Who would care to explain these question? :)

[Slumdawg]

So if it were to come up on the exam the best one would be temporal lobe (I know it's involved with facial recognition but is it involved with object recognition as well (e.g. vaccuum, chair, pen)  but if thats not given then choose parietal..?

STAV are pretty crappy for psych I reckon. One of the other questions said what does the visual perception system consist of? and their answer was "Just the photoreceptors". Their credibility just went downhill from there.

It shouldn't come up on a VCAA one but if it did i'd still go with occipital. Mainly because of how ive learned it in VCE psych - Reception, Transduction and Transmission occur outside the occipital lobe and Selection, Interpretation and Organisation occur IN the occipital lobe.

selection also occurs in the photoreceptors

I think thats selection in visual sensation rather than in visual perception, not that the question stipulates visual perception.

I did a question that was like 'what process allows us to focus on a football as it travels across our visual field?' or something like that and the answer was selection. I was a bit confused.

The lines between visual sensation and visual perception are so shady in VCE psych. I think the term visual perception is also used to encompass both visual perception (the cortex doing its part) and visual sensation (the eyes and neural pathways).

Yer I never get it either. They change their minds all the time about what is right and what isn't.
I always thought reception, transduction, transmission occur outside the occipital lobe so its sensation as it's purely physiological. While perception is selection ( since each person may attend to various features of a stimulus) organisation and interpretation as it can vary due so it's psychological. So I agree with you Visionz

[Spreadbury]

"I did a question that was like 'what process allows us to focus on a football as it travels across our visual field?' or something like that and the answer was selection. I was a bit confused.

The lines between visual sensation and visual perception are so shady in VCE psych. I think the term visual perception is also used to encompass both visual perception (the cortex doing its part) and visual sensation (the eyes and neural pathways)." (quoting just this message was too hard  :2funny:)

wouldn't they all be involved. if that was a short answer question i'd so have answered accomodation. but yeah, that question seems a little hard and vague.

[Visionz]

The question was worded better than that I just couldnt remember it all.

[Boots]

Adrienne is completing a test. During the task, Adrienne has thoughts about the part-time work roster her employer changed recently, the party she is attending the next day and the prospect of getting her Learners Permit next week.
What is the best way of describing her state of consciousness?
A. normal waking consciousness
B. altered state of consciousness
C. focused state of consciousness
D. selective state of consciousness

Can anyone do this question? Is daydreaming ASC or NWC?

[minilunchbox]

Adrienne is completing a test. During the task, Adrienne has thoughts about the part-time work roster her employer changed recently, the party she is attending the next day and the prospect of getting her Learners Permit next week.
What is the best way of describing her state of consciousness?
A. normal waking consciousness
B. altered state of consciousness
C. focused state of consciousness
D. selective state of consciousness

Can anyone do this question? Is daydreaming ASC or NWC?

According to the examiner's report the answer is NWC because, "The flow of thoughts described for Adrienne in this question is a concrete example of William James’ hypothetical construct of the stream of consciousness"

Daydreaming is more related to when attention shifts from external stimuli to internal stimuli (and we become unaware of everything else that is going on around us). It's also more likely to occur when we're alone, doing routine or boring activites which doesn't exactly fit with doing a test.

[Boots]

Yes but William James's construct is for CONSCIOUSNESS, not just NWC

[Visionz]

Daydreaming is most certainly an AWC according to my teacher.

[Boots]

How can you believe your teacher, mine is full of s***

[Visionz]

How can you believe your teacher, mine is full of s***

In grivas daydreaming is defined as an ASC too.

[Boots]

yeah Grivas says a lot of things not consistent with assessment reports

Oh who to believe

You seem quite sure ur teacher is correct, are they like Roger Edwards or something?

[Tashi]

I wish that VCAA would make textbooks. Clear up so much confusion.

[minilunchbox]

How can you believe your teacher, mine is full of s***

In grivas daydreaming is defined as an ASC too.

So does the Nelson textbook.

[8039]

I got D myself.

The reasoning *edit* was all wrong.

[Glockmeister]

Careful there - Broca's Area is in the Frontal Lobe.

[Boots]

So the assessment report is wrong cos' the answer is actually A.