Exam thoughts

[mariaz]

yeah thats wot i said too. i jst was getting confused cos of other peoples answers.

[username]

NO, spontaneous recovery didn't occur
Because he was purely avoiding the unpleasant stimulus - had spontaneous recovery occured, the behaviour had to have been extinct. and there was no evidence to tell us that it had been extinguished.

to me it seems just a trick question, to separate the men from the boys... most people who don't think about it enough, will just assume that it occurs

aahahaha

[arthurk]

lol yeah teacher said no spontaneous recovery occurred
i dont think i did too well even though i studied so much
took more time to do it that i had hoped
anyone else stress over the spontaneous recovery question like i did?
although my whole class wrote no it didnt at the end so i was relieved i did too and teacher confirmed it
my thoughts on the exam
high A low A+
although pray to god high-mid A+:P

[moshi]

im quite certain spontaneous recovery did not occur, as whenever the CS was present, the UCS was present all the time. Therefore extinction never occured. But hey, thats just my thoughts!

Also, can anyone else confirm that it was OK to put withdrawal rights on the last question? And also, in the statistically difference question, was it sufficient to say "yes" or did you have to say  "yes, as p < 0.05"?  Cheers!

i'm not sure if you could just write "yes", i did that in the 2006 vcaa exam in class, and my teacher marked every student who just wrote "yes" as wrong, because according to the examiners report, you needed this:
"The results are statistically significant. The probability that the results occurred by chance alone is stated to be less than five per cent (p < .05)."

[melaniej]

ARGH. I'm so glad it is over. I've been stressing out for ages about it, and now its done.

But I screwed up baaaaad! Made many silly mistakes, put operant for that James question, the second the exam finished, I changed my mind.
Also mind blanked on the research measures, and had a horrible headache the whole time.

BUT PSYCH IS FINISHED!!!

[arthurk]

so let's have a psych party yeah:P
only ppl doing psych are invited
xavier college not on list you guys might wreck the place im sorry
nah just kidding u guys can come too:P

[Lulu]

haha!

congratulations to all psych '08ers!

[hard]

legal ftw

[killsdow]

For the question in research methods about random sampling.

Did anyone say it was?
Because every participant had an equal chance of volunteering to be part of the study, thus it would have been random sampling wouldn't it?

Although I put that it wasn't random sampling... after talking to friends it seems as if it was actually random sampling for the experiment.
Trick question?

[russdog]

killsdow sorry i dont think it can be cos the fact that people came forward (volunteering) doesnt make it random
only a certain type of person would want to volunteer, hence its not representative of a true random cross section of the population

[russdog]

can u say "yes, as p<0.05"...is that sufficient or do u need more words?

[killsdow]

Doesn't that apply to normal random sampling anyway? Since people that participate in any study must choose to do so voluntarily...
ie. Voluntary participation code of ethics

The more I think about it the more it feels like I got tricked ><"

edit: And I just said yes, it was only worth one mark so it should be fine.

[sisqo1111]

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

[mskwmskw]

i did random sampling and voluntary participation

[jess3254]

YAY! It's over!

I am pretty happy with how I went. I didn't walk out of the examination room thinking, "oh shit I did terribly", so that's a start at least.

I'm going to go check over my answers now to estimate a result haha.