Psychology Post-Exam Discussion

[Charmz]

Yeah I put that girl (forgotten the name) as possibly appraising losing her job as a challenge which I'm not sure they'll except - I couldn't remember harm/loss.

Another thing I'm iffy about is the conclusion to the ERA - I said the hypothesis could not be accepted as experimenter effect may have influenced the results (there was no mention of a blind-procedure), and thus the results could not be generalised, but I'm not really sure whether they intended us to accept it or not. 

I'm predicting higher cut-off than the mid-year. The MC seemed much less time-consuming.

I put her (Maddie I think?) as going through Harm/Loss, but I'm pretty sure what I wrote of Emotion-Coping wasn't right. And yeah, the conclusion bit was weird. I just said that the sample size was too small and there was no p-value so it can't be generalised.

That was ridiculously easy and hence disappointing. The cut-off is going to be really high! :O

That's so true. I wish it was a bit harder! But oh well, what's done is done!
Now to wait until 17th December!

The Sample size has no relation to whether the p-value exists, you can have a p-value regardless of the size... I think. But I spoke to my teacher and you are right about the fact you cannot generalise due to no p-value.

[nomorecookies]

Ok to be honest, I studied hard for all the difficult type of concepts like the rat one with flavoured water seeing as it was poorly done last year AND THEY JUST HAD TO NOT PUT ANYTHING WITH THAT and instead ask all the 'basic' questions on classification which i just blanked out on .... DISSAPOINTED ):  !...... ALSO THAT QUESTION WITH THE PARROT OR WHATEVER .. THAT WAS HARD TO WRITE AN EXAMPLE ON ): !

[Lado]

Yeah I put that girl (forgotten the name) as possibly appraising losing her job as a challenge which I'm not sure they'll except - I couldn't remember harm/loss.

Another thing I'm iffy about is the conclusion to the ERA - I said the hypothesis could not be accepted as experimenter effect may have influenced the results (there was no mention of a blind-procedure), and thus the results could not be generalised, but I'm not really sure whether they intended us to accept it or not. 

I'm predicting higher cut-off than the mid-year. The MC seemed much less time-consuming.

I put her (Maddie I think?) as going through Harm/Loss, but I'm pretty sure what I wrote of Emotion-Coping wasn't right. And yeah, the conclusion bit was weird. I just said that the sample size was too small and there was no p-value so it can't be generalised.

That was ridiculously easy and hence disappointing. The cut-off is going to be really high! :O

That's so true. I wish it was a bit harder! But oh well, what's done is done!
Now to wait until 17th December!

The Sample size has no relation to whether the p-value exists, you can have a p-value regardless of the size... I think. But I spoke to my teacher and you are right about the fact you cannot generalise due to no p-value.

There wasn't a p-value, but I'm pretty sure in the scenario they stated that a 'statistical analysis revealed a significant difference between the two groups'. Does that refer to a p-value or?

[RTandon]

There wasn't a p-value, but I'm pretty sure in the scenario they stated that a 'statistical analysis revealed a significant difference between the two groups'. Does that refer to a p-value or?

Omggg, I saw that, and I wasn't sure if that's what it meant!!! So i wrote down about the p-value anyway. Maybe that's what was supposed to 'trick' us? Idk.

[Charmz]

Yeah I put that girl (forgotten the name) as possibly appraising losing her job as a challenge which I'm not sure they'll except - I couldn't remember harm/loss.

Another thing I'm iffy about is the conclusion to the ERA - I said the hypothesis could not be accepted as experimenter effect may have influenced the results (there was no mention of a blind-procedure), and thus the results could not be generalised, but I'm not really sure whether they intended us to accept it or not. 

I'm predicting higher cut-off than the mid-year. The MC seemed much less time-consuming.

I put her (Maddie I think?) as going through Harm/Loss, but I'm pretty sure what I wrote of Emotion-Coping wasn't right. And yeah, the conclusion bit was weird. I just said that the sample size was too small and there was no p-value so it can't be generalised.

