Kaplan Test Prep - AP Psychology Prep Plus 2020 & 2021

AP

Psychology

Prep Plus

2020 & 2021

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M. Dominic Eggert

Special thanks to the following for their contributions to this text: Kathleen Alto, Elizabeth Babcock-Atkinson, Steve Bartley, Jimmy Carney, Olivia Cortellini, Brandon Deason, Monique Diderich, Tim Eich, Elizabeth Flagge, Paul Forn, Ashley Gifford, Joanna Graham, Adam Grey, Allison Harm, Katy Haynicz-Smith, Peter Haynicz-Smith, Samee Kirk, Rebecca Knauer, William Kochen, Laura Krivicich, Jennifer Land, Charlotte Larson, Liz Laub, Mandy Luk, Maureen McMahon, Jenn Moore, Iain Morton, Kristin Murner, Monica Ostolaza, Jose Pamintuan, Aishwarya Pillai, Dominique Polfliet, Maria Pomponio, Andrea Quinn, Mary Jo Rhodes, Jason Selzer, Noah Silva, Vaishnavi Tata, Rebecca Truong, Oscar Velazquez, Lee Weiss, Robert Verini, Veena Veeravalli, Bonnie Wang, Shayna Webb-Dray, Dan Wittich, MJ Wu, Jessica Yee, Amy Zarkos, and Nina Zhang.

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Editor:

M. Dominic Eggert

Special thanks to the following for their contributions to this text: Kathleen Alto, Elizabeth Babcock-Atkinson, Steve Bartley, Jimmy Carney, Olivia Cortellini, Brandon Deason, Monique Diderich, Tim Eich, Elizabeth Flagge, Paul Forn, Ashley Gifford, Joanna Graham, Adam Grey, Allison Harm, Katy Haynicz-Smith, Peter Haynicz-Smith, Samee Kirk, Rebecca Knauer, William Kochen, Laura Krivicich, Jennifer Land, Charlotte Larson, Liz Laub, Mandy Luk, Maureen McMahon, Jenn Moore, Iain Morton, Kristin Murner, Monica Ostolaza, Jose Pamintuan, Aishwarya Pillai, Dominique Polfliet, Maria Pomponio, Andrea Quinn, Mary Jo Rhodes, Jason Selzer, Noah Silva, Vaishnavi Tata, Rebecca Truong, Oscar Velazquez, Lee Weiss, Robert Verini, Veena Veeravalli, Bonnie Wang, Shayna Webb-Dray, Dan Wittich, MJ Wu, Jessica Yee, Amy Zarkos, and Nina Zhang.

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The AP Psychology exam is divided into two sections. Section I gives you 70 minutes to answer 100 multiple-choice questions covering a variety of topics from introductory psychology. Each question contains five possible answer choices, with only one correct response. The nine official AP Psychology course units, along with the frequency of questions on each topic, are as follows:

Unit 1: Scientific Foundations of Psychology (1014%)

Unit 2: Biological Bases of Behavior (810%)

Unit 3: Sensation and Perception (68%)

Unit 4: Learning (79%)

Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology (1317%)

Unit 6: Developmental Psychology (79%)

Unit 7: Motivation, Emotion, and Personality (1115%)

Unit 8: Clinical Psychology (1216%)

Unit 9: Social Psychology (810%)

Section II gives you 50 minutes to answer two free-response questions. These questions can involve any of the content tested in the multiple-choice section, but will require you to make connections across a variety of theories and ideas that relate to each questions theme. To receive full credit on one of these questions, youll need to write a brief essay that discusses a number of specified concepts or completes a number of particular tasks, often listed as bullet points in the prompt.

Section I is worth 100 points (one point per question), two-thirds of the total points on the exam. The questions in Section II are each worth 7 raw points. These raw points are then multiplied by a constant term ( or about 3.57) in order to yield a weighted score out of 25 points for each of the two questions. Altogether, the 50 points available in Section II constitute one-third of the exam total.

AP Expert Note

The Power of Guessing

Each correct multiple-choice question is worth one point, but no points are deducted from your score for answering a question incorrectly. So be sure to fill in an answer for every question! Even a blind guess has a 20% chance of being correct.