VCE Psychology Past Exam Questions
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Question 1 (8 marks) Lana is feeling stressed about her upcoming drama performance and nervous about forgetting lines on stage in front of an audience, despite practising at home i
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Report-based difficulty · EasyAverage marks: 80% of available · official reportFull marks: 74% of students · official report
a. Identify one physiological response that Lana may experience when she steps out on stage for the first time. 1 mark
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Report-based difficulty · MediumAverage marks: 50% of available · official reportFull marks: 28% of students · official report
b. With reference to context-specific effectiveness, evaluate Lana’s decision to stay out with friends on the night before her first performance. 3 marks Instructions for Section B
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Report-based difficulty · MediumAverage marks: 52.5% of available · official reportFull marks: 27% of students · official report
c. Annotate the diagram below to explain what happens when Lana steps on the pin. 4 marks leg muscle Source: Blamb/Shutterstock.com 2023 PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 20 D O N O T W R I T E I N
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Question 2 (8 marks) Fifty participants completed nine months of mindfulness meditation training. They did the training for 30 minutes per day, six days a week. The amount of corti
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Report-based difficulty · MediumAverage marks: 60% of available · official reportFull marks: 55% of students · official report
a. Identify one role of cortisol in chronic stress. 1 mark
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b. Using your knowledge of mindfulness meditation, explain the results collected in this study. 3 marks
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c. Why is mindfulness meditation a more appropriate independent variable than adequate nutritional intake for this study? 2 marks 21 2023 PSYCHOLOGY EXAM D O N O T W R I T E I N T
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Report-based difficulty · EasyAverage marks: 75% of available · official reportFull marks: 64% of students · official report
d. Previous attempts at measuring the effects of mindfulness meditation on stress levels used questionnaires. Identify one limitation of using questionnaires and explain how testin
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Question 3 (4 marks) Many species of birds can be conditioned to avoid predators by pairing the sound of the predator with an unpleasant stimulus, such as a puff of air. Over time,
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Question 4 (7 marks) Toilet-trained cows fighting against climate change In a recent experiment, researchers have conditioned cows to teach them to urinate in a toilet pen to reduc
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