2012 public practice exam: AP psychology

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Contents Exam Instructions

Student Answer Sheet for the Multiple-Choice Section Section I: Multiple-Choice Questions

Section II: Free-Response Questions Multiple-Choice Answer Key Free-Response Scoring Guidelines Scoring Worksheet

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Exam Instructions

The following contains instructions taken from the 2011-12 AP Exam Instructions book.

AP® Psychology Exam

Regularly Scheduled Exam Date: Monday afternoon, May 7, 2012 Late-Testing Exam Date: Friday morning, May 25, 2012

Section I: At a Glance

Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes

Indicate all of your answers to the multiple-choice questions on the

answer sheet No credit will be given for anything written in this exam booklet, but you may use the booklet for notes or scratch work After you have decided which of the suggested answers is best, completely fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet Give only one answer to each question If you change an answer, be sure that the previous mark is erased completely

Use your time effectively, working as quickly as you can without losing accuracy Do not spend too much time on any one question Go on to other questions and come back to the ones you have not answered if you have time It is not expected that everyone will know the answers to all of the multiple-choice questions

Your total score on the multiple-choice section is based only on the number of questions answered correctly Points are not deducted for

incorrect answers or unanswered questions

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The questions for Section II are printed in this booklet You may use page 3 to organize your answers and for scratch work, but you must

write your answers on the lined pages provided for each question

Write clearly and legibly Do not skip lines Cross out any errors you make; crossed-out work will not be scored

Manage your time carefully Divide your time about equally between the two questions You may proceed freely from one question to the next You may review your responses if you finish before the end of the

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SECTION I: Multiple Choice

Do not begin the exam instructions below until you have completed the appropriate

@ General Instructions for your group

Make sure you begin the exam at the designated time

If you are giving the regularly scheduled exam, say:

It is Monday afternoon, May 7, and you will be taking the AP Psychology Exam

If you are giving the alternate exam for late testing, say:

It is Friday morning, May 25, and you will be taking the AP Psychology Exam

In a moment, you will open the packet that contains your exam materials By opening this packet, you agree to all of the AP Program’s policies and procedures outlined in the 2011-12 Bulletin for AP Students and Parents You may now remove the shrinkwrap from your exam packet and take out the Section | booklet, but do not open the booklet or the shrinkwrapped Section Il materials Put the white seals aside

Look at page 1 of your answer sheet and locate the dark blue box near the top right-hand corner that states, “Take the AP Exam label from your Section | booklet and place the label here.”

Now look at the front cover of your exam booklet and locate the AP Exam label near the top left of the cover

Carefully peel off the AP Exam label and place it on your answer sheet on the dark blue box that we just identified

Now read the statements on the front cover of Section | and look up when you have finished

Sign your name and write today’s date Look up when you have finished

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Section | is the multiple-choice portion of the exam You may never discuss these specific multiple-choice questions at any time in any form with

anyone, including your teacher and other students If you disclose these questions through any means, your AP Exam score will be canceled Are there any questions?

You must complete the answer sheet using a No 2 pencil only Mark all of your responses on your answer sheet, one response per question Completely fill in the circles If you need to erase, do so carefully and

completely No credit will be given for anything written in the exam booklet Scratch paper is not allowed, but you may use the margins or any blank space in the exam booklet for scratch work Are there any questions?

You have 1 hour and 10 minutes for this section Open your Section | booklet and begin

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Check that each student has signed the front cover of the sealed Section I booklet There is a 10-minute break between Sections I and II When all Section I materials have been collected and accounted for and you are ready for the break, say:

Please listen carefully to these instructions before we take a 10-minute break Everything you placed under your chair at the beginning of the exam must stay there Leave your shrinkwrapped Section II packet on your desk during the break You are not allowed to consult teachers, other students, or textbooks about the exam during the break You may not make phone calls, send text messages, check email, use a social networking site, or access any electronic or communication device Remember, you are not allowed to discuss the multiple-choice section of this exam Failure to adhere to any of these rules could result in cancellation of your score Are there any questions?

