VCE Psychology Exam Sample Solutions and Discussion 2017

[-273.15]

Hello
for the caffiene antagonist question i interpreted it as caffiene being the neurotransmitter and binding to the receptor reduced the effects of adenosine
Is this wrong?

[fmar25]

Hey, for 7f would it still be fine to talk about elaborative reherasl being more effective as the word pairs were encoded into the same semantic netowrks due to their rhyming nature and hence more easily remembered?
Cheers

[sagisingareddy]

Hello
for the caffiene antagonist question i interpreted it as caffiene being the neurotransmitter and binding to the receptor reduced the effects of adenosine
Is this wrong?

yes im pre sure its wrong ( i wrote that too. caffeine is a stimulant not a neurotransmitter

[Butterflygirl]

I don't completely remember the question, but for the one on how Jaime (I think her name was??) could account for the higher recall in elaborative than maintenance, I just talked about:

for elaborative there's stronger encoding due to meaningful links with info already in LTM thus, primacy AND recency effect whereas, maintenance would only lead to recency due to rote repetition that increases duration of STM?? Thus, higher recall for elaborative than maintenance

I literally have no idea. I barely got any time to look over my paper...

[-273.15]

yes im pre sure its wrong ( i wrote that too. caffeine is a stimulant not a neurotransmitter

cries ahaha

[-273.15]

I really wanted over 45 in psych
how many marks do you think I could have lost to get 45???

[Butterflygirl]

I really wanted over 45 in psych
how many marks do you think I could have lost to get 45???

I reckon that its really difficult to estimate how much you can lose to get 45ish because the exam this year was much harder than previous years (which relied a lot on just memorising and not as much application).

Also, if psych is gonna scale up this year, i reckon that the A+ range will be pretty low.

[Globe]

I don't completely remember the question, but for the one on how Jaime (I think her name was??) could account for the higher recall in elaborative than maintenance, I just talked about:

for elaborative there's stronger encoding due to meaningful links with info already in LTM thus, primacy AND recency effect whereas, maintenance would only lead to recency due to rote repetition that increases duration of STM?? Thus, higher recall for elaborative than maintenance

I literally have no idea. I barely got any time to look over my paper...

Literally me

[mishs]

yes im pre sure its wrong ( i wrote that too. caffeine is a stimulant not a neurotransmitter

i checked online n im pretty sure it does bind to the receptors.
Just because it’s a stimulant doesn’t mean it can’t bind to the receptor sites to inhibit he action of adenosine

[Butterflygirl]

What did u guys do for the extinguishing Little alberts fear question???

On a practice exam i did, it said that repeatedly exposing to the CS alone, without the UCS, could weaken and therefore, eventually extinguish the CR to the CS.

I wrote this (also because systematic desensitization didn't really make sense for a child).

I have no idea if its right.

[isobelj]

yes im pre sure its wrong ( i wrote that too. caffeine is a stimulant not a neurotransmitter

Pretty sure that you were right, it does bind to receptors. Because that’s the whole point of antagonists

Also, benzodiazepines aren’t neurotransmitters, but they bind to the receptor to change its shape so I don’t see why caffeine can’t.

[kelsey.jobe]

What did u guys do for the extinguishing Little alberts fear question???

On a practice exam i did, it said that repeatedly exposing to the CS alone, without the UCS, could weaken and therefore, eventually extinguish the CR to the CS.

I wrote this (also because systematic desensitization didn't really make sense for a child).

I have no idea if its right.

This is exactly what I did as well.

[forbiddensoulxx]

What did u guys do for the extinguishing Little alberts fear question???

On a practice exam i did, it said that repeatedly exposing to the CS alone, without the UCS, could weaken and therefore, eventually extinguish the CR to the CS.

I wrote this (also because systematic desensitization didn't really make sense for a child).

I have no idea if its right.

Was just about to post that ahaha, because I feel extinction would be a better way instead pairing the rat with a pleasing stimulus.

[Butterflygirl]

This is exactly what I did as well.

Was just about to post that ahaha, because I feel extinction would be a better way instead pairing the rat with a pleasing stimulus.

Yay!! hopefully, enough people did it for VCAA to accept it

[sagisingareddy]

Pretty sure that you were right, it does bind to receptors. Because that’s the whole point of antagonists

Also, benzodiazepines aren’t neurotransmitters, but they bind to the receptor to change its shape so I don’t see why caffeine can’t.

but benzodiazepines aren't stimulants. stimulants act by increasing CNS activity, and they do that by exerting their effects by influencing specific neurotransmitters and receptors, further altering neuronal function.