How to Prepare for the GRE in Psychology

By Edward L. Palmer and Sharon Thompson-Schill

Book Overview

This revised and thoroughly updated edition reflects the latest GRE Psychology exams with six full-length model tests. Two of the tests are diagnostics especially designed to pinpoint the student's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764140140
• ISBN13: 9780764140143
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

This Book Helped Me Do Well on the GRE

You will need a good psych intro book for reference, but this guide outlines all the major areas covered by the GRE. It had great review material, helped me to know which names I'd need to know for the exam, and was a very valuable study aid overall. I got a 760 on the subject test (98 percentile) which I owe in large part to Barrons, and now I'm going to a top 20 program in clinical psychology.

Seriously useful, but this shouldn't be your only source

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the topic areas that ETS expects you to have down. Its major strength is the diagnostic tests which effectively focus your review on your weak points. If, like me, you're prone to skip the less interesting stuff, the test results broken down by topic area provide excellent motivation to pay a little more attention! However, I would not recommend this as a sole source for GRE studying. You'll need a decent intro psych textbook (obviously) and some official test questions. The questions in this book's tests are not in ETS format. However, I found GRE Psychology a useful adjunct to my GRE preparation.

Extremely helpful; don't take the test without studying this

A very comprehensive volume that covers everything you're apt to run into on the exam--theories, definitions, famous and obscure psychologists and their work, statistical questions...taking the exam without studying this book is a foolish move. I put the questions and answers on audiotape and listen to it in the car during my 50-mile commute to school.