Exam thoughts

[amyminchin]

The correct answer was the for the last q was voluntary patricipation.

Vocluntary paticipation= participants are not forced to take part in the experiment and can not take part with no negative consequences.

The students who chose not to take part incurred neg consequences thus VP is correct.

Also, I think the sample was: 20 males and 20 female first year psych students from kookaburra uni, and the pop was: first year psych students from kookaburra uni.
the question specifically stated that the researcher was looking the effects of sugar on first year students form kookaburra university.

[sisqo1111]

yeh but other answers should be accepted for the ethical breach. such that of beneficence or integrity

[clau.diia]

a psych teacher at my school said voluntary participation is not one that was breached, been teaching the sub for over 30 years. he did although say that integrity and beneficence were acceptable. he said that some students may not have needed the extra marks or something and those who did participate did it voluntarily, thus it was not breached. he said it in a more complicated way lol

But it WAS breached. They're supposed to want to take part in their study on their own WITHOUT influence from the experimenter. The experimenter, however, offered those who participated a reward thus that would be an insentive to participate and would probably influence students to join the study to pass or something. Maybe those students wouldn't have done it if they didn't have a 'reward' so it was breached.

[sandhya]

hey for the spontaneous recovery q - do you know if NO was the only answer? Could you say yes and if you explained it /attempted to, get 1 or 2 marks? It was out of 2 marks. thanks

[gossip girl]

james experienced negative reinforcement - he wasn't being told off by his boss, therefore the removal of something negative.
I said operant conditioning for the start of that question, but I'm pretty sure it was classical :S
also, with luke and gayle etc., do you think I would still get full marks if I wrote this:

Gayle: unpleasant consequence (punishment)
Luke: pleasant consequence (positive reinforcement)
Gayle and Luke's dad: pleasant consequence (negative reinforcement)

the way the question was phrased, I thought they were asking whether the consequence was good or bad, but after I got out of the exam I realised that was dumb haha. lucky I put the answer in brackets, do you think that will count?

[hard]

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[bridgethuss]

also, with luke and gayle etc., do you think I would still get full marks if I wrote this:

Gayle: unpleasant consequence (punishment)
Luke: pleasant consequence (positive reinforcement)
Gayle and Luke's dad: pleasant consequence (negative reinforcement)

the way the question was phrased, I thought they were asking whether the consequence was good or bad, but after I got out of the exam I realised that was dumb haha. lucky I put the answer in brackets, do you think that will count?

oh shit i did the same, except i didnt put in brackets punishment or whatever i just had pleasant and annoying consequence, i also thought the way the question was phrased was a bit confusing haha.
ok so maybe now im looking at a b+ haha

[extra-UNcool]

did anyone notice that the hardest questions in the multiple choice were taken directly from past exams? as well as the wording for a lot of the other questions were pretty weird. looks like they were testing for english comprehension rather than knowledge in the course. i think it was pretty good overall though. research investigations was pretty much a blur though. was it a repeated measures design that they used?

[username]

did anyone notice that the hardest questions in the multiple choice were taken directly from past exams? as well as the wording for a lot of the other questions were pretty weird. looks like they were testing for english comprehension rather than knowledge in the course. i think it was pretty good overall though. research investigations was pretty much a blur though. was it a repeated measures design that they used?

Independent groups. Group one was experimental, group two the control. --> sugar, no sugar.

[morrjs]

yea.. the question about preparing at 9.30 the night before for a presentation...and what he should do...was from '07

[clau.diia]

if i wrote independent research design..that's wrong isn't it? I kind of blanked out on the word groups during the exam. Ah well.

[bridgethuss]

i put independent groups. and should the dude have gone to bed? thats what i put haha

[Eliseblack]

yeah if its the same as last years he should go to bed...
although, it was 9.30 at night!!
pretty early if you ask me, he'll just have pre-presentation jitters and not sleep till 12 anyway, silly vcaa!!

[GMK11]

hey for the spontaneous recovery q - do you know if NO was the only answer? Could you say yes and if you explained it /attempted to, get 1 or 2 marks? It was out of 2 marks. thanks

yeh I'm curious about this too ?

I know the answer was no.
But would you still get 1 mark if u defined spontaneous recovery, even if u said yes?