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SECTION II: Free Response

After the break, say:

May | have everyone’s attention? Place your Student Pack on your desk You may now remove the shrinkwrap from the Section Il packet, but do not open the exam booklet until you are told to do so

Read the bulleted statements on the front cover of the exam booklet

Look up when you have finished

Now place an AP number label on the shaded box If you don’t have any AP number labels, write your AP number in the box Look up when you have finished

Read the last statement

Using your pen, print the first, middle and last initials of your legal name in the boxes and print today’s date where indicated This constitutes your signature and your agreement to the statements on the front cover Turn to the back cover and read Item 1 under “Important Identification Information.” Print the first two letters of your last name and the first letter of your first name in the boxes Look up when you have finished

In Item 2, print your date of birth in the boxes

In Item 3, write the school code you printed on the front of your Student Pack in the boxes

Read Item 4

Are there any questions?

I need to collect the Student Pack from anyone who will be taking another AP Exam You may keep it only if you are not taking any other AP Exams this year If you have no other AP Exams to take, place your Student Pack under your chair now

While Student Packs are being collected, read the information on the back cover of the exam booklet Do not open the booklet until you are told to do so Look up when you have finished

Collect the Student Packs Then say:

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You have 50 minutes to complete Section Il It is suggested that you divide your time equally between the two questions You are responsible for pacing yourself, and you may proceed freely from one question to the next You must write your answers in the exam booklet using a pen If you need

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AP Exam Instructions

more paper during the exam, raise your hand At the top of each extra piece of paper you use, be sure to write only your AP number and the number of the question you are working on Do not write your name Are there any questions?

You may begin

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using pens to write their answers in their exam booklets After 40 minutes, say:

There are 10 minutes remaining

After 10 minutes, say:

Stop working and close your exam booklet Place it on your desk, face up

If any students used extra paper for the free-response section, have those students staple the extra sheet/s to the first page corresponding to that question in their exam booklets Then say:

Remain in your seat, without talking, while the exam materials

are collected

Collect a Section II booklet from each student Check for the following:

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printed his or her initials and today’s date

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When all exam materials have been collected and accounted for, return to students any electronic devices you may have collected before the start of the exam

If you are giving the regularly scheduled exam, say:

You may not discuss these specific free-response questions with anyone unless they are released on the College Board website in about two days You should receive your score report in the mail about the third week of July

If you are giving the alternate exam for late testing, say:

None of the questions in this exam may ever be discussed or shared in any way at any time You should receive your score report in the mail about the third week

If any students completed the AP number card at the beginning of this exam, say:

Please remember to take your AP number card with you

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Student Answer Sheet for

the Multiple-Choice Section

Use this section to capture student responses (Note that the following answer sheet is a sample, and may differ from one used in an actual exam.)

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Language, or Spanish Literature Exam, please answer the following questions Your responses will not affect your score

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Section I: Multiple-Choice Questions

This is the multiple-choice section of the 2012 AP exam It includes cover material and other administrative instructions to help familiarize students with the mechanics of

the exam (Note that future exams may differ in look from the following content.)

AP* Psychology Exam

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Indicate all of your answers to the multiple-choice questions on the answer sheet No

credit will be given for anything written in this exam booklet, but you may use the booklet for notes or scratch work After you have decided which of the suggested answers is best, completely fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet Give only one answer to each question If you change an answer, be sure that the previous mark is erased

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spend too much time on any one question Go on to other questions and come back to

the ones you have not answered if you have time It is not expected that everyone will

know the answers to all of the multiple-choice questions

Your total score on the multiple-choice section is based only on the number of questions answered correctly Points are not deducted for incorrect answers or unanswered

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(A) Cognitive (B) Behavioral (C) Biomedical (D) Sociological (E) Psychoanalytic

2 A person with obsessive-compulsive disorder is best described as an individual who experiences (A) memory loss

(B) intense mood swings (C) extreme fear of open spaces

(D) physical symptoms with no known cause (E) persistent anxiety-provoking thoughts 3 A research design involves two randomly

assigned groups of participants One group

receives a one-time treatment, and the other does

not Later, the two groups are compared to see whether the treatment had an effect Psychologists call this kind of research

(A) acorrelational study (B) an experiment (C) acase study

Egocentrism, animism, and artificialism are

characteristic of which of Jean Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

(A) Sensorimotor (B) Preoperational (C) Postformal

(D) Concrete operations (E) Formal operations

Which of the following would an industrial- organizational psychologist be LEAST likely to study?