That was ridiculously easy and hence disappointing. The cut-off is going to be really high! :O

That's so true. I wish it was a bit harder! But oh well, what's done is done!
Now to wait until 17th December!

The Sample size has no relation to whether the p-value exists, you can have a p-value regardless of the size... I think. But I spoke to my teacher and you are right about the fact you cannot generalise due to no p-value.

There wasn't a p-value, but I'm pretty sure in the scenario they stated that a 'statistical analysis revealed a significant difference between the two groups'. Does that refer to a p-value or?

I don't know exactly what that means but it certainly does not refer to the p-value.
The p-value refers the likelihood of the same results being obtained if the experiment was to be repeated.

[MagicGecko]

I almost screamed when I saw the ER.
I was so so soooo happy that it was Research Methods!

It wasn't bad. I found there were too many questions on the Transactional Model. So I don't know if I did them properly. Also, I couldn't remember a strength of dimensional and a reason as to why classification systems are used. But I made up answers for it anyway

I'm really hoping I did better than the mid-year!

Yeah I put that girl (forgotten the name) as possibly appraising losing her job as a challenge which I'm not sure they'll except - I couldn't remember harm/loss.

Another thing I'm iffy about is the conclusion to the ERA - I said the hypothesis could not be accepted as experimenter effect may have influenced the results (there was no mention of a blind-procedure), and thus the results could not be generalised, but I'm not really sure whether they intended us to accept it or not. 

I'm predicting higher cut-off than the mid-year. The MC seemed much less time-consuming.

ahaha i did just over half the MC during reading time

[Charmz]

Yeah same ^

[Genericname2365]

Was 33 A? I originally had C and then changed it. And what'd people put for 40?

[Laecs]

Was 33 A? I originally had C and then chaned it. And what'd people put for 40?

For 33 i put C and 40 i put B.. but i'm not really sure for 40 really.

[Russ]

33 is C, yes

There wasn't a p-value, but I'm pretty sure in the scenario they stated that a 'statistical analysis revealed a significant difference between the two groups'. Does that refer to a p-value or?

Omggg, I saw that, and I wasn't sure if that's what it meant!!! So i wrote down about the p-value anyway. Maybe that's what was supposed to 'trick' us? Idk.

I don't know how anal VCAA are (okay I do, I did psych) but if I read a paper for my job/work/study saying that, I would assume that it was generalizable and the p-value just hadn't been included for some reason. Alternatively, they're trying to trick you with dumb semantics >.<

[RTandon]

Was 33 A? I originally had C and then changed it. And what'd people put for 40?

40 was soo weird. I put C, but yeah, I'm not sure at all.
And I put A for 33 too.

[Laecs]

Was 33 A? I originally had C and then changed it. And what'd people put for 40?

40 was soo weird. I put C, but yeah, I'm not sure at all.
And I put A for 33 too.

Can't really be A for 33 as if it activated post-synaptic neurons, that would increase arousal. Really... making it worse

[Charmz]

Was 33 A? I originally had C and then chaned it. And what'd people put for 40?

For 33 i put C and 40 i put B.. but i'm not really sure for 40 really.

40 is B

[brenden]

Wast surprised at the ER. My teacher came back fr the assessors meeting and says "the chief assessor has a feeling it will be research methods again" so my whole class was just expecting research methods (not for any logical reason but it just turned into an expectation). Pretty lucky for us. Pretty easy exam as per VCAA standards, right? Do people agree with that? I think the cut off will be really high.
What were the other disorders like? Gambling was an absolute gift.

[Charmz]

Wast surprised at the ER. My teacher came back fr the assessors meeting and says "the chief assessor has a feeling it will be research methods again" so my whole class was just expecting research methods (not for any logical reason but it just turned into an expectation). Pretty lucky for us. Pretty easy exam as per VCAA standards, right? Do people agree with that? I think the cut off will be really high.
What were the other disorders like? Gambling was an absolute gift.

Depression was amazing. And I felt least confident with it out of the whole course so that was reassuring.
After reading all the topic questions, they are all the same but have been modified to adjust the specific disorder.