Psychology SL practice: Apply responsibility and ethics to psychological research
Psychology SL stimulus: In Perth, Year 12 students are involved in a health project comparing a walking routine with weekly anxiety check-ins. The focus is lunchtime walking and anxious feelings before assessments. Evidence says students in the walking group describe calmer afternoons but exam anxiety still varies. The method uses weekly anxiety scales, walk attendance logs, and reflection notes with 76 participants over 2 weeks. The ethics issue is that students with anxiety concerns need support pathways, not public comparison. Use the ethics and responsibility organiser before judging the research decision. Select the psychology concept, content link, context application, and evaluation limit. Then answer this in your own words: how would this route improve the Psychology SL response for this exact context? AI will analyse your reasoning, evidence use, concept-content-context link, method or ethics judgement, and expression.
Worked practice: build the response
Construct the psychological response: concept focus, supporting content, application to context, then an evaluation.
Write a full answer
Now write the response in full, in your own words — this is what the exam asks for. The AI marks it on the same moves you built above (focus, evidence, technique, judgement) and gives feedback on reasoning, evidence, and expression.