Summary Table: Key Studies of Social Responsibility (DP IB Psychology)

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SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Topic

Two Key Studies

Bystanderism

Use both of these studies to answer a question on Bystanderism

Piliviavin et al. (1969) can also be used to answer a Paper 1 question on Cognitive Biases

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

Crockett et al. (1972) can also be used to answer a Paper 1 question on Neurotransmitters & their Effect on Behaviour

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

Levine et al. (1972) can also be used to answer a Paper 1 question on Cultural Dimensions and Culture & its Effect on Behaviour
Aknin et al. (2013) can also be used to answer a Paper 1 question on Culture & its Effect on 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)

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

the (exam) results speak for themselves:

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