Psychology 2014

[Politics]

Is the application of the biopsychosocial framework on a mental disorder and its management such as:
Psychotic disorder: schizophrenia
– biological contributing factors: genetic predisposition; drug-induced onset; changes in brain
activity; the use of medication that blocks dopamine to treat psychosis
– psychological contributing factors: impaired mechanisms for reasoning and memory; the use
of psychotherapies in management including cognitive behavioural and remediation therapies,
stress management
– socio-cultural contributing factors: social disadvantage, trauma and psycho-social stress as risk
factors; psychoeducation, supportive social (including family) environments, removal of social
stigma
– the interaction between biological, psychological and socio-cultural factors which contribute
to an understanding of the disorder and its management

examinable?

Our teacher told us the elected mental disorder is not examinable.

[ealam2]

Thanks, Politics! It's mentioned on page 32 of the study design that details of the disorders are not examinable.

[StupidProdigy]

Hey psychers! How is everyone doing so far on psych exam prep these holidays!?! personally I'm plugging along pretty slowly, working on my weak areas in the course and what not! I better start prac exams real soon hahah :/

[ealam2]

I haven't done any practice exams yet.  I'm still reading through my notes and making sure I've got the knowledge and understanding first before I apply that knowledge.

[Bluegirl]

I haven't done any practice exams yet.  I'm still reading through my notes and making sure I've got the knowledge and understanding first before I apply that knowledge.

Just a heads up, but my methods teacher said that a lot of people feel that way, and so they revise notes and everything but after a while still don't feel ready to tackle practice exams and so leave it until later on. However, the earlier you expose yourself to questions the better (but  while still continuing notes revision and stuff)

[ealam2]

Thanks, Bluegirl! I will just quickly browse through my notes and do practice exams soon!

[Bluegirl]

Thanks, Bluegirl! I will just quickly browse through my notes and do practice exams soon!

Start when you feel ready, just don't leave it too long

I know how hard it is with a subject like psych with so much content that it's hard to feel ready to start practice exams but you can do it

[ealam2]

Thanks heaps! I'll start on Friday! 

[avcestudent]

Hey everyone!

How many practice exams is everyone aiming to do? I haven't started any yet because I'm still focusing on revising the content. Is it worth doing all the past VCAA exams or just the most recent ones? Because I know that there are a lot of irrelevant questions in the older ones because the study design has changed.

[StupidProdigy]

Hey everyone!

How many practice exams is everyone aiming to do? I haven't started any yet because I'm still focusing on revising the content. Is it worth doing all the past VCAA exams or just the most recent ones? Because I know that there are a lot of irrelevant questions in the older ones because the study design has changed.

Hey! I'm aiming to do 20-30, and about 5-10 of those will be vcaa ones (so back to about 2006-7)

[millie96]

What type of memory loss occurs due to ageing?

[Vermilliona]

Declarative is the most affected I think, while procedural isn't

[Politics]

I just went through the 2013 TSSM trial exam, for multiple choice answers and short answer questions terms such as systematic desensitization, one trial learning, taste aversion and long term potentiation were coming up (for actual answers of MC questions), these aren't on the study design as far as i can tell, were they on previous ones? So we do not need to learn them?

[Vermilliona]

Taste aversion is specifically listed on the study design + the study design mentions 'changes to the brain due to learning' which long term potentiation would fall under. Not sure about systematic desensitisation, but it's not complicated so it wouldn't hurt to learn it

[more_vanilla]

One trial learning is definitely not on the study design. And I thought taste aversion was dropped from the study design as well? (Please tell me if I'm wrong bc I will need to learn it if it's still on there)
Systematic desensitisation is another name for graduated exposure (which falls under application of classical conditioning) and IS on the study design.