The GRE Psychology subject test is a standardized test used in admission decisions by some graduate programs in psychology in several English-speaking countries, especially in the United States. This book contains high frequency questions designed to help students ace the actual exam.
GRE Psychology Subject Test Overview
Most editions of the test consist of approximately 205 multiple-choice questions. Each question in the test has five options from which the examinee is to select the one option that is the correct or best answer to the question.
Some of the stimulus materials, such as a description of an experiment or a graph, may serve as the basis for several questions.
The questions in the Psychology Test are drawn from the core of knowledge most commonly encountered in courses offered at the undergraduate level within the broadly defined field of psychology.
A question may require recalling factual information, analyzing relationships, applying principles, drawing conclusions from data and/or evaluating a research design.
The Psychology Test yields two subscores in addition to the total score. Although the test offers only two subscores, there are questions in three content categories:
-Experimental or natural science oriented (about 40 percent of the questions), including learning, language, memory, thinking, sensation and perception, and physiological psychology/behavioral neuroscience. They contribute to the experimental psychology subscore and the total score.
-Social or social science oriented (about 43 percent of the questions). These questions are distributed among the fields of clinical and abnormal psychology, lifespan development, personality and social psychology. They contribute to the social psychology subscore and the total score.
-General (about 17 percent of the questions), including the history of psychology, applied psychology, psychometrics, research design and statistics. They contribute to the total score only.
GRE Psychology Subject Test Overview
Most editions of the test consist of approximately 205 multiple-choice questions. Each question in the test has five options from which the examinee is to select the one option that is the correct or best answer to the question.
Some of the stimulus materials, such as a description of an experiment or a graph, may serve as the basis for several questions.
The questions in the Psychology Test are drawn from the core of knowledge most commonly encountered in courses offered at the undergraduate level within the broadly defined field of psychology.
A question may require recalling factual information, analyzing relationships, applying principles, drawing conclusions from data and/or evaluating a research design.
The Psychology Test yields two subscores in addition to the total score. Although the test offers only two subscores, there are questions in three content categories:
-Experimental or natural science oriented (about 40 percent of the questions), including learning, language, memory, thinking, sensation and perception, and physiological psychology/behavioral neuroscience. They contribute to the experimental psychology subscore and the total score.
-Social or social science oriented (about 43 percent of the questions). These questions are distributed among the fields of clinical and abnormal psychology, lifespan development, personality and social psychology. They contribute to the social psychology subscore and the total score.
-General (about 17 percent of the questions), including the history of psychology, applied psychology, psychometrics, research design and statistics. They contribute to the total score only.
