Summary Table: Key Studies of Promoting Health (HL IB Psychology)

Revision Note

Written by: Laura Swash

Reviewed by: Lucy Vinson

SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF PROMOTING HEALTH
Topic	Two Key Studies
Health Promotion Use both of these studies to answer a question on health promotion Use Lowe et al. (2004) to answer a question on the effectiveness of health promotion programmes	Quist-Paulsen et al (2003) Lowe et al. (2004)
Effectiveness of Health Promotion Programmes Use both of these studies to answer a question on the effectiveness of health promotion programmes Use Murphy-Hoefer et al. (2020) to answer a question on fear arousal as a health promotion method	Nakhimovsky et al. (2016) Murphy-Hoefer et al. (2020)

SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF PROMOTING HEALTH

Topic

Two Key Studies

Health Promotion

Use both of these studies to answer a question on health promotion
Use Lowe et al. (2004) to answer a question on the effectiveness of health promotion programmes

Quist-Paulsen et al (2003)

Lowe et al. (2004)

Effectiveness of Health Promotion Programmes

Use both of these studies to answer a question on the effectiveness of health promotion programmes
Use Murphy-Hoefer et al. (2020) to answer a question on fear arousal as a health promotion method

Nakhimovsky et al. (2016)

Murphy-Hoefer et al. (2020)

IB students have a lot of content to cover (particularly students taking Psychology at Higher Level) so the purpose of this revision resource is to slim down and streamline the number of studies you need per topic/exam question
The exam question command term will be one of the following: ‘Evaluate’, ‘Discuss’, ‘Contrast’ or ‘To what extent’
Each command term requires you to answer the question in slightly different ways, using the content as shown in the summary table above i.e. specific studies per topic/question
In order to slim down the content you need to revise you can see above how some of the studies can be used for more than one potential exam question
Lowe et al. (2004) and Murphy-Hoefer et al. (2020) can be used to answer more than one potential exam question on Paper 2 content so you may decide to keep these studies and ‘throw away’ any studies which you find that you don’t need to revise
Remember that all Paper 2 questions are ERQs (Extended Response Questions) which are worth 22 marks, take an hour to write and need to be rich in critical thinking

Last updated: 3 April 2024

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