AP Psychology Discussion - 2011

<p>Did anyone else notice that CB spelled Rosenhan as “Rosenman” on #14? Credibility=lost.</p>

<p>Um… the Type A/Type B question was about Rosenman, not Rosenhan.</p>

<p>The Rosenhan experiment was about psychiatric hospitals. :P</p>

<p>I thought we weren’t suppose to talk about the MC…</p>

<p>Culture fair… threw me off, but I was confident I got atleast, give or take, 85/100 on the MC and I knew all the terms on the FRQ. Hoping for a 5.</p>

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<p>the frq are up :)</p>

<p>Thanks lacamotif!</p>

<p>It’s been 48 hours…we can talk about the questions now I’m pretty sure.</p>

<p>So how does everyone think they did on the FRQs? You can be specific now</p>

<p>They were REALLY easy. I just checked all the terms and I defined them and used them all in context correctly. I think I just got lucky though ;)</p>

<p>I feel dumb. I didn’t even guess on 5 multiple choice questions because I</p>

<p>^lol. Sorry, phone screwed up. …because I forgot the rules had changed.</p>

<p>I looked at the FRQ and it seems I only messed up on 4/3(if I’m lucky) points. I was anticipating anywhere from 5-7.</p>

<p>There’s not much really to talk about, though.</p>

<p>Pretty sure I got a perfect score on the FRQ. May be wrong, though if I am wrong it’s not by much.</p>

<p>what’d you guys right for fovea vision?</p>

<p>what was the answer to statistical significance? And is psychology based on biology and philosophy?</p>

<p>I thought the question asked what two things influenced the creation of psychology. i picked philosophy and sociology. But I wanted to pick biology --__–</p>

<p>i think its biology/philosophy.</p>

<p>Foveal Vision - the fovea is a little “bump” in the center of the retina at the back of the eye. Most of the eye’s cone cells are located on the fovea. Cone cells are needed for the eye to see colored objects and to see objects with clarity. Therefore, if it weren’t for foveal vision the participants wouldn’t have been able to sense the objects on the screen in order to interpret them using the Gestalt principle of closure.</p>

<p>Statistical Significance - An experiment is generally considered statistically significant if the probability that its results happened by chance is less than p = .05. In this case, the p-value is found by applying a statistical test to the data to see if there was a positive difference in the amount of people who guessed the figures correctly with feedback and the amount of people who guessed the figures correctly without feedback. If the experiment is not found to be statistically significant, the results cannot be deemed reliable/valid and cannot be generalized to other populations. This makes sense, because nobody would believe a person who says feedback helps when there is a good chance that the data they are using as support is merely incidental.</p>

<p>Sidenote - Taking AP Stat and AP Psych together is a very good idea. lol</p>

<p>^yay i wrote almost exactly the same thing, except i included alpha as the baseline of .05 and the cutoff for statistical significance.</p>

<p>An alpha level of .05 signifies that the p-value must be less than .05 for it to be considered statistically significant so you are essentially saying the same thing.</p>