Psychology

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Free Psychology revision notes for IB Diploma Programme (DP) - SL & HL students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.

Core

    Content: approaches to understanding behaviour

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      Concepts

      Context: health and well-being

      • Explaining mental health and disorders

      • Health behaviour, stress and well-being

      • Treatment and promoting well-being

      • Class practical: interview and focus group

      Context: human development

      • Explaining human development

      • Cognitive and social development

      • Influences on development across the lifespan

      • Class practical: observation

      Context: human relationships

      • Forming and maintaining relationships

      • Group dynamics and social influence

      • Conflict, prosocial and antisocial behaviour

      • Class practical: survey and questionnaire

      Context: learning and cognition

      • Explaining learning

      • Memory and cognitive processing

      • Thinking, decision-making and cognitive bias

      • Class practical: experiment

      Research methodology

      • Research questions, aims and hypotheses

      • Experimental methods and design

      • Non-experimental and qualitative methods

      • Sampling and populations of interest

      • Bias, credibility and generalization

      • Ethics in psychological research

      • Writing a research proposal

      HL extensions (HL only)

      • The role of culture in shaping behaviour

      • The role of motivation in shaping behaviour

      • The role of technology in shaping behaviour

      • Interpreting graphs and quantitative findings

      • Analysing qualitative findings and synthesizing sources

      Exam skills

      • Command terms and structured-response technique

      • Short-answer questions on content areas

      • Applying content to an unseen situation

      • Concept-based extended response essays

      • Questions on your class practicals

      • Evaluating an unseen research study

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