Bartlett SAQ

Lesson Objectives
• Compile a key study sheet for the ‘chocolates make you
smarter study’ and evaluate our study using the MECG
framework

• Examine the schema theory from the cognitive level of

analysis and a key study from this field

• Develop your understanding of experimental and non

experiential methods in psychology

• Practice unpacking question and writing a response to an 8

mark SAQ question
 Evaluation in Psychology

MCEG
Gender
Equal no of M & F
PPs?
Methodology Can results be
Controls? Culture Ethics
Generalised?
Variables? From what
Reliability (is it replicable)? culture are Are PPs protected
Validity (Ecological and the PPs? from psychological
Cross cultural) ? Is it generalisable? and physical harm?
Informed consent & debreifing?
APA Guidelines followed?
 Sampling Methods
1. What are participants?
2. What is a representative sample?
3. What is opportunity sampling & what are its strengths and
weaknesses?
4. What is a self selected sample and what are its strengths &
weaknesses?
5. What is snowball sampling and what are its strengths and
weaknesses?
6. What is random sampling & what are its strengths and
weaknesses?
7. What is stratified sampling & what are its strengths and
weaknesses?
 APA (American Psychological Association)
Ethical Guidelines
1. Why are ethical guidelines particularly important
when carrying out psychological research?
2. What is informed consent and why is it important?
3. What is debriefing and why is it important?
4. What is the right to withdraw and why is it important?
5. What is participant confidentiality and why is it
important?
6. What is protection from psychological and physical
harm and why is it important?

**use examples to enhance your explanation of these ethical guidelines**

 Reliability & Validity

1. Why should we consider whether research

has applications?
2. What is cross cultural validity?
3. What is ecological validity?
4. What is reliability?

**use examples to enhance your explanation of reliability and validity**

 Six questions to ask when evaluating
research
1. Is the study based on a representative group of
people (sample)?
2. Was the study conducted in a laboratory or in a
natural setting?
3. Where what the participants where asked to do far
from real life?
4. Are the findings of the study supported by the
findings of other studies?
5. Do the findings have a practical relevance?
6. Ethical considerations

**use examples to enhance your explanation of these questions**

Research in Cognitive Psychology
• Copy the picture of a chair that the previous person
has drawn…

• This is called serial reproduction… it changes… and

our existing schemas influence these changes

• Now read the story on page 83 out loud…

• This is called repeated reproduction..

 Schemas
• DEFINITION: Schemas are a cluster of inter-
related concepts that tell us about how
things function in the world
 Bartlett (1932) study of reconstructive
memory
• Bartlett’s (1932) Schema Theory: According to
Bartlett we store memories in terms of out past
experience or schemas. Schemas are a cluster
of inter-related concepts that tell us about
how things function in the world
• e.g. a schema about television would tell us
about how they work and what sort of
programmes they are likely to display
(Flanagan, 2003)
Video on schema
 Bartlett's (1932) Study of the Influence of Schemas Reconstructive Memory
Go to Page 82-83 and complete a key study sheet on this study

Aims:

Procedures: ‘Repeated Reproductions’

DV: Detail of recall, IV: Time

Findings & Conclusions:

Evaluation (MECG)
 Six questions to ask when evaluating
research
1. Is the study based on a representative group of
people (sample)?
2. Was the study conducted in a laboratory or in a
natural setting?
3. Where what the participants where asked to do far
from real life?
4. Are the findings of the study supported by the
findings of other studies?
5. Do the findings have a practical relevance?
6. Ethical considerations
 Bartlett's (1932)study of reconstructive
memory
• Try to recall the war of the ghosts story

• Aims
• Procedures
• Findings & Conclusion
• Evaluation

• lets go through the study and evaluate using MECG

and the 6 key questions
 SAQ Planning Session
• Outline and evaluate a research study of schema theory
(8 marks)

In groups using poster paper you will write a plan for the SAQ
question that will be written in class on Friday, you will
then share your plan with the class
• Unpack the question – what smaller questions do you
need to answer to complete the question? Also make
sure that you clarify the command terms used
• Write a brief plan of your answer *Remember to include
MECG points in your evaluation – use the color coding*
• We will then share each others plans
 Understanding the research process
• Aim: the purpose of the study – what behavior and mental processes
will be studied and the group which will be studies (the target
population)

• Procedure: the step by step process used by the researcher to carry

out the study

• Findings & conclusion: state what data the researcher collected and
how the researcher interpreted the data and these are always open
to discussion

• Criticisms/Evaluation: this is where the strengths and weaknesses of

the research are evaluated – it is the most important section for you
as an IB student
 Précis Writing – IB style short answer
questions (SAQ)
• Outline and evaluate a research study of schema theory (8
marks)
IB
Command
Terms:
• You will have 25 minutes at the beginning of Thursday’s lesson
(no notes – in exam conditions)

• Things to include:
1. Aims
2. Procedures
3. Findings & Conclusion
4. Evaluation - ***remember most of the marks come from the
evaluation this needs to be the longest part***
Bartlett SAQ rubric:
SAQs – what the syllabus says:
AO1 – Knowledge & comprehension
 AO2 – Evidence of Critical Thinking

AO1 & AO2 will be graded out of eight then divided to give a score out of eight
Grade mapping: