IB Psychology (First Assessment 2027) – Complete Topic Guide – Models of Development & Development of Self | SL & HL
This comprehensive, ready-to-use topic guide covers all six units in the Human Development context – organised the way the course was actually taught, unit by unit, in teaching order. Designed for combined SL/HL classrooms across Year 1, Term 2, Weeks 1–6.
What’s Inside?
Full content companion, all 6 units – 3.1 (Brain development & maturation: prefrontal cortex, critical/sensitive periods, neuroplasticity), 3.2 (Sociocultural factors & stage theories: sociocultural influence, stage vs continuous models, bias in classic theories, HL Technology extension), 3.3 (Theory of mind & synthesis: theory of mind, false-belief tasks, operationalisation, three-lens synthesis), 4.1 (Attachment & childhood experiences: attachment patterns, internal working models, continuity hypothesis, earned security, cumulative risk), 4.2 (Enculturation & peer influence: enculturation vs acculturation, peer influence, HL Culture extension, independent/interdependent self-construal), 4.3 (Synthesis & IA Checkpoint 1: three-level synthesis, operationalising identity, Criterion A+B draft).
The compulsory class practical in full – Observation (Unit 4.2): naturalistic observation of peer-group dynamics in a public setting. Ethics checklist, consent rules, minimum sample, IA link, and Paper 2 Section A practice question.
Both HL extension instances in full – Technology (Unit 3.2) and Culture (Unit 4.2) – with classroom activities and SL parallel tasks. Complete content from the guide’s Table 6.3 and 6.1.
Paper 1, 2 & 3 exam technique – Section A/B/C practice questions from all six units. Section B unseen study evaluation prompts. Paper 3 HL-only source-based questions on technoference and self-construal.
This context’s IA milestone – IA Checkpoint 1 (Unit 4.3): full Criterion A (Introduction: aim, real-life problem, literature) + Criterion B (Research methodology: method choice, procedure, ethics) draft assessed together.
Misconceptions bank – Every misconception from all six units, organised by unit. 20+ documented patterns with correct understanding and counter-strategies.
Full vocabulary audit – 19 glossary terms across the context: Confound, Construct, Credibility, Cross-sectional design, Cultural bias, Determinism, Emic/Etic approach, Generalizability, Longitudinal design, Maturation, Model, Naturalistic observation, Operationalisation, Reflexivity, Retrospective research, Theory, Transferability, Validity.
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