§-Psychology Q&A
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Psychology Q&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every TAS Psychology syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Unit 3: Individual Behaviour
Distinguish behaviours that do not depend on learning, including reflexes, fixed action patterns and maturation.
Explain how neurons, the nervous system and brain structures underpin human behaviour.
Explain cognitive learning, including insight, latent learning, cognitive maps, learning sets and transfer of learning.
Compare states of consciousness and explain sleep and dreaming, including how they are measured.
Describe and apply descriptive statistics and data-analysis techniques to psychological data.
Explain theories of forgetting and factors affecting the reliability of memory, including eyewitness testimony.
Describe the origins of psychology and the major perspectives used to explain behaviour.
Describe theories of learning and the multi-store model of memory with supporting research.
Apply research methods, variables, sampling and ethics to evaluate psychological studies.