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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #345 on: May 30, 2011, 11:43:50 pm »
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AMYGDALA: ESSENTIAL FOR
-The formation of implicit memories

thats the first dot point, theses are the notes from pathways education :S

edit: yes it is also to do with the formation of emotional memories, but also implicit memories.

But why then would the answer be thalamus?
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #346 on: June 01, 2011, 07:21:21 pm »
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Q. A researcher wanted to investigate the effects of stress on sleep patterns. She is uncertain as to how she may design this research to most effectively control for participant related extraneous variables.
Identify the preferred research design and explain how this controls for extraneous variables.

[I thought it was matched-participants, since there'd less variation in individual participant characteristics, but the answer is repeated measures :/ (But isn't order effect also a  participant variable, from boredom or practice??) Can someone please explain why it would be repeated-measures??]

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #347 on: June 01, 2011, 10:35:03 pm »
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Q. A researcher wanted to investigate the effects of stress on sleep patterns. She is uncertain as to how she may design this research to most effectively control for participant related extraneous variables.
Identify the preferred research design and explain how this controls for extraneous variables.

[I thought it was matched-participants, since there'd less variation in individual participant characteristics, but the answer is repeated measures :/ (But isn't order effect also a  participant variable, from boredom or practice??) Can someone please explain why it would be repeated-measures??]

Generally you try get repeated measures, if possible but yeah, although order effects arise from this experimental design, you can employ methods like counterbalancing to counter it..

or perhaps think of it this way, which seems more easier, to try match prticipations based on similar st ress levels and allocating them to groups, or alternatively use the same sample of people and then measure their sleep patterns when they're stressed, and not stressed

hope that cleared it up, but generally repeated measures > matched participants > independant groups where possible

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #348 on: June 06, 2011, 08:49:22 am »
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In Descartes view of consciousness, Dualism, did he say "the mind could affect the body and the body could affect the mind"?? or was it only that "the mind could effect the body"?

and I was also a bit confused with this MC Question
 
Research into encoding techniques has found that within short term memory;
A. information is usually encoded at the semantic level.
B. acoustic encoding is more common than visual encoding.
C. visual encoding is more common than acoustic encoding.
D. semantic encoding is more common than visual encoding

[I chose C but turns out the answer was D? Can someone please explain why? :/]

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #349 on: June 06, 2011, 06:13:30 pm »
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I think with dualism, Descartes said they could work with each other.

And I believe the answer would be D because we would more commonly attach meaning to information we are encoding and is definately deeper encoding then visual in terms of levels of processing.
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #350 on: June 06, 2011, 08:53:01 pm »
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What are some criticisms of the motivated theory of forgetting?
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« Reply #351 on: June 06, 2011, 09:24:33 pm »
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What are some criticisms of the motivated theory of forgetting?
It's difficult to prove that the forgetting WAS motivated as opposed to lack of consolidation/insufficent retrival cues etc.
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #352 on: June 07, 2011, 05:35:15 pm »
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Instead of making a new thread, i've decided to post here instead...
Doing some practice exams, I'm a bit confused with a few questions just hoping you guys can help me out...

Insight 2009:

An image that is in the right visual field will be processed in:
A) the left occipital lobe
B) the right occipital lobe
C) both occipital lobes
D) the right occipital lobe first then the left occipital lobe

I thought it was C. I was told that images flashed on either side of the visual field will go through both hemispheres for processing. Only in the case of a 'split brain' patient when they're flashed on one visual field will go to the other ONLY.

Can any one explain why it's A instead of C

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #353 on: June 07, 2011, 05:43:16 pm »
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You're confusing yourself.

In the case of split-brain AND normal brain it goes to ONE hemisphere ONLY

BUT

the split-brain is UNABLE to transfer the information whereas NORMAL brain CAN TRANSFER info so it ends up in both hemispheres.

Make sense?
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #354 on: June 07, 2011, 06:15:43 pm »
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Yea, so in this case, flashed object in the right visual field, information will be processed in both the left and right occipital lobes is that wrong ?

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« Reply #355 on: June 07, 2011, 06:55:59 pm »
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Yea, so in this case, flashed object in the right visual field, information will be processed in both the left and right occipital lobes is that wrong ?
Yes it's wrong (answer is A) because (as I just said) it goes to one hemisphere ONLY but if we want we can transfer it (if we're 'normal') but split brains can't even transfer it...
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #356 on: June 07, 2011, 07:17:42 pm »
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Quick Question please:

From Insight 2006:

Information received in the right half of each eye will be sent to the:
A - Left occipital lobe
B - Right Occipital lobe
C - Left Temporal Lobe
D - Right visual field

I thought the answer is A, but it's B .. how come?
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #357 on: June 07, 2011, 07:29:24 pm »
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I thought it was A as well.

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #358 on: June 07, 2011, 07:50:11 pm »
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It should be A. B is wrong. The right half of each eye will cross over to the left occipital lobe, while the left half of each eye cross over to the right occipital lobe.
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« Reply #359 on: June 07, 2011, 10:19:57 pm »
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Are both the Thamalus and the Reticular Activating System involve in controlling sleep and wakefulness ? and does both control what information needs most attention ?

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