(A) Managerial skills (B) Employee motivation (C) Job satisfaction (D) Corporate profitability (E) Pay incentive programs

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Vic has unpredictable and repeated attacks of overwhelming anxiety that frequently leave him

dizzy, nauseous, short of breath, and in tears A

psychologist is likely to view Vic’s behavior as indicative of

(A) a panic disorder (B) a psychotic breakdown (C) a dissociative reaction (D) a phobia

(A) Sleep apnea (B) Narcolepsy (C) Insomnia

(D) Circadian rhythm sleep disorder (E) Somnambulism

The perceived pitch of a tone 1s largely determined by its

(A) loudness (B) timbre (C) amplitude (D) complexity (E) frequency

(D) auditory nerve (E) semicircular canals

Humanistic psychologists believe that the drive toward self-actualization 1s

(A) primarily associated with peak experiences (B) associated with extroversion

(C) typical of older individuals (D) innate

(E) a developmental task of adolescence

A stubborn individual who accuses peers of being uncooperative is exhibiting which of the following defense mechanisms?

(A) Identification (B) Denial (C) Projection

(D) Reaction formation (E) Sublimation

Harry Harlow’s experiments with rhesus monkeys suggest which of the following as most important for infants when establishing an attachment to their mothers?

(A) The amount of time spent with the mother (B) The mother’s ability to protect the infant

from physical harm

(C) The mother’s ability to provide nourish- ment to the infant

(D) The tactile characteristics of the mother (E) The particular vocalizations of the mother

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(A) spontaneous neural activity (B) the biofeedback monitor (C) a fixed-interval schedule (D) a circadian rhythm (E) active consciousness Visual acuity is best in the (A) lens

(B) iris

(C) pupil

(D) fovea (E) cornea

Individuals who believe that an unpleasant experience is unavoidable and therefore do nothing to change the course of events are exhibiting

(A) self-actualization attributes (B) the fight-or-flight response (C) attributional deficits (D) cognitive dissonance (E) learned helplessness

Which of the following systems produces,

circulates, and regulates levels of hormones in

the body?

(A) Circulatory system (B) Endocrine system (C) Limbic system

(D) Sympathetic nervous system (E) Parasympathetic nervous system

(D) reticular formation (E) cerebellum

In treating a patient for depression, Dr Pratt focuses on changing the ways in which the patient interprets events Which type of therapy is Dr Pratt using?

(A) Cognitive (B) Self-efficacy (C) Biomedical (D) Learning (E) Psychodynamic

Understanding that things continue to exist even when they are not within view is called

(A) mental representation (B) deep structure (C) aschema

(D) object permanence (E) assimilation

When is it permissible for a psychologist to share a client’s test scores with another person?

(A) When an employer inquires about the mental health status of the client

(B) When the client provides written permission to share results

(C) When a school official requests the test scores to aid in a college admission decision (D) When the test scores are within the normal

range

(E) Never

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(B) deinstitutionalize individuals through the use of halfway houses

(C) treat currently existing problems before they reach epidemic proportions

(D) treat currently existing problems only after they have reached epidemic proportions (E) treat a disease in an attempt to slow the

spread of it

On individual intelligence tests such as the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler scales, an IQ of 100 indicates that the test taker

(A) correctly answered all of the items on the test (B) obtained the highest scores in the standard-

based on behavioral theory

(E) reveal patterns of the subjects’ personality traits by requiring responses to a large number of objective questions

The tendency to develop a positive attitude toward a product that has been advertised repeatedly in the media is referred to as (A) impression management

(B) the Purkinje shift (C) the mere-exposure effect (D) reaction formation (E) subliminal suggestion

As you watch a friend walk away from you, your retinal image of your friend gets smaller Despite this, you do not perceive him to be shrinking This is an example of

(A) motion parallax (B) retinal disparity (C) size constancy (D) continuity (E) common fate

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29 Which of the following is the correct sequence of the neural chain of events set in motion by an environmental stimulus?

(A) Receptors, afferent neurons, interneurons,

efferent neurons, effectors

(B) Receptors, efferent neurons, interneurons,

afferent neurons, effectors

(C) Interneurons, effectors, receptors, afferent neurons, efferent neurons

(D) Effectors, interneurons, receptors, afferent neurons, efferent neurons

(E) Effectors, receptors, afferent neurons, effer- ent neurons, interneurons

30 An advantage of group therapy over individual therapy is that group therapy

(A) requires less commitment from the client (B) achieves results more quickly

(C) produces a significantly higher recovery rate (D) produces a higher rate of spontaneous

(A) rooting (B) suckling

(C) the patellar reflex

(D) the Moro reflex (E) the Babinski reflex

Neurotransmitters are typically stored in which of the following parts of a neuron?

