GRE Psychology (GRE Test Preparation) - Softcover

Kellogg, R.; Pisacreta, R.; The Editors Of REA

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878915990 ISBN 13: 9780878915996

Publisher: Research & Education Association, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Research & Education Association
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0878915990
• ISBN 13: 9780878915996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592