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What is the word count for the abstract of the psych IA? Does anyone know how many sources we would need to cite in the bibliography...I used only 2. My teacher was pretty surprised
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Alright, it is time to begin my EE and as we are briefed on the steps to take and what not, our coordinator informs us not to do an EE on Psychology. I am very interested in Psychology and was assuming that it would be okay. It would be easier to do a different subject I had been informed and had then decided to do a History EE. Well. Now I am not so sure that I should do a History EE but a Psych. Should I do a Psych EE?
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I have outliers in my data according to Moore and McCabe when i use their criteria for determining outliers Q1 - (1.5 x IQR) I was wondering if it would be okay to remove them when i do the inferential statistics bit
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My favourite thing about my psych class is that our classes are really interactive and we usually keep Friday as our 'general discussion day.' We don't study on that day and instead, we discuss topics not related to our syllabus but they are related to psychology
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Hi guys, i am wondering as i am new to the IB and this is my first time taking Psychology and i am wondering how you think is best to revise but also i looked at some past papers (they look really scary!) any ideas how to revise to get this exam down? All help is apreciated.
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What are some cognitive processes in the cognitive level of analysis?
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Does anyone have any past pares for psychology, preferably from 2012 onwards? I found some stuff online but they dont seem to be matching the syllabus completely.
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What type of testing would i use to conclude my experiments validity for my IA?
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Please take this quiz guys! It's really quick and is for my science fair. I will take your surveys as well! https://quizegg.com/q/69323 username: psychIA password: psych thank you so much!!!!
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I can't seem to find the data of Neisser's 1964 experiment including the visual search with angular letters (K, E, L) Could anyone link me possibly? Thanks!
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Okay, so. I'm Psychology HL and at my school we use the Oxford course companion for Psychology. But then, I went through past papers, and in paper 1 (the core)and instead of Sociocultural it was Learning and Human perspective. Is that a substitute for Sociocultural or a new topic as a whole? Should I refer to some other book? Please help me out!
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Hey guys, I'm currently in y11 in my school and the time has come to pick my IB subjects, as you might see form the topic heading I am intrested in taking psychology although I'm not sure if it's really a practical/useful subject to take. I'd like to do Psychology in HL it is an online course provided to my school from Pamoja Education, i'm questioning if this is a reasonable subject to take along with the question of the added difficulty of an online course, if someone could advise me that'd be great.
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I was wondering for the final papers how one remembers so many case studies. Remembering the year of the case study is extremely hard. Tips would be appreciated. Thank you!
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I'm trying to figure out the mark scheme of Section A of Paper 1 to understand how I can improve my 8-mark essays. On Page 35 of the Psychology subject guide, the only descriptors to awarding marks to Section A are: "0", "Low", "Mid", and "High". Can anyone provide me with an examiner's rubric for Section A (according to my psychology teacher IB examiners should have a more detailed rubric), or can someone elaborate on what is considered "Low", "Mid" and "High" 8-mark answers? Examples would be fantastic, if possible.
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Two learning outcomes from the sociocultural section read: Outline principles that define the sociocultural level of analysis and Explain how principles that define the sociocultural level of analysis may be demonstrated in research I'm thinking for the first one you'd list and define the principles and back it up with research (Asch study for example). For the second one, you'd also list the principles, and also refer to these studies to show how they demonstrate the principles. So are these two learning outcomes almost the same question?
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I was reading a sample essay on schema theory, and a sentence said : " One example of a behaviour that schemas can influence is memory encoding and retrieval. " Can someone please explain to me how/why memory is a behavior?
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So, I need some people to help me out and take a survey for my psych IA. It looks like a lot, but its mostly pictures. If you're from the US, Germany, Brazil, China, or South Africa and wouldn't mind helping me out (it should only be about 2 or 3 minutes of your time) please message me! If you would like to fill it out it is attached to this post. survey.docx
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I was looking at a post with notes for the learning outcome "Outline principles that define the sociocultural level of analysis" here: http://ibpsychnotes.com/scloa-lo/lo1/ Under "Human beings have a need to belong" the Asch study is used as an example. Logical, because the need to belong is what controls conformity. However, under "Culture influences behavior", the Bandura Doll study is listed. This strikes me as odd, as the subjects here aren't really being influenced by a culture, but are simply conforming to some behavior they see. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to, say, refer to the study of IBM employees from different countries that showed differences in the ways …
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Hi! I'm doing Psych SL, and I'm aiming for a 7, while currently getting sixes. I've found out that there are waaay too many studies for me to memorize all the researchers and years conducted, and I so I wonder: what significance do these factors have? If you can perfectly explain the idea of a study without producing the name and year, will you be punished? --- Also, I'm using this book: http://www.amazon.com/IB-Psychology-Course-Companion-byHannibal/dp/B005MKBLHO/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358512872&sr=1-6&keywords=ib+psychology And each chapter has learning outcomes, with questions that seem like they could be on exams. Are all of them possibilities…
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So... As many of you probably already know, many universities don't give credit for SL courses, whereas they give credit for AP. I take Psychology SL, and I was wondering whether you guys would advise me to take the AP test. I know that in reality, if I really need to do a lot of extra studying for it, I probably won't have the motivation for it. Would you say SL covers most of the material needed for the test? Our psychology teacher, who also teaches AP, said that he used to say that IB students are well prepared for the test, but then many students failed and he doesn't say that any more. I think it'll look bad if I take the test and it doesn't go well, and there's the …
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Hello all, I'm currently writing my socio-cultural LOA notes and was wondering what an appropriate study would be for the point: "describe the role of situational and dispositional factors in explaining behaviour" Would it be appropriate to use Ross et al. 1977 despite the fact that it explains the fundamental attribution error? Or would it be better off using Zimbardo's prison experiment (1971) Thanks!
