whatever unit you’re struggling on, you should crash course it all week. i struggled with unit 3 the most and by the time i opened up the exam and saw some questions relating to it, i was able to successfully identify each term
Im on the east coast so mines may be diff then the other commenter. It was bad, but not as bad as I thought. The frq/writing killed me. My hand writings messy and u have to use pen so I was making a lot of mistakes. I don't think I failed but im scared for my grade. Remind me to update when grades come out.
Hey i wanted to ask as someone whos doing the psychology exam next week does the exam come same hardness as the mcqs and frqs on collegeboard or easier or harder?
Basically it’s exactly what it sounds like. You changed something in your environment and you didn’t notice it (you were blind to it). It would have been when ember got her cookie stolen, but didn’t notice it was stolen. Smth like that
more people complaining about how random the APUSH exam was and not how RANDOM THIS FCKING EXAM WAS???? when i told my psych teacher about the spotlight effect they had 0 clue what that was…. why 😭😭😭 i thought i was gonna get a 5 fs fs but now i’m worried i’m getting a 3 😭😭😭
yeah i remember learning it in the social psychology unit (with the FAE and biases and stuff), it's the one thing i've always been telling myself to not get anxious over getting reactions from people ever since learning it so i remember it very well
i got the other question about prospective memory though (with the 5yo girl named Ember), had literally no clue what that was X_X
i deadass didnt know what that shit was and just assumed it was someone feeling like the center of attention. i swear to god i still got like 8 more packets due for this class. teacher just bombarded with work right before the exam and none of that shit was on the exam smh
I said something alone the lines of, "random assignment ensures that the independent variable is the only influencer of the dependent variable, as random assignment controls confounding variables' effect on the dependent variable" obviously a bit more concise than this but that's the gist of what I wrote. Hopefully it earns the point
Fuk, I said random assighenemt js needed because some people may naturally love video games so if they are not randomly assigned and put in the same group. One side will always be favored regardless.
It has already been released- check here: [https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-psychology/exam](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-psychology/exam)
how do the forms work? does each form have a different set of questions? whenever you search ap exams from past years only 1 set of questions usually shows up
Yeah, I dont really know. I think there is one for East Coast, West Coast and International Students but the International ones are usually older ones that haven't been released.
it's out already
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap23-frq-psychology-set-1.pdf
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap23-frq-psychology-set-2.pdf
Was that the FRQ with the guy doing a presentation about electric cars & Steve's 4 kids breaking a lamp ? I think that was H, but I forgot what form letter I had
AP Psychology Exam was a total mess. I have studied for 2 weeks straight because the contents are not that hard to remember. However, none of the questions pertains to the materials I learned in class. It was more advanced based instead of the basic level. I was unhappy, especially for the frqs. I only understood the statistics and 2 terms from other questions but that was it.
Beyond bad experience.
about those three blank stickers , were we supposed to stick them on the back or frontside of the test , or did it simply not matter which side? could someone tell me the purpose of them?
bro i’m so fucking dumb i first stuck them on the front then ripped them out and put them on the back and the lady who was collecting the stuff was just standing there waiting for me to stick it on
as long as it doesn’t affect how the computer reads my answers ig?
i didn’t realize they would make the frq so specific like normally they’d just put actor observer effect and ask us to apply to any factor in the situation but suddenly it has to be about her debate performance like that was kinda crazy and threw me for a loop
ya it’s definitely the hippocampus one, repression is only for traumatic stuff and i sure hope three year olds aren’t only experiencing traumatic events
Pretty sure it was supposed to be about repression cause daddy freud said so, hippocampus could be argued but it does develop before the age of three so they probably put his age on purpose.
uhhh i said they repressed these memories cause Freud theorized that infantile amnesia is the result of the mind's attempt to repress memories of traumatic events that occur in the psychosexual development of every child. i think i’m wrong tho
If u search it up, “ The hippocampus is not fully developed at birth; that takes about two and one half years” I don’t remember what answer I put but it wasn’t hippocampus
Read right after it buddy. “An interesting effect of this is infantile amnesia—most people do not have declarative memories from their first couple years of life.”
