Past Exams and Assessment Reports

Visit the Exams and Assessment Reports section of the VCAA website and download/print Past Exams and Assessment Reports for Exam 1 in 2007, 2006 and 2005.

Study Design

Please download/print the VCE Psychology Study Design and make the following changes:

Unit 2 Outcome 2 (page 18, bullet point 6 of key knowledge)
Please note that the word ‘constructivist’ has been deleted. The point now reads: one approach to describing and classifying personality: Freud (psychoanalytic), emperical (type A, B and C), Eysenck (trait), Rogers (humanistic), Skinner (learning);

Unit 3 Outcome 1 (page 20, bullet point 2 of key knowledge)
Please note the addition of a comma (,) between the words ‘motor’ and ’somatosensory’. The point now reads: functions of the four lobes of the cerebral cortex in the control of motor, somatosensory, visual and auditory processing in humans: frontal lobe (including Broca’s area), parietal lobe, occipital lobe and temporal lobe (including Wernicke’s area);

Unit 3 Outcome 1 (page 21, bullet point 4 of key knowledge)
Please note the the acronyn PET on the third line can be referred to as position and/or positron emission tomography.

Unit 4 Outcome 1 (page 25, bullet point 3 of key knowledge)
Please note the addition of a bracket after the word ‘echoic’ and the deletion of a bracket after the phrase ‘long-term memory’. The point now reads: relationship between, and properties of, sensory memory (iconic and echoic), short-term memory and long-term memory;

Unit 4 Outcome 1 (page 26, bullet point 4 of key knowledge)
Please delete the following: as (the contribution of anterograde and retrograde interference effects in recall). The point now reads: the features of the forgetting curve;