AP Psych FRQ Review questions well
answered already passed
Operational definition is a statement of procedures used to define research variables. It assures
that everyone agrees on what variables mean. This is used to make it easier to replicate
experiments. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1 Operational definition...replication
Double-blind research ensures neither the participant, nor the people administrating the test,
knows who has the treatment or the placebo like when testing a drug. In a drug study, neither
the participant nor the one administering the drug knows if it is a treatment or a placebo. This
helps eliminate bias as to whether or not the treatment will work. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1
Double-blind research...bias
Operant conditioning can cause superstition because if someone got a good grade on a test
while wearing boots and believed that wearing boots will get them a good grade, the operant
conditioning caused the superstition. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1 Operant
conditioning...superstition
Reinforcement can cause the overjustification effect because if a reward is given for doing well
on something, the reward can be seen as motivation instead of the intrinsic value. For example,
if after being given money for reading books, a child loses their interest in reading and replaces
it with wanting money. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1 Reinforcement...overjustification effect
The myelin sheath is the coating around the axon of a nerve. The stronger the myelin sheath is,
the father the transmission of neural impulses. The degradation of the myelin sheath causes
neural impulses to move slower. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1 Myelin sheath...neural impulse
inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view. This can influence how
Jessie tells her story because it will only apply to what happened to her, not anyone else. For
example, she could use words like "I" instead of "we" to describe what happened at the fire
, station. Instead of "we went on the fire truck" she could say "I went on the fire truck". Also, she
would talk about parts that only she found fascinating, unlike what would fascinate her brother.
- correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3 Egocentrism
learning by observing and imitating others.
Jessie could act differently after watching how people at the fire house act. She could imitate
how fire men would stop, drop, and roll if they were on fire. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3
Observational learning
using one rule of grammar to apply to all grammar.
When talking to her brother, she could be saying words that are grammatically incorrect, even
though she thinks she's using the correct grammar rule. For example, she could say, "I runned to
the fire truck and eated my sandwich". The past tense grammar rule of adding 'ed' to the end of
a word does not apply to all words. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3 Overgeneralization in language
concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
Jessie's schemas could be changed. Jessie could see that firemen only help in situations that
apply to fires, not things like car accidents. Her existing schema would then be modified. Also, it
could be changed by her seeing a female fire fighter, instead of believing that all fire fighters are
men. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3 Schema
a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
Jessie could have viewed the trip to the fire house as fun and exciting and explain that to her
brother because that is her perceptual set, whereas her brother could view a trip to a fire house
as boring. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3 Perceptual set
used a survey as her research method. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 4 Research method
The independent variable is the amount of stress. The operational definition of that would be
the rating the student gives through the survey. The dependent variable would be the physical
answered already passed
Operational definition is a statement of procedures used to define research variables. It assures
that everyone agrees on what variables mean. This is used to make it easier to replicate
experiments. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1 Operational definition...replication
Double-blind research ensures neither the participant, nor the people administrating the test,
knows who has the treatment or the placebo like when testing a drug. In a drug study, neither
the participant nor the one administering the drug knows if it is a treatment or a placebo. This
helps eliminate bias as to whether or not the treatment will work. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1
Double-blind research...bias
Operant conditioning can cause superstition because if someone got a good grade on a test
while wearing boots and believed that wearing boots will get them a good grade, the operant
conditioning caused the superstition. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1 Operant
conditioning...superstition
Reinforcement can cause the overjustification effect because if a reward is given for doing well
on something, the reward can be seen as motivation instead of the intrinsic value. For example,
if after being given money for reading books, a child loses their interest in reading and replaces
it with wanting money. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1 Reinforcement...overjustification effect
The myelin sheath is the coating around the axon of a nerve. The stronger the myelin sheath is,
the father the transmission of neural impulses. The degradation of the myelin sheath causes
neural impulses to move slower. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 1 Myelin sheath...neural impulse
inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view. This can influence how
Jessie tells her story because it will only apply to what happened to her, not anyone else. For
example, she could use words like "I" instead of "we" to describe what happened at the fire
, station. Instead of "we went on the fire truck" she could say "I went on the fire truck". Also, she
would talk about parts that only she found fascinating, unlike what would fascinate her brother.
- correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3 Egocentrism
learning by observing and imitating others.
Jessie could act differently after watching how people at the fire house act. She could imitate
how fire men would stop, drop, and roll if they were on fire. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3
Observational learning
using one rule of grammar to apply to all grammar.
When talking to her brother, she could be saying words that are grammatically incorrect, even
though she thinks she's using the correct grammar rule. For example, she could say, "I runned to
the fire truck and eated my sandwich". The past tense grammar rule of adding 'ed' to the end of
a word does not apply to all words. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3 Overgeneralization in language
concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
Jessie's schemas could be changed. Jessie could see that firemen only help in situations that
apply to fires, not things like car accidents. Her existing schema would then be modified. Also, it
could be changed by her seeing a female fire fighter, instead of believing that all fire fighters are
men. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3 Schema
a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
Jessie could have viewed the trip to the fire house as fun and exciting and explain that to her
brother because that is her perceptual set, whereas her brother could view a trip to a fire house
as boring. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 3 Perceptual set
used a survey as her research method. - correct answer ✔✔FRQ 4 Research method
The independent variable is the amount of stress. The operational definition of that would be
the rating the student gives through the survey. The dependent variable would be the physical