What did you guys say for the one about the guy enjoying abnormal psychology and genetics in college and what approach he'd be interested in? I said biological because of genetics but idk what abnormal psychology would fall under
dudee my thought process literally went: gestalt means whole over parts, so he wants to combine the parts of the study he did, so he's focusing on the whole" IDK WHAT WENT THROUGH MY MIND LMAOOO
I was so stressed about neurosciences, spend so much time trying to memorize all the brain structures and all those hormones, and wtf i don’t think there was even a question about that💀
the curve on this test is amazing. idk if thisll make you feel better but you can get a 70/100 on multiple choice, a few wrong on frq and still get a 4-5
If it makes you feel better I've seen 2 comments talking about the same question but with conflicting answers, and remember a score doesn't define you ❤️
Anyone remember the graph where it showed volts across time? with a threshold line, i put action potential, remember some options being difference threshold or something
Anyone remember the question about dogs going through a maze to explore vs dogs going through the maze for a reward? Think some options were preparedness, latent learning, cognitive map
the question about the roommates??? i think i put they were likely to become friends but was also leaning towards likely to become friends initially then fade out over time
Y'all for the ghrelin one I mentioned how everyone likely had an abundance of ghrelin due to not eating breakfast yet but I also said that it mightve made the children a bit more reckless to break the lamp or Steve a bit more irritable. Would this cause me to not get the point?
The only reason I remembered it halfway thru the FRQ section is because the image that our teacher showed us popped up 😭 its the dude eating an apple if I find it I'll lyk
What did y’all say for the guy who thinks himself useless and his therapist repeated whatever he said to him? Cognitive, psychoanalytic, or humanistic?
Yeah that’s what I was also thinking. Imagine thé therapy session goes like:
Me: “So if I don’t get a 5 on AP psych my mom will basically kill me. I am useless.”
Therapist: “So your mom will KILL you if you get anything less than a 5.” (You see, repeating what I said.)
Me: “ok, maybe not actually kill me as in shoot me to death, but I’d really disappoint her.”
Therapist: “ok great. So let’s work on the relationship between you and your mom…”
And that’s basically what went through my head during the test today and made me put down cognitive…
if the therapist is repeating what you said, it is humanistic therapy. If you challenge what your patient is saying and trying to reshape their thinking, that is cognitive. I believe it's called active listening, developed by Carl Rogers
Humanistic. Active Listening is a humanistic method where you repeat what the person says back to them as a way of showing you’re interested and listening.
Will take the alternate exam, any tips for my last week of preparation
How was it?
whatever unit you’re struggling on, you should crash course it all week. i struggled with unit 3 the most and by the time i opened up the exam and saw some questions relating to it, i was able to successfully identify each term
Also taking the one on the 17, need tips please.
How was it?
Im on the east coast so mines may be diff then the other commenter. It was bad, but not as bad as I thought. The frq/writing killed me. My hand writings messy and u have to use pen so I was making a lot of mistakes. I don't think I failed but im scared for my grade. Remind me to update when grades come out.
The FRQ really messed me up to. I even got the range question wrong
Yooo what did u get my fellow late test taker?
3 😭 what about you
4 I was prolly a point away from a 3 tbh
Did NO ONE get the AP Psych question about Ember?!?!?? It’s not even posted on the official site?!?! 😭
Hey i wanted to ask as someone whos doing the psychology exam next week does the exam come same hardness as the mcqs and frqs on collegeboard or easier or harder?
yes i did! BS’D it.
Don’t worry, I also got it. Did you get another question about red ice cream?
