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AP Psychology practice

Free, original practice questions for the AP Psychology exam, written to the College Board Course and Exam Description.

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How the practice works

Each unit has three multiple-choice sets. White belt covers core terms and foundational ideas. Regular is set at exam level, with concept checks and applications. Black belt has harder, multi-step questions. After each answer you get an explanation, plus a "Still don't get it?" walkthrough with the key idea, a worked solution, a short practice problem and the most common wrong answer.

The exam mix draws questions from every unit in proportion to the exam's unit weights, so you can practice the whole course in one sitting.

Free-response questions come with point-by-point scoring rubrics in the style of College Board scoring guidelines, model answers that earn every point, and walkthroughs for each part.

Scoring practice shows you a student's answer and a rubric point, and you decide whether the answer earns it and why. It is based on the current AP scoring guidelines, so you learn what readers reward and what they don't (try it).

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Units and topics

Unit 1: Biological Bases of Behavior

15 to 25% of the exam · 180 multiple-choice questions · 5 free-response questions

• 1.1 Interaction of Heredity and Environment
• 1.2 Overview of the Nervous System
• 1.3 The Neuron and Neural Firing
• 1.4 The Brain
• 1.5 Sleep
• 1.6 Sensation

Unit 2: Cognition

15 to 25% of the exam · 180 multiple-choice questions · 5 free-response questions

• 2.1 Perception
• 2.2 Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, and Decision-Making
• 2.3 Introduction to Memory
• 2.4 Encoding Memories
• 2.5 Storing Memories
• 2.6 Retrieving Memories
• 2.7 Forgetting and Other Memory Challenges
• 2.8 Intelligence and Achievement

Unit 3: Development and Learning

15 to 25% of the exam · 180 multiple-choice questions · 5 free-response questions

• 3.1 Themes and Methods in Developmental Psychology
• 3.2 Physical Development Across the Lifespan
• 3.3 Gender and Sexual Orientation
• 3.4 Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan
• 3.5 Communication and Language Development
• 3.6 Social-Emotional Development Across the Lifespan
• 3.7 Classical Conditioning
• 3.8 Operant Conditioning
• 3.9 Social, Cognitive, and Neurological Factors in Learning

Unit 4: Social Psychology and Personality

15 to 25% of the exam · 180 multiple-choice questions · 5 free-response questions

• 4.1 Attribution Theory and Person Perception
• 4.2 Attitude Formation and Attitude Change
• 4.3 Psychology of Social Situations
• 4.4 Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theories of Personality
• 4.5 Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories of Personality
• 4.6 Motivation
• 4.7 Emotion

Unit 5: Mental and Physical Health

15 to 25% of the exam · 180 multiple-choice questions · 5 free-response questions

• 5.1 Introduction to Health Psychology
• 5.2 Positive Psychology
• 5.3 Explaining and Classifying Psychological Disorders
• 5.4 Selection of Categories of Psychological Disorders
• 5.5 Treatment of Psychological Disorders

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