TSSM 2009 MC FAIL

[laijiawen]

Brooke's grandmother is a healthy 80 year old. She is an excellent cook, however she gas trouble remembering the facts of significant events in world history.

Q19. Brooke's grandmother's memory decline is most likely a result of
A) Retrograde Amnesia
B) Slowing of the CNS
C) Decay
D) motivated forgetting

I chose B then looked at C and thought C could be correct too. Why can't the answer be C also?

Q20. As Brooke's grandmother ages further, she is
A) unlikely to remember any new material
B) likely to perform better on recognition tests
C) unlikely to experience large memory losses
D) likely to forget all her memories

To me, there's no definitive answer. What would you choose?

Q24. Which of the following behaviours demonstrates behaviour dependent on maturation?
A) a bird pecking at parent's beak
B) a spider spinning a web
C) a child learning to talk
D) a child crawling

I put C. But the answer is D. To me C and D both can be answers but I thought C would be a better answer because a child could already crawl from birth...

Q36. What schedules of reinforcement results in the fastest extinction of behaviour.
A) fixed ratio
B) fixed interval
C) variable interval
D) continuous

What would you choose and why?

Q37. If you wanted a rat in a Skinner Box to respond with a response rate that is often erratic, which schedules of reinforcement would you choose?
I had to check the definiton of erratic halfway through the exam lol. Erratic - unpredictable.
A) fixed interval
B) variable interval
C) fixed ratio
D) variable ratio

What would you choose and why?

[mikee65]

1) Decay, Slowing of CNS wold affect manipulation of STM and encoding, decay could only explain loss of such memory IMO bad question because aging doesnt really affect sematic memories. bad q

2) C the only reasonable one

3) Child crawling, cant be talking as crawling occurs as a result of system development ie maturation

4) Probably Fixed interval, times become predictable, frequency of responses drops eventually leading to extinction.

5) Probably go with D because the rat would be unaware of the exact correct response he will rewarded thus likely to show erratic responses on cumulative recorder.

These are all of the top of my head i could be wrong

[Spreadbury]

question 19 because C is not directly associated with age. B is

question 20 is bad, I would've chosen A

question 24 I would agree that it is D, purely because a child "learning" to talk would not be based on maturation

question 36 Continuous (D) because the reinforcement is very predictable, and thus when reinforcement stops, cessation of the response soon follows

question 37 A, read your textbook, it should say that it produces a "moderate, often erratic response rate" as the organism generally stops responding for a period of time following reinforcement as it knows reinforcement will not come for an amount of time, then it responds quickly as the next reinforcement approaches

[Spreadbury]

age can affect the fluency and speed of retrieval of semantic memories from LTM

[laijiawen]

1) Yea it's probably a bad question
2) Yea answer is C, I guess to get the right answer, we just need to crossout the ones that are definitely wrong.
3) I think you are right, now to think about it, talking can also be argued to be a learned response...
4) It was D, could someone care to explain?
5) It was A, could someone care to explain?

[mikee65]

question 19 because C is not directly associated with age. B is

question 20 is bad, I would've chosen A

question 24 I would agree that it is D, purely because a child "learning" to talk would not be based on maturation

question 36 Continuous (D) because the reinforcement is very predictable, and thus when reinforcement stops, cessation of the response soon follows

question 37 A, read your textbook, it should say that it produces a "moderate, often erratic response rate" as the organism generally stops responding for a period of time following reinforcement as it knows reinforcement will not come for an amount of time, then it responds quickly as the next reinforcement approaches

Now that I think about it 37 is probably A but I I wouldnt say A for 20, " Unlikely to remember any new material" sounds like a VCAA question like 50% + chose that option, Im also certain the answer was C in the report, cant remember what year though.

[laijiawen]

question 19 because C is not directly associated with age. B is

question 20 is bad, I would've chosen A

question 24 I would agree that it is D, purely because a child "learning" to talk would not be based on maturation

question 36 Continuous (D) because the reinforcement is very predictable, and thus when reinforcement stops, cessation of the response soon follows

question 37 A, read your textbook, it should say that it produces a "moderate, often erratic response rate" as the organism generally stops responding for a period of time following reinforcement as it knows reinforcement will not come for an amount of time, then it responds quickly as the next reinforcement approaches

1) How is Decay not associated with age? Decay is the loss of memory because the physical memory trace fades through disuse over TIME.
2) I chose A too!, but C is definitely a better answer and one that makes more sense once I thought about it more.
3) Yea, I was wrong
4) and 5) Thank you for explaining, I have a gay/different textbook cause my school is so cheeeeeeeap.

[sillysmile]

1) Yea it's probably a bad question
2) Yea answer is C, I guess to get the right answer, we just need to crossout the ones that are definitely wrong.
3) I think you are right, now to think about it, talking can also be argued to be a learned response...
4) It was D, could someone care to explain?
5) It was A, could someone care to explain?

I actually agree with all of these answers.

[sillysmile]

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Q20. As Brooke's grandmother ages further, she is
A) unlikely to remember any new material
B) likely to perform better on recognition tests
C) unlikely to experience large memory losses
D) likely to forget all her memories

I have seen quite a few similar questions, even on the vcaa exams..
according to research on old people and their memory
because she is healthy she is unlikely to experience large memory losses.
also A, B and D can be eliminated

[Spreadbury]

Decay can happen to peoples memories in people of all ages, not just old people.

[mikee65]

Decay can happen to peoples memories in people of all ages, not just old people.

obviously, but the older one is, the more likely a certain memory hasnt been visited for an extended period of time, therefore more likely to be prevalent in such a scenario..

[sillysmile]

Decay can happen to peoples memories in people of all ages, not just old people.

obviously, but the older one is, the more likely a certain memory hasnt been visited for an extended period of time, therefore more likely to be prevalent in such a scenario..

which question are you guys discussing, in terms of the tssm questions?

[jinny1]

Q19.

[sillysmile]

Q19.

the decay theory is not considered to be completely set in stone, as there are some limitations to the theory.

[jinny1]

Regarding . Brooke's grandmother is a healthy 80 year old. She is an excellent cook, however she gas trouble remembering the facts of significant events in world history.

Q19. Brooke's grandmother's memory decline is most likely a result of
A) Retrograde Amnesia
B) Slowing of the CNS
C) Decay
D) motivated forgetting

The slowing of the CNS only affects the speed and efficiency of the STM...so it shouldn't affect retrieval of semantic memory.