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P1A: Cognitive dissonance
Below you will find three sample responses for the following Paper 1, Section A question: Describe cognitive dissonance using one example. For each sample, decide the score it would receive and be able...
Assessment
Sample experiment 1
The following sample IA uses an experiment as the research method. The title is: To what extent does the presentation modality influence learning of course material? The word count is: 2118 words. Read...
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Quasi experiments
A quasi-experiment is a research design that aims to evaluate the effect of an independent variable but lacks random assignment to conditions. Instead of randomly assigning participants to experimental...
Review/revision
P2B: SLT (Lowe)
Below you will see a sample response to a question on Paper 2, Section B. This question will always ask you to evaluate a study using two or more of four to six concepts. It is best if you attempt to...
DP essentials
World Studies: Criterion B
Criterion B assesses "Knowledge and understanding." This includes your knowledge of the general topic, the different subjects that you are using to develop your argument, and the terminology relevant...
Activities
WEIRD sampling
The researchers coined the acronym WEIRD to describe the typical samples studied by psychologists: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. They argue that this means that a significant...
Activities
Materiales en español
Esta sección del sitio incluye materiales de apoyo en español. Estos materiales están diseñados para ayudar a los estudiantes con las evaluaciones de psicología BI. Quisiera agradecer a Tulia Ocampo...
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Obesity: Becker (1995)
Becker et al. (1995) investigated the impact of television on body image and eating behaviors among Fijian adolescent girls using a natural experiment with a repeated cross-sectional design. Two groups...
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Research considerations
This section of the site is dedicated to the terminology of critical thinking. Each page examines a specific consideration when evaluating research. Your goal is not just to learn the definitions of...
Activities
Decisions about climate change
When discussing decision-making, one of the most important decisions we can make is to change our behavior to save the planet. Those decisions could either be on a small scale (recycling plastics) or...
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Attention: Cognitive models
Psychologists use models to explain cognitive processes. They simplify complex theories by representing the mechanics of a cognitive process in a diagrammatic form for clarity and are used to make predictions...
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Gender identity
When a woman announces that she is pregnant, people often ask, "Do you know if it's a boy or a girl?" The biological sex of a child plays an important role in the identity of the child from the day of...