VCE Psychology Exam Sample Solutions and Discussion 2017

[pha0015]

in terms of your answer for 6 d i think your 100% right but i must say it is a pretty stupid answer.

agreed

[pha0015]

b) Approach coping strategy - Looking for a new job (e.g. handing out resumes)

would approach strategy suffice?

[pha0015]

Would love to hear your thoughts on parts d and e. Personally, I was tossing up whether there would be a strong recency effect and little primacy effect, as maintenance rehearsal is linked to STM, not LTM, or whether it would just be a normal serial position effect curve. I went with a normal SPE because the next question asked for how it supported the multi-store model of memory. Thoughts? Maybe I'm just overthinking it...

Albeit knowing that recency effect is stronger in immediate recall, I still did a normal SPE curve, although the recency effect is a smidgen higher percentage recall, but it's not discernible if people aren't looking for it. All SPE graphs I've seen show a balanced curve, so I just went with that.

[charlottekennedy12345]

Can you post the paper?

[bigboi666]

how many marks can you drop to get an A in the exam

[Phamily]

Hahaha, love the "Disgusting antagonist caffeine question"
...... I drew a bar graph *sigh*, I knew it had something to do with the serial position effect tho RIP

[bella.rod]

Are you able to write the questions for the multiple choice - i don't have a copy of the exam

[gracesmith]

Can you please post the multiple choice questions so we can check our answers?

[charlottekennedy12345]

Can you post the Multiple choice questions? I dont remember which question was which ahahaha

[peter.g15]

I personally didn't put the serial position effect graph down since it said that the words were presented in a random order. At the time, I thought that this pay have meant, each participant individually, resulting in different words having different positions for each trial. Then for elaborative rehearsal, it specified that they were presented in the specific order that it stated. Therefore, I didn't do an SPE

What I did was just do a singular bar graph with the number of words correctly recalled being at 7. This was due to maintenance rehearsal only increasing duration, but not capacity. Therefore resulting in approximately 7 (plus/minus 2) words being recalled. What are your thoughts?

[howey]

Are you able to write the questions for the multiple choice - i don't have a copy of the exam

Can you please post the multiple choice questions so we can check our answers?

Can you post the Multiple choice questions? I dont remember which question was which ahahaha

Unfortunately I don't have a scanned copy of the exam, I'm just working off some rough photos of the exam that I received. We're working on getting one as soon as we can!

[10421]

  Would love to hear your thoughts on parts d and e. Personally, I was tossing up whether there would be a strong recency effect and little primacy effect, as maintenance rehearsal is linked to STM, not LTM, or whether it would just be a normal serial position effect curve. I went with a normal SPE because the next question asked for how it supported the multi-store model of memory. Thoughts? Maybe I'm just overthinking it...

I went with just the recency effect coz i figured the primacy effect can only occur if words are transferred to long term memory which shouldn't really happen much if you just use maintenance rehearsal?

[howey]

I personally didn't put the serial position effect graph down since it said that the words were presented in a random order. At the time, I thought that this pay have meant, each participant individually, resulting in different words having different positions for each trial. Then for elaborative rehearsal, it specified that they were presented in the specific order that it stated. Therefore, I didn't do an SPE

What I did was just do a singular bar graph with the number of words correctly recalled being at 7. This was due to maintenance rehearsal only increasing duration, but not capacity. Therefore resulting in approximately 7 (plus/minus 2) words being recalled. What are your thoughts?

Hmmm... interesting idea. Personally, I don't agree (sorry, don't mean to sound harsh, just being honest) as it may be the same random order for all students, and the SPE graph generally doesn't refer to a specific word on the x-axis, just the position of the word in the list.

[Joseph41]

Reiterating howey: appreciate the desire for the actual exam; we're working really hard to get a copy!

[howey]

I went with just the recency effect coz i figured the primacy effect can only occur if words are transferred to long term memory which shouldn't really happen much if you just use maintenance rehearsal?

Yeah, I definitely considered that, so I'm not for a moment saying that you were incorrect It just seemed more like a typical SPE question to me, although I can completely understand your reasoning!!