VCE Psychology Exam Sample Solutions and Discussion 2017

[Caitlin.campbell19]

GUYS DOES ANYONE HAVE THE ACTUAL MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS??

[-273.15]

Being my first exam (don't do english) i found that my nerves got the better of me and i was just a fuzzy mess the whole exam which really annoys me bc i studied so hard and tbh I dont think my exam will reflect that

[forbiddensoulxx]

Question 8 (10-marker)
-   Protective factor – Adequate diet or social support, I suppose. Seems a bit weird.

Just in regards to that, couldn't you also have talked about good sleep patterns and good sleep hygiene?

[Tknight]

Hey Howey,
For my graph, I did a strong recency effect rather than a serial position curve,
this was due to info not going into LTM. I also thought that, the duration and capacity of STM would become exceeded, hence the strong recency effect..
When we had to explain why elaborative rehearsal was more effective i mentioned the addition of meaning to words, hence demonstrating the primacy and rececny effect.

[Globe]

Could self-stigma be a source of stigma that affected Zac? That’s what I wrote....

[madz11]

Just wondering, where abouts did you get the copy of the exam?

Also, did anyone else think it did not do the course justice?

[charlottekennedy12345]

^or I did people being uneducated, is this right?

[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

[katrina.young]

Is there somewhere we can access the multiple choice questions or a copy of the exam? because i can't mark my multiple choice because i don't know what the questions are

[M909]

Being my first exam (don't do english) i found that my nerves got the better of me and i was just a fuzzy mess the whole exam which really annoys me bc i studied so hard and tbh I dont think my exam will reflect that

I didn’t do psych, but that sounds exactly how I felt in 2015 when I did my first exam (bio). Honestly, if you studied hard, you’ll probably do better than expected despite making silly mistakes or having a few blank moments. That’s exactly what happened to me in bio 2 yrs ago It’s so easy to just focus on what you think or know you stuffed up and forget all the good answers.

[osporth]

I'm so stressed about the caffeine question ( I spoke about stuff not on the study design so it won't get paid probably but I didn't really know how to relate it at all after describing the key terms?

On the bright side I'm so glad that those 4 Cs in a row seem to be correct ahhaha they were bugging me out

[psychdude]

The elephant in the room!
It was all kinds of vague - I thought I was just interpreting it too deeply or too stupidly because half my answers were definitions followed by what I thought was the correct answer.

Definitions don't hurt, right? Since there're so many occasions in which the question doesn't specify that it needs the definition, but it does!

Yes I was very similar, eg. with the resillience question I crammed in the definition then the answer. I actually felt under examined on definitions haha, so AtarNotes dude howey was certainly right about not stressing over remembering them - glad I didn't.

[psychdude]

Couldn't sum it up better myself. A series of easy questions followed by questions that made little sense and required a lot of mental effort.

Yep exactly. The questions were so open-ended also. For example the graph I did quite simply (hopefully the marker sees it succint lol) and just did a bar graph comparing elaborative and maintenance, while others did a serial position effect? My teacher said since it didn't specify it'd be fine...?

[howey]

Hey Howey,
For my graph, I did a strong recency effect rather than a serial position curve,
this was due to info not going into LTM. I also thought that, the duration and capacity of STM would become exceeded, hence the strong recency effect..
When we had to explain why elaborative rehearsal was more effective i mentioned the addition of meaning to words, hence demonstrating the primacy and rececny effect.

Yeah, I quite like that. Was tossing that up myself, so certainly could be correct

[mcuthill]

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