Explanation on a couple of prac exam questions

[Bing 101]

How many prac exams is enough to be considered 'prepared' for this exam?

[matt123]

How many prac exams is enough to be considered 'prepared' for this exam?

Depends.
Its diff for everyone.
And depends what score you wanna get.

For full marks.
I would say .. do every paper that exists and keep doing them till you get 100% in them all.

But thats just me

"prepared" probz 5-20 ... like i said , depends what ur aiming for.

[sillysmile]

How many prac exams is enough to be considered 'prepared' for this exam?

Depends.
Its diff for everyone.
And depends what score you wanna get.

For full marks.
I would say .. do every paper that exists and keep doing them till you get 100% in them all.

But thats just me

"prepared" probz 5-20 ... like i said , depends what ur aiming for.

matt is superpracexam man.
I think about 20 is definitely good.

[Bing 101]

Okay good
Yeh I'm averaging 84-86 after doing about 26 prac exams, but to be honest I'm aiming and hoping not to drop more than 4 marks. Ambitious? yes.

What do you think about doing prac exams from 2000-2004, are they worth it? My school didn't give us heaps of prac exams and at this stage, I've only got irrelevant study design exams to do.

[milkcarton]

I've done 0 and will plan to do 3 today, -sigh- I know rote-learning is bad yet I execute it.

[matt123]

Okay good
Yeh I'm averaging 84-86 after doing about 26 prac exams, but to be honest I'm aiming and hoping not to drop more than 4 marks. Ambitious? yes.

What do you think about doing prac exams from 2000-2004, are they worth it? My school didn't give us heaps of prac exams and at this stage, I've only got irrelevant study design exams to do.

Not ambiguous.
Just get on the prac exams and Find out ur weak points.

[matt123]

Ohh and btw.
Checkpoints is good
but i wouldnt do individual old papers.

thats just me though hay

[jinny1]

Is serial position effect only for free recall??? doesnt work in serial/cued recall??

also i dont get stimulus generalization/discrimination in OC... what is the stimuls in OC and how does it work overall?? confusing

Thanks

[Transcendent]

Is serial position effect only for free recall??? doesnt work in serial/cued recall??

also i dont get stimulus generalization/discrimination in OC... what is the stimuls in OC and how does it work overall?? confusing

Thanks

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on stimulus generalization and discrimination in OC, i think an example could be getting positively reinforced for doing psych homework and stimulus generalization could be demonstrated by getting the same positive reinforcement by doing the homework for other subjects. And stimulus discrimination would be only getting positively reinforced for doing psych homework, but not other types of homework.

[Spreadbury]

Is serial position effect only for free recall??? doesnt work in serial/cued recall??

also i dont get stimulus generalization/discrimination in OC... what is the stimuls in OC and how does it work overall?? confusing

Thanks

operant conditioning's main focus is on the consequences of a behaviour/ response, but where does that behaviour come from? a stimulus. just like in Classical conditioning where a behaviour is elicited by a CS or UCS, operantly conditioned behaviours require a stimulus to elicit them.

a stimulus can be the puzzle box, someone asking you to clean your room in which case you'd get a lollypop, just something that would produce an operant behaviour (a behaviour that acts on the environment to generate consequences)

[jinny1]

guys is music state or context dependent cue??

[matt123]

guys is music state or context dependent cue??

Tough one.
Id say context but i may be wrong.

perfume = state
but music . hmmm ...

[sillysmile]

guys is music state or context dependent cue??

possibly both?

[Slumdawg]

guys is music state or context dependent cue??

context I reckon..

I always think of it as:
State is internal. (physiological and psychological - e.g. being drunk, anxious, nervous)
Context is external. (things in the environment around you - e.g. buildings, trees, sounds, people)
BTW..To add some validity to that point, at Roger Edwards' lecture he also referred to state as internal and context as external..

Makes it a lot easier to differentiate between the two..

[Spreadbury]

the physical qualities of an experience would be considered context e.g. what we saw, heard, touched, tasted etc... ^^