This podcast provides some parting advice for students on the 3 sections of the VCE Psychology exam on Friday. Good luck all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Student are having difficulty getting their heads around this part of the course, as based on regular questions I have fielded from my own students, students I tutor + students at various lectures I have given recently. This podcast attempts to break down and simply the elements of this model.

This podcast will help you clearly distinguish between Mental health & Mental illness c/o www.epsychvce.com

In the event that the exam extended response is a discussion - this podcast outlines the key components of writing a discussion in an exam situation

I've had another go at distinguishing between positive and negative reinforcement and punishment. Students have traditionally found this difficult, so I hope this podcast is of use!

Context-dependent cues relate to the external environment in which matererial has been encoded. Recall is higher when the retrieval context matches the encoding context as illustrated by Godden & Baddeley's experiment in in 1975 (covered in this podcast)

Acronyms, acrostics & narrative chaining is covered in this podcast along with an overview of how mnemonics enhance memory.

Recall vs Recognition vs Recall are covered in this podcast - all 3 are explained along with examples (including the savings score formula)

A common experience of retrieval failure is the tip-of-the tongue phenomena. An explanation of the causes of R.F or TOT is covered in this podcast.

Pro meaning forward, retro meaning backwards - this podcast examines causes of inteference as well as an explanation of both proactive and retroactive inteference.

Motivated forgetting is covered in this podcast - which distinguishes between Suppression & Repression and highlights evidence of both of these concepts.

Memories fade due to lack of revisitation (which is necessary to fortify the memory)

The Forgetting curve shows the rate and amount of forgetting that occurs over time.

Information in LTM is organised in a hiearchical structure of overlapping concepts (nodes) that are interconnected via meaningful links. This podcast covers the key points relating to S.N.T

The Primacy & Recency effect are both explained in this podcast with emphasis on the the respective use of STM & LTM.

Structural, phonemic & semantic enconding are covered in this podcast - examples of each are covered along with an explanation of the level of processing (shallow, intermediate & deep).

The functionality of the episodic buffer, visuo-spatial sketchpad & episodic buffer is covered in this podcast.

The role of the central executive is addressed in this podcast, a future podcast will examine the functionality of the slave systems of the Baddeley & Hitch model of Working Memory.

Chunking, maintenance & elaborative rehearsal are all covered in this podcast. Chunking icnreases the capacity of STM. Maintenance rehearsal enhances the duration of STM although if you keep it in STM long enough, eventually it will be encoded and stored in LTM. Elaborative transfer aids the enconding of material into LTM.

Implict vs. Explict memories are covered in this podcast - with specific reference to procedural vs. declarative (episodic & semantic) memories.

this podcast provides an outline of the functionality of our visual and auditory sensory memory registers.

The middle stage of the Atkinson-Schiffrin multi store model of memory is covered in this podcast.

Amnesia is defined as well as a description of both retrograde and anterograde amnesia is covered in this podcast: retro = backwards, antero = forwards in this case.

This podcast addresses - causes for age related memory decline as well as the effects on different aspects of memory - such as retention, STM, LTM, etc.