2008 Psychology Exam 2

[sexc_tissa]

oh gosh i hope i did well lol... looking at them answers makes me worried haha..

hopefully i wrote good answers i dont actually remember what i wrote..
did anyone put A for 32 about taste aversion and classical conditioning? i was going between A and D and was like OMG WHAT DO I PUT lol do i just chose A i think.. i dnt really remember haha

[Aurelie.]

Lulu, I swear we're in the same boat for like every question! The very few points you may've gotten wrong, I may have too.... !! I think I might have forgotten to put x100 on the end of my savings score

[sisqo1111]

for savings score, i actually showed the formula and not in sentences? also, i think i got the majority of short answer right hopefully lol. except im still thinking its operant and not classical for 8 a)

[arthurk]

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.

wow thats dedication thanks eriny ur answers are my answers pretty much exactly,
talk about stressful probs overpaniced so things took longer
didnt explain the spon recovery question too well but still 1 mark for saying it wasnt spon recovery:P
oh and my friend said the dv was the change in the number of words recalled rather tahn the amount of words recalled
what you think guys?

[khalil]

Ahhh did anyone not finish cause of time? I asked everyone and i seem to be alone in this. Someone reassure me please! haha

same here...time was a huge factor...i had 5 mins left and didnt complete the last page

[arthurk]

lol didn't complete the last page?
well i left the spontaneous recovery question last and spent like 30 minutes on it
then was like no it cannot occur blah blah bam times over
and i was like GODDAMN didnt get enough time to check over everything but ah well i got same answers as eriny who got 50 last year so fingers crossed:P

[khalil]

i mean i didnt complete the last page to the best of my ability
i gave one sentence answers
for the question about the savings score there was a trick to it
you had to mention the time to learn 10 tropical fruits in constrast with just original learning
it had to b specific with the scenerio.....thats y they gave u one

[arthurk]

lol really?
they said definition not describe

[85Holly]

can someone please give me a rough idea (doesnt matter if its not definate) of what study score i could expect for pysch with a C+ for sacs,
C + for mid year and im looking at a C+ for end of year?
would it be possible to get 30? or would it have to be lower than that.
i struck out.
ohwell

[arthurk]

lower guaranteed im sorry but even B average i wouldn't be looking at a 30, althought u never know^^

[85Holly]

thanks. ah fcuk.

[sisqo1111]

i got 193/200 for sacs
high b+ mid year
if for this exam i got High A or low A+
what score am i looking at?

[gabrielle__]

haha well that was a nice exam, i didn't even study,literally, and i got 44/44 multiple choice comparing with eriny, and short answer was v. similar! woo. psych!

[Lulu]

lol really?
they said definition not describe

umm yeah but when it asks...

"in this situation, define savings score and write the formula that the teacher would use to calculate the savings score"

i think it wants you to make reference to the example they gave

85holly:

dont worry about it too much, the scores vary from year to year so i guess it's not totally out of the question

sisqo111:

i'd guess above 35?

[khalil]

lol really?
they said definition not describe

it said IN THIS SITUATION DEFINE SAVINGS SCORE
lol i had to quickly rub out my answer
thats what slowed me down