Disclosed are a scanning method and a scanning apparatus. The scanning method for a station (STA) comprises the steps of: transmitting a probe request frame including a scanning priority for a plurality of access points (APs); and sequentially monitoring for the reception of a probe response frame, which is a response to the probe request frame, from at least one of the plurality of Aps for the plurality of APs on the basis of the scanning priority. Thus, scanning processes can be quickly performed.