IA Psychology HL

[readysetgo]

Hello,

I am sorry if this has been asked before but I could not find a specific answer.

So I read in my Psych book that for HL students, it is recommended that the experiment they use is changed a little bit. Is this necessary? If I replicate the Loftus and Palmer experiment with the car accident and ask the participants "About how fast were the cars going when they hit/smashed each other?", thus not changing it from the original, will the examiner take out points or something?

I am thinking of adding a few more leading questions maybe for the "smashed" group. My teacher told me that it doesn't matter if it is identical but I want your opinion as well.

Thanks!

[Julia Koziel]

You can, but don't have to, and examinator should not lower the amount of points just because you did a slight modification.

The most important thing is to show your ability to understand methodology and data analysis

[citizenoftheuniverse]

I personally think that that is not the best EE topic, since many IB psychology students do the exact same experiment every year for their IA. If you do do it, I would recommend changing it a bit so you would be more unique and not a longer copy of what is basically an IA.