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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Barron's AP Psychology about Psychology, Exam, Helpful with the genre: Teen & Young Adult, Education & Reference?
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conversations.value: (back cover:) <BR> <LI> Three full-length practice tests in book reflect the actual AP Psychology Exam in length, subject matter, and difficulty <LI> AP Psychology topics reviewed included research methods, the biological basis of behavior, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning, cognition, personality, abnormal psychology, and treatment of disorders <LI> Helpful additional features include an overview of the test, extra multiple-choice practice questions, test-taking tips, and an analysis of the tests essay question with a sample essay <BR> <B> 2008
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conversations.value: Do you know the first two paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Barron's AP Psychology
  The DSM-5 lists hundreds of different psychological disorders, most of which lie beyond the scope of your introductory course. We will deal with the disorders you are most likely to encounter on the AP Psychology exam.
  After a short explanation of each type of disorder, we will briefly discuss how psychologists from a few of the various perspectives might view the cause of some of the disorders within the category. Keep in mind that many psychologists do not strictly adhere to any one perspective.
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conversations.value: Do you know another paragraph?
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conversations.value: Once you've prepared for this test you'll see that in order to answer many of the questions on the test, you don't even need to look at the answer choices. In fact, it's a good test-taking strategy to try to answer multiple-choice questions before you look at the choices. That way, once you do look at the answer choices, you have a good sense of what you are looking for.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: If Professor Kester overcomes all these obstacles, she might figure out some interesting results through this study. During the study, I believe that the professor will figure out that kids who grow up with permissive parents will actually be less independent than other kids. Permissive parents don't teach their kids anything about rules, and this might make it harder for kids to have rules later on in life.
  The student's essay doesn't score either point 1 or point 2. The student correctly identifies parenting styles as one of the key variables, but the student's operational definition of parenting style is not specific (it is basically a restatement of the hypothesis). The student misidentifies age as one of the key variables in the hypothesis. Age is a variable involved in the study, but the other key variable in this hypothesis is independence.
  The student scores this point at "the cross-sectional method: this is when you take a cross-section of people, in this case people of different ages, and you test them all at once." The student clearly establishes that this study would use people of different ages, testing them all at once and comparing groups of different ages.
  The student scores this point at "find one group of people as kids, then figure out which ones were growing up with permissive parents and which weren't. Then the professor would have to wait until the kids grew up a little, then test their independence again." This indicates that the professor is following one group of participants over a number of years.
  The student scores 2 of these 3 points. Point 5 scores at "get the partipants' permission to even be involved in the study in the first place" (informed consent). Point 6 scores at "make sure that no one was going to be hurt because of the study" (risk). The student does not score point 7 because the last ethical consideration the student discusses (where the study results are published) is not one of the five ethical requirements for research involving human participants.