2007, Question 1 · 8 points
Concepts that help or hurt making new friends
A new student joins a club hoping to make friends. The student shows how four concepts could help her and four others, such as in-group bias and circadian rhythm, could get in her way.
This exam had two free-response questions to answer in 50 minutes, together worth one third of the total grade, and the scoring guidelines give each question 8 points. The current exam has 2 free-response questions in 70 minutes. The skills these questions practice still count.
Not in the current course. Part A asks about the Schachter two-factor theory by name, and the current course leaves the specific names of emotion theories out of scope.
1 Read the question
The question is College Board's, from the 2007 exam. It starts on page 2 of the PDF. College Board no longer posts this exam, so it opens from the copy of College Board's PDF that the Internet Archive saved on January 16, 2026.
2 Write your answer
Answer each part the way you would on the exam, in full sentences, with your work shown. Your writing saves as you type.
3 Score it
Score your answer against College Board's scoring guidelines, one point at a time. Give yourself a point only when your answer says what the guideline asks for.
Scoring guidelines (PDF, page 2)
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