VCE Psychology Question Thread

girlmeetsvce

Is Parkinson's disease in the SD for 2023

dino

nah not rly

girlmeetsvce

hey guys does anyone have advice or suggestions about the student-led practical? We start it this week at school but I've never done one before (didn't do 1 and 2) so am quite clueless

dino

girlmeetsvce yeah i did it n got relatively high (2023 student), basically best advice is to SCRUTINISE that rubric and ensure you are doing everything your school wants u to do in order to get a high mark, its possible to score quite highly for this
additionally look at all research papers you can and summarise them and store them so you have a rough idea, don't pick something super niche like i did and struggle to find research papers, make sure they're free too because sometimes it's paid but that's hidden cleverly 💀💀
once you pick your topic make sure you understand the theory really well and are able to stick to word limit for the different sections of your poster
good luck !!!

marine

does anyone have practice sacs for aos1 u3 ?

prettypink1881

in learning what is the different between an antecedent and a stimulus?

Rey_of_sunshine

prettypink1881 I'm pretty sure a stimulus is anything internal or external that may/can trigger a response wheras an antecedent is exclusive to operant conditioning and creates the environment for the following behaviour (for example the antecedent could be a parent saying the dishes need to be done, the behaviour would be the child doing the dishes and the consequence would be praise). I hope that makes sense/is helpful

prettypink1881

Rey_of_sunshine yes that makes sense! thanks 🙂

girlmeetsvce

why is the learner considered passive in classical conditioning?

FH ⭐️

girlmeetsvce the learner isn't trying to change their behaviour- it 'subconsciously' occurs. for example, when the dog hears the bell and expects food + starts salivating, the dog cannot control its salvation.

marine

whats the difference between decay and displacement?

FH ⭐️

marine decay is when information in ltm is lost overtime. displacement is when stm is not transferred to ltm, therefore lost.

girlmeetsvce

marine my teacher said we don't need to know it for this year

FH ⭐️

girlmeetsvce yeah technically isn’t in the study design. doesn’t hurt to know though so you don’t confuse the terms.

girlmeetsvce

why does an EEG show higher frequency in REM than NREM but lower amplitude in REM than NREM

charl

girlmeetsvce
From the time you enter sleep to the time you enter deepest NREM-3 sleep the amplitude of waves increases continuously while frequency of EEG reading diminishes correspondingly.

Remember frequency represents how many waves there are per second , and amplitude is a measure of the degree of synchronized brain activity (neurons are acting in concert)

girlmeetsvce

can sample size be commented on if the total population is not given

charl

girlmeetsvce

can sample size be commented on if the total population is not given

Yes, if a sample size is small then that can mean the experiment is not externally valid (difficult to generalize results)

what's the difference between sleep onset and latency?

Sleep latency is how long it takes you to fall asleep, sleep onset is when you initiate a period of sleep.

girlmeetsvce

what's the difference between sleep onset and latency?

girlmeetsvce

Thank you🙂

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