Trouble with Psych exam questions!

[arthurk]

so what? we're saying that when studying memory decline with age we can't use relearning?
wouldn't that produce the most accurate results as we can assess how much information has been retained, thus we can target areas that have declined such as episodic memories or semantic memories.

[psychlaw]

Many students suggested that she would conclude that the difference was probably due to chance alone – this is incorrect and shows a lack of understanding of the concept of statistical significance at the five per cent level.

Can someone please explan whaat this means, it relates to Q8 on VCAA 05

All you had to write for that question was: The P Value was greater then 0.05 therefore the results are not statistically significant and a conclusion can not be made

But somepeople tried to explain WHY it wasn't statistically significant (giving the reason that it was down to chance) - thats what you shouldn't do because you don't know that. Just use the P Value to say that a conclusion can't be formed.

[roly182]

But cant you say that a p value > 0.05 indicates that there is a greater than 5% probabilty that the results were due to chance and not the IV? Thats what it means..

[psychlaw]

But cant you say that a p value > 0.05 indicates that there is a greater than 5% probabilty that the results were due to chance and not the IV? Thats what it means..

If it said "What were possible reasons which made the result statistically insignificant"

but the question was "What conclusion can be infered from the results?"
The answer being -  none due to results being statistically insignificant (cause pvalue is greater then 0.05, so we don't need to say potential reasons why it was over, we just need to state it was over and no conclusion can be made)

[roly182]

Oh ohk i didnt read that question lol should have read back posts...
One thing...
With the generalistations.. they can only occur if sample is representative AND results are statistically significant right?

[chubz90]

hey guys... just a quick question pls. I found this in checkpoints, its from the VCAA 2003 exam;
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A few weeks ago, when Louis took his girlfriend to the local nightclub, they had a serious agrument and his girlfriend broke up with him. They are now back together but whenever Louis returns to teh same nightclub with his girlfriend he feels very nervous and gets 'butterflies' in his stomach. Louis' feelings on returning to the nightclub are due to:

A. Insight learning
B. Operant conditioning
C. Classical conditioning
D. Observational learning


This may seem obvious but there is somthing about the concept i dont get. Can you please justify your choice, which ever that mey be.

Cheers 

[psychlaw]

C; classical conditioning - Louis has been conditioned to feel very nervous when he goes to the nightclub because of the association between the once Conditioned Stimulus (the nightclub - which was once the neutral stimulus) and the UCS (Breaking up with his girlfriend)

Producing the Conditioned Response of nervousness and butterflies when he returns

This is process of Classical Conditioning thus the answer is classical conditioning

[Eriny]

so what? we're saying that when studying memory decline with age we can't use relearning?
wouldn't that produce the most accurate results as we can assess how much information has been retained, thus we can target areas that have declined such as episodic memories or semantic memories.

I don't think relearning was on the study design in 2004. I'm not certain though.

[sisqo1111]

C; classical conditioning - Louis has been conditioned to feel very nervous when he goes to the nightclub because of the association between the once Conditioned Stimulus (the nightclub - which was once the neutral stimulus) and the UCS (Breaking up with his girlfriend)

Producing the Conditioned Response of nervousness and butterflies when he returns

This is process of Classical Conditioning thus the answer is classical conditioning

so is the answer C?
couldnt it be operant conditioning? i hate these questions. Cause Louis knows that last time he was there he got punished so it will decrease the likelihood of this behaviour occurring again?

[Lulu]

"whenever Louis returns to teh same nightclub with his girlfriend he feels very nervous and gets 'butterflies' in his stomach"

This line tells us whether it is CC or OC. The CR is an involuntary response, hence classical conditioning not operant.

Furthermore, it's an example of a conditioned emotional response, because the ANS did not previously elicit that response (butterflies) to the stimulus (nightclub) before

If it were operant, It'd be something like: he's scared to talk because it might start an argument again...something along those lines.

[sisqo1111]

oh okay. Thanks for clearing that up!

[Lulu]

No worries, glad I could actually help

[khalil]

many of the past VCAA exams have emphasised the method of loci and descrbing it in detail.
how would u describe narrative chaining?

[melaniej]

That it involves linking unrelated words together in a meaningful sentence or story. If they give you words you can give an example.

E.g. He walked along the *path* only to stumble upon a *hat* which had been blowing in the *wind*

[rh]

i haven't done that many exams but if they do ask you to describe it in detail make sure to write something like 'the person *visualises* a piece of information to be remembered in a location in the sequence.' once vcaa assessment report said that it's not enough to say 'associates'