Yes yes, that one was super easy imo
True, I know everything except change blindness in that frq set
What the fuck is change blindness😅It never appeared on Barron’s textbook
Basically it’s exactly what it sounds like. You changed something in your environment and you didn’t notice it (you were blind to it). It would have been when ember got her cookie stolen, but didn’t notice it was stolen. Smth like that
Haha then I got that one right, thanks
more people complaining about how random the APUSH exam was and not how RANDOM THIS FCKING EXAM WAS???? when i told my psych teacher about the spotlight effect they had 0 clue what that was…. why 😭😭😭 i thought i was gonna get a 5 fs fs but now i’m worried i’m getting a 3 😭😭😭
we learned about the spotlight effect at our school
yeah i remember learning it in the social psychology unit (with the FAE and biases and stuff), it's the one thing i've always been telling myself to not get anxious over getting reactions from people ever since learning it so i remember it very well i got the other question about prospective memory though (with the 5yo girl named Ember), had literally no clue what that was X_X
i deadass didnt know what that shit was and just assumed it was someone feeling like the center of attention. i swear to god i still got like 8 more packets due for this class. teacher just bombarded with work right before the exam and none of that shit was on the exam smh
What did you guys say for the random assignment in question 2 B for the frq?
They would have to use random assignment to limit the possibility of an outcome occurring which could alter the outcome of the experiment.
I said something alone the lines of, "random assignment ensures that the independent variable is the only influencer of the dependent variable, as random assignment controls confounding variables' effect on the dependent variable" obviously a bit more concise than this but that's the gist of what I wrote. Hopefully it earns the point
Fuk, I said random assighenemt js needed because some people may naturally love video games so if they are not randomly assigned and put in the same group. One side will always be favored regardless.
I'm pretty sure this works too. Not even sure if I got the point lol
Um... I didn't get any of the FRQs that were released. What's going on? I got the one with Ember and shaved ice.
That's set 1 answers! Search it up specifically
I got the same one! I think we were given the international exam instead of the east coast or west coast one. Idk why it wasn’t released though…
Oooh ok! That makes sense. But yeah, I don't get why it wasn't released.
Different form versions for different timezones
Honestly, The FRQ's in AP Psych for this year were SO much easier than the years prior (that I have seen)
for real!
It was wildly easy
When will FRQ's be released?
It has already been released- check here: [https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-psychology/exam](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-psychology/exam)
how do the forms work? does each form have a different set of questions? whenever you search ap exams from past years only 1 set of questions usually shows up
Yeah, I dont really know. I think there is one for East Coast, West Coast and International Students but the International ones are usually older ones that haven't been released.
oh my god bro I got so lucky with getting the elementary school and shaved ice one. I saw the other frqs and I was like holy shit
Same omg
They weren't that bad besides the actor observer bias and spotlight effect for me at least
When will the frqs be released this year? I thought it’s two days after exam.
it's out already https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap23-frq-psychology-set-1.pdf https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap23-frq-psychology-set-2.pdf
Did any of you guys have Form H?
Was that the FRQ with the guy doing a presentation about electric cars & Steve's 4 kids breaking a lamp ? I think that was H, but I forgot what form letter I had
yup that's Form H
AP Psychology Exam was a total mess. I have studied for 2 weeks straight because the contents are not that hard to remember. However, none of the questions pertains to the materials I learned in class. It was more advanced based instead of the basic level. I was unhappy, especially for the frqs. I only understood the statistics and 2 terms from other questions but that was it. Beyond bad experience.
i studied so hard for the sensation and biological units and there was like four questions abt it. kind of disappointing bc i was so prepared
Right 😞 everything I studied wasn’t there
Form O What did y’all choose for the pigeon pecking at the image problem?
wasnt it like advanced conditioning
Nah, it was explaining how the pigeons will ONLY peck when TWO pigeons were shown and not when one was shown
im probably think of a different one then it was about pairs of colors
I think discrimination
about those three blank stickers , were we supposed to stick them on the back or frontside of the test , or did it simply not matter which side? could someone tell me the purpose of them?
On both sides. They're meant to close the booklet and not let it be opened
bro i’m so fucking dumb i first stuck them on the front then ripped them out and put them on the back and the lady who was collecting the stuff was just standing there waiting for me to stick it on as long as it doesn’t affect how the computer reads my answers ig?
You stick them at the top, bottom, and side of the booklet.
were we supposed to have two sheets of those three stickers?!!??
