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IB Psychology HL - Abnormal - Describe Symptoms and Prevalence of Bulimia

Symptoms of bulimia are specific behaviors and signs used to diagnose the disorder, including recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors like vomiting, excessive exercise, or fasting. Other symptoms include an intense fear of gaining weight and preoccupation with body shap...

IB Psychology HL - Abnormal - Describe Symptoms and Prevalence of Depression

Symptoms are specific signs or criteria used by clinicians to diagnose whether a person is experiencing a particular disorder, such as depression. They include emotional, cognitive, and physical indicators like persistent sadness, loss of interest, and changes in sleep or appetite.

Mental Health NCLEX Sleep Disorders: Dyssomnias and Parasomnias

This set covers Sleep Disorders: Dyssomnias and Parasomnias for the Mental Health NCLEX, focusing on narcolepsy assessment and distinguishing symptoms. It helps learners identify key diagnostic features versus other sleep-related conditions.

IB Psychology HL - Abnormal - Discuss Cultural And Ethical Considerations In Diagnosis

Problems with diagnosis include issues like the labelling theory (Caetano, 1973), which suggests that once someone is diagnosed, the label tends to stick and can affect how they’re treated. Diagnoses may lack reliability and validity, and can lead to negative social stigma or discrimination.

IB Psychology HL - Abnormal - Discuss Validity And Reliability Of Diagnosis

Diagnosis is the process of identifying and classifying abnormal behavior by evaluating a set of symptoms, patient self-reports, observations, and other relevant information. It helps clinicians determine the nature of a disorder to guide treatment.

Mental Health NCLEX Mental and Emotional Responses to Medical Illness

This set focuses on Mental and Emotional Responses to Medical Illness for the Mental Health NCLEX, emphasizing social isolation and coping mechanisms in adolescents facing serious diagnoses. It helps learners identify appropriate nursing diagnoses based on patient behavior and emotional responses.

Mental Health NCLEX Sexual Disorders: Sexual Dysfunctions and Paraphilias

This set reviews Sexual Disorders: Sexual Dysfunctions and Paraphilias for the Mental Health NCLEX, highlighting sexual aversion disorder and related DSM-IV-TR criteria. It helps learners differentiate between types of sexual dysfunctions and their clinical presentations.

IB Psychology HL - Abnormal - Examine 'Normality' and 'Abnormality'

Normality in psychology refers to behaviors, thoughts, or feelings that conform to societal or cultural standards. Statistically, it is often defined as behaviors that fall within the average range of a population's distribution.

Mental Health NCLEX Cognitive Disorders: Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic Disorders

This set focuses on Cognitive Disorders: Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic Disorders for the Mental Health NCLEX, emphasizing confabulation in dementia. It helps learners understand how to interpret memory gaps and respond compassionately to patients’ distorted statements.

IB Psychology HL - Command Terms

Analyse: break down a complex concept into its core components or structure, explain how those parts interrelate, uncover assumptions. For example, to analyse serotonin as a cause of depression, you’d examine how serotonin is produced, how it affects neural signalling, and how those changes influenc...

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Discuss ethical considerations related to research studies in SCLOA

Informed consent means participants should know what the research involves (its purpose, what they’ll be asked to do, any risks) and voluntarily agree. If deception is used (participants misled or not told full purpose), then consent isn’t fully informed.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - How And Why Particular Research Methods Are Used In SCLOA

Experimental studies, which use controlled environments to establish cause-and-effect relationships (e.g., Asch's conformity experiment).

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - outline & explain how SCLOA principles can be demonstrated in research

Humans have a need to belong and connect with others. Our identity and self-concept are shaped by social and cultural interactions. Our behavior is influenced by the social and cultural environment.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - explain ‘emic’ and ‘etic’ concepts with relevant studies

Etic approaches study human behavior from an outside perspective, aiming to identify universal patterns across cultures. Researchers often develop theories in one culture (usually Western) and apply them to others.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Examine The Role Of Two Cultural Dimensions On Behaviour

Cultural dimensions are values or patterns of behavior that vary across cultures and influence how individuals think, feel, and act. These dimensions, such as individualism vs. collectivism or power distance, help explain cultural differences in social behavior and attitudes.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Define 'Culture' And 'Cultural Norms'

Culture is a shared set of attitudes, behaviors, and symbols passed down through generations within a group (Shiraev & Levy, 2004). It includes beliefs, traditions, customs, and symbolic meanings that shape how individuals understand and interact with the world.

Mental Health NCLEX Suicide Preventions and Interventions

This set reviews Suicide Prevention and Intervention for the Mental Health NCLEX, highlighting Durkheim’s types of suicide. It helps learners understand the sociological and psychological factors influencing suicidal behaviors and risk assessment.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Discuss Factors Influencing Conformity

Conformity is the tendency to change one’s thoughts, feelings, or behavior to align with group norms or expectations. In the Sociocultural Level of Analysis (SCLOA) in IB Psychology, conformity is influenced by factors such as group size, unanimity, cultural norms, and social identity. It reflects t...

