replicating Loftus and Palmer: Reconstruction of automobile destruction Thank You
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Hi guys, I am in the process of finishing my psychology HL IA. Our teacher is new to the IB and she has no idea about inferential stats so she is not even checking it for us as she doesn't know how to do it and it is up to us. I have managed to do the Wilcoxon test using an application online however I don't know how I am supposed to explain it and relate it to my data and hypothesis. My experiment was on the stroop effect and I used a repeated measure design which is why I chose to do a Wilcoxon test. Can someone please help me with this. Thank you all in advance.
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Hey guys I am having my mock exams in 2 weeks and i was wondering what i should study for Paper 2! For Paper 1, i know that i can study 2 or even 1 of the levels of analysis for the long essay because we have a choice. But for Paper 2, is it safe to study the chapter about 'concepts of normality' and the treatment of only one disorder?
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I am planning on writing my EE on psychology. Anytime I find a great source, I have to pay for it. Are there any websites out there with good case studies, articles, etc.? (P.S. Anything besides Google Scholar and JSTOR please.)
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I have been searching high and low for case studies about introversion and related matters, but I can't find anything. HELP!
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I had originally picked Psychology SL as my Group 3 subject during the Pre-IB year but everybody told me Economics was easier, more useful in the future, and went better with the rest of my subjects so I switched last minute. I thought I'd eventually learn to like it but honestly I just hate it more and more, and I feel like psychology is more of my type of subject. I want to switch Econ SL to Psych SL. My current subjects are: Math HL Physics HL Chem HL Swedish B HL English Lit SL Economics SL Is Psychology SL a smart subject to take if my other subjects are quite demanding? Would it be hard to catch up if I've been in Economics SL since August? And would taking Psyc…
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For our psychology IA, my partners and I decided to do an experiment based off of one that tested the effects of classical music on cognitive development with a repeated measures design. Due to lack of clarification, we tested the effects of classical, metal, and hip hop music on cognitive development with an independent measures design (too many variables). Our teacher cleared this up and told us to only talk about the results of one musical genre in comparison to the control group, so we decided to write about heavy metal in our IA's, However, our teacher is now telling us that we had to use the same genre of music that was used in the original statement and that we mus…
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Hello! Me and my group are in desperate need of help for our IA data analysis. We are doing ours on gender stereotyped perceptions in newborn infants. In our study we showed the participants a photo of a baby but labelled it differently depending on the condition (this is a baby girl vs this is a baby boy). Depending on the information we gave to the participant we hypothesised that if the baby was labelled as a girl for instance they would tick more "female characteristics" on a list we gave to them. Questions we have are: - Since we are only supposed to analyse one variable, is the effect of gender counted as one variable or should we analyse the effect of one label (…
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Hi guys! I'm slowly dying here because my IA deadline is coming and for the life of me, I can't find supporting studies for Asch's ‘Forming Impressions of Personality’ study. I'm replicating the first experiment (how do the words warm/cold affect the impression of one's personality). If anyone has any tips, it would be appreciated a lot!!
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Hi All, Just wondering if anyone knows whether IB can ask the following question for health psychology paper 2, since the command term is SAQ one and I've heard IB cannot ask SAQ questions as ERQ? "Explain factors related to the development of substance abuse or addictive behaviour"
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Hey guys, I'm doing my Psychology IA on the Anderson and Pichert experiment. Basically, in this study 20 participants were made to read out a story and they were each assigned a schema of either a house buyer (10) or a burglar (10). After reading the story, they had to recall the information about the house in the story from their assigned schema. After a small distraction task, the schemas of the participants were switched. 10 participants remained with their previous schema while the rest 10 were given the opposite schema. Their recalls were tested again. I used an independent measures sample and the recall questionnaires were scored out of 20 points. What inferentia…
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Hi everyone! I was just wondering how to write the paragraph about inferential statistics in my IA. I did all of the math (I think) and figured out the significance level and which hypothesis to reject and accept, but I don't know what two-tailed or one-tailed means (my teacher wants it in the paragraph). Here is exactly what my teacher said to put in the paragraph: Analysis of Results: This information is used to decide the level of significance that was achieved in the study. You must justify why you chose your statistical test. Words like one-tailed, non-parametric and type of data (ordinal, nominal, and interval) should be used. Information like the critical value …
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Hello, everyone! As you all know, the IB Psych exam is in early May, which is right around the corner. In my class, I have only done one practice Paper 1 and one practice Paper 2, so I haven't gotten much in terms of feedback. My teacher refuses to grade any practice essays that I write on my own time because she says that if she does so for one student, she would have to do it for everyone. Therefore, I was wondering if anyone could please take a look at this practice essay and rate it on a scale from 1 to 7 or give me suggestions. Thank you so much to anyone who decides to help me out! Also, I apologize if this is in the wrong section or if this is against the rules. …
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Hi everyone! I was just wondering how to write the paragraph about inferential statistics in my IA. I did all of the math (I think) and figured out the significance level and which hypothesis to reject and accept, but I don't know what two-tailed or one-tailed means (my teacher wants it in the paragraph). Here is exactly what my teacher said to put in the paragraph: Analysis of Results: This information is used to decide the level of significance that was achieved in the study. You must justify why you chose your statistical test. Words like one-tailed, non-parametric and type of data (ordinal, nominal, and interval) should be used. Information like the critical value …
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Hey guys, have the syllabus changed for the examinations in 2017 and if yes could you please put a link to it down here and also could u please recommend the course book to be used. Please help!