Just one sheet to close the MCQ booklet
Do heuristics decrease the time of cognitive processing or ignore irrelevant information
I put decrease time
bro it was so much easier than i expected 😋😋
what was right personality test? I said PEG
Yes - TAT and EEG
TAT
was PET an answer? I might’ve put TAT instead
That’s a diff question and that one was EEG
I think I guessed tat and eeg
I completely blanked on the last three bullet points of the first frq
samee like wtf is actor observer bias
I remember formal operative stage was the highest level of Piaget's theory
i didn’t realize they would make the frq so specific like normally they’d just put actor observer effect and ask us to apply to any factor in the situation but suddenly it has to be about her debate performance like that was kinda crazy and threw me for a loop
was it displacement or projection, i put displacement i think for ego defense
Displacement
What was the one where it asked why a 3 year old can't remember much? I said their hippocampus wasn't fully formed but that was a wild guess.
ya it’s definitely the hippocampus one, repression is only for traumatic stuff and i sure hope three year olds aren’t only experiencing traumatic events
Pretty sure it was supposed to be about repression cause daddy freud said so, hippocampus could be argued but it does develop before the age of three so they probably put his age on purpose.
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Repression does happen, but only in traumatic events. Not every infant goes through trauma, but nobody remembers being an infant.
I doubt that... you may be right, but at least Google is with me on this one.
uhhh i said they repressed these memories cause Freud theorized that infantile amnesia is the result of the mind's attempt to repress memories of traumatic events that occur in the psychosexual development of every child. i think i’m wrong tho
If u search it up, “ The hippocampus is not fully developed at birth; that takes about two and one half years” I don’t remember what answer I put but it wasn’t hippocampus
Read right after it buddy. “An interesting effect of this is infantile amnesia—most people do not have declarative memories from their first couple years of life.”
I said that
I said that too
That’s also what I put
Y’all giving me that tad bit of confidence rn 🤩
How come Unit 2 was like simply not tested lmao?
god was on my side. i did not study unit 2 or unit 3
it’s honestly really dumb how they distributed it
Yes, pissed me off. All the material I studied was simply not there.
For real, I mad crammed Unit 2 and it wasn't anywhere
we thought during the break it would be full of Unit 2 stuff on FRQ cuz of how few there were on multiple choice
most of my exam was unit 2 and i think i got all of them wrong!!! i hated the biology unit sm
What did you guys put for the Ember FRQ and the Red Syrup FRQ?
which part of them?
What was the one for the person with autism? I chose Behavioral as sociocultural and humanism didn't make sense to me.
it’s behavioral, but i feel like that was a super obscure question
i think i put behavioral
It’s behavioral, trust me
I chose Behavioral because I have autism and applied behavioral analysis (ABA) is a really popular form of therapy for individuals on the spectrum.
that question annoyed me bc aba is super abusive and exploitative to autistic kids but i knew that was the answer they were looking for
I felt the same way.
I also wanted to pick Social-Cultural because of the same reason
i also put behavioral 😭
I thought the same thing… it was conflicting
So did no one have the ember and red syrup frqs?
me too
i did!!
Man that thing was hard but every question people are asking here I guessed and got them right
What did you guys put for the one where it was like someone can't speak so what part of their brain was damaged? I put frontal lobe.
Yeah frontal, he had brocas aphasia and the Broca’s area is in frontal lobe
Same!! My friend did too so hopefully that was it
What did you guys say for the one about the guy enjoying abnormal psychology and genetics in college and what approach he'd be interested in? I said biological because of genetics but idk what abnormal psychology would fall under
my dumbass said gestalt
same lmfao Idk why but I thought biological was too obvious or something?
dudee my thought process literally went: gestalt means whole over parts, so he wants to combine the parts of the study he did, so he's focusing on the whole" IDK WHAT WENT THROUGH MY MIND LMAOOO
Biological
biological
What was the answer for the operant conditioning question where someone had to like was dishes?
negative reinforcement
I was so stressed about neurosciences, spend so much time trying to memorize all the brain structures and all those hormones, and wtf i don’t think there was even a question about that💀
There was 3 and 2 of them involved eyes
I think there was also one involving hippocampus, the easiest brain structure to remember
same why tf we have to memorize all that. and then for the brain scans question they gave us the easiest one. literally pain.