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- is it okay? My teacher said we should not use the Zimbaro Stanford Prison Experiment for the question in SLA that asks for an evaluation on social identity theory. He said there are too many factors involved in the Zimbardo experiment. However, I find the experiment very intriguing and easy to memorise/ very applicable to a lot of other questions. So do you recommend that I still use the Zimbardo experiment for some questions in the SLA, particularly to demonstrate one of the principles in SLA, to illustrate situational factors, and to be an example for one of the research methods (experiment)? Any thoughts? What would be a good substitute if not? Thanks
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We just started on the Psych IA last week and I already feel like it's going to be a major disaster I already changed my topic thrice because I couldn't find any resources whatsoever on my previous topics. We don't have public libraries where I live, and the Psychology books at my school library provide little to no information on my topic. I'm now doing the levels of processing, specifically Craik and Lockhart's 1972 study, and I'm really liking it. But, I'm in desperate need for the actual study. I can't seem to find it. I found replications, criticisms...anything related to the study, you name it, I have it, except for the actual thing. I searched on Ebsco, Proquest, …
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Hello, I am done with my Introduction of IB Psychology HL except in this book I have, it asks "How did your ideas develop from the previous research and why was this considered to be an interesting area of investigation" What does this mean? I talked about 2 case studies (including the one I am replicating) and one theory in which those case studies support. So, what exactly am I supposed to say? Thank you, IB Kid in Need
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Discuss two effects of environment on physiological processes
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Hello there! I am writing a psychology practice essay on "Discuss the two effects of environment on physiological processes", however, the two studies that my psychology teacher has strongly recommended is Maguire's taxi driver study (neuroplasticity where taxi drivers experience a brain structure change on their hippocampus) and Rosenzweig and Bennett's study on rats (deprivation of environment leads to increased thickness in cerebral cortex). However, the problem is that I find them really similar, as they are both related to brain plasticity, and how the environment leads to brain structure changes etc. Would this be a problem, since the question asks for "two effects…
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IB Psychology Paper 1 revision Guide
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Dear all, For those that are worried about paper 1 in psychology, I suggest you buy the Revision Guide online: http://osc-ib.com/ib-revision-guides/Defau...e=IB-Psychology You should not encounter any problems in the exam hopefully if you understand the revision guide as it has everything you need to know for paper 1 in Psychology, which is the hardest of all papers.
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Okay, so this is probably a really stupid question, but I've searched this forum and I can't find an answer so here goes: My SL psychology teacher has asked us to start finding our own studies because that will help us understand them better. When I asked her how to do that, she just said to use Google... There's go to be a better way to find reliable information on studies, right? Does anyone have advice on how to go about searching for some?
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So, basically, the situation is that my teacher is on maternity leave, our substitute is our TOK teacher who theoretically speaking is a sport psychologist so they decided with our teacher that she'll teach us this option instead of Abnormal which was done in previous years. Apart from that, we're doing human relationships. Apart from the fact that I'm not really satisfied with the teacher, I really don't get sports psychology. Like, really don't get. I can do human relationships all right, but sports psychology is like larning quantum physics to me. So, my question is - do you guys think it is possible to self-learn an option (Abnormal), possibly getting some notes from…
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Hey everyone (: So, this is my problem. I'm doing psychology as an online course, and it's driving me crazy @@ I meant like I keep getting distracted, lessons become so boring and stuff gets confusing and its hard to communicate with the teachers. Any tips, advice or anything from anyone who has or had the same issues? Thanks a lot
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As the title says. Do you have any suggestions on what I should bring up? It is supposed to be for Pre-IBers. I'm thinking about going through foundations of psychology, basic evaluating and the biological level of analysis. Since I haven't done that much of the course yet (IB 1) you might have a better understanding of what is important. Do you think I should focus more on the evaluation part or perhaps essay writing? Any help is appreciated!
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Hello, I replicated Stroop's experiment and now I am asked to calculate "appropriate measures of central tendency and dispersion" for my two conditions/trials. The problem is that I really don't know which is appropriate for my experiment! The teacher gave us this page: http://easycalculation.com/statistics/statistics.php but there are so many! I did a repeated measures design and I am now with, for each participant, the time spent on a 1st task and the time spent on a 2nd task. The aim of the experiment is basically to see the difference between the two... Could somebody help me finding out which calculations to do and why? Thanks
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I'm just curious because I'm considering studying Psychology at university
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I'm switching schools next year and I have to change one of my IB courses. I can either take Psychology SL or Social Anthropology SL. I don't have experience in either subject but I'm interested in both, although I'm already in History and Bio HL so I'm sick of memorizing stuff. Does one have a better reputation than the other--like in terms of how interesting the course material is? It would also be nice to know which has the easier, lighter workload...as 'easy' and 'light' as an IB course can get, that is.
