AP Psychology Essay Prompts and Scoring Rubrics The enclosed document includes an essay prompt for each unit in AP Psychology and a corresponding scoring rubric. The purpose of this activity is to increase the students’ awareness of how AP exam readers grade from a rubric. Emphasis is placed on the definition of terms and the application of those terms. Units include: Introduction to Psychology Psychobiology Sensation and Perception Memory Learning Nature and Nurture of Behavior
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Question: In what ways were the late nineteenth-century Populists the heirs of the Jacksonian-Democrats with respect to overall objectives and specific proposals for reform? The Populists of the late nineteenth-century were in many aspects the heirs of the Jacksonian Democrats‚ carrying on the legacy and tradition left behind. The Populists were very similar to the Jacksonians in many of their overall objectives and specific reform proposals. During the Jacksonian Era from about 1828-1842‚ the
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There are four perspectives scientists have when looking at motivation including: • Instinct theory • Drive reduction theory • External/Arousal theory • Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs • Instincts and Evolutionary Psychology • To be an instinct‚ a complex behavior must have a fixed pattern throughout a species and be unlearned. • Early instinct theorists tried to explain motivation through this theory but they were merely listing instead of explaining such
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need to understand what the problem of evil‚ the free will response‚ and divine foreknowledge is. After viewing the material‚ I concluded that free will is a possible response to the problem of evil because people choose their actions. Others say that free will is not the cause for evil because God has foreknowledge. However‚ even if God does know everything before it happens‚ this does not mean he forces us to take those actions and takes away our free will. First‚ the problem of evil is the attempt
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of the Hemispheres: Two Brains or One? Exploring Diversity: Human Diversity and the Brain Try It! Assessing Brain Lateralization The Split Brain: Exploring the Two Hemispheres Becoming an Informed Consumer of Psychology: Learning to Control Your Heart—and Mind—through Biofeedback Psychology on the Web The Case of . . . The Fallen Athlete Full Circle: Neuroscience and Behavior 46 The Deepest Cut Wendy Nissley carried her two-year-old daughter‚ Lacy‚ into O.R. 12 at Johns Hopkins Hospital to
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Statement BACKGROUND: The dynamics of psychology affect our everyday life and behavior‚ which is what got me so interested in the subject . I have thoroughly enjoyed the subject‚ especially learning about conformity. It fascinates me as it portrays how strong peer pressure can be and I believe this is the main subject that deals with why we act the way we do. We conform everyday‚ offering a wide knowledge on behavior. It is this fascination that has makes psychology such a desirable subject for me. There
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Oxygen production d) cell type e) color 17) You have isolated a gram-positive rod. What test will you perform next? a) gram stain b) lactose fermentation c) endospore stain d) flagella stain e) DNA fingerprint Short answers. Fill in the blanks or give a short answer for the following. 1) Your field of view through a microscope is 0.3 millimeters. If you have a worm that takes up half of your field of view it would be ______ micrometers.
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interested in a career in psychology ever since I was a child. Psychology field has many different opportunities to explore. When I first started college‚ I did not know what field I wanted to get into. After a few years in college‚ I realized that I wanted to go into Clinical mental health working with adolescents. During my years in college‚ I was accepted to do an internship at Naomi Family Center. While I was there I worked with many different specialists in the field of psychology. The most interesting
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become depressed after stressful events than those participants who carried the normal 5-HTT gene. * -this gene could indicate a vulnerability to depression after stress and the researchers speculated whether the gene could moderate individual responses to environment * Evaluation: A large proportion of the population carries the mutation of the 5-HTT gene that makes the‚ susceptible to depression after traumatic events‚ it can be difficult to conclude that the gene is a major contribution
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Multicultural Ethical Psychology Abstract: The significance of multicultural counseling is the necessity of addressing ethical issues from current and previous societal changes. A review of literature provides valuable data with respect to multicultural diversity challenging the field of psychology today. This perspective includes social aspects regarding the implication and changes in relationship to racial‚ ethnic and linguist differences of multicultural counseling‚ that is significantly altering
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