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1. 1. Which neurotransmitter is most directly linked to the loss of motor control in Parkinson's disease?

   • A. Serotonin
   • B. Dopamine
   • C. GABA
   • D. Acetylcholine
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   Svar: B. Dopamine

   Parkinson's disease follows the death of dopamine-producing neurons in a midbrain area called the substantia nigra, which is why tremor and slowed movement are the first signs. Dopamine also carries reward and motivation signals, so it turns up again in the units on motivation and on addiction.

2. 2. Damage to the hippocampus would most likely impair:

   • A. Forming new long-term memories
   • B. Regulating body temperature and hunger
   • C. Coordinating balance and fine motor movement
   • D. Producing fluent speech
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   Svar: A. Forming new long-term memories

   The hippocampus consolidates new explicit memories so they can be stored long term, which is why a patient with hippocampal damage can describe their childhood in detail but cannot remember what happened this morning. The other three jobs belong elsewhere: the hypothalamus handles hunger and temperature, the cerebellum handles balance and coordination, and Broca's area handles speech production.

3. 3. Complete the sentence.

   The fatty layer that wraps many axons and speeds up the neural impulse is called the _____.

   Alternativer for luke 1: dendrite, myelin sheath, synaptic vesicle, terminal button

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   Svar: myelin sheath

   Myelin insulates the axon so the impulse jumps from gap to gap instead of crawling along the whole length, which makes conduction far faster. When myelin breaks down, as it does in multiple sclerosis, the signal slows or misfires and movement and sensation suffer.

4. 4. Which receptor cells in the retina give you color vision and fine detail in bright light?

   • A. Rods
   • B. Cones
   • C. Bipolar cells
   • D. Ganglion cells
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   Svar: B. Cones

   Cones are packed most densely in the fovea at the center of the retina and they need good light to fire, so they carry color and sharp detail during the day. Rods greatly outnumber them and handle dim light and peripheral vision, but they do not code color, which is why colors drain away at night.

5. 5. In Pavlov's classic study, a tone was paired with meat powder until the tone alone made the dog salivate. Which statements about that study are correct?

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   • A. The meat powder was the unconditioned stimulus
   • B. Salivation to the tone alone was the conditioned response
   • C. Before conditioning, the tone was a neutral stimulus
   • D. The meat powder was the conditioned stimulus
   • E. Salivation to the meat powder was the conditioned response
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   Svar: A. The meat powder was the unconditioned stimulus, B. Salivation to the tone alone was the conditioned response, C. Before conditioning, the tone was a neutral stimulus

   Before conditioning the tone means nothing to the dog, so it is the neutral stimulus, while the meat powder is the unconditioned stimulus because it produces salivation with no learning at all. After the pairing the tone becomes the conditioned stimulus and salivation to the tone alone is the conditioned response.

6. 6. A student takes an aspirin, the headache goes away, and the student now reaches for aspirin as soon as a headache starts. This is an example of:

   • A. Positive reinforcement
   • B. Negative reinforcement
   • C. Positive punishment
   • D. Negative punishment
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   Svar: B. Negative reinforcement

   Reinforcement always makes a behavior more likely, and negative means something unpleasant was taken away, here the pain. Punishment would make the behavior less likely, so neither punishment option can fit a behavior that is now happening more often.

7. 7. Complete the sentence.

   A slot machine pays out after an unpredictable number of pulls, which makes it a _____ schedule of reinforcement.

   Alternativer for luke 1: fixed-ratio, variable-ratio, fixed-interval, variable-interval

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   Svar: variable-ratio

   Ratio schedules count responses and interval schedules count time, and variable means the requirement changes from one payout to the next. Skinner found that variable-ratio produces the highest and steadiest response rate and resists extinction the longest, which is exactly why gambling is so hard to stop.

8. 8. Remembering the digits 1 4 9 2 1 7 7 6 as the two dates 1492 and 1776 is an example of:

   • A. Chunking
   • B. Priming
   • C. The spacing effect
   • D. Proactive interference
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   Svar: A. Chunking

   Chunking groups separate items into larger meaningful units, so eight loose digits take up two slots in working memory instead of eight. Working memory holds only about seven items at once, so the gain does not come from more storage, it comes from packaging the items with knowledge you already hold in long-term memory.

9. 9. A child sees water poured from a short wide glass into a tall thin glass and says the amount of water has not changed. According to Piaget, the child has reached the:

   • A. Sensorimotor stage
   • B. Preoperational stage
   • C. Concrete operational stage
   • D. Formal operational stage
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   Svar: C. Concrete operational stage

   Conservation, the understanding that quantity stays the same when shape changes, marks Piaget's concrete operational stage, roughly ages 7 to 11. A preoperational child centers on one feature, usually height, and insists the tall thin glass now holds more water.

10. 10. In Ainsworth's Strange Situation, which behaviors describe a securely attached infant?

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    • A. Uses the caregiver as a base and explores the room freely
    • B. Shows distress when the caregiver leaves
    • C. Is comforted quickly on reunion and goes back to playing
    • D. Ignores the caregiver on return and keeps playing alone
    • E. Seeks contact and pushes the caregiver away at the same time
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    Svar: A. Uses the caregiver as a base and explores the room freely, B. Shows distress when the caregiver leaves, C. Is comforted quickly on reunion and goes back to playing

    Secure attachment shows up as a balance: the infant explores while the caregiver is present, protests the separation, and settles quickly once the caregiver is back. Avoidant infants show little reaction in either direction, and resistant infants want contact and resist it at the same moment.

11. 11. Which theory of emotion says the physical arousal and the felt emotion occur at the same time, triggered together by the thalamus?

