International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Psychology · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
Handouts, exercise sheets and slides
Shared topic documents retain their source course and topic titles. Use your chosen board’s specification for coverage, tier and exam requirements.
Handouts · AP Psychology (5)
Exercise sheets · AP Psychology (35)
- 1.1 Interaction of Heredity and Environment
- 1.2 Overview of the Nervous System
- 1.3 The Neuron and Neural Firing
- 1.4 The Brain
- 1.5 Sleep
- 1.6 Sensation
- 2.1 Perception
- 2.2 Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making
- 2.3 Introduction to Memory
- 2.4 Encoding Memories
- 2.5 Storing Memories
- 2.6 Retrieving Memories
- 2.7 Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges
- 2.8 Intelligence and Achievement
- 3.1 Themes and Methods in Developmental Psychology
- 3.2 Physical Development Across the Lifespan
- 3.3 Gender and Sexual Orientation
- 3.4 Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan
- 3.5 Communication and Language Development
- 3.6 Social-Emotional Development Across the Lifespan
- 3.7 Classical Conditioning
- 3.8 Operant Conditioning
- 3.9 Social, Cognitive, and Neurological Factors in Learning
- 4.1 Attribution Theory and Person Perception
- 4.2 Attitude Formation and Attitude Change
- 4.3 Psychology of Social Situations
- 4.4 Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theories of Personality
- 4.5 Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality
- 4.6 Motivation
- 4.7 Emotion
- 5.1 Introduction to Health Psychology
- 5.2 Positive Psychology
- 5.3 Explaining and Classifying Psychological Disorders
- 5.4 Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders
- 5.5 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Presentation slides · AP Psychology (5)
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
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
- 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
- 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
- Psychology — Subject brief · 2019 ↗
First assessment: 2019
- Psychology — Subject brief · 2027 ↗
First assessment: 2027
Course materials
Course preparation
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