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While this is an unusual blog title, the "Should you bring an iced coffee to a job interview?" debate that went viral online last week, gives an opportunity to look at two different perspectives on what...
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We have received questions from teachers about the differences between the cognitive approach and the learning and cognition context. You have also wanted to check how questions may be framed, and what...
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Hi John, Thank you for the incredible resource that this is. In this section as you are describing Paper 1 and Paper 2 and you mention "Content" are you referring to the IB Psych Content areas of Cognitive, Biological, and Sociocultural...
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I worked out the glitch this afternoon. The only issue I have left is the major units to cover, and if we need to teach all sub-topics of the major units. (Example: Learning and Cognition has Attention, Memory, and Cognitive).
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Hi John, The links for the Attention unit in Learning Cognition are all good, but when I attempt to press on any sub-topic in the Cognitive Approach, they all show endless links without any specific content. I don't know if there is any issue...
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Hi John & Laura, just to conform then, it is not neccessary for paper 3 to have students know which type of inferential test should be used (e.g. recongise a source used the wrong test for the data) and discuss the pros and cons of a test e.g....
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