Mental Health NCLEX Crisis: Theory and Intervention

This set focuses on Crisis Theory and Intervention for the Mental Health NCLEX, outlining the phases of crisis response and associated patient behaviors. It helps learners identify maladaptive coping patterns and appropriate nursing interventions during each crisis stage.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Evaluate Research On Conformity To Group Norms

Sherif’s (1935) autokinetic effect study showed that in ambiguous situations people tend to conform by forming group norms—initial individual estimates of light movement converged when done in groups, and even when alone afterwards participants’ estimates shifted toward the group norm.

Mental Health NCLEX Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa & Bulimia Nervosa

This set reviews Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa for the Mental Health NCLEX, focusing on sociocultural influences, family concerns, and media impact on body image. It helps learners understand psychological and environmental factors contributing to eating disorders.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Discuss the Use Of Compliance Techniques

Compliance is a form of social influence where a person changes their behaviour in response to a request from another person or group, without necessarily changing their private beliefs.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Explain Social Learning Theory with Reference To Relevant Studies

Social Learning Theory (Bandura) states that people acquire behaviours, attitudes, and emotional reactions not just by direct experience but by observing others. For learning to occur, four conditions must be met: attention, retention, motor reproduction, and motivation.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Explain the Formation Of Stereotypes And Their Effect On Behaviour

Stereotypes form via cognitive processes such as social categorization, illusory correlations, and the grain‑of‑truth hypothesis, as well as via media representations and social learning from family, peers, and institutions.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Evaluate Social Identity Theory with reference to relevant studies

Social Identity Theory (SIT), developed by Tajfel & Turner, explains how being part of social groups influences intergroup behaviour such as discrimination or favouritism.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Discuss 2 Attribution Errors

The Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), introduced by Lee Ross in 1977, refers to the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (internal) factors and underestimate situational (external) factors when explaining others' behaviors.

IB Psychology HL - SCLOA - Describe the Role of Situational and Dispositional Factors in Explaining Behaviour

Fritz Heider's Attribution Theory (1958) posits that individuals are "naive psychologists" who seek to understand and explain the causes of behavior.

IB Psychology HL - BLOA - How And Why Particular Research Methods Are Used In BLOA

These involve manipulating an independent variable (IV) to observe its effect on a dependent variable (DV), often under controlled conditions. This method allows researchers to establish cause-and-effect relationships.

IB Psychology HL - BLOA - Outline and Explain How Bloa Principles Can Be Demonstrated In Research

This is shown by twin and adoption studies — for instance, the Minnesota Twin Study demonstrated high concordance rates in traits like intelligence among identical twins reared apart, pointing to genetic influence on behaviour.

Mental Health Exam 3 SG

This set reviews key concepts from the Mental Health Exam 3 Study Guide, including grandiosity symptoms in bipolar disorder and detailed information on Phenelzine (Nardil)—its drug class, toxicity, and critical nursing considerations and interactions for safe medication management.

IB Psychology HL - BLOA - Discuss Ethical Considerations In Research Of Genetic Influences On Behaviour

Genetic studies can reveal unexpected, sensitive information (e.g. true parentage, carrier status for disease) that may cause psychological distress or stigmatization to participants and their families, so there must be strong informed consent and procedures for counselling.

IB Psychology HL - BLOA - Examine One Evolutionary Explanation of Behaviour

Individuals with traits better adapted to their environment have a higher chance of survival and reproduction, so those traits become more common over time.

IB Psychology HL - BLOA - To What Extent Does Genetic Inheritance Influence Behaviour?

Genetic inheritance plays a substantial role in influencing aggression, though it interacts with environmental factors. Twin and adoption studies show that ≈ 50% of the variance in aggressive behaviour is attributable to genetic factors.

Mental Health Exam 2 SG

This set covers key neurotransmitter imbalances and their related mental health disorders for the Mental Health Exam 2 study guide. It helps learners link specific neurotransmitters to conditions like schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and Alzheimer’s disease.

IB Psychology HL - BLOA - Discuss use of tech in Investigating the Link Between Biological Factors and Behaviour

Brain imaging technologies are non‑invasive methods used to observe the structure and function of the brain, helping us understand how biological factors relate to behaviour.

IB Psychology HL - BLOA - Examine an interaction between cognition and physiology with 2 relevant studies

Anterograde amnesia is caused by the brain's inability to transfer information from short-term memory (STM) to long-term memory (LTM), leading to difficulty forming new memories. Famous cases include Henry Molaison (HM) and Clive Wearing, both studied to understand the interaction between cognition ...

IB Psychology HL - BLOA - Discuss 2 Effects of Environment on Physiological Processes

The brain is a dynamic system that continuously interacts with the environment. It not only controls and adapts behavior but can also be reshaped by experiences and surroundings—a process known as neuroplasticity.

Psychopharmacology: Learning Disability

This content covers the clinical features and differential diagnosis of common childhood psychiatric disorders, focusing on social, behavioral, and developmental symptoms to distinguish conditions like Asperger’s syndrome, autism, attachment disorder, conduct disorder, and others. It highlights key ...

IB Psychology HL - BLOA - Explain Effects of 2 Hormones on Human Behaviour

Hormones are chemical messengers secreted by glands of the endocrine system. They travel through the bloodstream to target organs or tissues, influencing both physiological functions and psychological processes like mood and behavior.

Psychopharmacology

This content distinguishes olanzapine as an atypical (second-generation) antipsychotic known for fewer extrapyramidal side effects but notable metabolic risks. It also identifies venlafaxine as a serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), a class of antidepressants used often as second-l...

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