Wait, I thought you were sure about the frq answers above, I was checking mine based on yours because I guessed on a lot of the questions. Maybe someone who is sure of his or her answers that can check yours? My teacher might go over it with us, if she did I will try to chech yours. 
Nooo lololol, if anyone was sure about his answers, it’d definitely not be me lol. I’m just hoping I get at least 7 total points out of the 14 meh. So ya, don’t judge your answers based off mine lol. @Colina1234
Don’t worry about it, it isn’t that bad you will probably get more than 3s on both of them, good luck.
@Colina1234 I hope you’re right xD. Thanks! Good luck to you as well!
@YoohooAddict I think on your first FRQ you got 4-5 out of 7 (Your explanation for dopamine’s relevance to eating behaviors seemed relatively vague and didn’t have “buzzwords” that CB FRQ’s tend to have. In addition, your explanation of experimental v correlational is on the vague side. Finally, I think you are on the fence for the conclusion you draw, as I interpreted it to be about a greater inference you can draw. Your conclusion seems overly restricted to the study, but it might work.). On the second one, however, I think you got 4 out of 7 (your explanations for basilar membrane, extraversion, and social facilitation are incorrect.). I am not your reader, however, so for all I know I could be 100% wrong.
@sgupta123 Thanks so much! That’s so reassuring. I thought I blew it completely. Guess I’m being too hard on myself.
If what sgupta123 said is true you now just need about a 76% to get a five (based on 2016 curve), nevertheless, if it is a completely different curve you still have a high chance to get a 4, don’t worry too much about it you will be fine.
@Colina1234 Ya, 76% is hard to get for me… I selfstudied this stuff in a two day span. On Saturday night, I got 43/100 on the mcqs. Sunday night, I got 69/100 on the mcqs. These first two were from (5 steps to a 5 book). Monday morning, I took an official test (2015 one) and got a raw score of 65/100 on mcqs. So I think I’ma cut it close. I don’t wanna jump the gun and say anything and then end up jinxing it lol
@YoohooAddict I have gone through your FRQ part by part to try to give you a sense of how your scores would line up. If I scored a response as 0/1 pts, the response you see is what I put. Don’t feel bad about low scores! The average for Psychology FRQ’s usually lies around 2-3/7 pts. Also, FRQ’s are only 33% of your score, so if you crushed the Multiple Choice, you can still get a good score!
FRQ 1.
Part A:
i. 0/1 pt. Drive-reduction theory is when we perform actions to satisfy internal drives for basic needs. In this case, we eat to ease the hunger drive.
ii. 0/1 pt. An external cue is an external stimulus that triggers an internal response. In this situation, external cues for eating could be smells of cooking food, time of day, and the light outside (when the sun rises, it’s time for breakfast.)
iii. 0/1 pt. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that acts along with the reward system to encourage us to continue certain behaviors. In the case of eating, dopamine helps guide our eating habits through operant conditioning by rewarding us for eating certain foods. For example, if you eat a chocolate bar, your brain will release dopamine, making you feel good, so you will start to eat more foods that contain high sugar content like the chocolate.
iv. 1/1 pts. 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:
i. 0/1 pts. The dependent variable is the variable that is being measured by the experimenter. In this experiment, it is whether or not FRAMING affects the thoughts on eating behavior of participants.
ii. 0/1 pts. The study is experimental rather than correlational because it splits the participants into TWO GROUPS in order to measure their reactions rather than just measuring whether or not people’s concern is related to the article they’re reading. (The key here is that the subjects are spit into groups to test a hypothesis.)
iii. 0/1 pts. The most appropriate conclusion the researchers can draw about the relationship between the variables in the study is that framing DOES play a role in a person’s concern for healthy eating.
Total: 1/7
FRQ 2
i. 0/1 pts. Resistance phase of general adaptation syndrome is when the parasympathetic nervous system attempts to return many physiological functions to normal levels while body focuses resources against the stressor and remains on alert. Sachio might begin to sweat and shake, but his alertness will remain high, and his senses might even become more heightened, making him perform well.
ii. 1/1 pts. 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.
iii. 0/1 pts. Social facilitation is when a person performs better under the pressure of a group when they are rehearsed and confident in their abilities. Sachio might be facilitated by the presence of the judges and may end up performing better with the pressure of their presence.
iv. 0/1 pts. The Basilar membrane is involved in the production of sound in the ear. Sachio’s basilar membrane helps him to hear the notes he is playing to make sure he is playing all the right notes in his song.
v. 1/1 pts. 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.
vi. 1/1 pts. 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.
vii. 0/1 pts. This one is a little tricky unless you are familiar with the “Big five” personality traits. Extraversion measures the openness of a person after first meeting them, so if Sacio has strong extraversion, the judges will be quick to like him, and will favor him when deciding whether he recieves the scholarship.
Total: 3/7 pts.
I hope this offers some insight into your performance on the FRQ’s. Remember, that it’s only a part of your overall score!
@theFRQDoctor123 Thanks for the in-depth critique and I really value you taking your time out to provide an estimate and an explanation for each answer. I really enjoyed reading your answers and actually feel like your estimate is accurate. Meh, I’m pretty sure I did terrible on the mcqs… like now I need like 75 mcqs right to get the 4 I need for college credit… Ugh, I wanna discuss so many questions, but there’s no place to discuss lol.
@YoohooAddict I feel ya! I wish we could talk MCQ’s too. Ah well, the results are only 2-3 months away ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@theFRQDoctor123 Do you have any thoughts on what the curve will be like? Like raw score for a 4?
@YoohooAddict It’s really hard to tell where the curve will fall any given year, but my psych teacher calculated that on average over the past 8 years, a 5 is 85-100%, 4 is 73ish- 84%, 3 is probably around 65-70ish, and so on. I don’t know where the curve places FRQ scores though.
For the FRQ I think you multiply the score you got out of 7 by 3.125, then add that number to the multiple choice score.
@Colina1234 Isn’t it like 3.57 or something? I mean, you can just sum up how many points you got for both frqs and then multiply that by 50/14, which is bout 3.57
@theFRQDoctor123 Ya I checked that site the other day lol
Tbh, it’d be nice if the curve was as lenient as the 2014 curve. I think that’s the only case in which I could possibly land a 4. Maybe the 2004 one took, but definitely not the 2007 one lololz
You also have to remember that they CAN be very lenient on giving points. Robust examples will usually give you the points, and definitions are not needed unless stated.
What is the highest cutoff for a 5 (out of 150)? The cutoff in 2014 was a 98, according to APPass, but that seems like the most lenient curve there is. Most cutoffs seem to fall around 110 and 115. What is the highest the cutoff has ever been for a 5?
Thinking back on my responses, I’m kinda worried.