Dear John, I was just wondering about whether or not students could draw upon similar points for question 1c and 3. I had a student suggest a survey as a suitable alternative research method to focus group interviews for 1c. Later in their paper...
FAQs for Paper 3Dear Shiza John is leading a workshop at the moment, so I will answer. In the context of Learning and Cognition, the area of study is biological factors, and students have to know one or more biological factor in one or more...
Memory: Chemical messengersDear Divya I would say yes, providing the student emphasises the role of the development of learning through social interaction, through a rich environment, scaffolding of learning through adults as MKOs, learning through play.
Study guide: Developing as a learnerDear Alin The study comes from a book that I do not have access to, so i cannot confirm that they were indeed controlled conditions, nor that the children were randomly assigned to groups. Every secondary source I see just uses the term "study"....
Promoting prosocial behaviorDear Albert Yes, this can be asked, but then students are free to use material just from the formation of personal relationships to answer it. They do not have to use knowledge from all three of the content areas, so no need to add anything,...
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Promoting psychologyHello John, Mys students are a bit worried as they have seen a rare sample exam where they especifically ask for "biological", "cognitive" or "sociocultural" approach to personal relationships. That entails them studying many more research,...
Writing samples: RelationshipsHi John! Could the research by Staub be considered a true experiment? After all it involved the direct manipulation of an independent variable (the type of activity), controlled conditions, and aimed to determine a cause-and-effect relationship, correct? Thank...
Promoting prosocial behaviorHi Also, for the above question by Matthew, Can Vygotsky's theory of Cognitive development be used for the response since Vygotsky talked about enviornmental factors coming from socio-cultural factors like social interaction, scaffolding...
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Site authorDear Sebastian It is absolutely fine for them to do that, so long as their answer is adjusted to fit the particular question. Note that if the original method was focus groups, the question would be on transferability, not generalizability,...
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