Psychology 2014

[bellaellaella]

Iirc, daydreaming has decreased content limitation as there is greater variation in thoughts/ideas, as it includes made-up/imaginary scenarios that have not or could not occur in reality, whereas meditation has increased content limitation as you control your thoughts to focus on one specific thing, eg. Breathing.

Increased/decreased meaning what exactly? I thought we had to refer to one being a controlled process and one being an automatic as those are the only two types of processing under the "content limitations" umbrella.
 

[007]

I doubt that'd come up. I'm pretty sure we are meant to focus on daydreaming and alcohol induced state this year. I'm aware that was a recent exam question from recent years but I'm 95% sure we don't need to know in detail what mediation is, let alone those characteristics ... which are relatively self-explanatory.

Content limitations would decreased because you are usually only 'aware' or focused on one stimuli, such as your breathing, the person talking in the room or the wind outside. If you are taking mediation seriously, you are usually not having bizarre thoughts unlike daydreaming. In mediation you are selectively focusing on stimuli that is in the current, whilst in daydreaming you are focusing on internal events with little awareness of the external world, such as what you are going to do that night.

I don't see how it is relevant to the question, but daydreaming can be an automatic or controlled process but usually the former, so just stick with that. When I'm extremely bored in class I can purposefully daze out which I'd consider a controlled process, but generally it happens as an automatic process. I also think you shouldn't really be talking in 'controlled' or 'automatic' process for this, but your attention. When you daydream, you use divided attention. When you are in mediation, you are using selective attention which could also be called a controlled process. Sorry I'm out of it.

I'm pretty sure the content limitation would always be decreased for mediation, whilst daydreaming it can be increased or decreased.

[bellaellaella]

I doubt that'd come up. I'm pretty sure we are meant to focus on daydreaming and alcohol induced state this year. I'm aware that was a recent exam question from recent years but I'm 95% sure we don't need to know in detail what mediation is, let alone those characteristics ... which are relatively self-explanatory.

Content limitations would decreased because you are usually only 'aware' or focused on one stimuli, such as your breathing, the person talking in the room or the wind outside. If you are taking mediation seriously, you are usually not having bizarre thoughts unlike daydreaming. In mediation you are selectively focusing on stimuli that is in the current, whilst in daydreaming you are focusing on internal events with little awareness of the external world, such as what you are going to do that night.

I don't see how it is relevant to the question, but daydreaming can be an automatic or controlled process but usually the former, so just stick with that. When I'm extremely bored in class I can purposefully daze out which I'd consider a controlled process, but generally it happens as an automatic process. I also think you shouldn't really be talking in 'controlled' or 'automatic' process for this, but your attention. When you daydream, you use divided attention. When you are in mediation, you are using selective attention which could also be called a controlled process. Sorry I'm out of it.

I'm pretty sure the content limitation would always be decreased for mediation, whilst daydreaming it can be increased or decreased.

Thank you.
The question specifically states to discuss in terms of content limitations hence why I was thinking along the lines of automatic or controlled processes rather than types of attention

[bellaellaella]

I think I've just confused myself and taken my notes down incorrectly. I'll just take your word for it

[007]

Don't fuckin' take my word for it. I thought I absolutely killed that SAC and I got fucking 74%. What a load of shit.

EDIT: Is it possible to still get like a 40 if I get like 90% on my SACS and finish mid in my cohort and do well in the exam. It would be pretty hard to move up in my cohort now. I don't know how I did so shit, I thought I would have got 100%, knew everything.

[brenden]

Don't fuckin' take my word for it. I thought I absolutely killed that SAC and I got fucking 74%. What a load of shit.

EDIT: Is it possible to still get like a 40 if I get like 90% on my SACS and finish mid in my cohort and do well in the exam. It would be pretty hard to move up in my cohort now. I don't know how I did so shit, I thought I would have got 100%, knew everything.

45+ is still entirely possible.

[ealam2]

Sorry this might be a stupid question but I was wondering if the brain stem is the same as the spinal cord? And if cerebrum is the same as cerebral cortex? Just a bit confused with terms.

[brenden]

The brain stem connects the brain TO the spinal cord. As for the second question, they are different things, but you should read about it here http://biology.about.com/od/anatomy/p/cerebrum.htm

[007]

45+ is still entirely possible.

Yeah so the average was 84% and I received 74% which is pretty terrible, it was only worth like half of the first AOS but regardless, it is still hard to move up the ranks now. If I got a 40 I'd be so happy. I literally knew everything but supposedly I didn't address the questions and wrote too much and was just showing my knowledge, and I was meant to write in dot-point form?

I'm in a top 50 school so it is pretty hard to move up my cohort when people will always get like 90%

[brenden]

Yeah so the average was 84% and I received 74% which is pretty terrible, it was only worth like half of the first AOS but regardless, it is still hard to move up the ranks now. If I got a 40 I'd be so happy. I literally knew everything but supposedly I didn't address the questions and wrote too much and was just showing my knowledge, and I was meant to write in dot-point form?

I'm in a top 50 school so it is pretty hard to move up my cohort when people will always get like 90%

Yeah but the idea of the scaling system is you don't need to be that high up for get more than 40 in a top 50 school. And yeah, you should probably revise how you go about answering questions. Dot-point is entirely acceptable (even encouraged), as are charts, tables, diagrams etc. It really is as much about knowing how to answer questions as knowing what to answer. Have you done many practice questions, read assessors reports and things of the like?

[ealam2]

The brain stem connects the brain TO the spinal cord. As for the second question, they are different things, but you should read about it here http://biology.about.com/od/anatomy/p/cerebrum.htm

Okay I get it. So the cerebral cortex is the grey matter outside with the folds and wrinkles covering the cerebrum?

Thanks!

[bellaellaella]

Yeah so the average was 84% and I received 74% which is pretty terrible, it was only worth like half of the first AOS but regardless, it is still hard to move up the ranks now. If I got a 40 I'd be so happy. I literally knew everything but supposedly I didn't address the questions and wrote too much and was just showing my knowledge, and I was meant to write in dot-point form?

I'm in a top 50 school so it is pretty hard to move up my cohort when people will always get like 90%

I feel you. At least your cohort will hopefully do well on the exam and scale everyones SAC scores up (:

[brenden]

Okay I get it. So the cerebral cortex is the grey matter outside with the folds and wrinkles covering the cerebrum?

Thanks!

You got it =]

[ealam2]

You got it =]

Thank you thank you thank you!  That clears things up since my teacher said for the sake of year 12 psych that they were both the same so now I know that they're different. 

[Vermilliona]

Ok, I am very annoyed, can anyone please explain to me why this is a thing. 2003 exam, question 42:

When we experience Stage 1 sleep, the emerging brain-wave patterns are likely to be _________ waves, which
indicate ___________ frequency and ___________ amplitude.
A. alpha; high; low
B. delta; low; low
C. beta; high; high
D. theta; low; high

So yes great ok emerging brain-wave patterns, Stage one is primarily alpha with some theta waves, clearly the theta waves are now emerging, let's put D as the answer. nekminnit assessor's report says A, i.e. alpha waves, which are predominant in Stage 1, are somehow classified as "emerging" when they actually emerged in the awake but drowsy stage, y u do dis VCAA, help/explanation would be appreciated.