Year 12 · SACE / Psychology
Assessment and exam practice.
Plan a practice session around the assessment you are preparing for.
Try this with Psychology
- Check the task format, time limit and permitted materials with your school.
- Start with one timed section or task and record where you spent the most time.
- Review errors before attempting another section. Separate missing knowledge from timing problems.
Practice paper focus areas
- Exam 1 — Obedience and the factors that influence it; Experimental design and variables in a social influence study; Ethical issues in Milgram's and Zimbardo's experiments
- Exam 2 — Conformity and its types; Normative versus informational social influence; Operant conditioning: reinforcement versus punishment
- Exam 3 — Persuasion routes and the persuasion process; Foot-in-the-door, door-in-the-face and the norm of reciprocity; Observational learning and Bandura's Bobo doll studies
- Exam 4 — Prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping; Stereotype threat and social stigma; Stimulus generalisation and discrimination
- Exam 5 — Attitude–behaviour bidirectionality and self-monitoring; Measuring attitudes: self-report, behavioural counts, IAT; Aversive punishment versus response cost
- Exam 6 — Deindividuation and proximity to authority; Observational versus experimental designs in social influence; Contiguity and contingency across both conditioning types
- Exam 7 — Self-presentation and impression management on social media; Schemata, primacy and recency; Systematic desensitisation of phobias
- Exam 8 — Milgram's variations and obedience rates; Cognitive dissonance and behaviour change; Positive versus negative reinforcement
- Exam 9 — Confirmation bias and the origins of prejudice; Tokenism and reverse discrimination; Mirror cells and observational learning
- Exam 10 — Ethnocentric bias in observational research; Cultural differences in conformity and persuasion; Unconditioned and conditioned stimuli and responses
- Exam 11 — Compliance, internalisation and identification; The self-fulfilling prophecy; Behaviourism and observable stimulus–response behaviour
- Exam 12 — Persuasion and advertising ethics; Attitude strength, accessibility and specificity; Behaviour-modification techniques
- Exam 13 — Prestige of the authority figure; Bystander behaviour and situational pressures; Little Albert and Watson and Rayner
- Exam 14 — Social media and mental health; Dehumanisation and historical atrocities; Pavlov's salivation experiment
- Exam 15 — Reducing prejudice through contact and education; Implicit Association Test evidence; Reinforcement preferred over punishment
- Exam 16 — Science as a Human Endeavour: Influence; Science as a Human Endeavour: Communication and Collaboration; Surface, strategic and deep learning
- Exam 17 — Obedience across cultures and contexts; Advantages and disadvantages of experimental design; Contingency in operant conditioning
- Exam 18 — Attitude formation from direct and indirect experience; Central and peripheral processing routes; Discrimination training in animals
- Exam 19 — High and low self-monitors on social media; Privacy, consent and deception in social research; Spontaneous recovery
- Exam 20 — Science as a Human Endeavour: Development and Application; Applications of social influence research for good and harm; Applications of learning principles in therapy
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