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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) helps you grasp the essential concepts quickly, with structured learning and real exam questions for practice.

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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 3 preview imageBARRON’STHE TRUSTED NAME IN TEST PREPAP®PsychologyPremium2024Allyson J. Weseley, Ed.D.and Robert McEntarffer, Ph.D.AP® is a registered trademark of the College Board, which is not affiliated with Barron’s and was notinvolved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 4 preview imageTo Kristin, Esme, and Guy.—R.M.To Sara, Kate, and EIi.—A.W.AP® is a registered trademark of the College Board, which is not affiliated with Barron’s and was notinvolved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.© Copyright 2023, 2022, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2007, 2004, 2000 by Kaplan NorthAmerica, LLC, d/b/a Barron’s Educational SeriesAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of therequired fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and readthe text of this eBook on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded,decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage andretrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known orhereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.Published by Kaplan North America, LLC, d/b/a Barron’s Educational Series1515 West Cypress Creek RoadFort Lauderdale, FL 33309www.barronseduc.comISBN: 978-1-5062-8798-0
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 6 preview imageAbout the AuthorsRob McEntarffertaught AP Psychology at Lincoln Southeast High Schoolin Lincoln, NE, for 13 years and Psychology at Nebraska WesleyanUniversity for 7 years. He earned his teaching certificate in psychologyfrom the University of Nebraska, a master’s degree in educationalpsychology, and a Ph.D. in education. He has extensive experience inscoring the Advanced Placement Psychology free-response questions,having served as a Reader and Table Leader, and as the high schoolQuestion Leader. He is past chair of the national organization Teachers ofPsychology in Secondary Schools, worked with the committee on theNational Standards for the Teaching of High School Psychology, and isinvolved in writing assessment materials for high school- and college-levelintroductory psychology textbooks. He works as an assessment specialistfor his school district.Allyson Weseleyhas taught AP Psychology and run a Behavioral ScienceResearch Program at Roslyn High School in Roslyn Heights, NY, for over 25years. Her students have enjoyed great success on the AP exam, with a 100percent passing rate and well over 80 percent earning 5’s. She earned anundergraduate degree in psychology from Princeton University, a master’sdegree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a doctoratefrom Columbia University’s Teachers College. Dr. Weseley has served as aReader and Table Leader for the AP Psychology exam, published a numberof psychology-related activities, led several psychology teacher
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 7 preview imageworkshops, and served on the board of Teachers of Psychology inSecondary Schools.
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 8 preview imageTable of ContentsTitle PageCopyright PageHow To Use This BookBarron’s Essential 5IntroductionOverview of the AP Psychology ExamDIAGNOSTIC TESTDiagnostic TestPart I: Multiple-Choice QuestionsPart II: Free-Response QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers ExplainedUNIT 1: SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS1 History and ApproachesHistory of PsychologyPsychological PerspectivesPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers Explained2 MethodsResearch MethodsStatisticsAPA Ethical GuidelinesPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers ExplainedUNIT 2: BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR3 Biological Bases of BehaviorOverviewNeuroanatomyNervous SystemThe BrainEndocrine System
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 9 preview imageGeneticsPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers Explained4 States of ConsciousnessOverviewLevels of ConsciousnessSleepDreamsDrugsPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers ExplainedUNIT 3: SENSATION AND PERCEPTION5 Sensation and PerceptionOverviewEnergy SensesChemical SensesBody Position SensesPerceptionPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers ExplainedUNIT 4: LEARNING6 LearningOverviewClassical ConditioningOperant ConditioningCognitive LearningPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers ExplainedUNIT 5: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY7 CognitionOverviewModels of MemoryRetrieval
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 10 preview imageConstructive MemoryForgettingHow Memories Are Physically Stored in the BrainLanguageThinking and CreativityPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers Explained8 Testing and Individual DifferencesOverviewStandardization and NormsReliability and ValidityTypes of TestsTheories of IntelligenceIntelligence TestsBias in TestingNature Versus Nurture: IntelligencePractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers ExplainedUNIT 6: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY9 Developmental PsychologyOverviewResearch MethodsPrenatal Influences on DevelopmentMotor/Sensory DevelopmentParentingStage TheoriesCognitive DevelopmentMoral DevelopmentGender and DevelopmentPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers ExplainedUNIT 7: MOTIVATION, EMOTION, AND PERSONALITY10 Motivation and EmotionOverview
