This test preparation book includes six full-length exams with detailed explanations based on official exams released by the administrator of the GRE in Psychology. Knowledge of experimental, social, and general psychology is tested. Includes a glossary of psychological terms. For psychology students bound for graduate school.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book gives you the tools to effectively prepare for the GRE Psychology Test. Included are six full-scale practice tests based on the most recent editions of the actual exam. Each of our tests is the official 2 hours and 50 minutes in length and features every type of question you can expect to encounter on the GRE Psychology Test. By completing all six tests and studying the explanations that follow, you can discover your strengths and weaknesses and thereby put yourself in a position to master the GRE Psychology Test.
ABOUT THE TEST
The Graduate Record Examination in Psychology is given three
times a year by Educational Testing Service under policies set by the Graduate Record Examinations Board, an independent board affiliated with the Association of Graduate Schools and the Council of Graduate Schools. Graduate school applicants submit GRE test results together with their undergraduate records as part of a highly competitive admissions.
The questions for the test are written by a committee of specialists who are selected from various undergraduate and graduate faculties. The test consists of approximately 215 multiple-choice questions that are designed to measure a student's knowledge and understanding of principles, theories, and concepts in the broad field of psychology. The questions are taken from the courses of study most commonly offered in an undergraduate psychology curriculum.
The test is divided into three content areas. Social or social science-oriented (about 43% of the test) questions are concerned with developmental, personality, abnormal, clinical, and social psychology. Experimental or natural science-oriented (about 40% of the test) questions are concerned with sensation, physiology, learning, cognition, and perception. General (about 17% of the test) questions draw on your knowledge of historical applied psychology as well as measurement, statistics, and research designs.
There are three separate scores:
- A total score based on all questions.
- A subscore for social psychology questions only.
- A subscore for experimental psychology questions only.
The questions from which the subscores are calculated are not labeled separately and are distributed throughout the entire test.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This book gives you the tools to effectively prepare for the GRE Psychology Test. Included are six full-scale practice tests based on the most recent editions of the actual exam. Each of our tests is the official 2 hours and 50 minutes in length and features every type of question you can expect to encounter on the GRE Psychology Test. By completing all six tests and studying the explanations that follow, you can discover your strengths and weaknesses and thereby put yourself in a position to master the GRE Psychology Test.
ABOUT THE TEST
The Graduate Record Examination in Psychology is given three
times a year by Educational Testing Service under policies set by the Graduate Record Examinations Board, an independent board affiliated with the Association of Graduate Schools and the Council of Graduate Schools. Graduate school applicants submit GRE test results together with their undergraduate records as part of a highly competitive admissions.
The questions for the test are written by a committee of specialists who are selected from various undergraduate and graduate faculties. The test consists of approximately 215 multiple-choice questions that are designed to measure a student's knowledge and understanding of principles, theories, and concepts in the broad field of psychology. The questions are taken from the courses of study most commonly offered in an undergraduate psychology curriculum.
The test is divided into three content areas. Social or social science-oriented (about 43% of the test) questions are concerned with developmental, personality, abnormal, clinical, and social psychology. Experimental or natural science-oriented (about 40% of the test) questions are concerned with sensation, physiology, learning, cognition, and perception. General (about 17% of the test) questions draw on your knowledge of historical applied psychology as well as measurement, statistics, and research designs.
There are three separate scores:
- A total score based on all questions.
- A subscore for social psychology questions only.
- A subscore for experimental psychology questions only.
The questions from which the subscores are calculated are not labeled separately and are distributed throughout the entire test.
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The Best Test Preparation for the GRE Psychology Test,
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This review is from: GRE Psychology (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the GRE (GRE Test Preparation) (Paperback)
After taking the GRE, I realize that this book did not help me in my preparations. All it managed to do was upset me into thinking I was going to do terrible on the exam. The questions were 10x harder than the exam itself. Also, to my chagrine, the book did not have any review outlines in it - an essential part of test preparation.
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THUMBS DOWN!,
By Shelley (Winnipeg, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: GRE Psychology (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the GRE (GRE Test Preparation) (Paperback)
All that this book contains are practice tests, which although helpful, are not sufficient review material. There is no review section, and answers to questions are not well explained, despite what the author's might think. The answers only discuss the correct answer, and do define the other terms or indicate why they are wrong. As well, the test questions are not broken down into subtests, even for scoring purposes, so they are of little diagnostic help.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Not the best preparation,
By A Customer
This review is from: GRE Psychology (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the GRE (GRE Test Preparation) (Paperback)
First of all, do not use this book as your only means of studying--it only contains practice tests with brief answer explanations. I would recommend the "Cracking the GRE Psycholgy" by Princton Review in addition to reviewing your old text books. Second, after taking the actual GRE psychology test, I realized that the tests in "The Best Test Preparation for the GRE Psychology Test" are not very representative of the actual thing. The tests in this book contain a lot of "none of the above, all of the above, only A and B, only C and D" type questions. There were none of these on the actual test. These questions made it more difficult to practice process of elimination techniques and made the questions more difficult to make educated guesses on (which you will be doing a lot of on the actual exam). Perhaps this book would be helpful in learning to pace yourself and building up stamina for such a lengthy test, but I would recommend getting practice tests from ETS rather than a company who "bases test questions off of ETS questions."
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