{"id":12923,"date":"2020-04-07T05:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/?p=12923"},"modified":"2020-04-07T06:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T21:02:50","slug":"health-project-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2020\/04\/07\/health-project-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Project Week 2<\/br><font size=5>Week 2 - Treatment Condition<\/font>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Week 1 the main job was collecting data on a range of health habits (sleep, diet, exercise) and their possible effects. This week, you&#8217;re going to choose one of those habits that you want to improve. If you can do better this week, that will be your manipulation of your independent variable. We&#8217;ll then see in Week 3 if it had an effect after we analyze the results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2020\/04\/07\/health-project-week-4\/\">Health Project Week 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2020\/04\/07\/health-project-week-3\/\">Health Project Week 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2020\/04\/07\/health-project-week-2\/\">Health Project Week 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2020\/04\/06\/health-self-experimentation-project-2\/\">Health Project Week 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2020\/04\/06\/health-self-experimentation-project\/\">Health Self-Experimentation Project Intro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2020\/03\/30\/the-importance-of-routine\/\">The Importance of Routine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Teachers<\/strong>: Feel free to adapt or amend any of this work in any way you like.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"x-video embed with-container\" ><div class=\"x-video-inner\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_OwlTM0e4og\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Week 2: Treatment Condition<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Read\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Reflect<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on what you have learned in the IB Psychology course by identifying another useful concept, summarizing it and explain how and\/or why you think this might be useful for you in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Read <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this summary of a study that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2020\/04\/02\/paper-3-practice-smartphones-and-sleep-quality\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">investigates the link between smartphones and sleep quality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Write <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a summary of the conclusions of this study in your words.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Evaluate <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the study by explaining some of the limitations of this study.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>HL Extension: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complete the practice Paper 3 questions that are at the bottom of the above blog post on sleep and happiness.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Research<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use google scholar or your textbook\/s to find at least one study that shows an effect of one of your identified habits (IVs) that you\u2019re going to change this week (see task below).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Write <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a summary of the conclusions of the study<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Extension: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write a full summary of the study, including aims, methods and results (150-200 words).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>HL Extension:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Evaluate the study, including explaining strengths and limitations.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Data Collection<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Choose <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one of your health habits that you are going to change this week. Your decision should be based on Week 1\u2019s data. See below for examples.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Write<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a list of your health habit goals for the week in your workbook.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Create <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a new blank data collection table.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Collect data <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">every day for a minimum of 5 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Example \u201cTreatments\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember that we\u2019re conducting an \u201cexperiment.\u201d This means that you need to manipulate your independent variable in some way. 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