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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2008, 10:14:12 pm »
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But don't you agree that if you've had lasagne successfully many times before, and this time you had food poisoning, you wouldn't necessarily feel a great aversion from eating it the next time (maybe from a particular brand or store though)?

if you dont "feel a great aversion", it means you havn't formed an association between the lasagne and being/feeling ill.  if you avoid the brand/store however, you have formed an association between being/feeling ill and the brand/store.

taste aversion is the conditioned response after forming the association between the particular food and being/feeling ill.  it doesnt necessarily have to be after one trial.  from the grivas book: "the association is usually of a single experience".

as for an example of one-trial learning, i would still do a food-related example; however, i would ensure to write "after only ONE association" or something similar to make sure the examiner knows you understand the principle behind one-trial learning.
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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2008, 12:30:57 am »
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With my example, you'd need to assume that you are having lasagne for the first time in your life.
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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2008, 07:18:39 am »
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you can get a taste aversion with any food. even if its your fav food. a taste aversion arises after eating a food 'once' and then feeling sick. it doesnt have to be the first time you ate it

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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #18 on: October 08, 2008, 06:19:44 pm »
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I think that example overlaps with aversion therapy, because you are deliberately lacing the meat with chemicals. For one trial learning i'd use an example such as going out for dinner and eating lasagne, and then feeling ill and vomiting for several hours afterwoods because you got food poisening. Now you would feel ill at the sight of lasagne.

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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2008, 05:36:43 pm »
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got a couple more questions from Insight 2007:

Q13 MC
Which of the following is most likely an example of forgetting due to lack of consolidation?
A. Perry is unable to recall the novels he read in Year Eleven but when he looks at the recommended reading list he has no difficulty selecting the correct novels.
B. Lauren was trying to memorise a list of psychology definitions when a fight broke out in the library, just as she had finished reading through them.  When Lauren tested herself later she could not recall any of the definitions.
C. Jennifer fell and was knocked unconscious.  She was taken to hospital but when she regained consciousness she had no recollection of how she got to the hospital.
D. Karl witnessed a fatal car accident and was deeply distressed by the event.  When he was questioned by the police about the accident, he found he could not recall any of the details.

Q41 MC
Which of the following is not an example of observational learning?
A. A child rocking a doll to sleep after seeing his or her mother rocking a baby to sleep.
B. A child jumping due to fear at the sight of a spider because his or her mother always does the same.
C. A person miming a song that has been performed on a music show.
D. A student putting the collar of their blazer up because a coold kid in Year 12 does this.



Also, do we need to know about the "null hypothesis"?

And i keep forgetting under which schedule of reinforcement a behaviour is harder to extinguish: Variable Ratio or Variable Interval?

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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2008, 06:13:21 pm »
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13 is C. IRRC, consolidation of memory takes 1/2 an hour for the memory traces to set in. /any distruption, such as damage to the brain, will mean the brain completely forget its.

41 would be B as observational learning does not involve actions of the autonomic nervous system (althought I don't think it's the best answer)
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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #21 on: October 13, 2008, 07:40:49 pm »
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^ah, thanks glockmeister for the explanation to 41; makes more sense the way you explained it.

for q13, the answer (according to Insight) was B (i put C as my answer as well ... )

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  • B is correct.  The fight interrupted the learning process thus interfering with the consolidation of the newly learned material
  • C refers to an organic cause of forgetting of information after a brain injury.  This is anterograde amnesia.

so the consolidation process can not only be interrupted by physical blows to the head, but also misguided attention?

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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #22 on: October 14, 2008, 06:58:51 pm »
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Hmm... I have to look at my textbook again, it has been a full year since I've done psych.

EDIT: Actually, on re-reading the question, I think C is worng, because the thing being remembered "recollection of how she got to the hospital" happened after falling over and being knocked unconscious.
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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #23 on: October 14, 2008, 07:40:39 pm »
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For question 13, I've seen a similar question like that in Checkpoints, only it involved a guy who learnt a list of words and then went to an 'exciting' football match, and forgot information due to the lack of consolidation.

But yeah, I'd say B because of the possibility of loud noises from the 'fight' in the library, or distraction from the environment leading to the failure for consolidation.

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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2008, 11:24:17 pm »
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yeah the commercial companies derive their questions from past vcaa paper which checkpoints usually has as questions.

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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #25 on: October 19, 2008, 08:44:01 pm »
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this is from lisachem 2007

q26
when allison wants to go to a party with her friends, she waits until her father is in a good mood before she asks. allison's behaviour is an example of:
a) stimulus discrimination
b) stimulus generalisation
c) the acquisition stage
d) shaping

this question threw me a bit. the answer is a, though i'm not certain why.. is it because she can discriminate between her father's good and bad mood which determine whether he will let her go or not?

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« Reply #26 on: October 19, 2008, 08:48:49 pm »
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you are exactly right. she is 'discriminating' between her fathers' moods.
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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #27 on: October 19, 2008, 08:53:17 pm »
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ah ok, thank you. imo it's a pretty dodgy question.

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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #28 on: October 19, 2008, 09:02:03 pm »
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I know i agree. You'd think that the difference between stimulus generalisation and discrimination would be easier to understand because the definitions are the exact opposite from one another. The exams usually have weird questions on them though, i don't understand why - it's just VCAA trying to trick you.
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Re: General Psychology Unit 4 Practice Exam Questions
« Reply #29 on: October 19, 2008, 09:30:50 pm »
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VCAA needs to do that otherwise the exams would be generally too easy... try getting these trick questions right and it would put you in good stead.
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