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3 Period - IB Psychology HL - Year 1-IB Psychology Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Matthew Cole
- Term
- School Year 2026-2027
- Department
- Social Sciences
- Description
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November 2026
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Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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Reading Assignment: Conditioning and Learning
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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HL Technology Extension: Confirmation Bias
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Nisbett et el. - A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Holistic and Analytic Cognition
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Reading Assignment: Cognitive Biases, Thinking and Decision making
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Practice Paper 1: Section B - Thinking and Decision Making
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Decision-Making Models Group Presentation
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Exit Ticket: The Dual Process Model
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Reading Assignment: The Dual Process Model of Thinking and Decision Making
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Unit 1 - Research Methodology and Ethics
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Reading Assignment: The Value of Animal Research
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Application Practice - Ethical Guidelines in Psychological Research
Given the current ethical standards in psychology, why would the experiment be denied by an Institutional Review Board?
Provide Four reasons why you would deny the research study.
Be prepared to share the study and your reasons and evidence with the class.
All group members have a speaking role if your group is called on to share.
Provide Four reasons why you would deny the research study.
Be prepared to share the study and your reasons and evidence with the class.
All group members have a speaking role if your group is called on to share.
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Reading Assignment: Ethical Frameworks
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Reading and Questions - A Weird Way of Thinking Has Prevailed Worldwide
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Reading Assignment: Sampling Techniques
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Activity: Interview Themes and Reflexivity
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Reading Assignment: Thematic Analysis and Reflexivity
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Activity: Applying the Skills of a Researcher
What to Do:
1. Work with your table group.
2. Create a Google Form survey with at least 7 questions (you can add more if needed).
3. Share your survey with classmates to collect responses.
4. Put your results into a table and make at least one graph (Google Docs/Sheets OR hand-draw and take a photo).
5. Create a Google Slideshow with:
Group members names
Your aim (what you wanted to measure)
Your survey questions
Your data table and graph (bar graph, line graph, histogram, scatterplot)
Your analysis (patterns/trends you noticed)
Reflection answers to these questions:
1. What was challenging about designing your questions?
2. What was challenging about graphing your data?
3. What were the strengths and limitations of your measurement method?
4. Is there anything you would do differently? Why?
5. A reflection on how measurement was applied in your study?
What to Turn In:
Google Form link
Graph (Google Doc/Sheet or photo of graph)
Google Slideshow
1. Work with your table group.
2. Create a Google Form survey with at least 7 questions (you can add more if needed).
3. Share your survey with classmates to collect responses.
4. Put your results into a table and make at least one graph (Google Docs/Sheets OR hand-draw and take a photo).
5. Create a Google Slideshow with:
Group members names
Your aim (what you wanted to measure)
Your survey questions
Your data table and graph (bar graph, line graph, histogram, scatterplot)
Your analysis (patterns/trends you noticed)
Reflection answers to these questions:
1. What was challenging about designing your questions?
2. What was challenging about graphing your data?
3. What were the strengths and limitations of your measurement method?
4. Is there anything you would do differently? Why?
5. A reflection on how measurement was applied in your study?
What to Turn In:
Google Form link
Graph (Google Doc/Sheet or photo of graph)
Google Slideshow
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Reading Assignment: Analyzing Different Types of Tables, Graphs and Results
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Reading Quiz - Correlation and Causation
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Reading Assignment: Interpreting Descriptive and inferential statistics
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Reading Assignment: Correlation and Causation
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Reading Assignment: Strategies for Ensuring the Credibility of Research
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Practice: IB Psychology Paper 1 Section B
For this assignment, you will practice answering a Paper 1 Section B question using an unfamiliar research scenario.
Read the scenario carefully and respond to the 6-mark question in two well-developed paragraphs:
In the first paragraph, explain the relevant psychological knowledge about hindsight bias.
In the second paragraph, apply that knowledge directly to the researcher and the outcome of the study described in the scenario.
Be sure to use appropriate psychological terminology and make the connection between the concept and the scenario clear and explicit.
