GRE Subject Test: Psychology

Best book for preparing IGC NET and GRE. Concepts are given clear and precise... very useful for studying the concepts of psychology

There are a lot of things to like about this book:-It's very clear-It has little review quizzes at the end of each Chapter to test your knowledge-It's updated for the DSM-V (unlike the Princeton Review book)-It covers the vast majority of the material on the examThere is one minor limitation: Occasionally a concept will not be discussed in its entirety, or there may be minor inaccuracies. I always say that these review books are better thought of as detailed study guides rather than primary sources of information. As other reviewers have said, there's no substitute for class notes.For best results, I suggest using this book in conjunction with another (I used the Princeton Review book, although I think there might be better options available) and your class notes. I also used the Brainscape GRE Psychology flashcard app, which is great, because it comes pre-loaded with a bunch of important concepts and definitions (saves a lot of time). However the app is not exhaustive in terms of content, and often suffers from inaccuracies or just plain wrong definitions, so be vigilant and create additional decks with your own cards for missing or improperly defined terms.I really like this book. Aside from my own notes it was the most helpful aspect of my review. It's not perfect, but nothing ever is.

Das Buch hat mir bei den Master Eignungstests in Deutschland leider nicht viel weiter geholfen, da der Stoff hier dann doch wesentlich umfangreicher und detaillierter gelehrt wird im Bachelor. Aber dennoch eine ganz nette Zusammenfassung.

I'm giving this book 5 stars because it accomplished its intended purpose - I studied pretty much exclusively out of this book, 3 years removed from my psychology classes, and scored in the 95th percentile on the test. Particularly helpful to me was the social psychology section - I never took a social psych course in undergrad, so the material was pretty much all new to me and using just this book I scored very well on the social psych portion of the test. I don't think this strategy would work for someone who had no background in psychology, but as a review it worked well. Names of individual researchers are for some reason super important on the psychology GRE, so the page at the end of each chapter listing key figures made for a good resource to make flash cards out of.However, I found the book itself to contain a lot of errors, both typographical and substantive, that made the study process rather annoying. The information is intended to be review, so it's understandable that the authors don't go into great detail for most concepts. But many ideas were summarized so poorly that I couldn't understand what even the basic features of them were - stating the name of a theory without any further information about it, for example, so I used the book as jumping off point to do better research online (Wikipedia came in very handy in these spots). A few explanations were flat out wrong, which is frustrating as you then have to teach yourself incorrect information just to score better on the test. The list of key figures at the end of each chapter sometimes contained names that don't appear anywhere in the chapter, which happened infrequently enough for me to suspect that these were errors. I know this is a new version of the book, but I sure hope they hire a good copy editor for the next edition.That being said, if your goal is just to score high on the test, going through this book, taking notes on it, and supplementing any unclear areas with Wikipedia will do fine. Don't do it all in two weeks - I spread my studying out over a few months - but you won't need much more than your basic psych education and this book to score well. I will say that in my opinion the practice questions in the book are unfortunately a good bit easier than the actual test questions, so I wouldn't use them exclusively. Therefore you may want to take the practice test provided by ETS online for a better benchmark of your performance.

GREAT PRACTICE BOOK