VCE Psychology Past Exam Questions
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Section A, Question 5
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Report-based difficulty · EasyAverage marks: 71% of available · official reportAnswered correctly: 71% · official report
Question 5 While crossing a busy road Alex was nearly hit by a car. The car came towards them and they remained still on the spot, briefly unable to move. After reaching the other
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2023 PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 4 d o n o t w r i t e i n t h i s a r e a Use the following information to answer Questions 6 and 7. Peta received news that their job interview was unsuccessf
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Report-based difficulty · EasyAverage marks: 84% of available · official reportAnswered correctly: 84% · official report
Question 6 Referring to Lazarus and Folkman’s Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, correctly identify Peta’s primary and secondary appraisals of this event. Primary appraisal
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Question 7 Peta uses this experience and feedback to imagine their next job interview. Their ability to create a possible imagined future relies on A. the ability to construct ment
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5 2023 PSYCHOLOGY EXAM TURN OVER d o n o t w r i t e i n t h i s a r e a Use the following information to answer Questions 8–10. A large-scale study on mental health and wellbeing
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Report-based difficulty · EasyAverage marks: 78% of available · official reportAnswered correctly: 78% · official report
Question 8 According to the information in the table above, which one of the following statements is true? A. The most commonly used avoidance strategies were biological. B. Biolog
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Report-based difficulty · MediumAverage marks: 51% of available · official reportAnswered correctly: 51% · official report
Question 9 Researchers wanted to evaluate the impact of public health campaigns promoting strategies for mental wellbeing on the number of individuals using these strategies over t
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Report-based difficulty · EasyAverage marks: 94% of available · official reportAnswered correctly: 94% · official report
Question 10 Researchers found that people were likely to change strategies if they did not see a change in their mental wellbeing. Changing strategies demonstrates A. avoidance of
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2023 PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 6 d o n o t w r i t e i n t h i s a r e a
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Report-based difficulty · EasyAverage marks: 77% of available · official reportAnswered correctly: 77% · official report
Question 11 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander approaches to learning and knowledge are fundamentally different from Western approaches. One unique aspect of Aboriginal and Torr
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Report-based difficulty · EasyAverage marks: 72% of available · official reportAnswered correctly: 72% · official report
Question 12 According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin multi-store model of memory, the retention stage of observational learning is most effective when A. the visual information of the mo
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Report-based difficulty · EasyAverage marks: 81% of available · official reportAnswered correctly: 81% · official report
Question 13 In the first lesson, what are the two most important observational learning processes that will influence how the student begins to learn the target motor skill? A. att
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