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Psychology IA - Debriefing
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So because of the nature of my study I will be telling the participants everything about it in the briefing, and I was wondering whether having a debriefing is a requirement even though I will just be repeating what I said in the briefing. I've cleared the fact that everything that is said in the briefing can be said with my teacher, but still wondering about this.
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Hi guys, my teacher has told me to operationalise my hypothesis and I have no clue if I've done it right,or if I even have done it. What would be the operationalised Hypothesis for: Experimental Hypothesis (H1) = Participants who will be viewing images, will be able to recall more words than participants who will hear the words. Null Hypothesis (H0) = Participants who will be viewing the image, will have no significant effect on the number of words recalled. Thanks
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Hello. I'm planning on doing my Extended Essay on psychology. I was wondering if this was a good topic to do research on? Thanks! How do genetics and environmental factors contribute to the development of introversion?
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Hi I am bombarding Psychology on this forum this days Anyway, do you guys have any idea how the question "define the terms culture and cultural norms" may come up on the exam?
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Hi. I am a Year 2 IB student, and I'm planning on doing my EE on Psychology. I have a topic, but I would like to hear some advice on it before I start planning. - I don't know where to start. How can I plan my essay? - Is my research question too vague? Research Question: “How does sleep deprivation affect one’s psychological health?" Thanks!
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Hi My Psychology teacher told us that for the topic "Evaluate research methods on confomity to group norms" it is correct to use Asher (1951) experiment and then just its variation as the second study. However, to be honest, I am not really sure about that one... Would not it be better if I used a totally different study e.g. this of Sherif? What do you think, guys?
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Hello everyone, I came up with three research questions that I think I can look into for my psychology EE. Can you guys pick which one you think is best? I dont have a preference towards any of those questions, I think I would be perfectly fine doing any of them. But I just need other people's feedback on this before I finalize anything. So here are my research questions: Why is Autism diagnosed more often in boys than it is in girls? What are emotions and how can we prevent and deal with negative emotions? To what extent are our behaviors influenced by our personality? So pick the one you think is best and write the number of the question down below. Th…
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Hi, i am replicating Bartlett's (1932) study for psychology IA. The aim of this replicating study is investigating how social and cultural factors influence schemas and hence can lead to memory distortions. My hypothesis is the people with familiar to their culture will recall their memory accurately and people with unfamiliar to their culture will have memory distortions and make some errors on reproducing stories. However, i don't understand the differences of experimental hypothesis and null hypothesis. What are the differences?
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Hi all! I am currently struggling with a research question for my extended essay in psychology. I am planning to explore the field of dream psychology and I have been reading about freudian theories of dreams and unconscious mind for the past year as I am deeply interested in this field, These were the topics that I initially came up with: 1. To what extent do dreams relate to everyday reality? 2. How can lucid dreaming be rendered as a part of our imagination? 3. To what extent can lucid dreaming help us gain insight about ourselves? 4. How does our unconscious mind determine and channel our dream state? However my teacher tells me that w…
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Hello, I did some research for my IA and find out that i am doing it on the Eye Witness report. My teach asked us to find 3 similar experiments and summarize what they did. I only have found 2 so far, Loftus Palmer and Loftus Zanni. Do anyone of you know any other similar experiments? I would really appreciate your help. Thanks in Advance.
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I am an SL psychology student and have choosen Craik and Tulving (1975) to replicate. The thing is that while there is technically only one independent variable (the different levels of processing) there are three different conditions for the IV (structural, phonetic and semantic processing). I know that is allowed in the HL, but can SL students have three conditions as well?? Thanks!
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I've just got started with the actual process of trying to write my EE; this is following plenty of thought and discussion with teachers as to what (within psychology) my topic could be. I decided that I wanted to focus on language acquisition as I'm very interested in both linguistics and psychology and numerous ties can be made between the two. So far the two questions that I have come up with are; To what extent can a first language inhibit second-language acquisition? -looking at the syntax/morphology of certain languages as opposed to others -relevance of language acquisition theory// (innate vs. learned) -critical period hypothesis (might this be what makes S…
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