GRE ® Psychology Test Practice Book This practice book contains ◾ one actual, full-length GRE® Psychology Test ◾ test-taking strategies Become familiar with ◾ test structure and content ◾ test instructions and answering procedures Compare your practice test results with the performance of those who took the test at a GRE administration. www.ets.org/gre Table of Contents Overview ...............................................................................................................3 Test Content .........................................................................................................3 Preparing for the Test ...........................................................................................4 Test-Taking Strategies ..........................................................................................5 What Your Scores Mean .......................................................................................5 Taking the Practice Test .......................................................................................5 Scoring the Practice Test ......................................................................................6 Evaluating Your Performance ...............................................................................6 Practice Test ..........................................................................................................7 Worksheet for Scoring the Practice Test ............................................................43 Score Conversion Table .....................................................................................45 Answer Sheet ......................................................................................................46 Test takers with disabilities or health-related needs who need test preparation materials in an alternate format should contact the ETS Office of Disability Services [email protected] . For additional information, visit www.ets.org/gre/disabilities. Copyright © 2017 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. ETS, the ETS logo, MEASURING THE POWER OF LEARNING, GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS, and GRE are registered trademarks of Educational Testing Service (ETS) in the United States and other countries. 007630-78581 GRE Psychology Test Practise Book • Dr01 050409 ljg • reprint for service contract change 050609 ljg • edits dr01 051109 ljg • edits dr01 051209 ljg • dr02 5/26/09 mc • D3 5/29/09 mh • [NEW 104028] • CS6 • Dr01 4/24/14 jw • Dr01edits 4/28/14 jw • 114893-007630 • Drft01 7/8/16 jdb • Drft02 7/21/16 jdb • [New] 120764-007630 • Drft01 5/15/17 hr • Overview 2. Attention 3. Perceptual Organization The GRE® Psychology Test consists of approximately 205 multiple-choice questions. Some of the stimulus 4. Vision materials, such as a description of an experiment or 5. Audition a graph, may serve as the basis for several questions. 6. Gustation Testing time is 2 hours and 50 minutes; there are no separately-timed sections. 7. Olfaction This publication provides a comprehensive 8. Somatosenses overview of the GRE Psychology Test to help you get 9. Vestibular and Kinesthetic Senses ready for test day. It is designed to help you: 10. Theories, Applications and Issues • Understand what is being tested B. Physiological/Behavioral Neuroscience • Gain familiarity with the question types (12-14%) • Review test-taking strategies 1. Neurons • Understand scoring 2. Sensory Structures and Processes • Practice taking the test 3. Motor Structures and Functions To learn more about the GRE Subject Tests, visit 4. Central Structures and Processes www.ets.org/gre. 5. Motivation, Arousal, Emotion Test Content 6. Cognitive Neuroscience 7. Neuromodulators and Drugs The questions in the Psychology Test are drawn from the core of knowledge most commonly encountered 8. Hormonal Factors in courses offered at the undergraduate level within 9. Comparative and Ethology the broadly defined field of psychology. A question 10. States of Consciousness may require recalling factual information, analyzing relationships, applying principles, drawing conclusions 11. Theories, Applications and Issues from data, and/or evaluating a research design. II. Cognitive (17-24%) The Psychology Test administered beginning in September 2017 yields six subscores in addition to the A. Learning (3-5%) total score: 1. Classical Conditioning 2. Instrumental Conditioning • Biological • Cognitive 3. Observational Learning, Modeling • Social 4. Theories, Applications and Issues • Developmental B. Language (3-4%) • Clinical 1. Units (phonemes, morphemes, phrases) • Measurement, Methodology and Other 2. Syntax The questions on which subscores are based are 3. Meaning distributed throughout the test; they are not set aside and labeled separately, although several questions 4. Speech Perception and Processing from a single content area may appear consecutively. 5. Reading Processes There are questions in six major content 6. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication categories: 7. Bilingualism I. Biological (17-21%) 8. Theories, Applications and Issues A. Sensation and Perception (5-7%) 1. Psychophysics, Signal Detection GRE ® Psychology Test Practice Book 3 Page 007630-78581 GRE Psychology Test Practise Book • Dr01 050409 ljg • reprint for service contract change 050609 ljg • edits dr01 051109 ljg • edits dr01 051209 ljg • dr02 5/26/09 mc • D3 5/29/09 mh • [NEW 104028] • CS6 • Dr01 4/24/14 jw • Dr01edits 4/28/14 jw • 114893-007630 • Drft01 7/8/16 jdb • Drft02 7/21/16 jdb • [New] 120764-007630 • Drft01 5/15/17 hr • Draft02 5/24/17 hr • C. Memory (7-9%) V. Clinical (15-19%) 1. Working Memory A. Personality (3-5%) 2. Long-term Memory 1. Theories 3. Types of Memory 2. Structure 4. Memory Systems and Processes 3. Assessment 5. Theories, Applications and Issues 4. Personality and Behavior D. Thinking (4-6%) 5. Applications and Issues 1. Representation (Categorization, Imagery, B. Clinical and Abnormal (12-14%) Schemas, Scripts) 1. Stress, Conflict, Coping 2. Problem Solving 2. Diagnostic Systems 3. Judgment and Decision-Making 3. Assessment Processes 4. Causes and Development of Disorders 4. Planning, Metacognition 5. Neurophysiological Factors 5. Intelligence 6. Treatment of Disorders 6. Theories, Applications and Issues 7. Epidemiology III. