Psychology · 2000 · November · Paper 2 · HL · Question paper

PSYCHOLOGY HIGHER LEVEL PAPER 2 Monday 6 November 2000 (morning) 3 hours N00/350/H(2) INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE BACCALAURÉAT INTERNATIONAL BACHILLERATO INTERNACIONAL 880-073 10 pages INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES ! Do not open this examination paper until instructed to do so. ! Section A: Read the research report carefully and then answer all the questions. ! Section B: Answer two questions, each chosen from a different Optional Subject Area. SECTION A Read the following research report carefully, and then answer all the questions. The allocation of marks for each question is indicated in the margin. The number of people using the Internet is increasing rapidly at present. Some psychologists claim that excessive use of the Internet might lead to a decrease in sociability and an increase in health related effects such as tiredness. In order to investigate these claims, a team of researchers identified two groups of people. The first group were contacted at home using information from computer stores who had recently sold them computers and Internet hardware and software. They were asked if they intended to use the Internet regularly in the coming six months and, if so, were allocated to the experimental or ‘treatment’ group. The second group, who were selected at the store by the researchers if they had not bought any equipment, said that they did not own a computer and definitely would not use the Internet over the coming six months. The participants were tested for sociability using a questionnaire both at the beginning and the end of the six month test period. They were also interviewed about their general state of health including how generally tired they felt from day to day. Research assistants, unaware of the research hypothesis, rated the interview content for ‘degree of tiredness’ expressed. At the beginning of the six month period, the two groups did not differ on sociability or tiredness but at the end of the period the difference between the two groups means for sociability was significant ( ) as was the difference forp < 00 5. tiredness ( ). For the Internet using group there was also a weak butp < 00 1. significant negative correlation between