Year 12 · SACE / Psychology
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with Psychology
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- What does a biopsychosocial explanation of behaviour include?
- How could test anxiety be analysed biopsychosocially?
- Why is interaction important in the biopsychosocial approach?
- What is a reductionist explanation in psychology?
- How can a biopsychosocial approach improve cultural understanding?
- What makes a psychological investigation experimental?
- How does an observational investigation differ from an experiment?
- What is the purpose of a qualitative investigation?
- How should an investigation type be selected?
- What are the independent and dependent variables?
- How does an extraneous variable become a confounding variable?
- What is an operational definition?
- Why are controlled variables held constant?
- What makes a useful directional hypothesis?
- What does random allocation achieve?
- How do independent-groups and repeated-measures designs differ?
- Why should psychological procedures be standardised?
- What can a pilot study reveal before full data collection?
- What is the difference between objective and subjective data?
- How do quantitative and qualitative data differ?
- Why can a behavioural count be useful?
- How does content analysis organise qualitative material?
- What information belongs in a well-constructed results table?
- When is a bar graph preferable to a line graph?
- How should axes be labelled on a psychological graph?
- What does a scatterplot show?
- How is the arithmetic mean calculated?
- How is the median found?
- What does standard deviation describe?
- How can an outlier affect mean and median differently?
- Why consider effect size as well as statistical significance?
- What does reliability mean in psychological measurement?
- Which threats weaken causal validity within an investigation?
- How far can a psychological finding generalise beyond its study?
- Why use converging measures of a psychological construct?
- What is random sampling?
- Why can convenience sampling limit a conclusion?
- What does increasing sample size usually improve?
- How should representativeness be evaluated?
- How should a conclusion relate to the hypothesis?
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