2008 Psychology Exam 2

[cathtacular]

yeah i had punishment toooo :s

[sisqo1111]

yeh i agree with 42
31 i though was A must be B though lol

[mskwmskw]

punihsment, im certain of it

[mskwmskw]

i had A for 31 aswell

[SP3CIALIS7]

Regarding 31.

Having fun while baking scones with his grandmother is...

I thought that the "fun" was the UCS and that the actual "happiness" (like in question 30) was the UCR?

for 42.

Punishment discourages bad behaviour doesn't it? Or am i interpreting the question incorrectly? ><

Both of those statements sound correct to me, they are what I chose.

The only discrepancy between mine and sisquos multi-choice answers is:

37. Edward L. Thordike used the term ________ learning to explain learning that was essentially random; I thought Thorndike had called it vicarious learning, even though its almost always called trial and error learning in our course, but it seems no one else does . If he didn't call it that then who did?

38.Skinner termed these favorable consequences as ________; I put reward for this I know they are almost always referred to as reinforcements in our study design again, but I thought this question was designed to trick in a similar way t othe last one, I know I have heard it being called rewards in some context of Skinner though.

Probably just over-analyzed those questions and they were actually just the obvious easy answers....oh well

[jesso1]

Yeah man pretty sure it was trial and error learning and reinforcements. Overanalyzing sucks i did that in my last exam so i took this one a little more lightly. I dont know though...

[j.el-halabi]

can anyone please tell me why 18 cant be C?

[Lulu]

If you look in your text book, procedural memories are the most resistant to ageing, hence she won't forget them much if not at all

[Eriny]

Short Answer:
* These aren't really answers, just a guide to the kinds of things you could have written.

1. 5-9 (or 7 plus/minus 2); chunking.

2. You would have had to talk about recall and recognition as well as context-dependent cues, then say that group A would probably perform the best for full marks.

3. You would have needed a definition of savings score: something like it shows how much time was saved in relearning compared to learning. The formula is the amount of time it took to learn the definitions initially, minus the amount of time it took to learn the definitions the second time, divided by the time it took to learn the definitions initially, times 100 (T1-T2/T1 x100). This gives you a percentage of time saved.

4. You'd explain how sounds are held in sensory memory for a short time to allow us to understand words.

5. Just examples. Maintenance rehearsal might be 'repeat definitions of concepts', elaborative rehearsal might be 'draw a flow chart of concepts' or 'write down definitions in your own words' or something to that effect.

6. Because he wasn't injured, the consolidation process wasn't disrupted, therefore all the physical changes in the brain required to form a memory took place, and it's in his LTM (which has an unlimited storage time).

7. While both are unlearned, FAP are more complex, usually happens once organism reaches a certain level of maturation, etc. whereas reflex actions tend to be simple and occur throughout the lifespan, etc. (you could have had other things too, a good definition of each would have been sufficient).

8.a) i. punishment ii. positive reinforcement iii. negative reinforcement.
b) Basically explain negative reinforcement, how the removal of an annoying/undesirable stimulus (e.g. the sound of loud, fighting children) strengthens the behaviour that caused it (e.g. making Gayle go to her room).

9. a) classical conditioning
b) Negative reinforcement. Use a similar explanation to question 8.
c) It's not because he hasn't been to work for a week. If he hasn't been exposed to the stimulus, you can't know if the response has been extinguished or not.

10. The person actually has to have a reason to want to perform the behaviour. For instance, if they've learned how to bake from watching their mother cook, but can't be bothered baking for themselves (they've got mum to do it!), they won't perform the behaviour.

11. To see if sugar consumption impacted the number of words recalled in a test.

12. That first year psychology students who drink a drink that contains sugar will be more likely to recall a greater amount of words in a test of recall than those first year psychology students who drink a drink which contains no sugar.

13. IV: whether the drink contains sugar or not.
DV: the amount of words recalled on the test.

14. Population: 200 first year Psychology students
Sample: 40 first year psychology students.

15. No. They were a sample of convenience. You would explain random sampling and how this is not random sampling.

16. Independent groups design

17. As a control.

18. It means that the groups didn't know if they had a drink with sugar or a drink without sugar, meaning that the placebo effect wouldn't jeopardise the study.

19. There's a few you could write. Median, mode, the range.

20. given that p<0.05 and the level of significance was set at 0.05, the results were statistically significant.

21. No. The experimenter divided the groups into males and females, so there may be gender factors affecting the DV, in that she can't generalise what she found for the male students to the female part of the population, for instance. Also, people who volunteered for this study may have a different natural disposition in terms of memory and so on to the other first year Psychology students, so their results might not be the same. The students in the experiment may care more about grades, may be more academic and therefore might not be as affected by external influences in their mental performance, for instance.

22. A few answers would be accepted. Voluntary Participation seems the most obvious, because the students were coerced into participating by the promise of extra marks.

[j.el-halabi]

If you look in your text book, procedural memories are the most resistant to ageing, hence she won't forget them much if not at all

fuckkk.. you are rightttt.. man why did i put c? omg im gona kill myself.. oh well 43/44

[Lulu]

9. a) classical conditioning

Yay! you tell 'em eriny

21. No. The experimenter divided the groups into males and females, so there may be gender factors affecting the DV, in that she can't generalise what she found for the male students to the female part of the population, for instance. Also, people who volunteered for this study may have a different natural disposition in terms of memory and so on to the other first year Psychology students, so their results might not be the same. The students in the experiment may care more about grades, may be more academic and therefore might not be as affected by external influences in their mental performance, for instance.

would i be right with something like: it was not a random sample so it is not representative of the population?

btw thank you for the answers

[hopelessxhearts]

15. No. They were a sample of convenience. You would explain random sampling and how this is not random sampling.

22. A few answers would be accepted. Voluntary Participation seems the most obvious, because the students were coerced into participating by the promise of extra marks.

I thought it was random because all the first year students had an equal chance of being selected and because they volunteered to participate it wouldnt be Voluntary Participation.

[jesso1]

Thanks Eriny! I got a majority of it right. But i put operant conditioning for James. Dammnnn!!!! Lots of people from my school wrote that there wasnt any ethics breached. AHAHA AT THEM.

[j.el-halabi]

15. No. They were a sample of convenience. You would explain random sampling and how this is not random sampling.

22. A few answers would be accepted. Voluntary Participation seems the most obvious, because the students were coerced into participating by the promise of extra marks.

I thought it was random because all the first year students had an equal chance of being selected and because they volunteered to participate it wouldnt be Voluntary Participation.

yeh i second that.. anyway all of psychology units 1-4 have come to a completion now.. lets not look back and contemplate what we "could've"done, instead lets just move on and finish the battle with the rest of the fukn VCAA exams

[mariaz]

lol thats wot i wrote too.. lol @ me, i couldnt think of anything to write for it lol woops