VCE Psychology Exam Sample Solutions and Discussion 2017

[howey]

hey idk if this question has been asked already, but for question 4, on the bee sting, i interpreted it as an involuntary response because it said she involuntarily moved kicked her leg out ?? stressing oops

Hey, I did the same thing at first - but I'm pretty sure the question was specifically referring to her brushing the bee away with her hand. Sorry

[-273.15]

for question 1 I accidently wrote 'alarm (counter shock)' instead of 'alarm reaction' so didnt say the 'reaction' bit do you think they will take the mark off?
Also i suggested she use random stratefied sampling (forgot what question this was for) but if i justified this would it be accepted?

[Phamily]

Hey Howey, in regards to the 10 marker question, in the VCAA Psychology Exam Specifications it gives this kind of criteria

Criteria
The extended-answer question in Section B that is worth 10 marks and that does not have multiple
parts will be assessed against the following criteria:
 identification and explanation of formal psychological terminology relevant to the question
 use of appropriate psychology terminology
 discussion of relevant psychological information, ideas, concepts, theories and/or models and
the connections between them
 analysis and evaluation of data, methods and scientific models
 drawing of evidence-based conclusions and explanation of limitations of conclusions

I was wondering how you could implement the last 2 dot points, if at all ? Because I concluded my response with that basically there has been research surrounding bright light therapy and that it has been found to work ( just narrowing down what I said )

[Tknight]

c) Jaime could have used random sampling. This would have involved putting each of the Year 10 students names in a hat and randomly drawing out as many as necessary. This would have resulted in each Year 10 student having an equal chance of being selected for the sample, and therefore the sample would have been representative of the population of Year 10 students at Sundown High School.

Hey Howie,
For question 7C was it possible to use stratified sampling? including all 5 year 10 classes 

[howey]

Hey Howey, in regards to the 10 marker question, in the VCAA Psychology Exam Specifications it gives this kind of criteria

Criteria
The extended-answer question in Section B that is worth 10 marks and that does not have multiple
parts will be assessed against the following criteria:
 identification and explanation of formal psychological terminology relevant to the question
 use of appropriate psychology terminology
 discussion of relevant psychological information, ideas, concepts, theories and/or models and
the connections between them
 analysis and evaluation of data, methods and scientific models
 drawing of evidence-based conclusions and explanation of limitations of conclusions

I was wondering how you could implement the last 2 dot points, if at all ? Because I concluded my response with that basically there has been research surrounding bright light therapy and that it has been found to work ( just narrowing down what I said )

I think what you did is pretty good, I don't think there's a huge amount you can do with that, given you weren't really given any actual info or a study to analyse

[howey]

c) Jaime could have used random sampling. This would have involved putting each of the Year 10 students names in a hat and randomly drawing out as many as necessary. This would have resulted in each Year 10 student having an equal chance of being selected for the sample, and therefore the sample would have been representative of the population of Year 10 students at Sundown High School.

Hey Howie,
For question 7C was it possible to use stratified sampling? including all 5 year 10 classes 

Yep, could have talked about stratified or random-stratified. I just said random because it's easy to explain.

[mishs]

Guys I'm so anxious
I thought the question about the factors affecting memory were like
The time at which the different groups were tested (one on monday morning and one on friday afternoon)
and the times for which the words were flashed (2 seconds vs four seconds)
and the rhyming of the words essentially chunked them meaning they only really had to remember 10 things

Does this mean I'd get no marks for this question?
(it was why elaborative rehearsal was more effective)

[howey]

Does this mean I'd get no marks for this question?
(it was why elaborative rehearsal was more effective)

I don't really know how they'll mark this question. Personally I just didn't talk about the time of day because we don't really look at how that affects memory. But they're all valid points.

[Notarobot]

Regarding the antagonists, it was removed from the study design when the design was amended a couple of months ago. See http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/studies/psychology/studydesignamendments.aspx

"​5. Unit 4, Area of Study 2
Page 30: Application of a biopsychosocial approach, as a scientific model, to explain specific phobia ​
The term 'antagonists' has been replaced with 'agonists'. ​"

It's just not in the study design any more--so won't they have to cancel that question?

[howey]

Regarding the antagonists, it was removed from the study design when the design was amended a couple of months ago. See http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/studies/psychology/studydesignamendments.aspx

"​5. Unit 4, Area of Study 2
Page 30: Application of a biopsychosocial approach, as a scientific model, to explain specific phobia ​
The term 'antagonists' has been replaced with 'agonists'. ​"

It's just not in the study design any more--so won't they have to cancel that question?

That was really just fixing a typo - from 'antagonists' to 'agonists'. Not saying they are on the SD, but I highly doubt they'll cancel the question.

[Phamily]

Just wanna say a quick thank you Howey for getting up these suggested answers up for us

[charlottekennedy12345]

Can you post the photos of the exam your going off?

[sirenasmith]

Could someone possibly post the questions from the exam?

[sagisingareddy]

guys i didnt get the question like near the end where it was like what are the factors to explain maintenance, vs elaborative??
i only talked about retrieval cues ahhh i think im wrong

[theomccoy]

I’m confused about the elaborative rehearsal question. The exam applied rhyming is a form of elaborative rehearsal and assists encoding, however in the sample exam, it said the exact opposite? Less words were recalled when they rhymed.