IB Psychology Revision: Excellent Extended Essays #navbar-iframe { display:block }IB Psychology RevisionIB Graduate blog for exam revisionWelcome!Everything you need for IB psychology exam revision is here both SL and HL including comprehensive study guides for the levels of analysis. Methodology, Internal Assessment and Extended Essay resources...
IB Psychology Revision: Excellent Extended Essays #navbar-iframe { display:block }IB Psychology RevisionIB Graduate blog for exam revisionWelcome!Everything you need for IB psychology exam revision is here both SL and HL including comprehensive study guides for the levels of analysis. Methodology, Internal Assessment and Extended Essay resources...
Maybe they do, maybe they don't. My point is instead one of ecological validity (a form of external validity) referring to the extent that experimental findings apply to real world situations. These researchers investigated how anxiety and uncertainty can make us become more radical and committed to religious causes. They did most of this with computers...
Mass study guide updates for biological, cognitive, sociocultural and abnormal. I will be converting them to pdf soon for on-the-move revision....
I spent the morning doing an extensive update to the methodology page adding tons of content. I will probably turn it into a pdf cause it ended up pretty long. If anything is unclear, shoot me an email and I'll fix it.I also updated the video resources page linking to many full movies, documentaries and specials on google video and youtube....
A new review (metastudy) has just been published on the effects of various drugs on sexual performance. They found that most drugs, both stimulants and depressants, decrease sexual performance with the following caveats:Cocaine facilitates erections in ratsCaffeine makes both male and female rats hornyA little bit of booze removes inhibitory tendenciesToo...
Here are some additional ones I found on Crane's old site but his links are dead so I've added them. They are all from Nørre Gymnasium except the last one which is from IB Surviv...
This research is by no means new, but the ripple effect of the original study is still salient - even more than 10 years later. For those of you who do not know, the original study found a correlation between children who had been administered the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella) and autism. Immediately, vaccination rates dropped...
Back in the day, kids with ADHD were labeled as the hyper kids - the ones with tons of energy on the playground. Nowadays of course, they have a 'disorder'. This study found that almost 1 million children are potentially misdiagnosed because they are the youngest and most immature in the kindergarten class. This suggests a serious flaw...
At least while we're young, we have a preference for kindness and goodness. In Paul Bloom's study he had infants watch several puppet shows. One puppet showed a puppet helping a puppet in need while another show had a puppet being a nuisance to the puppet in need. After the shows, the infants are presented with a choice: grab and...
But what happened to these academic icons? Was it merely a case of these venerable institutions being surpassed by more ambitious upstarts? Was it merely oversight that they were left off the list? Or was it a result of deliberate attempts over the years to sideline these institutions because they were founded by the British and/or missionaries?Or...
The process of industrialization when there is a development in manufacturing industry started in Britain in the late of 18th and early 19th centuries has a big impact on families’ structure.Before the industrial revolution, families were unit of production and considered to be multifunctional. Every member of the family had to work, including small...
What does the IB want? I spent 2 years trying to answer this question. I scoured the internet, browsed forums and attended revision courses to try and find answers. What I will be doing is trying to pass on the knowledge I discovered so you guys can pass your exams. Maybe your school has just started the IB program and your teachers are a bit inexperienced....
Transport for London is a huge programme carried out in London in order to improve it’s transport infrastructure. This investment project is aimed in five years make some improvements in different types of transport, make green types of transport more attractive and move to sustainable transport system that is a system that makes contribution to the...
It's been a while since my last post on this blog. I've been buried in my dissertation for the past six months. Thus the neglect of my blogging duties. It's been a long journey, one that has been physically, intellectually and emotionally challenging (and oftentimes exhausting) but after approximately 6 years here at Duke, I successfully defended...
With the announcement of a Talent Corporation to bring home Malaysians who've gone overseas, this research — Plugging the Brain Drain — seems relevant. The findings are quite accessible to the layperson, but if you have a little statistical background, you'll definitely get a chance to grapple with some of the most extensive publicly-available analysis...
Forecast is a future estimate usually based on past information. It is important to make predictions about the demand for transport since transport plays very important role in economic growth. It can be assessed in terms of usefulness of transport in providing services for people and connecting different steps in the supply chain. Economists make...
Historically, young people were a significant force in the development of this country.They were heady with the victory for independence. The mahasiswas debated, protested and demonstrated for pro-justice, pro-human rights, justifying their position and manifesting the education they receive in the best institutions of the country.Back in 1974 during...
China Effect which is a huge economic growth of the China has a big impact on all other countries. As GDP is growing rapidly in China and the country faces increased demand and demand-pull inflation, the UK will face inflationary pressure from this country and as China is the top producer of coal, steel, cement, and 10 kinds of metal, not only UK...
Secondary data refers to the data that are already exists. This might include historical documents, autobiographies, photos, novells, statistics.Official statistics are one of the major types of secondary data and they are produced by local and national government, its agencies and organizations. Official data is widely used by positivists since they...
Politicians about the Family.Some quotations which might be useful when writing essays. (Can’t remember from where I quoted them) LABOR PARTY.Family breakdowns are leading to youth crime, unemployment and anti-social behaviour, according to a parliamentary report; women's attitudes have shifted significantly, undermining traditional ideas of patriarchal...