Your goal is to practice the structure and level of explanation needed for the 5–6 markband before completing your upcoming summative assessment.
Read the scenario carefully and respond to the 6-mark question in two well-developed paragraphs:
In the first paragraph, explain the relevant psychological knowledge about hindsight bias.
In the second paragraph, apply that knowledge directly to the researcher and the outcome of the study described in the scenario.
Be sure to use appropriate psychological terminology and make the connection between the concept and the scenario clear and explicit.
Your goal is to practice the structure and level of explanation needed for the 5–6 markband before completing your upcoming summative assessment.
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Using one of the following concepts, Bias, Causality, Change, Measurement, Perspective, or Responsibility, explain why choosing the right research method matters when studying human behavior. Be specific: name the concept and explain the connection, don't just label it.
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Presentations: Research Methods in Psychology
Research Methods Presentation
Create a 5–6 slide presentation on your assigned research method. Your presentation should include:
Definition/Description – What is the research method? What kind of data does it produce?
Application in Psychology – Give one example of a psychological study that used this method.
Strengths – Explain at least two strengths of the method.
Limitations – Explain at least two limitations of the method.
Psychological Perspectives – Which psychological perspective(s) would this research method be especially useful for investigating: biological, cognitive, and/or sociocultural? Explain why.
Concept Connection – Connect the research method to at least one IB Psychology concept: bias, causality, change, measurement, perspective, or responsibility. Explain the connection rather than simply identifying the concept.
Create a 5–6 slide presentation on your assigned research method. Your presentation should include:
Definition/Description – What is the research method? What kind of data does it produce?
Application in Psychology – Give one example of a psychological study that used this method.
Strengths – Explain at least two strengths of the method.
Limitations – Explain at least two limitations of the method.
Psychological Perspectives – Which psychological perspective(s) would this research method be especially useful for investigating: biological, cognitive, and/or sociocultural? Explain why.
Concept Connection – Connect the research method to at least one IB Psychology concept: bias, causality, change, measurement, perspective, or responsibility. Explain the connection rather than simply identifying the concept.
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Briefly explain how participant bias, research bias, and the placebo effect can act as a confounding variable in an experiment.
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Reading Quiz - Advantages and Disadvantages of Research Methods
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Reading Assignment: Advantages and Disadvantages of Research Methods
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Reading Comprehension Quiz: Psychology as a Science
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Identify and explain TWO of the following concepts you encountered during the playing card activity: - Confirmation bias - Falsification - Hindsight bias - Overconfidence - Perceiving order in randomness - The limits of human intuition
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Reading Assignment: Psychology as a Science
Read the assigned section(s) and remember to take quality notes in your spiral notebook.
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Which psychological perspective—Behavioral, Biological, Cognitive, or Sociocultural—do you believe most accurately explains the thoughts and actions of Andrea Yates? Choose one perspective and provide at least two pieces of evidence from the case study or video to support your response. After submitting your response to the discussion question, read and reflect on at least one of your classmate's posts. Provide at least one thoughtful reply offering additional insights, respectfully challenging their viewpoints, or building on their ideas.
Discussion Question:
Which of the following psychological perspectives do you believe most accurately explains the thoughts and actions of Andrea Yates? Choose one perspective and provide at least two pieces of evidence from the case study or video to support your response:
Behavioral
Biological
Cognitive
Sociocultural
Peer Feedback Instructions:
After submitting your response to the discussion question, read and reflect on at least one of your classmate's posts. Provide at least one thoughtful reply offering additional insights, respectfully challenging their viewpoints, or building on their ideas.
I agree/disagree with this post because _______.
Your point about _________ was interesting because _________.
What did you find interesting or compelling about this submission?
How did this post change your mind about the issue?
How is this submission similar or different to your opinion?
Can you build on their ideas?
