Dear Sara Expectancy bias usually originates with the researcher unintentionally through the design of the study, or their instructions transferring their expectations of the findings to the participants, who then try to fulfil these expectations....
P2B: Conformity (Franzen and Mader)Dear Nicholas It is not the "model" of cognitive development for the first lesson, but an overview of what development is: the idea of how we develop, and especially the use of "milestones".
Human developmentDear Ivanka You are correct - while the student could use "strategies" to answer the question, it should not be in the stimulus itself, and we will need to change that. Schema theory or cognitive load may be used, but not "strategies." Thank...
Mock P1: Strategies for memoryDear Alisha This is absolutely not necessary. There is no need to score any questionnaire used. This example is a little too complex, and I would encourage use of the other two that are on MyIB.
Sample questionnaire 1Hi John, I've been doing some readings from multiple sources, including from your posts, and it seems that sampling bias and population validity are somewhat different even though both are about generalization. Sampling bias is more about...
BiasDear Federico If they say "research shows..." it would be expected that the information following that is clearly based on one or more studies. Students may use hypothetical examples. While a hypothetical example may not work well for some questions...
Revision: Human Relationships P1CDear Maggie John is away at the moment, but I will pass this onto him for answering next week. Meanwhile, the good news is that only biological reductionism can be asked about and only on P1A or P1B. I looked up the
The Multi-Store ModelDear Sarah Yes, so long as they know enough about it to answer a question on bio treatment.
Depression: Biological treatmentDear Imon It would depend how much of the rest of the answer was accurate, but as the relevant concept is causality, identifying it incorrectly as a true experiment would be likely to affect the accuracy of the rest of their response on this...
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Dear John and Laura, Can Q3 be as general as the exemplar shown above, or does it need to specifically link back to their class practical?
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