This EPPP cheat sheet squeezes the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (Part 1) into a printable quick reference of the facts ASPPB tests most. It's a premium cheat sheet built by Capital Prep — the one premium prep we trust — and it's yours free. Reinforce it with the rest of your free EPPP toolkit: the practice test, study guide, and flashcards.
EPPP exam at a glance
- Questions: 225 multiple-choice items (175 scored + 50 unscored pretest)
- Time: 4 hours 15 minutes for the items (about 4.5 hours total appointment)
- Passing score: Scaled 500 (ASPPB recommended) on a 200-800 scale — roughly 70% of scored items
- Administered by: ASPPB at Pearson VUE test centers
- Cost: $600 per sitting plus a $91.88 test sitting fee (verify in the ASPPB Candidate Handbook)
What’s on the EPPP cheat sheet
- Assessment and Diagnosis (16%) — reliability vs. validity, major tests (WAIS, MMPI, Rorschach), the normal curve, and DSM-5-TR — tied for the largest domain.
- Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues (16%) — the APA Ethics Code, informed consent, confidentiality limits, and the Tarasoff duty to protect — the other largest domain.
- Treatment, Intervention, Prevention, and Supervision (15%) — therapy models and founders, evidence-based practice, medication classes, and supervision.
- Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior (13%) — classical vs. operant conditioning, reinforcement schedules, memory stages, and emotion theories.
- Growth and Lifespan Development (12%) — Piaget, Erikson, Kohlberg, Vygotsky, and Ainsworth's attachment styles.
- Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior (11%) — attribution error, cognitive dissonance, Asch/Milgram, and multicultural competence.
- Biological Bases of Behavior (10%) — neurotransmission, key neurotransmitters, and brain localization (Broca's and Wernicke's areas).
- Research Methods and Statistics (7%) — Type I vs. Type II error, statistical power, internal vs. external validity, and effect size.
How to use it in your final week
- Lead every review pass with the two 16% domains — Assessment and Diagnosis and Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues — since gaps there cost the most scaled points.
- Quiz yourself on the classic traps from the sheet: negative reinforcement is not punishment, a test can be reliable without being valid, and Type I is a false positive while Type II is a false negative.
- Drill the founder-to-model and theorist rows out loud (Rogers, Beck, Ellis, Wolpe; Piaget, Erikson, Kohlberg, Vygotsky) — these are free points on exam day.
- Read the sheet the morning of the test for a last pass on the scaled-500 target, the 4-hour-15-minute clock, and the memory hooks, then walk in.
The cheat sheet is your review layer — your EPPP practice test drives the exam-readiness ring at the top of this page. Download it, review, then take a full practice exam (or drill with the study guide and flashcards) to see where you stand.
EPPP cheat sheet FAQ
Yes — the EPPP cheat sheet downloads as a PDF with no sign-up and no payment. It sits alongside Career Employer's free EPPP practice test, study guide, and flashcards, so your whole review stack is free.
It condenses the highest-yield facts across all eight ASPPB content domains for Part 1 (Knowledge) — from neurotransmitters and conditioning to reliability versus validity, DSM-5-TR, therapy founders, Type I/II errors, and the APA Ethics Code — plus the exam's format, timing, and passing standard on one quick reference.
Scores are scaled from 200 to 800, and ASPPB recommends a passing scaled score of 500 for independent practice, which maps to roughly 70% of the 175 scored items correct. The cheat sheet keeps that 500 target and the heaviest domains front and center so you always know what to aim at.
No — it's a memory-anchor and final-week review layer, not a full curriculum. Use it to lock in facts fast, then prove readiness with full-length, domain-weighted practice tests before you book your date.
It's built from the current ASPPB content outline and Candidate Handbook for Part 1 (Knowledge). Fees and policies change, so confirm the live figures in the ASPPB Candidate Handbook before you register.
References
- 1.Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB). “Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP).” asppb.net, 2026. ↑
- 2.Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB). “EPPP Exam Topics (Part 1 content domains and weights).” asppb.net, 2026. ↑
- 3.Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB). “EPPP Candidate Handbook (January 2026).” asppb.net, 2026. ↑
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