<p>Psychology AP is all vocab.
Learn it and relearn it, and relearn it.</p>
<p>for self-studiers:
just use the barrons. it legit covers NEARLY everything and the amount it doesnt cover isnt significant enough to refer to a textbook about. textbooks include so much pointless, albeit interesting, info. but know the barrons backwards and forwardsss. i made a study guide for each chapter which was rly helpful. if you start studying the week before…its really not a big deal and i felt i was able to easily cram all the info in my head in a week.</p>
<p>Psychology isn’t a joke to the point where you can read the prep book the day before the exam and get a 5. It does take a bit longer for things to be cemented into the mind. I do know that taking the class last year, pretty much napping / doing calculus homework during lecture, and reading the Barron’s got me a ridiculously easy 5. If I were self-studying and you gave me a Barron’s 10 days before the exam, I’d have an easy 5. But the day before? Be real. It takes more time than that to learn the material, even for a primarily vocab- and person-based exam like AP Psych.</p>
<p>@Keasbey I beg to differ. All I did was read Barrons on the saturday before the test and spent about 8 hours total between saturday and sunday studying and I am fairly certain I got a 5. There were definitely some MC questions I had no idea about(probably about 10-15) but I am confident I got AT LEAST 70 of all the MC questions right. For the free response, I think got 5/7 on the first one and I am sure I got 8/8 on the second one. That would put me at about a 110, in the 5 range. I never took a class or anything. And I started studying 2 days before the test. I will say that being in AP Stats class helped me immensely, especially with the FR.</p>
<p>Granted, I probably couldn’t sit down and focus on reading the same prep book for 8 hours. I’d have to switch between four different subjects, reading them 2 hours at a time, but I think your case just shows that prior knowledge does prove a lot. Knowing physics helped me on my chemistry exam, knowing biology will probably help me on environmental science and did help me on psychology last year, knowing art history will probably help on AP Euro, etc. I still think that it would be hard for most people, even the ridiculous CCers on this website, to really cram psych in a day or two from scratch. Props to you if you get your 5 though (:</p>
<p>when are the frqs released? midnight? or later in the day?</p>
<p>Haha ivybridge. I lol’d.</p>
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<p>Actually, wernicke=comprehension and angular gyrus=reading. :P</p>
<p>This thread should be dead the test is OVER!!!
:)</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>…? The title clearly states the intent of this thread.</p>
<p>I don’t want to offer any advice until I get my score back. Then I’ll be able to give tips on how to get a 5 or how not to get a 1. Hopefully, the former but probably the latter… :(</p>
<p>Any other advice?? My DD14’s summer assignment is to read PROUST WAS A NEUROSCIENTIST by Jonah Lehrer. Students have to select one chapter and write a 500-600 word essay explaining how it changed the view of themselves, the world or psychology. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any websites that they used in the past to help with AP psych? any books? flash cards? I am not sure of all the resources out there. Please list the ones that you found to be most helpful for you/your child.</p>
<p>Many thanks!!</p>
<p>My advice is to make your own flash cards for the class. There will be a lot of them, but if you get them done early, studying for the AP test itself is really easy and productive at the end of the year, especially when you take more than one AP test. Memorization of the vocabulary is very important, but you also must know how to apply the vocabulary to a real life example for the FRQs. Note cards that were hand made were the only reason I got a 5 on the AP Psychology test this year.</p>
<p>OK thanks… she is only taking one AP, as she is a rising sophomore and her school frowns upon those below 11th grade taking AP classes… all of her other classes are honors… again, thank you!</p>
<p>AP Psychology is not a very hard AP, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t take a lot of effort to do well. </p>
<p>In reality, you not only have to learn the vocabulary, but you have to understand the bigger concepts. Definitely get Barrons review, and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I’m self-studying this. </p>
<p>What are some good prep books that you guys used (ppl who got 4-5)</p>
<p>I would buy Barrons and the accompanying flashcards.</p>
<p>Barron’s is all you need. I read it a couple of times in 3 days. Got a 5</p>
<p>do the flashcards really help?</p>
<p>I self-studied this and got a 5. Most of the work was done in a few days; I read all of Barron’s and used [these</a> flash cards](<a href=“http://quizlet.com/812761/ap-psychology-exam-review-flash-cards/]these”>http://quizlet.com/812761/ap-psychology-exam-review-flash-cards/). If you’re in a time crunch, these flash cards are really useful (though there are a bunch of duplicate entries in it) and cover most of what you’re going to encounter on the test. (I finished the multiple choice section before almost everyone who took the class at my school after finishing this set the night before, so…)</p>
<p>Just make sure you don’t space your studying out too much in case you forget stuff.</p>