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Year 12 VCE Psychology practice questions
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Practice behaviour, mental processes, research methods, nervous system, learning, memory, sleep, wellbeing, and data interpretation.
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Sample VCE Year 12 Psychology questions
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VCE Year 12PsychologyStress responsehardstress-response pathway
1. A stress-response pathway shows hypothalamus -> pituitary gland -> adrenal cortex. Which hormone is most directly associated with the final adrenal-cortex response?
Choices
Cortisol
Melatonin
Dopamine only
Insulin
Explanation:
The HPA axis ends with the adrenal cortex releasing cortisol during a stress response.
VCE Year 12PsychologyMemoryhardmemory model
2. A memory model shows information moving from sensory memory to short-term memory and then to long-term memory after rehearsal. Which store has the greatest duration?
Choices
Long-term memory
Sensory memory
Short-term memory
The rehearsal arrow
Explanation:
In the model, long-term memory has the greatest duration compared with sensory and short-term memory.
VCE Year 12PsychologyConsciousness and sleephardsleep graph
3. A hypnogram shows REM sleep episodes becoming longer in later sleep cycles. Which statement is best supported?
Choices
REM periods are longer later in the night.
REM disappears after the first cycle.
Only deep sleep occurs near morning.
The graph shows no sleep stages.
Explanation:
The diagram shows the REM blocks widening across later cycles.
VCE Year 12PsychologyLearning and behaviourhardresults graph
4. A results graph shows a reinforcement group completing 18 correct trials and a no-reinforcement group completing 11 correct trials. What difference is shown?
Choices
The reinforcement group completed 7 more correct trials.
The groups were equal.
The no-reinforcement group completed 7 more.
The graph shows sleep stages only.
Explanation:
The difference is 18 - 11 = 7 correct trials.
VCE Year 12PsychologyResearch methodshardstudy design
5. A study-design diagram shows participants randomly allocated to an active treatment or placebo, with neither participants nor assessors knowing the condition. Which design feature is shown?
Choices
Double-blind placebo-controlled design
Case study only
Naturalistic observation only
No control condition
Explanation:
Both the participants and assessors are blind to condition, and the placebo group provides a comparison.
VCE Year 12PsychologyMental wellbeinghardwellbeing model
6. A biopsychosocial model places sleep quality, peer support and coping thoughts around a student's wellbeing. Which option matches the social factor?
Choices
Peer support
Sleep quality
Coping thoughts
Cortisol concentration only
Explanation:
Peer support is a social factor because it involves relationships and the social environment.
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Year 12 · VCE Psychology · Test mode · 20 questions · 10 min
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