DP Year 2 Psychology

The DP Year 2 (Grade 12) Psychology curriculum follows the new syllabus (first teaching August 2025, first assessment May 2027), which is organized around three interrelated components: Concepts (six unifying ideas: bias, causality, change, measurement, perspective, and responsibility), Content (biological, cognitive, and sociocultural approaches plus research methodology), and Contexts (four applied areas: health and well-being, human development, human relationships, and learning and cognition) . Students engage in class practicals (interviews, observations, surveys, experiments) within each context and complete an Internal Assessment (IA) requiring them to design a research proposal investigating a topic related to a specified population of interest using one of the four research methods . Higher Level (HL) students additionally study extensions exploring the role of culture, motivation, and technology across all contexts, along with data analysis and interpretation skills assessed in Paper 3, while Standard Level (SL) students focus on the core components . External assessment consists of Paper 1 (integration of concepts, content, and contexts) and Paper 2 (applying concepts and content to research contexts), with HL students also sitting Paper 3 for interpretation and analysis of research data.

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