Year 11-12

What's your carrot?

What’s your carrot? (What motivates you activity)

Each of us has our own personal motivations for the choices that we make in life. The Year 12 students explored their motivations for choosing to undertake Year 12 VCE at Cobram Secondary College in Illuminate. This ice-breaker allowed the cohort to think about the “carrot” they are individually chasing and how these motivations can be used for goal setting to achieve their goals this year.

Year 12 Psychology

In Psychology, students are creating neurons using lollies. This is for them to understand how messages are transferred through their nervous system.  The benefit from using lollies is that it’s a bit of fun and they get to eat them!

Year 11 Psychology

There are factors that can improve short term memory but also factors that will diminish short term memory. Students began the New Year with a research activity that looked at one factor that could affect short term memory.

Three lists of words were shown, one at a time, and students had one minute to memorise the ten words. Then, they were to write down as many as they could remember. This was repeated with two other lists. However, list one had words all in black. List two had one word in red. While list three, had half the words in black and half in red.

Results???: While there were individuals who did better or worse with their short term memory, overall for the class there was no significant difference. They remembered nearly identical number of words regardless of what list, regardless of the colour of words – not what we predicted in our hypothesis.