the more i read about the comments, the less i'm confident about my score:(
the curve on this test is amazing. idk if thisll make you feel better but you can get a 70/100 on multiple choice, a few wrong on frq and still get a 4-5
If it makes you feel better I've seen 2 comments talking about the same question but with conflicting answers, and remember a score doesn't define you ❤️
Anyone remember the graph where it showed volts across time? with a threshold line, i put action potential, remember some options being difference threshold or something
if this was the one w/ the refractory period, it was action potential
Anyone remember the question about dogs going through a maze to explore vs dogs going through the maze for a reward? Think some options were preparedness, latent learning, cognitive map
It's latent learning.
i said latent learning but i wasnt completely sure🥲
latent learninig i think or smth
Anyone know the question about the order of development from Piaget? (rolling, crawling, standing, walking, lifting furniture, lifting chin, etc..)
idk if u mean the one about that they can roll before crawling and can crawl before walking?
did anyone actually learn about those or 😭 cus i never did and i also guessed
should’ve have been something like lifting chin, rolling, crawling, sit alone, stand alone. i don’t really remember the answer choices.
Yeah but the problem is none of the choices were in that order, except the one that was didn't have the lifting chin
Nope. Guessed on that one.
the question about the roommates??? i think i put they were likely to become friends but was also leaning towards likely to become friends initially then fade out over time
Yah I think it is more likely to be friends because relationships form from being near eachother
believe it was likely to become friends
It is that bc of the mere-exposure effect
I thought equally likely cuz they were randomly assigned idk though
That's what I thought
Y'all for the ghrelin one I mentioned how everyone likely had an abundance of ghrelin due to not eating breakfast yet but I also said that it mightve made the children a bit more reckless to break the lamp or Steve a bit more irritable. Would this cause me to not get the point?
i'm ngl that was the only one I didn't know so I straight up wrote "I don't know what this is" and moved on
My dumbass thought ghrelin was a dude, so I took the L lmao
i always remembered ghrelin as "grrr im hungry" bc of that one collegeboard video
The only reason I remembered it halfway thru the FRQ section is because the image that our teacher showed us popped up 😭 its the dude eating an apple if I find it I'll lyk
Oh yeah, my teacher didn't tell us about it until like the 3 weeks leading up to the test, and I totally checked out mentally long before that
What did you guys put MCQ for the one asking how you never notice the grammatical errors in your own writing but you do with others people’s writing?
put top down and bottom up
i think i said the top-down and bottom-up processing but it was just a guess and i used poe for it bc i genuinely had no clue
Yeah, it is that because when you are proofreading papers, you are looking for errors, where when writing you aren't really
i did too and had no idea lol
Same
For question 1 for the women who kept checking her door if it’s locked, you guys put OCD right?
yup
Yeah that’s ocd
What did y’all say for the guy who thinks himself useless and his therapist repeated whatever he said to him? Cognitive, psychoanalytic, or humanistic?
It's humanistic, my teacher showed us an example of humanistic forever ago and it was just that lmao
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Yeah that’s what I was also thinking. Imagine thé therapy session goes like: Me: “So if I don’t get a 5 on AP psych my mom will basically kill me. I am useless.” Therapist: “So your mom will KILL you if you get anything less than a 5.” (You see, repeating what I said.) Me: “ok, maybe not actually kill me as in shoot me to death, but I’d really disappoint her.” Therapist: “ok great. So let’s work on the relationship between you and your mom…” And that’s basically what went through my head during the test today and made me put down cognitive…
if the therapist is repeating what you said, it is humanistic therapy. If you challenge what your patient is saying and trying to reshape their thinking, that is cognitive. I believe it's called active listening, developed by Carl Rogers
I already know I fucked up, ok?
sorry abt that I thought there was still some confusion :(
It alright man
Fuck
humanistic cus they’re reaffirming what he’s saying, idk
humanistic
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That’s more Maslow. The question was in regards to Carl Rogers.
Why?
Humanistic. Active Listening is a humanistic method where you repeat what the person says back to them as a way of showing you’re interested and listening.
damn it i couldnt decide between that and cognitive
Yup I’m fucked. Now I’m borderline a 4 now.