IB Mock Exam Outline Suggestions:
PAPER ONE:
Section A:
1. You can use the following: Wernike’s Area, Broca’s Area, Gazzaniga and Sperry (Split Brain Research), Phineas Gage, H.M., Clive Wearing (amnesias)
2. a) Unobservable behavior can be observed
b) Psychological functions can be scientifically studied (criticism by behaviorists)
c) Humans actively organize and manipulate information (Schema theory; reconstructive memory)
d) Cognitive functions are influenced by social and cultural factors.
3. Low-balling, foot-in-the-door, door-in-the-face
Researcher, Cialdini, came up with 6 factors that influence conformity:
1. authority
2. commitment
3. liking
4. reciprocity
5. scarcity
6. social proof
Section B: Choose ONE
4. Genetic influence- Bouchard et al: Intelligence 70% genetic, 30% other factors
Contrasts with Scarr and Weinberg (Parent influence on intelligence)
5. Experiments: Bartlett, Bandura, Loftus and Palmer
Consider: Gender, Culture, Methodology and Ethics for evalution
6. Can use the examples or use others such as Uncertainty vs avoidance(ambivalence), Confucian work dynamism (long term orientation) vs short term orientation, or proxemic theory “personal space”
PAPER TWO: Choose ONE
Developmental Psychology
*If you don’t know where to start, consider your essay you wrote for your final exam on the 3 levels of analysis. Use that as your outline to intertwine in the topic of the questions being asked…
4. Could discuss the following: Bowlby (Internal Working model), Adler (Style of Life), Erikson (Psych-social stages of development), Freud (psycho-sexual stages of development), Rozenweig (deprivation through impoverished vs enriched environments on biological structures of dendrites)
5. Resilience: ability to overcome adversity
Consider programs such as Head start, Big Brothers/Big Sisters…
Protective Factors: Intelligence, sociability, talents, relationships with caregivers, etc.
6. Could discuss:
-changes in height/weight (set point)
-changes in body proportions
-changes in hormonal levels
-form and attainment of sexual maturation (monarche)
-frontal lobe development (personality) and impact on identity development (link to Erikson’s identity vs role confusion ie: moratorium, foreclosure, etc)
-cultural identity hypothesis (Simmons and Blyth) where puberty brings boys closer to ideals, girls move away from cultural ideals
-body image dissatisfaction: discrepancy between body image and ideal of society.