2014 Psychology Exam PDF

[StupidProdigy]

All your other answers look really good, nice stuff! Except question 52 is A not D because the keyword in the question is 'knitting the first time', ie the question refers to models status not reinforcement..vcaa and their tricky wording 

[anna.xo]

I think the answer had to be suppression because the question states that she didn't want to think about it, which therefore implies that it is conscious. Suppression is voluntary - you are unable to remember because you don't want to, whereas repression is involuntary - you are unable to remember it because the memory is too distressing.

Yes, I am quite aware of the difference between the two.

Yeah, I know the question said that and I mentioned it. But it also said that when she tried to think about it, she found that she couldn't remember anything anyway. Doesn't this then mean that the memories were repressed as she couldn't remember anything anyway even when she tried to ?

[sophiielin]

Could you explain your reasoning for:
- Question 5)-I thought it would be C, due to the fact that the hippocampus is respsonsible for forming and consildating declarative information, and the temporal lobe is to general for that?
- Question 15)- Again, i thought it was C, due to her eyes not being as active when she was asleep, then when she was awake? This question also stumped me on the exam, is there something im missing?
- Question 34)- You wrote B, I thought that was one of the ones that were blatantly wrong, as isnt the fact that patients find it hard to bring biofeedback, as a credible relaxation technique, into the real world, one of its major critisms and limitations? I thought C, was the one that was LEAST wrong
- Question 46)- IMO, is defintely B not A, this is because his peers, WANTED, him to speak another behaviour (increase the desired behaviour) and to increase the desired behaviour, they ADDED a stimulus 'onto' Dan, (it doesnt matter if it was negative in itself), which increased Dan speaking with an aussie accent.. therefore he was positively reinforced!
- Question 52)- I thought the answer was A but you wrote D, however the question does refer to the FIRST time Edward knits, and therefore he could have never been praised by his grandfather if he has never done it, the emphasise on the FIRST time Edward knits, essentially crosses out all the options but the first one.

Dont disagree with any of the others! Not saying your wrong, but just wanted to clarify You defintely showed me that I got lots of things wrong though.. haha. Thanks for posting this!!
 

[barniie]

- Question 46)- IMO, is defintely B not A, this is because his peers, WANTED, him to speak another behaviour (increase the desired behaviour) and to increase the desired behaviour, they ADDED a stimulus 'onto' Dan, (it doesnt matter if it was negative in itself), which increased Dan speaking with an aussie accent.. therefore he was positively reinforced!

I saw it as by doing the desired behaviour (speaking with an accent) he was rewarded with the REMOVAL of a NEGATIVE stimulus i.e. the bullying. So A would make sense? At least thats how I saw it

[StupidProdigy]

Anyone think it is a little unfair they expect us to know what hypertension is (for the biofeedback question), I agree with you sophiielin that I thought it was hard to apply biofeedback from the testing environment to the real world environment because of the 2013 exam s.a question which said "When she has mastered(does this mean it takes lots of practice to transition it?) the technique of controlling the autonomic response she can use the techniques at work to reduce her stress levels."

[sophiielin]

I saw it as by doing the desired behaviour (speaking with an accent) he was rewarded with the REMOVAL of a NEGATIVE stimulus i.e. the bullying. So A would make sense? At least thats how I saw it

OHH, i do get how you are seeing it aswell, it defintely depends on whether or not they meant from the other kids' perspective, or Dan's perspective! Hopefully they account for both :\

[barniie]

Agh so infuriating we were expected to infer and guess so much meaning rather than just show our knowledge

[sophiielin]

Anyone think it is a little unfair they expect us to know what hypertension is (for the biofeedback question), I agree with you sophiielin that I thought it was hard to apply biofeedback from the testing environment to the real world environment because of the 2013 exam s.a question which said "When she has mastered(does this mean it takes lots of practice to transition it?) the technique of controlling the autonomic response she can use the techniques at work to reduce her stress levels."

Yes, thankyou! It could either be reached by eliminating the rest, and also i was just lucky in remembering the word hypertension, so i took a guess 

[StupidProdigy]

Well, here's my reasoning for those questions:
Q9 - problem-focused coping is where one feels that they have control, hence they will attempt to manage the problem
- hence redefining the stressor is an example of that.
escape-avoidance would be more suitable for emotional-focused coping, because they feel they have no control over their problems and will try to avoid thinking about it.

Q23
I narrowed it down to either A or D. For A - severing the corpus callosum will not prevent an epileptic seizure from initiating. Instead it was first used to prevent the electrical impulses from travelling to the other hemisphere. Which is why I chose D even thought it wasn't a perfect answer.

Q24
As adolescents experience ~20% REM and the elderly also experience ~20% REM, the only valid option was D. I've read those statistics in several different sources (e.g. A+ notes and the Grivas textbook), so that's my reasoning for choosing D.

Again with 24, the neap book I have says in the most perfect clarity that adolescents actually have an increased amount of rem compared to before puberty AND most significantly it states that they go from 20% rem in adolescence to roughly 18.5% as an elderly person! (I'm not trying to have a go at you, just bloody vcaa were pretty unclear!)

[barniie]

23? I thought the whole objective of split brain was to stop seizures, yeah it does stop the transfer between the hemispheres, but he would be subjected to the surgery for that, he would undertake the surgery to stop seizures, or am i just interpreting the question wrong?

The keyword was cerebral cortex in answer A. Yes, it is used to stop seizures. But the cerebral cortex doesn't initiate the seizures. That was idea, anyway. I really dont know for sure

[seacucumber]

I'm having trouble opening the files :\

[joseph_wu]

Regarding Question 24:

Isn't the answer B? Infants sleep for up to 20 hours and as you get older you generally sleep for only 6-8 hours. Also infants begin with about 50% REM sleep and it gradually decreases to about 20% throughout adulthood. Hence the proportion of time spent in NREM is higher than REM.

[StupidProdigy]

Regarding Question 24:

Isn't the answer B? Infants sleep for up to 20 hours and as you get older you generally sleep for only 6-8 hours. Also infants begin with about 50% REM sleep and it gradually decreases to about 20% throughout adulthood. Hence the proportion of time spent in NREM is higher than REM.

Yeah I had the same answer! But its been taken in a different perspective by lots of others. Just gotta hope for the best I guess

[isaacleeson]

any suggested answers for the following short answers;
4, 11b, 12 (specifically phase 2) and 14
would be of great help. im just not exactly sure what the marks were for, my responses were very vague and on looking over it i couldnt quite pin down what each mark was allocated to, ESPECIALLY with question 4.
any help is appreciated!

[AmericanBeauty]

I know the exam says to shade one box, but I shaded every one. If I get full marks on multiple choice, I will have found a revolutionary loophole. If VCAA is good, then I will not have.