(A) The nodes of Ranvier (B) The myelin sheath (C) The terminal buttons (D) The soma

(E) The axon

In order to yield information that is generalizable to the population from which it was drawn, a sample must be

(A) made up of at least 30 members of the popu- lation

(B) as large as possible (C) normally distributed

(D) representative of the population

(E) made up of at least 50 percent of the members of the population

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(D) substance abuse (E) anorexia nervosa

The factors chiefly responsible for interpersonal attraction include

(A) proximity and similarity (B) contrasting values

(C) similar tendencies to dominate or submit (D) similar attitudes toward authority (E) shared attributional biases

In a memory study, the experimenter reads the same list of words to two groups She asks group A to count the letters in each word, and she asks group B to focus on the meaning of each word for a later memory quiz During a recall test, participants in group B recall significantly more words than participants in group A Memory researchers attribute this effect to differences in (A) priming

(B) levels of processing (C) proactive interference (D) procedural memory (E) episodic memory

Rational-emotive behavior therapy assumes that abnormal functioning results from which of the following?

(A) Repression of unpleasant emotions (B) Malfunctions of the body

(C) Unconscious conflict (D) Inadequate reinforcement

(E) Unreasonable beliefs or assumptions

(A) ego

(B) ego-ideal

(C) id (D) libido

(E) superego

40 In a research study, informed consent is a concern of

(A) replicability (B) ethics

(C) statistical significance (D) practical applicability

(E) cross-cultural representativeness

41 The correlation between two measures obtained on a group of individuals is graphically

represented as a (A) bar graph

(B) normal distribution (C) histogram

(D) scatterplot

(E) frequency polygon

42 The concept of habituation is best exemplified by which of the following situations?

(A) An infant recognizes her father’s voice (B) A college student is no longer kept awake by

her roommate’s late-night typing (C) A kitten avoids a couch after being

reprimanded for sitting on it

(D) A rat learns to press a bar for food when a red light is flashed

(E) A motorist drives at the speed limit when there is a police officer in sight on the highway

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Staff members at a mental health hospital do not respond to patients who use threats, but praise patients who are courteous Which of the following psychotherapeutic approaches is being used?

(A) Assertiveness training (B) Cognitive therapy (C) Behavioral therapy (D) Humanistic therapy (E) Psychoanalytic therapy

Which of the following is the best example of shaping?

(A) A child receives five dollars each time he cleans his room

(B) An employee receives a termination notice after coming to work late every day over a period of three months

(C) A child gets candy from a dispenser one time but gets nothing from the dispenser the next two times

(D) A teacher rewards a student for sitting quietly

for ten minutes on Monday, fifteen minutes

on Tuesday, twenty minutes on Wednesday, and thirty minutes on Thursday

(E) A rat receives a mild shock each time it tries to open the door of its cage

Judy believes that her fate is determined by her own actions Judy’s belief best illustrates (A) self-actualization

(B) psychological reactance (C) a preoperational schema

(D) the basis for psychological determinism (E) an internal locus of control

An instructor conducted an experiment to deter- mine the effects of two different methods of study on the amount students learned in introductory physics The results showed that the average amount learned by the group using one method was greater than the average amount learned by the group using the other However, the difference was not statistically significant Which of the following is the most appropriate conclusion to be drawn?

(A) The group of students attaining the higher mean score had studied more than the other group

(B) The better study method will have different effects for students of varying levels of ability

(C) Neither group learned a significant amount (D) There is a positive correlation between the

results of the two methods

(E) There is a possibility that the difference between the two groups occurred by chance

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49 A student’s test score of 86 is at the 42nd per-

centile This means that this student has

(A) received the 42nd highest score (B) answered 86 percent of the test items

correctly

(C) scored the same as 42 of her fellow students (D) scored the same as or higher than 42 percent

of her fellow students

(E) scored the same as or higher than 58 percent of her fellow students

50 Which of the following provides information

(B) Social facilitation (C) Retrograde amnesia (D) Repression

(E) The serial position effect

Carol Gilligan’s critique of Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development focuses primarily on (A) the order in which stages of moral develop-

ment occur

(B) the key events that mark the transitions between stages of moral development (C) the number of stages in moral development (D) how the course of moral development might

be altered within certain cultures

(E) differences between males and females in the course of moral development

(A) The CR occurs after the CS but does not occur after other stimuli

(B) The CR occurs after a stimulus that is similar to the CS

(C) The CS and the UCS are repeatedly paired, and the CR gains strength

(D) The CS is repeatedly presented in the absence

of the UCS, and the CR loses strength

(E) When the CR loses strength, a rest period is given, after which the CS again elicits the CR

