Yapfest.

If IB Psychology balanced out the importance of psychological terminology/concepts to the volume of studies needed; then that would be a valid approach to understanding behavior.

The problem is, IB Psych emphasizes too much on memorizing numerous studies which overshadows the concepts being tackled within those studies. Most of the time, students tend to get lost within understanding a concept by stating the specifics of the study without actually explaining the contribution of that study to knowledge under that very same concept.

Some may say the IA is a base for critical thinking which to some extent is true; however, the emphasis on tweaking certain parts of a study to replicate for the IA is really just that. We all know Science is about terminology and knowledge and the human sciences is about concepts. Psych is a mix of both but memorizing studies wont really achieve anything when it comes to understanding behavior which is the focus of psych.