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Psychology · FRQ Trainer

Free-response 1 of 17 · Cognition

5 pts our rubric

The real Psychology Section II is 2 free-response questions in 70 minutes, 33.3% of your score. Two questions: the Article Analysis Question on a summarized peer-reviewed study, and the Evidence-Based Question. This prompt is ours, written to the same skills — score it against the rubric below, not against that structure.

Prompt

A psychologist studies whether background music affects memory. Participants are randomly assigned to study a word list in silence or with music, then take a recall test.

aIdentify the independent and dependent variables.1 pt

bExplain how random assignment strengthens the study.1 pt

cState an operational definition for the dependent variable.1 pt

dExplain how the placebo effect and a confounding variable could apply.2 pts

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