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Hello hello I don't think I have seen a post talking about the choice of the experiment to replicate for the IA! Choosing a topic, it's always my biggest problem... But anyway! Do you know of a useful website or something with ideas of cool, interesting, easy, and appropriate studies for the IA? And btw how did you chose your subject if you already had?? Thank you in advance
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Hello! This evening when I'm writing this, I'm as confused as I was the day my viewpoint of my Psychology teacher drastically changed. Yes, it was a couple of weeks ago, when my entire Psychology class were entirely taken apart by our Psychology teacher. We were supposed to get our valuable feedback for our IAs, in which we did, in an unexpected manner. One of the first thing we got to hear that the results from our first draft were extremely disappointing, and in fact, we had the "Worst result ever" on our Psychology IAs for the entire time my school has had the IB. Well, that's okay one may think, and it was by then. She was the one who knew things, and of course, no on…
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Hi, I found the photocopied version (http://step.psy.cmu.edu/articles/Neisser.pdf) but it's hard to read and some information is missing. Can anyone find an online/text version of it? Thanks so much.
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The Power of Sesame Street to Improve Reading Phillip is a very enthusiastic elementary school teacher who believes that the best way to improve his students’ reading ability is for them to watch educational TV programmes like Sesame Street. He wants to see if watching TV can make a difference. He invites the parents of his class to a meeting and assigns the first parents to arrive to the group whose children will watch one hour of Sesame Street each day for 3 months. The other group will watch cartoons for the same period of time. He tells the parents what he hopes the results will show better scores on a reading test for the children who watch educational TV shows like…
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Hello everyone, in abnormal psychology, under psychological disorders, the outcome states: Describe symptoms and prevalence of one disorder from two of the following groups: – anxiety disorders – affective disorders – eating disorders Does this mean we pick a group and describe symptoms and prevalence for one disorder only? Or would we have to describe symptoms and prevalence for two disorders - one from each of the groups they give us?
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For my IA I need to operationalize the IV and the DV, my teacher mentioned how to do this but I got confused. Could someone just give me a method with an example please?
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Hello everyone, thanks for reading this post. I need help for finding paper 1 of psychology hl of november 2011. please if you know the link our you have the questions help me. I would be very grateful. Thanks for all
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Please help me!
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Hi Guys, Just wondering if anyone one would have the Psych HL IA grade boundaries based on the the NEW SYLLABUS. Not the one out of 25, but the one out of 28. Thanks.
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Would you write different lengths of 8 mark questions based on the command terms eg. outline vs explain. My policy is to divide the first half of the exam 20 mins per 8 mark and then the next hour for the 22 mark What do you think/what are your strategies? Thanks
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Hey guys, I just wanted to ask whether it is allowed to use footnotes in a psychology IA. The thing is that I'm finishing my IA but the problem is the amount of words. I currently have 2100, which is 100 words over the HL limit of 2000, and I cannot seem to be able to reduce the word count any more. You see, I had 2700 words, but it was easy to remove about 500 by taking away some unnecessary paragraphs, and then I removed 100 more by going slowly through the IA and rephrasing sentences and paragraphs so that they would take up less space. Now that I've gone through the IA for so many times, there doesn't seem to be anything that could be removed. I can't ask help from th…
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Hello boys and girls, I am currently considering my choices for DP subjects. Do you think Psychology HL is difficult? How difficult is that comparing to Geography HL? Any statistics??
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Hi forum! When answering short answer questions (SAQ) with the command term of Explain, what tips do you have? I recently answered, "Explain how principles that define the Cognitive Level of Analysis can be demonstrated in research" with the the format of something like this: i. Explicit state the 3 principles (The principles that define the Cognitive Level of Analysis...) ii. Research 1 ...conducted an experiment on eyewitness testimony and demonstrated two principles ... (principle #1 and #2) .. describe research [sIGNPOST] therefore demonstrating the principles ... iii. Research 2 ...demonstrated the principle ... (principle #3) ... describe research .. [sIGNPOST] the…
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IA measure of central tendency and dispersion, which is appropriate if i am using ordinal data.
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i have a ordinal data but i dont know the appropriate measures of central tendency and dispersion to use. mean mode median i dont know which one to chose.
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IA If the results of my wilcoxon test agress with my null hypothesis does it mean i fail my IA.
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after doing my IA on glanzer and cunitz serial position curve . my results from the wilcoxon test allowed me to accept the null hypothesis instead of reject it and i am wondering if it means i fail my IA If i keep the same experiment or i have to do a new one.
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I heard that psychology as an IB subject isn't even needed to get into the psychology field. Also, what is the course like? interesting? ambiguous? Thoughts and views appreciated
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How exactly do i study psychology SL ?
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Hey guys i would be very glad if someone could help me by telling me how i can study for psychology. I just don't understand abnormal psychology.
