{"id":"study-ap-psych-research-methods-mc","audience":"high-school","category":"studying","technique":"format","track":"study","title":"Make a multiple-choice practice set on research methods","free":false,"task":"Your AP Psychology unit test is multiple choice, so you want to practice that way: exactly 5 numbered questions, each with 4 choices labeled A) to D), and an 'Answers' line at the end with just the letters, plain text. One question must test the correlation vs. causation point your teacher flagged, and every answer must follow your notes, including the correction about variables.","materialLabel":"Your AP Psych notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"AP PSYCH - Unit 0: Research Methods (Mr. Castellanos)\n\nHypothesis: a testable prediction\n\nExperiment: researcher changes something on purpose and measures the effect\n- Independent variable (IV): the thing you MEASURE\n  ** CORRECTION (Mr. C, Thurs): I had it backwards. IV = the thing the researcher CHANGES. The DEPENDENT variable is what you measure. **\n- Experimental group gets the treatment, control group doesn't\n- Random assignment = everyone has an equal chance of being in either group (reduces confounding variables)\n- Random sampling is different: it's about who gets into the study at all\n\nCorrelation: two things change together. Coefficient from -1 to +1.\n- Positive: both go up. Negative: one up, one down.\n!!! Mr. C: \"Correlation does NOT prove causation. This shows up on EVERY AP exam.\" Example from class: ice cream sales and drowning both go up in summer, but ice cream doesn't cause drowning. (heat is the third variable)\n\nPlacebo: fake treatment. Double-blind: neither participants nor researchers know who got what.\n\nOperational definition: exactly how you'll measure a variable (ex: \"stress\" = cortisol level)\n\nUnit test Monday, 40 MC. Bring #2 pencil. Extra credit Kahoot Friday.","rules":[{"type":"questionCount","count":5},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not saying how many questions","why":"The AI picks its own number, and it usually picks more questions than you need.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 5 numbered questions.\"","checks":["questionCount"]},{"title":"Not showing the question shape","why":"The AI may write short-answer or true/false questions, or label choices inconsistently.","fix":"Show it: \"4 choices per question, labeled A) to D).\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Missing the flagged topic","why":"The AI treats every note as equally important and may skip what your teacher said is on every exam.","fix":"Add: \"One question must test correlation vs. causation.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Missing the correction","why":"Your notes have the wrong IV definition crossed out next to the right one.","fix":"Add: \"Use only my notes, and use Mr. C's correction about the IV.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it will be read","why":"AI formats for a screen, with bold and headings that show up as stray symbols on a printed page.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many questions","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b.{0,25}question"]},{"label":"Asks for multiple choice","patterns":["multiple.?choice","A\\)","4 (choices|options)","four (choices|options)"]},{"label":"Names the flagged topic","patterns":["correlation","causation"]},{"label":"Puts answers at the end","patterns":["answers?.{0,30}(end|bottom|after|separate)","(end|bottom).{0,20}answers?","answer key"]},{"label":"Says to use only the material","patterns":["only.{0,30}(notes|material|source|excerpt|text|reading|passage|draft|facts|article|handout|sheet|guide|chapter|data|list)","no outside","don't add","do not add","don't invent","correct"]}],"hint":"Practice should look like the real test. Tell the AI the question type and shape, the must-have topic, where the answers go, and to trust your teacher's correction.","rubricLabels":["Every question has exactly 4 choices labeled A) to D), and the answer key after the last question gives only the letters","One question tests that correlation does not prove causation (for example, using the ice cream and drowning example or a third variable)","All questions and keyed answers match the notes, and any question about variables treats the independent variable as what the researcher changes and the dependent variable as what is measured (the corrected version)"]}