VCE Psychology Exam Sample Solutions and Discussion 2017

[-273.15]

HAHAHA GUYS for the question about the mice and generalising I think I accidently wrote RATS instead of mice wowow there goes another stupid mark

[howey]

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 a great point I think, probably better than the answer I had. Will amend my answer now - silly oversight on my behalf

[Butterflygirl]

HAHAHA GUYS for the question about the mice and generalising I think I accidently wrote RATS instead of mice wowow there goes another stupid mark

hahahahah I don't think they'll take off a mark for that because its pretty obvious what you meant.

[isobelj]

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.

Yeah, I agree. Sorry I don’t mean to be rude but I didn’t mean to imply that benzodiazepines were stimulants, I was just saying that a substance doesn’t have to be a neurotransmitter to bind to a receptor on a dendrite, and gave an example of that :-/

[howey]

i wrote rats instead of mice during the exam, what will happen???

I reckon you'll be ok

[osporth]

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

Caffeine is a stimulant, however it binds to the same receptors as adenosine due to having a similar structure. I could be wrong but caffeine is a competitive antagonist, meaning it will compete with the agonist (adenosine) for receptor space and if there's enough caffeine and it's affinity being high enough the caffeine will bind to all available receptors, meaning adenosine has nothing to bind to. None of this is in the SD though so I have no idea what you were supposed to write about... I referenced the fact that caffeine is able to do this due to the fact that it has similar structure to adenosine and therefore can act as a 'key' as well. 

I'm thinking about this far too much ahaha. Whats done is done now, no point stressing too much.

[-273.15]

Sorry to be annoying but i think ive lost maybe 10-12 marks (possibly more?) on the exam
some vey silly mistakes
but given the difficulty of the exam etc and with very high sac marks (rank 1) what study score do you think im looking at?
I know its hard to tell I just want to get a rough idea for comfort

[Mariamnourine]

HAHAHA GUYS for the question about the mice and generalising I think I accidently wrote RATS instead of mice wowow there goes another stupid mark

LMAOOOOO weren't they Rats? I called them  rats confidently throughout!!!!

[Bianca12345]

HELP! I drew the serial position graph with dots at the points of the curve, will I get marks taken off?? STRESSING OUT

[Mariamnourine]

HELP! I drew the serial position graph with dots at the points of the curve, will I get marks taken off?? STRESSING OUT

If i understand what you did correctly, you will not get any marks deducted, as you still manged to identify the serial position effect [which is where the marks are allocated]. Stop stressing, I know you'll be fine. It's over. Just enjoy the peace of not having psychology anymore.

[Bianca12345]

If i understand what you did correctly, you will not get any marks deducted, as you still manged to identify the serial position effect [which is where the marks are allocated]. Stop stressing, I know you'll be fine. It's over. Just enjoy the peace of not having psychology anymore.

thank you! Trying my best not to stress, can't help but ruminate

[JemRayment]

Hi,

In the spinal reflex question, I wrote everything down in terms of how Serena moved her leg. Such as I roughly wrote that the receptor sites detect sensory info, then sensory neurons carry the sensory message via afferent tracts (PNS) to the interneuron in spinal cord (CNS) to be interpreted. Then a motor neuron is activated and transmits now motor message down efferent tracts to her leg muscles. And then I said, this enabled Serena to kick her leg unconsciously. However, I did not mention how the pain is still carried to the brain afterwards to be processed. Will I lose a mark? Please put my worrying mind at ease.

Thanks a lot!!! )

[Tknight]

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

Yeah  I said the same literally

[Mariamnourine]

thank you! Trying my best not to stress, can't help but ruminate

Haha I see what you did there!!

[oJL8A99A]

Hi,

In the spinal reflex question, I wrote everything down in terms of how Serena moved her leg. Such as I roughly wrote that the receptor sites detect sensory info, then sensory neurons carry the sensory message via afferent tracts (PNS) to the interneuron in spinal cord (CNS) to be interpreted. Then a motor neuron is activated and transmits now motor message down efferent tracts to her leg muscles. And then I said, this enabled Serena to kick her leg unconsciously. However, I did not mention how the pain is still carried to the brain afterwards to be processed. Will I lose a mark? Please put my worrying mind at ease.

Thanks a lot!!! )

Doubt it. From memory it was only 3 marks and it only asked how she moved her leg and not how it was processed. I did the same thing as well