GazaBarron's AP complete 2024 collection twenty books (2024)

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Introduction and Explanation of the
Book
If you are reading this introduction, you are probably preparing to take the
AP Psychology exam. If so, congratulations! The content assessed on this
exam can help us understand ourselves and empathize with others.
Psychology is a fascinating field, and studying for the AP Psychology exam
will help you make sure you understand and can apply these concepts in
potentially useful ways. High school and college psychology teachers work
hard every year to try to make sure that the AP Psychology exam is a
reliable and valid test of your knowledge of college-level psychology
content (and if you don’t know what the terms “reliable” and “valid” mean
yet, you will soon!).
The purpose of this book is to help you practice multiple-choice items
that are as similar as possible to the multiple-choice items you will see on
the actual AP Psychology exam. We are experienced AP Psychology
teachers who have been involved with the AP Psychology exam for over 20
years. We used everything we know about AP Psychology content and the
AP Psychology exam to create over 600 multiple-choice items (whew!) that
will help you practice exactly the kinds of items you will see on the exam.
It is also important that you know what you will not find in this book:
the purpose of this book is not to help teach you the content covered on the
exam. Hopefully you had the opportunity to participate in an AP
Psychology course at your school, and that class included access to a
college-level introductory psychology textbook. If you are looking for other
resources that can help you review the content involved in the AP
Psychology exam, Barron’s AP Psychology Premium may be a useful
resource. The purpose of this book is to help you review examples of the

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kinds of multiple-choice items you will encounter on the exam and practice
answering many different kinds of questions.
This Q & A book focuses on one part of the AP Psychology exam: the
100 multiple-choice items you will see on the test. Your performance on
these multiple-choice items will determine two-thirds of your overall score
on the exam, so if you use this book to become an expert at answering these
kinds of questions, you will improve your score (and learn a lot about
important psychology concepts!). The other part of the AP Psychology
exam is the Free-Response Question (FRQ) section. The FRQs will ask you
to write about how psychological concepts apply to specific situations. For
more information about the FRQ portion of the exam, refer to that chapter
in Barron’s AP Psychology Premium—it includes sample FRQs and
answers along with tips about how to write your answers.
Finally, we want to explain why we wrote this book in the way we did.
Our first step was to do some research on AP Psychology multiple-choice
items. We analyzed past AP Psychology exams in order to better understand
the multiple-choice items that appear on the exam. We analyzed hundreds
of actual AP Psychology multiple-choice items, and this analysis uncovered
categories of items that no other exam preparation book addresses. We used
these categories to write the questions for this book, and if you understand
and practice items in each of these categories, you will be much better
prepared for the AP exam.
While writing this book, College Board revised the AP Psychology exam
and course description. We looked through these changes carefully and
made sure that the items we wrote aligned with the new course description.
One change was the focus on specific course skills. We have written
questions from each skill category so you will have lots of opportunities to
practice. We have also included information with each question that will
help you see how that item aligns with the new course description (for more
information, see the “Revised Course Description” section below).
THE ANALYSIS
You already know that you can expect multiple-choice questions from
specific units to appear on the AP exam. The following table shows the

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breakdown of multiple-choice items in this book based on specific topics.
This breakdown also mirrors the proportion of items from each chapter on
the AP exam.
Unit Chapter Number of Items Percentage of Items
1. Scientific
Foundations
History and
Approaches
18 3%
Methods 48 8%
2. Biological Bases of
Behavior
Biological Bases of
Behavior
54 9%
States of
Consciousness
18 3%
3. Sensation and
Perception
Sensation and
Perception
48 8%
4. Learning Learning 48 8%
5. Cognitive
Psychology
Cognition 54 9%
Testing and Individual
Differences
36 6%
6. Developmental
Psychology
Developmental
Psychology
48 8%
7. Motivation,
Emotion, and
Personality
Motivation and
Emotion
48 8%
Personality 42 7%
8. Clinical Psychology Abnormal Psychology 48 8%
Treatment of
Psychological
Disorders
36 6%
9. Social Psychology Social Psychology 54 9%
But there is another way to think about the different “types” of multiple-
choice items you will be answering. We examined almost 400 released
items from four of the most recently publicly released AP exams to see if
they fell into specific “categories” or “types.” Through this analysis we
determined that AP Psychology items can be categorized into the following
groups:

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Stimulus 3% of items
Definitions 42% of items
Scenarios 28% of items
Names 11% of items
Research Methods 9% of items
Perspectives 7% of items
A Note About the Categories
Many of the released AP Psychology questions we analyzed could be
placed into more than one category. AP Psychology questions often require
knowing the definition of a term, or analyzing a scenario, but also involve
names of famous psychologists or different research methods or
psychological perspectives. As we categorized items we used our judgment
to place each item into the category we felt was most appropriate. It’s not
important that every item is in the “right” category—the purpose of this
book is to give you experience answering many questions in each category.
As you work your way through the book, don’t worry if you encounter an
item in a “Definition” section that seems like it could also be in the
“Scenario” section, or vice versa. This book provides you with dozens of

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