Summary Table: Key Studies of Group Dynamics (DP IB Psychology)
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SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF GROUP DYNAMICS
SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF GROUP DYNAMICS | |
Topic | Two Key Studies |
Cooperation & Competition Use both of these studies to answer a question on Cooperation & Competition
| Sherif et al. (1961) Tauer & Harackiewicz (2004) |
Prejudice & Discrimination Use both of these studies to answer a question on Prejudice & Discrimination
| Tajfel et al. (1972) Lam & Seaton (2016) |
Origins of Conflict & Conflict Resolution Use both of these studies to answer a question on Origins of Conflict & Conflict Resolution | Pettigrew & Tropp (2006) Turner et al. (2007) |
How do I use these studies in an exam question on this topic?
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
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
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
Sherif et al. (1961) and Tajfel et al. (1972) can be used to answer more than one potential exam question so you may decide to keep all of these studies and ‘throw away’ any studies which you find that you don’t need to revise
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