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 11 preview imageTheories of MotivationHunger MotivationSexual MotivationSocial MotivationTheories About EmotionNonverbal Expressions of EmotionStressPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers Explained11 PersonalityOverviewPsychoanalytic TheoryPsychodynamic TheoriesTrait TheoriesBiological TheoriesBehaviorist TheoriesSocial-Cognitive TheoriesHumanistic TheoriesAssessment TechniquesPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers ExplainedUNIT 8: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY12 Psychological DisordersOverviewDefining Psychological DisordersCategories of DisordersThe Rosenhan Study: The Influence of LabelsPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers Explained13 Treatment of Psychological DisordersOverviewHistoryTypes of TherapyKinds of Therapists
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 12 preview imagePractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers ExplainedUNIT 9: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY14 Social PsychologyOverviewAttitude Formation and ChangeThe Relationship Between Attitudes and BehaviorCompliance StrategiesAttribution TheoryStereotypes, Prejudice, and DiscriminationAggression and Antisocial BehaviorProsocial BehaviorAttractionThe Influence of Others on an Individual’s BehaviorGroup DynamicsPractice QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers Explained15 Multiple-Choice Test-Taking TipsOverviewTest-Taking StrategiesThe Fabulous 1516 Answering Free-Response QuestionsHow to Write the AP Psychology Free-Response AnswerDetails About the Free-Response QuestionsGeneral Hints and Tips for the Free-Response Portion of theExamSample Free-Response QuestionRubric for Sample QuestionInterpreting the RubricFictional Student ResponsePRACTICE TESTSPractice Test 1Part I: Multiple-Choice QuestionsPart II: Free-Response QuestionsAnswer Key
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 13 preview imageAnswers ExplainedPractice Test 2Part I: Multiple-Choice QuestionsPart II: Free-Response QuestionsAnswer KeyAnswers Explained
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 14 preview imageHow To Use This BookThe purpose of this book is to provide you with the best possiblepreparation for the AP Psychology exam. Using the tools included in thisbook will help you prepare for success on exam day.DIAGNOSTIC TESTA diagnostic test is included to help you gauge how best to prepare for theexam. You may wish to take this test after you have been exposed to all theinformation provided by your class but before you begin to study. TheMultiple-Choice Error Analysis Sheet is intended to help you identify yourareas of relative strength and weakness. Notice that the Multiple-ChoiceError Analysis Sheet is organized according to the chapter titles you canfind in the textbook you used in your AP Psychology class. This should helpyou use information from the diagnostic test to determine what chaptersto review in the textbook. For each of the 14 chapters, compute thepercentage of questions you answered correctly. In this test, the number ofquestions on a topic is indicative of the amount of attention the topictypically receives on the exam. Therefore, you should spend the most timestudying the areas on which many questions were asked and you got arelatively low percentage of them correct.REVIEW AND PRACTICE
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 15 preview imageThis review is organized in nine units that are comprised of 14 chapters.The College Board recently revised the way they organized materials forthe AP Psychology course. The textbook you use for your AP Psychologycourse probably includes about 14 chapters. The College Board groupedthese chapters into nine overall units.Multiple-choice practice questions and explanations of the correctanswers are provided at the end of each review chapter. We recommendthat you first review the material in the chapter and then answer all thereview questions in order to test your comprehension.Because this is a review book, our aim is to include only thatinformation you need to know for the exam. Nonetheless, some of thisinformation is particularly important, and we convey that fact byhighlighting such material as Tips. Important terms and people appear atthe beginning of each chapter and are set in bold in the text. They can alsobe found in the index.To help you prepare for the exam, Chapter 15 presents a group oftesting tips and Chapter 16 focuses on how to answer the free-responsequestions. We included a discussion of how best to approach the essaysand also provide a number of examples of the kinds of essay questionslikely to appear on the exam. We also include model essay answers to giveyou an idea of what the readers of the exam are looking for.PRACTICE TESTSAt the end of the book we included two full-length practice exams. Keep inmind that taking a practice exam under actual testing conditions (all at
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AP Psychology Premium 2024 (2024) - Page 16 preview imageonce and within the time limit) is always best. Every exam includes anexplanation of the correct answers as well as an Error Analysis Sheet.ONLINE PRACTICEIn addition to the diagnostic test and two practice tests within this book,there are also three full-length online practice exams. You may take theseexams in practice (untimed) mode or in timed mode. All questions includeanswer explanations.FOR STUDENTSThe organization of this book should closely match the textbook you use inyour classroom. How you use the book depends on how your school offersthe course. Nevertheless, by answering the review questions at the end ofeach chapter and by taking the practice tests, you will have an indicationof how well you will do on the actual exam.FOR TEACHERSSuggest to your students that they use this book along with their textbook.If you develop your own assignments and tests around the courseframework, this book should offer your students the opportunity to use thematerial for review.
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