IB skill practice

Apply responsibility and ethics to psychological research

Psychology SL practice with original stimulus contexts, concept-content-context integration, biological/cognitive/sociocultural or method content, ethical responsibility, and non-generic evaluation.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Ia 5 marks Difficulty 4

Psychology SL practice: Apply responsibility and ethics to psychological research

Psychology SL stimulus: In Wellington, school rugby players are involved in a sports-health project comparing attention checks with player confidence ratings. The focus is return-to-play confidence after mild concussion. Evidence says players often report high confidence before attention checks return to baseline. The method uses computer attention tasks, symptom logs, and coach notes with 48 participants over 4 weeks. The ethics issue is that players may feel pressure to return before symptoms are fully discussed. Use the ethics and responsibility organiser before judging the research decision. Select the psychology concept, content link, context application, and evaluation limit. Then answer this in your own words: how would this route improve the Psychology SL response for this exact context? AI will analyse your reasoning, evidence use, concept-content-context link, method or ethics judgement, and expression.

Worked practice: build the response

Construct the psychological response: concept focus, supporting content, application to context, then an evaluation.