Diploma del Bachillerato Internacional · IB Diploma
Psychology · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Papeles, muestras y documentos curriculares para este curso.
Course units and learning goals · Unidades del curso y objetivos de aprendizaje
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Estas lecciones enseñan objetivos del curso seleccionados. Revisa los vacíos de cobertura restantes; el material no es un programa completo de preparación.
Biological and cognitive approaches · Explanations, studies and inference
- Link a psychological explanation to research evidence
- Distinguish association, causation and levels of explanation
- cognitive process
- A mental process such as attention or memory.
- confounding variable
- A factor that can offer an alternative explanation for a result.
Sociocultural approach; options · Culture, social learning and application
- Explain social influences without stereotyping
- Apply an approach to an approved option using evaluated studies
- social learning
- Learning through observing others and their outcomes.
- generalization
- Applying findings beyond the setting or sample studied.
Research; experimental IA · Ethical design, data and evaluation
- Identify variables, sampling and controls in an experiment
- Analyse actual data and evaluate a school-approved replication
- independent variable
- The factor deliberately changed in an experiment.
- dependent variable
- The outcome measured in a study.
HL research methods · Evaluating qualitative and quantitative research
- Analyse unseen research scenarios and ethical choices
- Evaluate credibility, sampling and transferability
- credibility
- The trustworthiness of a research interpretation.
- transferability
- The extent to which insights may apply in another context.
Preparing for this qualification · Preparación para esta cualificación
- SL: Paper 1 120 min 50%, one-option Paper 2 60 min 25%, experimental IA 25%. HL: Paper 1 120 min 40%, two-option Paper 2 120 min 20%, methods Paper 3 60 min 20%, experimental IA 20%.
- Current core: biological, cognitive and sociocultural approaches plus research. SL selects one option, HL two. The 2027 course adds concepts/contexts, class practicals and a research proposal, not the current experimental-study IA.
Teaching coverage still needed · Cobertura docente aún necesaria
- Verified published study packs for every core/HL extension and selected option, statistics teaching and full 2027 alternative package remain.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents · Especificaciones y documentos de muestra
- Psychology — Subject brief · 2019 ↗
First assessment: 2019
- Psychology — Subject brief · 2027 ↗
First assessment: 2027
Course materials · Materiales del curso
- Study notes · Notas de estudio →
- Revision questions · Preguntas de repaso →
- Teaching guidance · Guía docente · Teacher access · Acceso del profesor →
- Teacher diagnostics · Diagnóstico del profesor · Teacher access · Acceso del profesor →
- Supervised task guidance · Guía de tareas supervisadas · Teacher access · Acceso del profesor →
Course preparation · Preparación del curso
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Los documentos están disponibles. Las notas específicas de la entidad evaluadora, las evaluaciones y la práctica interactiva deantiguos exámenes no están disponibles aún para todos los cursos.
Lessons · Lecciones →