Official AP Psychology thread 2012

yeah it was conservation for the sensorimotor one…</p>

@ericpanda
I feel like the answer is Cocktail Party Effect only because Dichotic Listening is more of an experiment.</p>

For example, on the 1999 AP Exam, Question 66.
“When participants in dichotic listening experiments are repeating a message aloud in one ear, they are most likely to notice information on the unattended channel if that channel mentions that participant’s name”.</p>

And it’s not thresholds because it seems to be talking messages during dichotic listening.</p>

Gender roles are social norms. None of the others made sense - they definitely start before late childhood, they aren’t the same in all cultures, etc. I don’t remember the other two but gender roles start young.</p>

+1 for gender roles at an early age.</p>

Um… am I the only one that didn’t get the two bottles/conservation for the sensorimotor question?</p>

I got the one where the baby had to have her sister retrieve the doll that she dropped because she didn’t have object permanence. Conservation comes later, during the concrete stage…</p>

yes but the one with the bottles indicated she didn’t have conversion yet-which would make it correct.
Anybody come to an agreement about never release info or release info with written consent?</p>

Yeah I was totally confused at the concrete operational problem. A was where she threw the doll or something and B was the tall vs short glass. I was so so confused because B has to do with conservation which comes during concrete operational (2 stages after sensorimotor)!! And A kinda made sense because of lack of object permanence. But then gain object permanence develops at 6 months of age usually no?</p>

Yeah I put the one that the baby kept throwing the item. Conservation is in the pre operational stage.</p>

Oh shoot. I didn’t even mention Gestalt principals for proximity/perception O_O</p>

I totally just jumped ahead and used distance objects were from the person and their perceptions of it. For example, an object that is not in the proximity of the person/beyond the threshold could not be perceived. Darn.</p>

I see no reason why they can’t release it if consent is given…CB and other organisations also release some of your info if you give consent.</p>

but she was unable to recognize the conversion, which is why it would be the correct answer-becasue it didn’t come til 2 stages later? right?</p>

@actstudent</p>

I know what you mean, but I think they were being specific toward what happens during the sensorimotor stage?
Ah, I’m not sure now.</p>

Also, no consensus on releasing info. It seems a majority put never, but after looking at multiple actual psychologists’ websites, they all say that they release information when written consent is given.
Darn Barron. -smacks book-</p>

sensorimotor is birth-2 years old and a child throwing a toy repeatedly is in this age range. Conservation can be at age 6 so it’s definitely the toy one. it’s highly unlikely you’re going to see a six year old doing that…pretty logical @actstudent</p>

Another way to look at the sensorimotor stage is just by looking at it’s name. In this stage babies usually want to get their senses such as touch through movement. Throwing dolls was the only choice that involved movement.</p>

I agree with actstudent. And it comes in the next stage, not two stages later</p>

The question about sensorimotor-yeah it was weird. Anyway, the question about the Stroop effect??? ***!!</p>

stroop was some color thing @ericpanda999</p>

Sorry if I’m being stupid, but do they have different forms for the MC, because some the questions I’m reading I didn’t encounter on my exam. For me, the last question on the exam had something to do with functional fixedness? Anyone familiar with this one?</p>

for the frqs, is a definition and explanation/example good enough? like i didnt give an example every time but i kinda explained how it related…</p>

I think that conservation could have applied, but it wasn’t the best answer - plus it implied that the kid was thinking, and during the sensorimotor stage, they’re basically just living with as the name says, senses and movement. I don’t think they’re quite at thinking yet… With object permanence developing during sensorimotor, I’d say that’d have to be it. I struggled with that question for a while though.</p>