IB skill practice

Manage sampling, consent, and participant protection

Psychology SL practice with original class-practical, IA, and exam-response scenarios, concept-content-context integration, method evidence, ethics, and non-generic evaluation.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Ia 5 marks Difficulty 4

Psychology SL practice: Manage sampling, consent, and participant protection

Psychology SL stimulus: In Sydney, a health and well-being class practical involves students tracking late-night short-video use in a digital well-being project after exam revision week. The target behaviour is students explain how scrolling affects their morning mood and attention. The proposed method is semi-structured interview with 4 participants, using interview prompts plus a privacy-filtered screen-time summary. The evidence issue is phone evidence adds detail but raises privacy and self-presentation issues. The class wants stronger sampling and consent arrangements. Use the sampling and consent check before choosing the responsible decision. Select the task focus, method decision, context evidence, and judgement boundary. Then answer this in your own words: what should the student do next to make this Psychology SL response or proposal stronger 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.