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A psychology teacher exam guide for the ETS selected-response format, APA-guided high school psychology scope, research methods, biopsychology, development, cognition, social psychology, disorders, and treatment.
Praxis 5391 preparation should cover psychology as both a science and a teaching subject: research design, ethics, assessment, brain and behavior, development, learning, memory, social behavior, personality, stress, disorders, and treatment.
Use these official structure points to organize Psychology study.
ETS lists Praxis 5391 as a selected-response exam.
The exam is 2 hours long.
The current ETS study companion lists 120 questions.
Personality, Social Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, and Stress is the largest category at 28 questions, or 23%.
Methods, approaches, ethics, and assessment account for 17% of the exam. Candidates should review research design, variables, sampling, statistics, ethics, assessment reliability, validity, norms, and historical approaches.
Biopsychology, sensation, perception, consciousness, learning, memory, and cognition together make up nearly one-third of the exam. Practice neurons, brain structures, sensory systems, sleep, conditioning, memory models, and problem solving.
The largest category includes personality, social psychology, motivation, emotion, and stress, while disorders and treatment adds another 16%. Study major theories, group behavior, attitudes, stress responses, diagnosis, and therapy approaches.
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Praxis Psychology 5391 measures whether entry-level psychology educators have standards-relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities for competent professional practice. ETS lists a 2-hour computer-delivered exam with 120 selected-response questions. ETS states that development of the test was guided by the National Standards for High School Curricula from the Teaching of Psychology in Secondary Schools, an affiliate of the American Psychological Association.
The current study companion divides the exam into six categories: Methods, Approaches, Ethics, and Assessment at 20 questions, or 17%; Biopsychology, Sensation and Perception, and States of Consciousness at 19 questions, or 16%; Life Span Development and Individual Differences at 15 questions, or 12%; Learning, Memory, and Cognition at 19 questions, or 16%; Personality, Social Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, and Stress at 28 questions, or 23%; and Psychological Disorders and Treatment at 19 questions, or 16%. Preparation should balance research methods, statistics, ethics, biological bases, development, cognition, social behavior, personality, stress, diagnosis, and treatment.
ETS lists the exam as 2 hours.
The current ETS study companion lists 120 selected-response questions.
ETS states that development was guided by the National Standards for High School Curricula from the Teaching of Psychology in Secondary Schools, an affiliate of the American Psychological Association.
Personality, Social Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, and Stress is the largest area at 28 questions, or 23%.
Yes. Methods, Approaches, Ethics, and Assessment is one of the six official categories and accounts for 20 questions, or 17%.
Track methods and assessment, biopsychology, development, learning and cognition, social/personality/stress, and disorders and treatment separately.
Practice variables, operational definitions, correlation, experiments, sampling, ethics, mean, median, mode, standard deviation, reliability, validity, and bias.
Organize major figures such as Freud, Piaget, Erikson, Bandura, Maslow, Skinner, Pavlov, Watson, Wundt, James, Ainsworth, and Loftus by their tested concepts.
Practice 120 selected-response questions in one sitting to build pacing across broad psychology content.
Use the guide to self-serve, or talk to a coordinator if you need help mapping timelines, official requirements, or troubleshooting day-of logistics.
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