IB-HL Psychology

Internal Assessment

All students in IB Psychology will be completing a replication project, which will serve as the Internal Assessment (IA). This project is based off of a famous experiment from psychology; however, it might not be identical to the original study and that it okay. More often than not, students complete an experiment from the Cognitive Approach. Students are allowed to collect their data in groups of four or less, but ALL students will need to write an authentic and unique paper (which is between 1800-2000 words in length)

APA Cheat Sheet

Topic links | these are suggested studies that have worked for replication

• • • Craik, F. I. M. & Tulving, E. (1975). Depth of processing and the retention of words in episodic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 104(3), 268-294.

    • Niesser, U. (1964). Word and letter recognition: Visual search. Scientific American, 210(6), 94-102.

      • • There is a pdf link on the page to the original article.

    • Stroop, Ridley (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol 18, 643-662.

    • Triplett, Norman (1898). The dynamogenic factors in pacemaking and competition. American Journal of Psychology, 9, 507-533.

Handouts

• • • Replication Project description

    • Replication Project rubric

    • Proposal Sheet

    • Annotated bibliography worksheet | Annotated Bibliography example (APA style)

    • Statistics Worksheet

    • Paper checklist | This should help ensure that you have what you need in the paper.

Writing a Research Report in APA Style | this chapter from a BC OpenEd textbook.

Helpful Google Tips for the Replication Project

• • • How to formulate mean and standard deviation video

    • How to formulate histograms and distribution curves video

Unit 4 | Sociocultural Approach

Assigned Reading

• • • Sociocultural approach chapter in companion book | section 4 | online textbook

    • Gimalda, Buchan, Brewer, 2015. Globalization, socialization, and cooperation: An experimental analysis of their linkages and effects.

    • Chapter from An Introduction to Intercultural Communication, Sixth Edition (Jandt, 2009)

Classwork

• • • “A Class Divided” Questions to answer

    • The charting the definition of culture according to Hofstede and Matsumoto

    • Matsumoto, D. and Hwang, H.S. (2011, Sept. 09). Culture and emotion: An integration of biological and cultural contributions. Journal of cross cultural psychology. Vol. 43, (91).

    • SCLOA LO bibliography & research tool

Literature Review Information

• • • SCLOA lit review presentation rubric

    • Literature review page from UNC

    • Sample in APA, received as a handout

    • Folder LINK

Unit 3 | Cognition

Assigned Reading

• Review Cognitive studies from Hock

• Unit 3 of Course Companion pp. 123-201

• Baddeley's Working Memory

• How Does Your Memory Work by the BBC

• On the interdependence of cognition and emotion (Storbeck and Clore, 2007) | literature review

Classwork

• Schema Theory Activity

  • • • Article for Groups

      • Bem's research summary

      • Brewer's Office Schema

      • Schema Poll

      • Gender Schema Theory Video

• Biological impacts on cognition activity

  • • • Use this link to access the Blendspace board

      • Each group will share out what they have learned in preparation for a LAQ about the learning objective

• The Psychology of Happiness

  • • • Notes via Canva

• Multitasking and Cognition

  • • • Xu, S., Wang, Z., and David, P., (2016). Multitasking and the well-being of university students. Computers in Human Behavior 55: 242-250. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282830498_Media_multitasking_and_well-being_of_university_students on Nov. 25, 2019.

      • Template for article analysis

• Emotions and Cognition

  • • • Use this link to access the group Google Slides for research regarding emotions and cognition.

• Candice Goucher, Charles LeGuin, and Linda Walton, In the Balance: Themes in World History (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998), selections from chapter 9, “Culture and Memory.”

• CLOA LO bibliography & research tool

• Emotions affect cognition (Hoffman, 2011) | An article from Psychology Today

• Thinking and decision making | In groups, identify different models of thinking and examine biases of the models. Report out your research in the slide shows below

• Descriptive models & Theory of reasoned action (TRA) v. Theory of planned behavior (TPA)

• Normative models & Adaptive decision-maker framework

Unit 2 | Biological Approach

Assigned Reading

• Ch. 3 | Biopsychology in OpenStax book

• Review biological studies from Hock

• Biological Approach to Behavior chapter in Course Companion

Classwork

• 2.0 | Unit 2 pacing slides

• 2.1 | Biological approach portfolio

Additional research

• Nagasawa, M., et al. (2015, April 17) Oxytocin-gaze positive loop and the coevolution of human-dog bonds. Science. Vol 348, Issue 6232.

• Brain imaging

  • • • Helen Fisher TED | Getting over your ex from NPR | Stanford's love competition

• Tristram Wyatt TED Talk on pheromones and human behavior.

• Epigentics | read pg.94-107 in the companion guide | watch & take notes on 'The Ghost in Your Genes' by the BBC

  • • • A brief explanation of epigenetics

      • Epigentics news from The Scientist

      • Epigenetics in agouti mice

      • Maternal stress and epigentics

      • Epigenetics in Psychology overview (Ian Weaver)

• Paper 1 and the Biological Approach