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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.

The role of LTP in the development is covered in this brief podcast.

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.

Including High level of functioning Social and emotional wellbeing Resilience

This podcast covers the influence of the SCN and melatonin on the sleep-wake cycle.

This podcasts describes both LTP (long-term potentiation) and LTD (long-term depression).

This 2.5 minute podcast provides an overview of the FFF response.

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.

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.

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