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Re: VCE Psychology Question Thread!
« Reply #120 on: October 15, 2015, 09:49:09 am »
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Hey just wanting confirmation on being allowed to write answers to the exam in dot point form? and if so are there any tips on how to do it without it seeming disconnected?
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« Reply #121 on: October 16, 2015, 07:30:55 am »
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Is retrograde/anterograde amnesia to do with our STM or LTM?
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« Reply #122 on: October 16, 2015, 08:54:45 am »
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Is retrograde/anterograde amnesia to do with our STM or LTM?
Long term memory! The cause of amnesia is damage to the hippocampi in the medial temporal lobe, the part of the brain that aids in consolidation of info into ltm. bad hippocampi=inability to store (declarative memories that is). This is the case for anterograde amnesia. Retrograde also has LTM affected because while one may be able to use stm still, they cannot retrieve info (retrieval of info is from ltm). :)
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Re: VCE Psychology Question Thread!
« Reply #123 on: October 16, 2015, 03:43:34 pm »
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Long term memory! The cause of amnesia is damage to the hippocampi in the medial temporal lobe, the part of the brain that aids in consolidation of info into ltm. bad hippocampi=inability to store (declarative memories that is). This is the case for anterograde amnesia. Retrograde also has LTM affected because while one may be able to use stm still, they cannot retrieve info (retrieval of info is from ltm). :)

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« Reply #124 on: October 17, 2015, 06:41:27 pm »
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hahah hey guys,
I don't do psych but my little sis goes to macrob which has a pretty strong psych cohort, she has been smashing her sacs by cramming about 2-3 days before. But she hasnt done much for exam prep except light revision,

she is freaking out and has 12 days to the exam, i dropped psych ages ago, any advice her? she is pretty much given up but she is a bright kid!

She doesn't want to start prac exams until she has done enough revision but is that a good idea?

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Re: VCE Psychology Question Thread!
« Reply #125 on: October 17, 2015, 06:53:45 pm »
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hahah hey guys,
I don't do psych but my little sis goes to macrob which has a pretty strong psych cohort, she has been smashing her sacs by cramming about 2-3 days before. But she hasnt done much for exam prep except light revision,

she is freaking out and has 12 days to the exam, i dropped psych ages ago, any advice her? she is pretty much given up but she is a bright kid!

She doesn't want to start prac exams until she has done enough revision but is that a good idea?

I'd say revise if you have completely no idea and literally can't do a practice exam, but if you're a bit rusty and still know most of the content, do practice exams, highlight your weak areas and then revise those.
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Re: VCE Psychology Question Thread!
« Reply #126 on: October 17, 2015, 11:15:26 pm »
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How much of the DSM and ICD stuff do we need to know?
Also can someone please explain the axis' for both manuals?

Thanks aplenty! :D

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Re: VCE Psychology Question Thread!
« Reply #127 on: October 17, 2015, 11:36:09 pm »
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How much of the DSM and ICD stuff do we need to know?
Also can someone please explain the axis' for both manuals?

Thanks aplenty! :D

So VCAA released a statement saying that they don't mind if students study the DSM V or DSM 4 but must textbooks study DSM 4, either way, Considering they dont mind which DSM u study, we can rationalize that old features in the DSM 4 that don't carry on to the DSM 5 dont need to be studied. However, keep them in the back of your mind as i got this info from the Cheif assesor and he himself said that this is a logical assumption but VCAA have a tendency to twist their rules. So just know everything in your textbook, then maybe do some readings in the other tetxbooks, and you should be able to take on any question vcaa throw at you.

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« Reply #128 on: October 18, 2015, 12:01:14 am »
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So VCAA released a statement saying that they don't mind if students study the DSM V or DSM 4 but must textbooks study DSM 4, either way, Considering they dont mind which DSM u study, we can rationalize that old features in the DSM 4 that don't carry on to the DSM 5 dont need to be studied. However, keep them in the back of your mind as i got this info from the Cheif assesor and he himself said that this is a logical assumption but VCAA have a tendency to twist their rules. So just know everything in your textbook, then maybe do some readings in the other tetxbooks, and you should be able to take on any question vcaa throw at you.

Never heard of a DSM V... but thanks!

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Re: VCE Psychology Question Thread!
« Reply #129 on: October 18, 2015, 07:02:02 pm »
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Can you make a conclusion to the study even if the results aren't statistically significant? But you can't generalise, right?
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Re: VCE Psychology Question Thread!
« Reply #130 on: October 18, 2015, 07:11:23 pm »
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Can you make a conclusion to the study even if the results aren't statistically significant? But you can't generalise, right?
Kinda. Except the conclusion won't support the hypothesis usually because the results are probably due to chance. So for a hypothesis like 'it is hypothesised that teenagers will perform better on exams if they have coffee during the exam than those who don't' and say we get some statistically insignificant result. We can conclude that coffee does not appear to affect exam performance. Basically you want a statistically significant result so you can be sure the IV affected the DV in the way expected and not by chance, otherwise the conclusion won't support the hypothesis. Make sense? :)
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Re: VCE Psychology Question Thread!
« Reply #131 on: October 18, 2015, 08:33:18 pm »
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Anyone got any exam topic predictions or is it totally random?

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Re: VCE Psychology Question Thread!
« Reply #132 on: October 18, 2015, 11:23:53 pm »
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Anyone got any exam topic predictions or is it totally random?

they construct the exam by referring the study design, for every dot point, there will be at least 1 mark dedicated to it. Also, they generally try and make the Short answer questions reflect the study design dot points, as in within MIND BRIAN BODY AND SOUL, or AOS 1, only a tiny portion will be dedicated to States of consciousness as there is only one dotpoint. But All the nervous system stuff will probably be focused upon due to the number of dot points. IN short, go through the whole study design and look at each dot point and say, CAN I ANSWER EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT?

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« Reply #133 on: October 19, 2015, 01:04:39 pm »
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Can someone please explain why the answer is A? I put C. The assessor's report says: It is difficult to see why many students chose alternative C. Clearly a low to
moderate number of responses would be most efficient. The alternative of
making it easy to lose tokens is precisely how to make a token economy
ineffective, and favourite foods cannot be tokens.

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« Reply #134 on: October 19, 2015, 09:32:31 pm »
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Can someone please explain why the answer is A? I put C. The assessor's report says: It is difficult to see why many students chose alternative C. Clearly a low to
moderate number of responses would be most efficient. The alternative of
making it easy to lose tokens is precisely how to make a token economy
ineffective, and favourite foods cannot be tokens.
Think about it, would you stick to a token system if you were only rewarded after every 100 trial exams you did? Or would you be more likely to stick to it if you were rewarded for each one you did?
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