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If all the questions were multiple choice. Questions adapted from past GCSE exam papers.

Can You Pass GCSE Psychology?

"Storage" is the way that information is kept long-term. "Retrieval" is how it is found again when it's needed.

"Encoding" is the brain taking information from the senses and turning it into a storable memory.

The process of making new memories is called:

Short-term ("working") memory can hold information for about a minute. Long-term memory can hold it for a lifetime.

The "primacy" and "recency" effects are taken as evidence that the brain's memory storage is divided into short- and long-term areas.

A "chunk" might be a word or a number – so most people struggle to hold a number longer than seven digits in their mind.

Your short-term memory can hold roughly seven chunks of information at once.

Roughly how many separate things can the average person store in short-term memory at once?

"Paralinguistics" is the study of "paralanguage" – the things like tone of voice and body language that change how we interpret the words someone is saying.

However, people didn't consciously notice the pupils, and didn't know _why_ they thought the girl looked more attractive.

People tended to judge that the picture with dilated pupils was more attractive.

They are: surprise, happiness, fear, anger, sadness, interest, and disgust.

In a 1966 research paper, Charles Osgood said there are seven facial expressions universal to all humans.

Freud had some strange ideas.

Freud had some really strange ideas.

Freud, man.

The classic example is the "duck-rabbit illusion".

Patients sometimes report being in love with their therapists, or having other strong feelings towards them. That is called "transference".

There are advantages and disadvantages to both.

As opposed to observing subjects in the laboratory.

"Gender identity" is psychological, and determined by attitudes and behaviour.

"Sex identity" is biological, and determined by chromosomes and hormones.

Maybe psychology isn't for you. But who cares? Do something else.

You got an F.

You got a D.

You got a C.

You got a B.

You got an A!

You got an A\*!

<p>These questions are adapted from <a href="http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/psychology/gcse/psychology-4180/past-papers-and-mark-schemes" target="_blank">AQA past exam papers</a> for GCSE psychology.</p>

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