Which of the following psychological perspectives do you believe most accurately explains the thoughts and actions of Andrea Yates? Choose one perspective and provide at least two pieces of evidence from the case study or video to support your response:
Behavioral
Biological
Cognitive
Sociocultural
Peer Feedback Instructions:
After submitting your response to the discussion question, read and reflect on at least one of your classmate's posts. Provide at least one thoughtful reply offering additional insights, respectfully challenging their viewpoints, or building on their ideas.
I agree/disagree with this post because _______.
Your point about _________ was interesting because _________.
What did you find interesting or compelling about this submission?
How did this post change your mind about the issue?
How is this submission similar or different to your opinion?
Can you build on their ideas?
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Reading Assignment: The Need for Psychological Science
Read the attached PDF, pages 1-9: The Need for Psychological Science. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your notebook. The textbook includes focus questions and key terms to guide your reading and note-taking.
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Reading Assignment: Case Study Andrea
Before class, read the Andrea Yates case study carefully.
As you read, keep this guiding question in mind:
Which psychological perspective do you think best explains Andrea Yates’s behavior, and what details from the case support that explanation?
You do not need to take detailed notes. The goal is simply to understand the major events, influences, and psychological factors in the case so that you are prepared for the next day’s lesson and class discussion.
As you read, pay attention to:
Important details that could help explain Andrea Yates’s behavior
Evidence that seems to support one or more psychological perspectives
Details that might challenge the perspective you initially think is strongest
Come to class prepared to discuss your ideas and support them with evidence from the case study.
As you read, keep this guiding question in mind:
Which psychological perspective do you think best explains Andrea Yates’s behavior, and what details from the case support that explanation?
You do not need to take detailed notes. The goal is simply to understand the major events, influences, and psychological factors in the case so that you are prepared for the next day’s lesson and class discussion.
As you read, pay attention to:
Important details that could help explain Andrea Yates’s behavior
Evidence that seems to support one or more psychological perspectives
Details that might challenge the perspective you initially think is strongest
Come to class prepared to discuss your ideas and support them with evidence from the case study.
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Reading Quiz - Today’s Psychology and Its Approaches
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Reading Assignment: Psychology and Its Approaches
Read the attached PDF, pages 1-17: Today’s Psychology and Its Approaches. Remember to take quality notes on the assigned pages in your notebook. The textbook includes focus questions and key terms to guide your reading and note-taking.
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Reflecting on the video, what do you believe is the most significant contribution of psychology to society, and why?
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Course Syllabus Review & Parent/Guardian Sign-Off
Course Syllabus & Confirmation
Step 1: Read & Discuss
Open the attached Course Syllabus and read it alongside your parent or guardian.
Review the grading policies, classroom expectations, and key policies together.
Step 2: Complete the Confirmation Form
Open the linked Google Form.
Fill out the student section and have your parent/guardian complete their designated section to confirm you reviewed the document together.
Due Date: Submit the form by Friday, August 14 to receive credit.
Step 1: Read & Discuss
Open the attached Course Syllabus and read it alongside your parent or guardian.
Review the grading policies, classroom expectations, and key policies together.
Step 2: Complete the Confirmation Form
Open the linked Google Form.
Fill out the student section and have your parent/guardian complete their designated section to confirm you reviewed the document together.
Due Date: Submit the form by Friday, August 14 to receive credit.
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The Big Five Personality Assessment
Please provide a screenshot of your personality test results.
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After taking the Big 5 Personality Assessment, you now have a snapshot of your personality traits across openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Question: Which of your Big 5 results surprised you the most, and why? Do you think this trait accurately reflects you in real life, or does it feel off? Give at least one real-life example that supports your answer.
Respond to the question in 3–5 complete sentences.
Be specific and give at least one real-life example.
After posting, share your response with your elbow partner.
Be ready to share with our response with your elbow partner and the whole class if you feel comfortable.
Be specific and give at least one real-life example.
After posting, share your response with your elbow partner.
Be ready to share with our response with your elbow partner and the whole class if you feel comfortable.
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The Big Five Personality Assessment
Please provide a screenshot of your personality test results.