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Practice behaviour, mental processes, research methods, nervous system, learning, memory, sleep, wellbeing, and data interpretation.

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VCE Year 11 Psychology Neural communication hard neural pathway

1. A pathway diagram shows a heat receptor in the hand sending information toward the spinal cord before a response is made. Which neuron type carries the message from the receptor to the central nervous system?

Choices

Sensory neuron
Motor neuron
Interneuron only
Endocrine gland

Explanation:

Sensory neurons carry information from receptors toward the central nervous system.

VCE Year 11 Psychology Brain function hard brain model

2. A brain diagram highlights the frontal lobe while a student plans a multi-step task. Which function is most directly linked to the highlighted area?

Choices

Planning and decision-making
Basic visual processing
Hearing only
Balance and posture only

Explanation:

The frontal lobe is strongly associated with executive functions such as planning, decision-making and impulse control.

VCE Year 11 Psychology Development and data hard psychology data graph

3. A scatterplot shows age on the x-axis and working-memory score on the y-axis, with points generally rising from left to right. Which conclusion is best supported?

Choices

Working-memory score tends to increase with age in this sample.
Age causes every score to be identical.
The variables are negatively associated.
No data points are shown.

Explanation:

The upward pattern supports a positive association between age and working-memory score, without proving causation.

VCE Year 11 Psychology Learning hard conditioning model

4. In a conditioning diagram, a tone is repeatedly paired with food until the tone alone causes salivation. After conditioning, what is the conditioned stimulus?

Choices

Tone
Food
Salivation before training
The researcher

Explanation:

The tone was originally neutral, but after pairing it with food it becomes the conditioned stimulus.

VCE Year 11 Psychology Research methods hard experiment design

5. An experiment diagram shows Group A studying with music and Group B studying in silence before both groups complete the same memory test. What is the independent variable?

Choices

Study condition
Memory-test score
The number of answer options
The students' names

Explanation:

The independent variable is the factor deliberately changed by the researcher: music compared with silence.

VCE Year 11 Psychology Ethics hard ethics flow

6. An ethics-flow diagram shows participants reading plain-language information, agreeing to participate, and being reminded they may leave. Which ethical principle is shown most directly?

Choices

Voluntary informed consent
Deception without approval
Random guessing
A placebo effect

Explanation:

Participants receive information and choose whether to take part, so the diagram represents voluntary informed consent.

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