Summary Table: Key Studies of Personal Relationships (DP IB Psychology)
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SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS | |
Topic | Two Key Studies |
Formation of Personal Relationships Biological Theories: Use both of these studies to answer a question on biological theories of attraction
Cognitive Theories: Use both of these studies to answer a question on cognitive theories of attraction Sociocultural Theories: Use these studies to answer a question on sociocultural theories of attraction
| Clarke & Hatfield (1989) Fisher et al. (2005) Taylor et al. (2011) Markey & Markey (2007) Festinger et al. (1950) Moreland & Beach (1992) Gupta & Singh (1982) |
Role of Communication Use both of these studies to answer a question on communication in personal relationships Use both of these studies to answer a question on role of gender & communication Use both of these studies to answer a question on role of gender & communication
| Collins & Miller (1994) Levenson & Gottman (1983) Tannen (1990) Cameron (2007) Ahmad & Reid (2008) Regan et al. (2012) |
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
Clarke & Hatfield (1989), Fisher et al. (2005), Gupta & Singh (1982), Ahmad & Reid (2008) and Regan et al. (2012) 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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