<p>^yeah… i guess new people forgot to read</p>
<p>but it’s been 48 hours?</p>
<p>^Yep. CB’s posted the Psych FRQ’s online.</p>
<p>Like I said, it’s for the MC section. I never said you couldn’t discuss the FRQ portion (I have discussed it myself).</p>
<p>And princesssparkle, I state in another thread somewhere that they look to give you points, not take them away. You are not penalized for what’s wrong, as long as (1) you have the right answer, and (2) your wrong information doesn’t contradict the answer or other important right information.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that AP graders only check the stuff that’s right. They’re supposed to give you a point if you include term X. If you include terms X, Y, and Z, even if Y and Z don’t really fit, you get the point for X.</p>
<p>And yeah, you’re not supposed to ever (ever!) discuss multiple choice questions.</p>
<p>Oops. How do you delete posts?</p>
<p>what is modeling and chunking?</p>
<p>Modeling is basically when you learn by imitating another’s behavior. For example, in Bandura’s Bobo Doll Experiment, the children learned to play aggressively by observing and imitating the adults’ behavior.</p>
<p>Chunking is using mnemonics, etc to try to increase the capacity of your short term memory. Your short term memory can only hold seven items (give or take a few), but with chunking you can fit much more. For example, you could use the “Every Good Boy Does Fine” sentence that is widely used in music and that would take up one slot for five pieces of information.</p>
<p>Would I get a point if I said chunking is recoding information in a short amount of time? I didn’t mention mnemonics.</p>
<p>^^Modeling=observational learning. Chunking is like trying to learn a list of 50 Japanese characters in 10 groups of 5.</p>
<p>I’d say for chunking, as long as you mentioned making groups out of the things you’re trying to learn, you’d be fine. I think my example mentioned grouping the words into lists, like “foods.”</p>
<p>ahh I am so glad I knew all the terms</p>
<p>What did you guys say for phonemes? What about encoding failure?</p>
<p>^She uses phonemes (basic units of sound) to make morphemes (basic units of meaning). She uses these morphemes to speak correct Japanese, which will increase her test scores. </p>
<p>Encoding failure occurs when she fails to remember 45 of the 50 kanji she was going to learn from a list. The failure to encode the memories into the short-term memory will hurt her ability to write correct Japanese, which will hurt the writing section score on the test.</p>
<p>You wrote your answers so logically. My answers to the FRQ were so convoluted. I was like “If she has an encoding failure, she will not accurately remember vocabulary which will give her trouble on the exam.”</p>
<p>What exactly did we need to mention to feature detectors on the first FRQ and language acquisition on the second FRQ?</p>
<p>The definition of feature detectors as given by an online psychology dictionary is; “The ability to detect certain types of stimuli, like movements, shape, and angles, requires specialized cells in the brain called feature detectors. Without these, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to detect a round object, like a baseball, hurdling toward you at 90 miles per hour.”
So as long as you mentioned something along the lines of cells in the brain that help detect shapes and angles and then relate that to detecting the shapes in the experiment, you should have gotten the full points.</p>
<p>For age of language acquisition, you probably needed to describe that when you are young, you have the ability to learn any language and it is more difficult to learn them at a later age. Since the question talked about a high school student, you could just say something about her age. Also, if you mentioned Noam Chomsky, I sure that scored you a point.</p>
<p>Okay, so I’m pretty sure I got 5/8 and 7/8 on the two FRQs. Does that give me a lot of room to spare on the MC?</p>
<p>what were the independent and dependent variables?</p>
<p>was the answer to the random psychologist auditory perception?</p>