Which of the following behaviors is most closely associated with the foot-in-the-door phenomenon? (A) Beth continues to participate in class because

she is positively reinforced

(B) Adam is sleeping while the rest of his classmates are working on their group project

(C) Sutan asks his father for $5, and when he

agrees, Sutan asks him for $15 more

(D) James feels pressure to go to the movies with his friends even though he prefers to go bowling

(E) Diana feels guilty because she did not help her family clear the table after dinner A child who learns that spoons are tableware and then correctly calls forks and knives tableware is demonstrating

(A) rote learning (B) imitation training (C) discrimination training (D) stimulus generalization (E) classical conditioning

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of members of the American Psychological

Association to ethical issues in research?

(A) They have just begun to address such issues (B) They disclaim ethical concerns regarding

research

(C) They have developed codes of ethics for research with human participants only (D) They have developed codes of ethics for

research with animal subjects only (E) They have developed codes of ethics for

research with both human participants and animal subjects

Lithium carbonate has been useful in some instances in the treatment of

(A) bipolar disorder

(B) dissociative identity disorder (C) autistic disorder

(D) hypochondriasis (E) anorexia nervosa

Which of the following is an example of a prelinguistic event?

(A) Telegraphic speech (B) Motherese

(C) Babbling (D) Holophrasing (E) Paraphrasing

All of the following are reasons for requiring clearly specified procedures for the administration and scoring of assessment measures, such as

standardized tests, EXCEPT to

(A) allow comparisons among scores of various test takers

(B) reduce the possible effects of extraneous variables on scores

(C) increase the reliability and validity of the test scores

(D) decrease the amount of time needed to administer the test

(E) increase the objectivity of the scoring procedures used

Photoreceptors relay visual information to the brain through which of the following cells? (A) Trigeminal and vestibular

(B) Ganglion and vestibular (C) Bipolar and vestibular (D) Bipolar and Schwann (E) Bipolar and ganglion

Robert Rescorla’s contingency model of classical conditioning states that

(A) conditioning occurs only when one event reliably predicts another

(B) contiguity of stimuli is sufficient for condi- tioning to occur

(C) reinforcement contingencies predict extinction

(D) any stimulus can become conditioned when paired with an unconditioned stimulus (E) the only difference between the conditioned

response and the unconditioned response is the stimulus used to elicit them

Which of the following types of validity is estab- lished by demonstrating that there is a correlation between scores on a test and later academic performance?

(A) Content (B) Predictive

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(B) Most individuals can distinguish between expressions of different basic emotions during the sensorimotor period

(C) Basic emotions are understood and expressed in a similar fashion by individuals from diverse cultures

(D) Most individuals can identify their own emotional states from their physiological symptoms and the context of their present situation

(E) Infants and young animals cry when they are hungry

In studying the behavior of five year olds in free- play situations, a cognitive psychologist would be most interested in the children’s

(A) problem-solving strategies (B) toy preferences

(C) degree of cooperative behavior (D) prosocial play activities (E) choice of playmates

Which of the following results of correlational studies implies that environment contributes to the determination of IQ?

(A) Correlations are higher for identical twins than for fraternal twins

(B) Correlations are higher for children and their biological parents than for children and their adoptive parents

(C) Correlations are higher for parents and their children than for husbands and wives (D) Correlations for two children in the same

family are lower when one of the children is adopted than when both are the biological offspring of the parents

(E) Correlations for children and their adoptive parents are statistically significant and positive

(A) Social rejection (B) Impulsive behavior (C) Social competence (D) Divergent thinking

(E) Shyness

Hallucinations are characteristic of (A) fugue

(B) clinical depression (C) panic attacks (D) psychotic disorders (E) personality disorders

Alfred Binet’s efforts to measure intelligence were directed at

(A) testing the worth of various theoretical definitions

(B) operationally defining one theory of intelligence

(C) predicting children’s success in school (D) selecting workers for successful job

(A) Schizophrenia (B) Bipolar disorder (C) Specific phobia

(D) Obsessive-compulsive disorder (E) Dissociative identity disorder

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