Psychology · Units 3 and 4
Psychology, practice exam 8
Extended response: Sleep and mental wellbeing on a space-station mission.
- 120 marks
- 34 pages
- 40 multiple choice
- 15 minutes reading
- 2 h 30 min writing
Marks by area of study
Unit 3 AOS 1: 26 marksUnit 3 AOS 2: 28 marksUnit 4 AOS 1: 22 marksUnit 4 AOS 2: 15 marksKey science skills: 29 marks
Section B: short-answer and extended-response questions (80 marks)
| Q | Context | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | In a Torres Strait Islander community, young people learn traditional fishing practices from Elders and… | 6 |
| 2 | Rafael, 24, is a volunteer surf lifesaver. | 9 |
| 3 | Northern quolls are small native marsupials that often die after eating cane toads, which are poisonous… | 10 |
| 4 | Kaito, 63, has been punching and kicking in his sleep, and he recently fell out of bed. | 11 |
| 5 | Taj, 19, is a beatboxer: he uses his lips, tongue and throat to imitate the sounds of a drum kit. | 8 |
| 6 | A local council invited residents aged 65 and over to take part in a study of a new community garden. | 11 |
| 7 | Marisol, 21, is studying marine biology and must complete a scuba-diving course for her fieldwork. | 10 |
| 8 | Table 1 compares the sleep of Yara, aged 2 weeks, with that of her great-grandfather Ansel, aged 80. | 5 |
| 9 | Sleep and mental wellbeing on a space-station mission | 10 |
Section A: what each question tests (40 marks)
| Q | Key knowledge | Area of study |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conscious responses and the somatic nervous system | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 2 | Mean and standard deviation | Units 3–4 Key science skills |
| 3 | Systematic errors, accuracy and precision | Units 3–4 Key science skills |
| 4 | GABA as an inhibitory neurotransmitter | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 5 | Long-term depression | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 6 | Sympathetic activation during acute stress | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 7 | Time course of adrenaline and cortisol | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 8 | Adrenaline and the fight–flight response | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 9 | Appraisal and the strength of the stress response | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 10 | Stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 11 | Interpreting a correlational study | Units 3–4 Key science skills |
| 12 | The gut–brain axis | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 13 | Third variables in correlational research | Units 3–4 Key science skills |
| 14 | Context-specific effectiveness | Unit 3 AOS 1 |
| 15 | The three-phase model: antecedents | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 16 | Negative punishment | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 17 | Negative reinforcement | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 18 | The role of the antecedent | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 19 | Motivation and vicarious punishment | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 20 | The method of loci | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 21 | How mnemonics aid encoding and retrieval | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 22 | Drawing conclusions from non-experimental comparisons | Units 3–4 Key science skills |
| 23 | Aphantasia and autobiographical memory | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 24 | Short-term memory | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 25 | Echoic memory | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 26 | Encoding into long-term memory | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 27 | Limitations of the multi-store model | Unit 3 AOS 2 |
| 28 | Full sleep deprivation and BAC | Unit 4 AOS 1 |
| 29 | Advanced sleep phase disorder and bright light therapy | Unit 4 AOS 1 |
| 30 | Zeitgebers and entrainment | Unit 4 AOS 1 |
| 31 | Reading a graph of melatonin onset | Unit 4 AOS 1 |
| 32 | Light, the SCN and melatonin | Unit 4 AOS 1 |
| 33 | Zeitgebers other than light | Unit 4 AOS 1 |
| 34 | Resilience | Unit 4 AOS 2 |
| 35 | Self-determination | Unit 4 AOS 2 |
| 36 | Use of deception | Units 3–4 Key science skills |
| 37 | Debriefing | Units 3–4 Key science skills |
| 38 | Non-maleficence | Units 3–4 Key science skills |
| 39 | Types of data | Units 3–4 Key science skills |
| 40 | Reproducibility | Units 3–4 Key science skills |