    • A. James-Lange theory
    • B. Cannon-Bard theory
    • C. Schachter-Singer two-factor theory
    • D. The Yerkes-Dodson law
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    Svar: B. Cannon-Bard theory

    Cannon-Bard holds that the thalamus signals the cortex and the body at the same moment, so the racing heart and the feeling of fear arrive together rather than one causing the other. James-Lange puts the body first, saying you feel afraid because you notice yourself trembling, and Schachter-Singer says arousal needs a cognitive label before it becomes a specific emotion.

12. 12. In the Big Five model of personality, which trait describes how organized, disciplined and goal-directed a person is?

    • A. Openness to experience
    • B. Conscientiousness
    • C. Extraversion
    • D. Agreeableness
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    Svar: B. Conscientiousness

    Conscientiousness covers planning, self-discipline and follow-through, and it is the Big Five trait that best predicts performance at school and at work. The full set is openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism, usually remembered with the letters OCEAN.

13. 13. Complete the sentence.

    A person cannot stop thinking about germs and washes their hands dozens of times a day to bring the anxiety down. This pattern fits _____.

    Alternativer for luke 1: generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, a specific phobia

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    Svar: obsessive-compulsive disorder

    The unwanted repeating thoughts are the obsessions and the repeated washing is the compulsion, a ritual carried out to lower the distress the thought creates. Generalized anxiety disorder is broad worry with no ritual attached, and panic disorder centers on sudden attacks of intense physical fear.

14. 14. Which of these statements about classic social psychology findings are correct?

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    • A. In Milgram's obedience study, a majority of participants continued to the highest shock level when an authority figure kept telling them to go on
    • B. In Asch's line studies, many participants gave an answer they could see was wrong in order to match the group
    • C. The bystander effect says a person becomes less likely to help as the number of other bystanders grows
    • D. The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overweight the situation and underweight personality when judging someone else
    • E. Groupthink improves a group's decisions by pushing it to consider more options
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    Svar: A. In Milgram's obedience study, a majority of participants continued to the highest shock level when an authority figure kept telling them to go on, B. In Asch's line studies, many participants gave an answer they could see was wrong in order to match the group, C. The bystander effect says a person becomes less likely to help as the number of other bystanders grows

    Milgram and Asch both showed that ordinary people bend to an authority or to a group far more than they predict they would, and Darley and Latane showed that responsibility gets diluted as more onlookers watch. The last two statements are reversals: the fundamental attribution error means overweighting personality and underweighting the situation, and groupthink makes decisions worse by suppressing dissent.

15. 15. A researcher tests whether a new study app raises quiz scores. Students are randomly assigned either to use the app or to study as usual, and both groups then take the same quiz. What is the dependent variable?

    • A. Whether a student used the app
    • B. The score on the quiz
    • C. The random assignment to groups
    • D. The number of students in each group
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    Svar: B. The score on the quiz

    The dependent variable is the outcome the researcher measures, here the quiz score, while the independent variable is what the researcher manipulates, here app or no app. Random assignment is neither variable: it is the procedure that spreads pre-existing differences evenly across the groups so the two start out comparable.

Dette står på AP Psychology-eksamenen

AP Psychology-eksamenen får poeng fra 1 til 5 og varer litt over to og en halv time. Etter at College Board bygget om kurset for skoleåret 2024-25 er Section I 75 flervalgsspørsmål på 90 minutter og teller to tredeler av poengsummen, mens Section II er to free-response-spørsmål på 70 minutter og teller den siste tredelen. De to free-response-spørsmålene har navn det er verdt å kunne. Article Analysis Question gir deg en kort oppsummering av en studie og ber deg navngi forskningsmetoden, jobbe med variablene og si hva resultatene støtter og ikke støtter. Evidence-Based Question gir deg to kilder og ber deg argumentere for et standpunkt ved hjelp av begge.

Kurset er organisert i fem enheter, og hver av dem er vektet til 15 til 25 prosent av eksamenen, så ingen enkelt enhet avgjør poengsummen din. De er atferdens biologiske grunnlag, kognisjon, utvikling og læring, sosialpsykologi og personlighet, og psykisk og fysisk helse. I praksis betyr det at du ikke kan hoppe over en enhet og ta det igjen et annet sted, og det betyr også at eksamenen belønner bredde framfor dyp mestring av ett yndlingstema.

To ting varierer og er verdt å sjekke selv framfor å stole på et forumsvar. College Board reviderer Course and Exam Description, så bekreft gjeldende antall spørsmål og tidsbruk der og ikke i en gammel repetisjonsbok. Og poengsummen et college godtar for studiepoeng settes av collegeet, ikke av College Board: mange tar imot en 3, mange krever en 4 eller en 5, og noen gir ingen studiepoeng for AP Psychology i det hele tatt. Slå opp reglene ved skolene du faktisk bryr deg om før du bestemmer hvor hardt du skal jage en 5.

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Ta den i én økt uten notater, med rundt ett minutt per spørsmål, og les så forklaringen til hvert spørsmål, også de du fikk riktig. Et feil svar peker på en enhet, ikke bare på et faktum. Bommet du på spørsmålet om forsterkningsskjemaer og spørsmålet om negativ forsterkning, repeter operant betinging som helhet framfor å pugge de to svarene.

Ingenting her trener free-response-delen, som er en tredel av poengsummen din. Les til den på en annen måte: les et kort sammendrag av en studie, si metoden og variablene høyt, og skriv så en påstand og underbygg den med konkret belegg fra teksten. Fagord og forskernavn bærer deg gjennom flervalget, men free response ber deg bruke et begrep på et scenario du aldri har sett før, og det er en egen ferdighet.

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