Summary Table: Key Studies of Social Responsibility (DP IB Psychology)
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SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | |
Topic | Two Key Studies |
Bystanderism Use both of these studies to answer a question on Bystanderism
| Latane & Darley (1968) Piliavin et al. (1969) |
Prosocial Behaviour Biological Theories of Altruism Use both of these studies to answer a question on Biological Theories of Altruism
PsychologicalTheories of Altruism Use both of these studies to answer a question on Psychological Theories of Altruism Culture & Prosocial Behaviour Use both of these studies to answer a question on Culture & Prosocial Behaviour
| Simmons et al. (1977) Crockett et al. (2010) Batson et al. (1981) Batson et al. (1989) Levine et al. (2001) Aknin et al. (2103) |
Promoting Prosocial Behaviour Use both of these studies to answer a question on Promoting Prosocial Behaviour | Dickerson et al. (1992) Flook et al. (2015) |
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
Piliavin et al. (1969), Crockett et al. (2010), Levine et al. (2001) and Aknin et al. (2013) 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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