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IB Psychology SL and HL

35 lessons at SL. 44 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons, exam-style questions and timed mock papers.

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Units
8
SL lessons
35
HL lessons
44
Questions
236
Key terms
168
Formulas
4

What you will study

Every lesson follows the current IB guide. Lessons marked HL are in the HL course only. The first unit is free.

Concepts4 lessons · free
  1. ConceptsThe six concepts
  2. ConceptsCausality and measurement
  3. ConceptsBias and perspective
  4. ConceptsChange and responsibility
Research methods4 SL · 6 HL lessons
  1. MethodsExperiments
  2. MethodsSampling and ethics
  3. MethodsNon-experimental methods
  4. MethodsDescriptive statistics
  5. Methods (HL)Qualitative research in depthHL
  6. Methods (HL)Inferential statisticsHL
Learning and cognition7 lessons
  1. Learning and cognitionThe brain and neuroplasticity
  2. Learning and cognitionNeurotransmitters
  3. Learning and cognitionModels of memory
  4. Learning and cognitionSchema theory
  5. Learning and cognitionThinking and decision-making
  6. Learning and cognitionReliability of memory
  7. Learning and cognitionEmotion and cognition
Health and well-being6 lessons
  1. Health and well-beingHormones and behaviour
  2. Health and well-beingStress
  3. Health and well-beingHealth behaviour and promotion
  4. Health and well-beingNormality and diagnosis
  5. Health and well-beingDepression: causes and treatment
  6. Health and well-beingThe diathesis–stress model
Human development5 lessons
  1. Human developmentCognitive development
  2. Human developmentAttachment
  3. Human developmentGenes and behaviour
  4. Human developmentAnimal models
  5. Human developmentEnculturation and acculturation
Human relationships5 lessons
  1. Human relationshipsSocial identity and stereotypes
  2. Human relationshipsSocial learning and conformity
  3. Human relationshipsCompliance techniques
  4. Human relationshipsPersonal relationships
  5. Human relationshipsGroup dynamics and helping
HL extension: motivation, culture and technology0 SL · 6 HL lessons
  1. HL: motivationMotivation: why we actHL
  2. HL: motivationMotivation across the contextsHL
  3. HL: cultureCulture and behaviourHL
  4. HL: cultureGlobalisation and behaviourHL
  5. HL: technologyCognition in a digital worldHL
  6. HL: technologyTechnology, health and relationshipsHL
Assessment skills4 SL · 5 HL lessons
  1. AssessmentPaper 1: explaining behaviour
  2. AssessmentPaper 2: class practicals
  3. AssessmentPaper 2: the unseen study
  4. Assessment (HL)Paper 3: research in depthHL
  5. AssessmentThe IA research proposal

Try a question

From “The six concepts”.

Questions are in English, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.

A student examines the same behaviour first from a biological viewpoint, then a cognitive one, then a sociocultural one. Which concept is the student applying?

  1. APerspective
  2. BMeasurement
  3. CResponsibility
  4. DBias
Show the answer

A. Perspective

Switching between levels of explanation is a matter of perspective.

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