Psychology Learning Sample Questions

[Eriny]

I made this sample exam with 'learning' questions that might assist with exam preparation. The questions are designed to be relevant yet challenging. I'm hoping that their difficulty is on par or a little more difficult than the VCAA exam.

If you try it out, it would be really good if you could leave comments about it. The following information would be useful:
1. How difficult did you find the exam? Have you experienced a change in confidence towards the final psych exam?
2. How long did it take you to complete all the questions?
3. Which questions did you get wrong?
4. Is there any questions that should be modified?
5. Any other comments

The plan is that the imperfections from these questions can be ironed out, so then I can create a better exam for next year. Sometimes it's a little difficult to properly gauge how students will find an exam and alterations over time is sometimes the best way to make an exam which adequately tests students.

Clearly, the exam would be much better if the other 2 sections were included. I think Nick has relevant 'memory' questions, though I haven't contacted him about it for a little while. As far as I know, there isn't a research scenario at all. I figured that I'd post the questions as they are now though, because they aren't going to benefit this years lot if they're just saved onto my computer. Hopefully there will be a complete exam by next year.

[bridgethuss]

thank you!!!

[melaniej]

Thanks Eriny!
I'll definitely include this as part of my revision! Looks good from the glance that I had over it!

[SoLe!]

cheers, i'll have a go...if i get less then 97% i get to blame you right?

[sisqo1111]

thanks so much Eriny, ill let you know how i go!

[Eriny]

cheers, i'll have a go...if i get less then 97% i get to blame you right?

Maybe, lol

It's not a problem everyone, good luck with your revision

[ilovesuck]

this is really great!

very impressive, and seems quite challenging

will have a go at the questions tomorrow. thanks eriny~

[hancakes]

hey thanks for this.

[hancakes]

hurrah - i got them all right except for the MCQ which asked about the number of independent variables in Bandura's experiment. - I was under the impression that in any given experiment there was only one independent variable (in this case, which version of the video of the model the children watched). Is this incorrect? If there is more than one independent variable it cannot be considered an experiment, because an experiment measures the effect of one variable on another... but the answer said there was 2 independent variables? please explain?


edit: btw the questions took me about 20 minutes all up and were very helpful. I think the standard was nicely hard - a little harder than VCAA, but not too much so. Thanks again Eriny!

[arthurk]

i can explain that variable question
There were typically two hypotheses used in the experiment as he did two things
one IV was the changing in the video and the model's consequences after the action
second IV was if the child was offered a reward for the aggressive behaviour or not

At least thats what i think is right

[Eriny]

Yeah. You can have more than one IV in an experiment, Bandura's experiment being an example of this. I don't know if you'll be required to know that, but it is good to know it just in case.

Independent variables are manipulated according to the purpose of the experiment. Often, as in the experiment to determine the effect of a drug, only one independent variable is used (i.e., the amount of the drug administered). However, it is possible to use more than one independent variable if the experiment is carefully designed.

http://online.sfsu.edu/~psych200/unit1/13.htm

I think it's called a factorial design (you definitely wouldn't need to know that).

[hancakes]

bingo! thankyou.