By Ken Vin LekSPECIAL FOCUS KUALA LUMPUR: Higher education is a passport to a better life, but unfortunately many Malaysian students do not enjoy easy access to it. More often than not, it is a goal they seek but cannot attain. It has seemingly become a privilege and not a right.If given a chance, many would want to enter and graduate from top-notch...
Elasticity of demand is the responsiveness of a quantity demanded to a price/income/price of another good change. This concept is hugely used for business purposes and it plays very important role in determining the demand for transport. Transport is a movement of people and goods for personal and business reasons. Now in the UK most of the transport...
We were recently alerted to the existence of a programme called The Vacation Research Programme. All Form 5 students are eligible to apply; those accepted will be placed with medical researchers at various institutions in the country. This looks like an interesting research opportunity for interested secondary school students. The website is http://vacationresearchprogramme.wordpress.com/....
I took the opportunity to ask the Minister of Higher Education as to the steps being taken to prevent academics with dubious qualifications from being hired by our local universities during the Budget debate 2 days ago. The following was the relevant exchange: Tuan Pua Kiam Wee [Petaling Jaya Utara]: Yang Berhormat Menteri, penjelasan. Minta maaf,...
a) When making a research among pupils it is important to consider some problems which sociologists have to avoid such as sensitivity of children: they might be shy and not answer questions for example in group interviews, that are interviews based on a group of people and where the interviewer asks questions and respondents answer in turn. So sociologists...
Twentieth century brought big changes in priorities of people and their expectations of relationships. Over the past 40 years people, generally, tended to marry later and didn’t consider creating the family as the most important thing in their life. Also more and more people choose living alone rather than with family and have freedom. And if before...
The documents cover a wide range of secondary data, written and recorder material such as biographies, letters, novells, photos, radio and TV broadcasts. From interpretevists’ point of view, this type of data is very important and plays a significant role in their research methods since some kinds of documents are based on people’s understanding of...
In my "political life", one of my key themes is the fact that the Government is out of cash, and is desperately trying to raise funds via various forms of taxes, as well as sales of assets. However, the clearest indication of the shortfall of funds has to be the ridiculous nature of some of the budget tightening process at our Ministries. It raises...
Inflation is a sustained rise in the price level over a period of time. One of the main macroeconomic objectives of the government is having a low level of inflation. To achieve it government can use different policies. One of them is monetary that is decisions on the rate of interest, money supply and exchange rate. The main instrument of monetary...
High speed rail is a kind of transport which is much faster than usual trains and their average speed is about 200 km/h and faster. High Speed Rail has many advantages over other types of transport. First of all, it is called to be environmentally friendly and green transport due to a lower consumption of energy per person, big capacity, reduced land...
The United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child. (UNCR)From 15 January 1992, when the treaty came into force, every child in the UK has been entitled to over 40 specific rights.The Children Act 1989. Welfare rights of children Children support agency“Our role is to make sure that parents who live apart from their children contribute financially...
Lai, the deputy director of the Malaysian Independent Chinese Secondary School Unified Examination Committee under Dong Zong, said that Dong Zong rejected the UPSR move until the government proposed a detailed alternative student assessment system.“We do not agree to abolish UPSR immediately until we know more about the alternative formula,” Lai said,...
We often think about schooling as simply getting good exam results; maybe at best, we regard it as a way to practice our intellectual skills. But schools are where the adults of tomorrow learn not just how to read and write, but how to live. Our schools do a good job of teaching us basic literacy (and arguably quite a poor job of helping us think...
The case of Anucia, which Tony blogged about last month, seems to have struck a chord with you all: there are over 60 comments and counting on the post. Many are critical of Anucia's failure to research the government's requirements for a teaching post. A lot of people seem to have missed the critical point: if we want better teachers, we need to...
Basically, a primary school in Taman Tun (a suburb of KL) held an election for the post of head prefect -- supposedly the first time this has happened in the country. They had a formal nomination and campaigning process, all conducted by the Election Commission. When contacted, the EC deputy chair said he believed that teaching democracy to primary...
PSD scholarships – to scrap or not to scrapSAT, 26 JUN 2010 06:11 By Ken Vin LekKUALA LUMPUR: Every year around the months of May and June, hundreds of “straight A” SPM students receive the news of not being offered the “illustrious” Public Service Department (PSD) scholarship.Thousands of complaints are made by various parties, the issue becomes...
Hi, My name is I Lin Sin and I'm a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. I've just arrived in Malaysia for fieldwork. Over the next few months, I will be looking for and chatting with various individuals to inform my study on the link between a UK degree and the occupational and status advancement of young adult Malaysians. If your...
Eds.: The following is written by Tee Sui Seng, a Cantabrigian. The news that a Malaysian has been recognized as the top law student at the University of Cambridge initially filled me with much joy and pride and I wasted no time in letting my friends from all over the world know that we Malaysians are more than able to hold our own academically amongst...
My friends and I are running a series of workshops in several cities from this month through August on the US university system and its application process. There'll be one-day sessions in Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Penang and the Klang Valley, and a longer two-day workshop only in the Klang Valley in August. The info sessions will give you an idea of...
