Summary Table: Key Studies of Treatment of Disorders (DP IB Psychology)

Key Studies Summary of Treatment of Disorders

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

• 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

• 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

• You can choose to write about treatments for MDD and/or phobias

• The exam question may ask you to write about treatments for one or more disorders which means that you can choose MDD or phobias; the choice is yours

• If the question asks you to ‘Contrast two treatments’ you could choose to focus on the differences between, for example, the biological approach and the cognitive approach to treating MDD or phobias or MDD and phobias, choosing one study on MDD from one approach and one study on phobias from the contrasting approach