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Unit 4 · 15–25%

Social Psychology and Personality

How other people, and stable patterns, shape what we do.

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Topics

  • Attribution
  • Conformity and obedience
  • Group behavior
  • Personality theories

Lessons

Key terms

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 1Social Psychology and Personality · hard · free response

A researcher wants to know whether people are more likely to donate to a food drive when they see a peer donate first. Design an ethical experiment: identify the independent and dependent variables, one control, and one reason random assignment matters.

Original Marlow Works item — not a College Board question.

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

Review checklist

  1. 01Give an original example of the fundamental attribution error.
  2. 02Distinguish conformity from obedience.
  3. 03Explain one personality approach without reducing a person to a single trait.

Related resources

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    AP Psychology course page

    Official five-unit framework and science practices.

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

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  • 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.

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