Psychology Exam Discussion!

[brenden]

Easy? Hard? What did you make of each section?

Edit: Did anyone take a blank copy of the exam scripts?

[nondiscrypt]

I thought m/c was harder than last year.

A few Short answer questions had me querying wtf they wanted.  Cohort spoke with teacher after exam, they had similar problem and she agreed some of the questions were strange.

I did the 2013 under exam conditions last week - teacher marked and said I was on track for a 45.    I won't get a 40 for psych .... Oh well at least it's over now

[Han123]

I thought section C was easier than last year, but yeah some of the section B questions were confusing at what the assessor wanted, I agree!

[brenden]

What was Sec C this year?

[Chowden]

I thought m/c was harder than last year.

A few Short answer questions had me querying wtf they wanted.

Agreed. Some questions were just a bit abstract and not clear what they were after. Multi choice werent too bad though, that question about Edward and his knitting was a bit of a strange one.

[Chowden]

What was Sec C this year?

Much better than last year. It was essentially just analysing the study they explained.

[Larri.e]

What did people put for mc:
-The one saying what will be happening when she in Stage 2 sleep compared to when she wakes up? content more limited?
-The one about the guy and Alzheimer's - needs autopsy to tell?

Short answer:
-Q on how acronym and acrostic helps remember ?

[~V]

What did people put for mc:
-The one saying what will be happening when she in Stage 2 sleep compared to when she wakes up? content more limited?
-The one about the guy and Alzheimer's - needs autopsy to tell?

Short answer:
-Q on how acronym and acrostic helps remember ?

I didnt think to determine if someone has alzhemiers you have to use an autopsy?? MC are suprisingly hard...

[barniie]

I felt like it was a strange exam. Felt like it was set out differently to previous years. Longer short answer questions worth more marks, covering less ground. Lots of scenarios.

I was finding myself short on time too, lots of extended responses.

I thought multiple choice were trickily worded, and some strange examples. Not so much the whole definition answer type of structure.

But overall not too difficult, my cohort seemed to all think they did pretty well, I'm not so sure. I think it was deceptively difficult.

I definitely screwed up the first short answer (function of Amygdala in terms of memory - I wrote about fear and emotional responses which is learning!)

hmmm



ETA: For Larri.e - I don't remember about your first question, I would have to look at the exam. But for the Alzheimers one I said because he has normal daily functioning? No idea! Such an odd question

[Vicbelgaus]

What did people put for mc:
-The one saying what will be happening when she in Stage 2 sleep compared to when she wakes up? content more limited?
-The one about the guy and Alzheimer's - needs autopsy to tell?

Short answer:
-Q on how acronym and acrostic helps remember ?

For the acrostics and acronyms, i said that these involve elaboration rehearsal, therefore the information is more likely to be consolidated into long term memory, thus the individual is able to retrieve the information more readily...

[Chowden]

What did people put for mc:
-The one saying what will be happening when she in Stage 2 sleep compared to when she wakes up? content more limited?
-The one about the guy and Alzheimer's - needs autopsy to tell?

Short answer:
-Q on how acronym and acrostic helps remember ?

Stage 2 vs. awake I said that an EOG reading would be smaller amplitude.
Alzheimer's guy I said autopsy required.

Short answer I just explained them and said they make it more memorable. I probably missed something there though.

[StupidProdigy]

What did people put for mc:
-The one saying what will be happening when she in Stage 2 sleep compared to when she wakes up? content more limited?
-The one about the guy and Alzheimer's - needs autopsy to tell?

Short answer:
-Q on how acronym and acrostic helps remember ?

I had a really strange feeling that to know if alzheimers had occurred there had to be an autopsy (pretty damn sure it was on a prac exam I did) but who knows!

For the acrostics and acronyms, i said that these involve elaboration rehearsal, therefore the information is more likely to be consolidated into long term memory, thus the individual is able to retrieve the information more readily...

Yeah I had a really similar explanation to you about acrostics and acronyms

[Vicbelgaus]

I had a really strange feeling that to know if alzheimers had occurred there had to be an autopsy (pretty damn sure it was on a prac exam I did)

Yeah in order to diagnose someone with Alzheimer's an autopsy is required.

btw this is what i got from a site about Alzheimer's ''A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease can be made only through autopsy after death''

[Larri.e]

What were some other questions in the exam that were a bit hard / tricky? Starting to forgot what was in it already haha...

[barniie]

Yeah in order to diagnose someone with Alzheimer's an autopsy is required.

kicking myself now for not getting that one. feel like I did a worse job on this than I thought... I didnt feel sure of any of my answers