AP Psychology FRQs and Rubrics

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Apply psychological terms to a specific scenario rather than defining them in isolation
Structure a free response to the order of the prompt, spacing ideas out and avoiding an essay format
Write to a scoring rubric under the author’s suggested 25-minute classroom time limit

Teaching tips

Use the author’s 25-minute classroom routine for selected prompts, adjusting it to your lesson.
Choose a prompt that matches the psychology topic being studied; the research-methods scenario uses AP Human Geography classes.
Teach the S.O.D.A.S. writing routine before the first response and have students check that they answered each part of the prompt.

Skills covered

Applying terms to a scenario — prompts ask students to apply concepts to situations or explain relationships between terms, and the standing rule is that a definition without an application does not score.
Writing to a rubric — students see the point structure they are marked against, including a model response for each point, and can check their own answer against it.
Timed writing — students can use the packet’s suggested 25-minute classroom routine.

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How can students use the rubrics to improve a response?

Compare each required concept with the supplied model response, then identify where an answer needs a clearer application to the scenario. The rubric provides a place to mark each scoring point.