Model Answers for Various Psychology Examinations

*The following answers present one way of answering the given question out of many possibilities of ways in which a candidate is free to answer. Sample Question  - The study by Saavedra and Silverman (button phobia) investigated the case of a child. Identify two characteristics of this case.                                                                     [2] Sample Answer -  Two characteristics of this case include: 1) The child's age was 9 years. 2) The child's ethnicity was Hispanic. --------- Sample Question  - From the study by Saavedra and Silverman (button phobia): Describe one conclusion from the study          ...

*The following answer presents one way of answering the given question out of many possibilities of ways in which a candidate is free to answer. Sample Question  - Evaluate the study by Andrade (doodling) Sample Answer -  The study by Andrade (doodling) used the cognitive approach to study attention. It investigated the impact of doodling on the monitoring and recall of a boring telephone message. The study employed a laboratory experiment  as its research method which enabled it to apply a high degree of control  over other factors that could have influenced the monitoring performance of participants. Factors such as anticipation of recall, interference of tasks using the same attention modality, influence of order of presentation on memory, impact on monitoring of any outstanding elements in the message, assignment of participants to the experimental and control groups, etc. were appropriately controlled for. Also, the study used an independent...