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| Only an extra...This book has answers that are arguably accurate. Concepts such as belle indifference are not covered in Kaplan's review. Insofar as the diagnostic test: Mental disorders that are short in duration are episodic, not acute (which means severe). There was another but I can't remember it. I believe another reviewer simply read the Beta Error question incorrectly.
All in all, this is a good book to support catholic knowledge of psychology and psychological history, but should be viewed as an accompanying component, not a primary tool. On the diagnostic you will assuredly miss many questions. Live and learn. I skipped the practice tests as I ran out of time when combined with my other study, and the the ACRO questions do not accurately match the question composition style of ETS. They are good practice, but they're a little off from the real deal.
Excellent, if used with other resourcesThis book has a ridiculously long diagnostic test, almost 390 questions, but it does really help you to narrow your focus to study your weakest areas. I think the section on research methods is more thorough than Princeton Review, and that using these two books together to study would be a good idea.
The best, but there are moreMan... I have to rewrite this review cause I think that I wrote stuff on my last review that went against the Amazon.com guidelines. That was a REAL LONG review as well. Shoot.Anyway, this is the best for GRE Psych. Why? Because...
1) Unlike others, this review book is DETAILED (unlike Princeton Review's).
2) The detailed info that it contains is also RELEVANT INFO (unlike Barron's, which u should stay as far away from as u can).
3) Although not so reflective of the real tests, it contains A LOT of practice tests... I think 5 of them (including diagnostic). This is a big plus, cause taking practice tests is one of the best ways to actively review (ppl usu. don't daydream while taking tests, but do when studying, thus missing out a lot of info).
4) The tests' answers are explained
5) It highlights the important terms (although it highlights too many unimportant names as well) And there's probably more, but this should be enough. All in all, buy this book, review with it, and if you have time, buy Princeton Review and REA's, but only after thoroughly going over this one, which means redoing your wrong answers until u get them correct. Oh, and by the way, u all should know, but... GET AS MANY REAL OFFICIAL ETS GRE TESTS YOU CAN This book (about a month's worth of studying...INTENSE studying) earned me a 95 percentile on the GRE Psychology, and I didn't take a single Psychology class.
No comparisonThere's no comparison next to other books. This book is THE BEST test prep for psych. It covers more of the field and is more up-to-date. I was a little hesitant because I had read some of the reviews here on this website. But I found the other reviews mostly unrealistic. So what if the test questions don't cover exactly the same material as the review chapters! Psych is a big field and no one book can cover the entire subject. Of course the test questions covered new stuff. They're supposed to! I highly recommend this book.
Excellent!My undergraduate classes did not prepare me at all for studying for the Psych GRE. So I memorized this book and referred to the Princeton Review Book (Meg Jay) and scored a 770. The book provides detailed information on every topic (though the clinical section is a little Freudian...) and makes even difficult topics easy to understand. The actual test was very different from all the practice tests I took (this book, Princeton Review and REA) but I felt like I was able to make educated inferences based on what I'd learnt here. Definitely a good buy!
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