Psychologists! What's your diagnosis?

[daniel99]

Yeah it really depends on how the question was worded.

The question said that he clms down when he begins to speak and then it said 5 minutes after the speech started what is activated. It was the parasympathetic NS.

I think i got 85+ I hope..

[sonnypls]

Gah, I had sleep-onset & sleep-maintenance insomnia last night.

Stupid stressors.

[misskaraleah]

No Muller Lyer Yay. i hate explaining how it works.

I cant even remember if there were any in the multiple choice.


What did everyone think about that Perceptual Set Question? I used Past Experience.

[Nick]

Yeah it's parasympathetic for sure..

[Hughie]

The hormones secreted by the sympathetic nervous system would still be lingering despite the boy calming down though.

yer and the follow up question gave it away...somethng like 'what changes in the body might have ocured or whatever'...

[Nick]

I can't wait for someone to post the exam lol

[daniel99]

No Muller Lyer Yay. i hate explaining how it works.

I cant even remember if there were any in the multiple choice.


What did everyone think about that Perceptual Set Question? I used Past Experience.

There were 3 on the Ames ROom i think (multiple choice)

[sonnypls]

goddamn it. I wrote sympathetic...

I wrote context and said; that the aimbiguous figure could of had a context of at the beach.

if this was the case, then emma-lee or whatever her name, would be expecting to see a young woman rather than an old woman.

With Kevin if the context was at a bingo hall then, he would be expecting to see an old lady rather than a young woman.

[melaniej]

What did everyone think about that Perceptual Set Question? I used Past Experience.

That was the one with the young woman/old woman pic yeah?
I said past experiece.. the girl perceived the young woman because she was young therefore spent lots of time with young women.
I said the guy could have worked in a nursing home, meaning he spends lots of time with old women.


Overall not a bad exam. But we'll have to see how they mark it!

[KeyMan]

What did people right for the slanting of the floor of the Ame's room in the MC? I chose the one with "the floor doesn't slant but the ceiling does".

[melaniej]

The floor of the Ames room is slanted, away from the peephole towards figure A. The answer was A

[Ashhh]

I think i did reasonably ok. not as good as i SHOULD have done.

I did get confused with a few questions.

The one that really got me off guard was about Nick and the Polgyraph for GSR. Do you think it was required to mention the amplitidue og the polygraph when he was lying? Damn im pissed i messed up on that!

nah he

i agree i didn't think it was as hard as i expected, actually it reminded me a lot of last years paper in terms of difficulty. 

i think (hope) i did alright considering the level of study i did.

what did people think about the speech one where the kids parasympathetic ns was activated. i found the wording a little confusing and had to read over it a few times.

oh that one, he's sympathetic was activated, and 5 minutes INTO the speech what would still be active? OF COURSE SYMPATHETIC. para is activated AFTER the threat/whatever is dealt with dear.

but it could be both since, the boy calmed down..

But it stated that after he started talking he usually calmed down. If the child acknowleges that he can cope with the stress, then it ISNT a threat, so i think it would be parasympathetic, because he acknowleged that he was fine during the speech, only before he became nervous.

I think it was parasympathetic too.. the wording of that question was a bit difficult

[sonnypls]

What did people right for the slanting of the floor of the Ame's room in the MC? I chose the one with "the floor doesn't slant but the ceiling does".

it does slant, it slants down from the peephole to position A

if you went to the melbourne musuem. you would of had a chance to experience an ames room typed room.

[daniel99]

What did people right for the slanting of the floor of the Ame's room in the MC? I chose the one with "the floor doesn't slant but the ceiling does".

It was option A I thought. only the floor slants

[KeyMan]

The floor of the Ames room is slanted, away from the peephole towards figure A. The answer was A

Bugger, knew I got that one wrong.

BTW - wrote parasympathetic for the boy talking as well