AP Psychology
Study Guide
Multiple Choice & FRQ Unit Test 10
Number of questions:
Unit 10= 50
As you can see the entire unit is covered. I gave you the number of questions from each topic for study purposes to make sure you're spending the appropriate my time on each topic. Where it says the word topic, that is typically written in green in your textbook, although sometimes it may be in a different color.
Unit 10 - Personality# of Questions / Topic / # of Questions / Topic
2 / Personality / 1 / Assessing traits
6 / Exploring the unconscious / 3 / The Big Five factors including table 10.2
4 / The psychoanalytic perspective: personality structure / 1 / The person-situation controversy
2 / The psychoanalytic perspective: personality development / 2 / Reciprocal influences including figure 10.7
4 / Defense mechanisms / 1 / Internal versus external locus of control
4 / Neo-Freudian and psychodynamic theorists / 1 / Benefits of personal control
3 / Assessing unconscious processes / 1 / Optimism versus pessimism
1 / Evaluating the psychoanalytic perspective / 1 / Assessing behavior in situations
1 / The humanistic perspective / 1 / Exploring the self
3 / Abraham Maslow's self-actualizing person / 2 / Self-serving bias
1 / Carl Rogers’ person-centered perspective / 2 / Culture and the self
1 / Assessing the self
1 / The trait perspective
1 / Exploring traits
FRQ-In terms of the FRQ for this unit, the pool will include some of the following bulleted topics from this unit:
- defense mechanisms (you should know all of them)
- trait theory
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Carl Rogers person-centered perspective
- psychoanalytic theory
And from previous units some of the following will be on there:
- drive reduction theory
- classical conditioning
- operant conditioning
- incentive theory
- social cognitive learning theory (Bandura)