ePsychVCE.com: Recent Episodes
Andrew Scott
These podcasts are aimed at Unit 3/4 VCE Psychology Students, they can be also be found in the itunes store. See my website for access along with other eresources for Psychology students: www.ePsychVCE.com
This podcast cover the 4 Psychological risk factor that contribute to the development and progression of the a mental condition listed in the VCE study design: rumination, stress, impaired reasoning and memory & poor self efficacy.
This is the second podcast of a two-part series on the Stanford Prison Experiment: This podcasts covers the key results & findings along with a discussion of the ethical implications of the experiment.
This podcast covers the background to the experiment, the aim, IV/DV, details of the sample of participants along with a detailed procedure. The results findings will be covered in a future podcast.
This podcasts compares the effects of a legal blood alcohol content of 0.05 (in Australia) vs. one night of full sleep deprivation on: cognition, concentration & mood.
Reliability (both internal and external) and Validity (internal & external) are covered in this podcasts that relates to a key skill that all VCE Psychology students need to be familiar with.
Perceptual set and a variety of factors that influence our predisposition to perceive stimuli in a certain way are covered in this podcast.
The use of BLT in treating circadian phase disorders such as delayed sleep phase onset is covered in this podcast.
Reception, transduction, transmission and interpretation are all explained in this brief podcasts of the 4 stages of sensory processing which features in the U2 VCE Psychology course.
This podcast firstly covers the formation of a secure attachment and then covers the cause and effect of a disorganised attachment.
This podcasts provides an overview of the Transtheoretical model of behavioural model of change along with strengths and weaknesses of the model.
This podcasts covers the 6 stages. An outline of the model + strengths and weaknesses will be covered by an alternative podcast.
Genetics, poor sleep, poor response to medication and substance abuse are all briefly covered in terms of the their potential influence in the development of a mental condition.
This podcast covers: predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating and protective factors that contribute to the development and progression of a mental condition.
This podcasts describes both LTP (long-term potentiation) and LTD (long-term depression).
This podcast covers the key brain structures that cause P.D namely the substantia nigra & striatum as well as explaining the impact of depleted dopamine and GABA levels on the impairment if motor function experience by P.D sufferers.
This podcasts briefly covers the lock and key effect on neurotransmitters and receptors as well as distinguishing between neurotransmitters that have an excitatory vs an inhibitory effect on the firing of the postsynaptic neuron.
The role of the axon, dendrites, neurotransmitters and synapse are covered here - which is the 2nd dot point from the Learning AOS. See www.epsychvce.com for more free stuff for VCE Psych students/ teachers.
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.
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.
This podcast covers the role of the Hippocampus in the formation of declarative memories and spatial learning
This brief podcast describes the function of the amygdala in memory formation and fear conditioning
A description of how a patient can identify objects flashed to either the left or right visual field is covered in this podcast along with an explanation of each scenario as per Sperry & Gazzaniga's research.
This is the 2nd podcast on the speech areas of the brain, which has been produced with the intention of providing a clear distinction of the functionality of Broca's area in comparison to Wernicke's area.
This podcast covers similarities and differences between the somatosensory and motor cortexes
This is the 4th podcasts of the 4 lobes of the cerebral cortex - which describes the primary cortex (auditory in this case) as well as functions of the association areas and symptoms of damage to the lobe.
This clip covers the main functions of the visual cortex and the associations areas of the occipital lobe
This podcast provides an overview of the structure and 3 functional areas of the cerebral cortex
The psychological and physiological effects of sleep deprivation are covered in this podcast. see epsychvce.com facebook page for additional feeds for VCE Psychology podcasts and YouTube clips.
This podcast examines the use of sleep labs, video monitoring and self reports in studying sleep
Thic podcast covers the use of the EOG and EMG in indicating stages of sleep. See ePsychVCE.com facebook page for additional feeds for the Psychology student.
This podcast covers 1 of the 6 Psychological characteristics that we can use to distinguish a normal waking consciousness from an altered state of consciousness
This podcast covers the 4 stages of NREM sleep. See www.ePsychVCE.com for additional VCE Psych resources
This podcast provides an explanation of the symptoms, neural causes, brain areas affected and type of memories affected by the most common form of Dementia - Alzheimer's Disease.
This podcast covers the other 2 research designs (Repeated Measures covered in a separate podcast) - an explanation, advantages & disadvantages are all covered.
This podcast covers the first of 3 research designs - repeated measures. The advantages and disadvantages are discussed along with means of overcoming the order effect.
This podcast outlines the use of placebos on research as well as the impact of a placebo effect on the validity of an experiment and how to overcome this effect using a single-blind procedure.
Controlled vs Automatic processes are covered in this podcast with specific reference to the 'stroop effect'
Consciousness is defined in this podcast as well as a distinction between normal waking consciousness and altered states of consciousness.
This clip goes through methods of sampling - convenience, random & stratified, it examines advantages and disadvantages of each type of sampling and briefly explains the process.
The 6 participants rights are covered: informed consent, deception, debriefing, voluntary participation, confidentiality, withdrawal rights - in terms of the conduct of a Psychological experiment. See www.ePsychVCE.com for further VCE Psych resources.
This podcast covers the relevant components of a neuron for the Unit 3 VCE Psychology course. see website for additional VCE Psych resources: www.ePsychVCE.com
This covers the fundamentals of writing a research hypothesis and is relevant to Units 1-4 Psychology
Both have an unwanted effect on the DV, an EV is random, a CV occurs systematically throughout the experiment.
The role of serotonin and the consequential use of SSRI's in treating depression along with other biological factors.
The role of dopamine and the consequential use of antipsychotics is covered along with other biological factors that contribute to the development of this psychotic disorder.
The role of dopamine in the development of this addictive disorder is covered along with the use of Naltraxone in provision of a Biological treatment.
This podcast covers environmental triggers, parental modelling & vicarious transmission of threat information in the development of a phobia.
Freud's Psychodynamic theory is covered in relation to Psychological contributing factors to the development of an anxiety or phobic disorder
GABA's role in the stress response along with the use of Benzodiazepines in the treatment of anxiety disorder/ phobias is also covered.
Exercise, relaxation, meditation and social support are covered in terms of the benefits they can provided in assisting an individual cope with the effects of stress.
Allostasis is defined in a manner that is clearly distinguished from Homeostasis, the allostatic response and allostatic load (overload) is also covered in this podcast.