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AP Psychology / Unit 2

Unit 2 · 15–25%

Cognition

How we study the mind, and how memory and thinking work.

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Topics

  • Psychological perspectives
  • Research design and ethics
  • Memory systems
  • Thinking, bias, and language

Lessons

Original practice

Marlow Works questions. If this unit does not have its own items yet, you will see other questions from the same course.

1 of 1Cognition · easy · short answer

In one or two sentences, distinguish encoding from retrieval in memory.

Original Marlow Works item — not a College Board question.

Take your time—this is practice, not a test.

Review checklist

  1. 01Write an operational definition for a mental process.
  2. 02Explain encoding, storage, and retrieval with one forgetting example.
  3. 03Name a heuristic and the mistake it can produce.

Related resources

External links with reuse status. Marlow Works is independent and does not copy restricted exam or textbook material.

  • Official / link only

    AP Psychology course page

    Official five-unit framework and science practices.

    College Board · All rights reserved · accessed 2026-10-01

    Open source

  • Reference only — do not copy

    OpenStax Psychology 2e

    Useful psychology background, but current publisher terms restrict commercial reuse and AI ingestion.

    OpenStax · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 with additional restrictions · accessed 2026-10-01

    Link only. Do not republish or ingest this book.

    Open source