If it makes anyone feel any better, someone in my class didn’t realize that there was a second FRQ… he was finished in 15 minutes and merely thought he was “faster and smarter” than everyone else. Yikes.
Well, that is just sad.
@macd123 Lol, some girl sitting next to me finished in like 20 min and I was like… and she literally closed her booklet and put her head down and went to sleep. I was like, fam there’s no way you finished that fast… Like I wasn’t even done with my first frq yet.
I was litteraly writing what ever came to my head according to my teacher the more information the better I was barly able to finish the second frq.
What do you guys think the curve will be? Like how many pts out of 150 to get a 4? 5?
I really want a 5, and thought the test wasn’t difficult, but I don’t know if it’s just me being too confident. I know for a fact that I got 3-5 wrong and circled maybe 5-10 others that I had doubts on. Was I prepared enough? I mean, I went through the Barron’s and PR completely and had watched some of Crash Course (not all) videos and reviewed from some sites as well. Then I literally just went through 3 practice exams from Barron’s this morning lol. The FRQs weren’t bad at all, maybe missed one point on the first question. I’m not sure how specific we had to be on the second one though; I generalized one part of it and wasn’t extremely specific on it. But otherwise, it’s all good.
You can play around with this
http://appass.com/calculators/psychology?curve=2014
@Heba165 The curve for 2014 was the most lenient I’ve seen with a raw score of 81/150 being the lower bound for a 4. So do you think the curve will be that lenient? Also are both frqs out of 7 for this year’s test?
@YoohooAddict Both the FRQs are out of 7. I’m not sure about the curve though. I’d think that the 2014 one was lenient because it was harder than past exams, and since exams tend to get harder I’d hope that the curve for this year is also lenient.
@Heba165 Hopefully it is lenient. Ah… If you’ve taken the 2014 and 2016 exams for practice, how would you compare them to this exam in terms of difficulty? 2016 exam has a really lenient curve, even more lenient than the 2014 one lol
@YoohooAddict I couldn’t find the 2014 and 2016. I think they’re secure. Only FRQs are available
I also took the exam. I thought the mc was not bad, but I totally crammed last minute, wrote everything that came to my mind and couldn’t finish two terms of second frq . I hope to get a four or five.
@Heba165 Lol I have access to both of them
The social psychology portion had me because I didn’t review it enough, but I’m hoping that reasoning helped me haha. It’s always nerve-wracking to write the FR because some questions give points for being nonspecific, but others inconspicuously require you to write a seven-page essay in MLA format with a bibliography. :))
@YoohooAddict whatt? How?
@Heba165 There was a repository on reddit I think
Could anyone estimate what I’d get on the FRQs please? I honestly think I did terrible meh. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Part A:
Drive-reduction theory involves someone setting some goal or initiative for themselves to reduce something. It plays a role in eating behavior if say the person was trying to stop himself from overeating. He’ll take certain measures as a means to limit his excessive eating habits.
An external cue is an environmental factor that influences a person to act in a certain way. In eating behavior, it could play a role when a person goes to a restaurant with his friends and his friends challenge him to a food challenge, and as a result he goes ahead and eats a ton of food to please them and have to face letting them down.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that escalates a person’s mood state and gives them a sense of pleasure. In this case, it would play a role in that when a person eats some food he loves or just any tasty food, he feels happy and satisfied inside that he was able to satisfy his food necessities.
Observational learning is when a person adopts a certain behavior that he observes in someone or something else. It plays a role in eating behavior in that say a person, as he’s growing older, sees his parents eating fast food all the time, and as a result as he grows up, he begins to indulge himself in fast food excessively, not because he really wants to but because that’s what he observed of his parents growing up.
Part B:
The dependent variable is the variable that is being measured by the experimenter. In this experiment, it is the subjects’ scores in terms of their concern for healthy eating.
The study is experimental rather than correlational because it measures cause and effect.
The most appropriate conclusion the researchers can draw about the relationship between the variables in the study is that an article that discusses how obesity is a behavioral problem is more likely to raise people’s concern for healthy eating than would an article about the health risks of obesity.
2.
Resistance phase of general adaptation syndrome occurs when someone realizes the complexity of a certain task and automatically gets the urge to put it aside because of the burden it’ll impose on him. In Sachio’s case, it may have played a role in that prior to the audition, he may have been getting constant thoughts to quit the whole audition because of the difficult pieces of his saxophone that he had to play and the stress of performing in front of the judges, but nevertheless, he still overcame that and performed and did well.
Implicit memory is part of long term memory and is involved in a person’s ability to remember how certain skills are performed. Procedural memory is a branch of implicit memory that deals with a person’s remembrance of certain skills without knowing when he first began doing them. In this case, this plays a role in that Sachio could have been playing the saxophone for over a decade, to the extent that it’s become second nature to him, and that could have bolstered his performance on state in that he gets the feel of his handles over the device on stage and as soon as he starts playing, he automatically connects with his previous practice.
Social facilitation is when a person does something to please or impress others. In this case, Sachio could have gone for the scholarship to impress his friends on live tv and to become a bit more popular, and that in turn made him nail his performance.
Basilar membrane is involved in maintaining balance. In this case, it may have helped Sachio in that if he was nervous, it may have helped him stay steady as he stood in front of the judges and not quiver or shake wildly.(I wrote this last second and thought it was part of the brain oops)
The somatosensory cortex is a part of the parietal lobe of the brain and is involved in the body’s touch sensations. In Sachio’s case, it may have played a role in that when he was playing the saxophone, as he touched the instrument, he connected with the touch sensations he’d get during his weeks of practice and that made him more confident.
Intrinsic motivation is when a person has a personal drive to achieve a certain goal. In Sachio’s case, it may have had an effect in that he may have done it to demonstrate his excellence as a saxophone player or to prove to himself how good he really was at playing the saxophone.
The big five trait is when people do things to help out others and themselves individually. In this case, Sachio may have participated in the audition to get the scholarship, knowing that his family was under financial constraints, and in turn raise his college financial burden off their shoulders. In this case, not only did he benefit himself by getting a free ride to college but also he benefited his parents by not reducing their income money.
^^ CB has posted the frq online on their site.
I messed up I got 4/7 in both of them because of stupid mistakes. I am so not getting a 5 
@Colina1234 Could you check out my post above? I’m really nervous and I need a 4 and I’m quite sure i did terrible, but I just need to know how bad I did on the frqs. Hopefully, it’s not below two 3s out of 7 lol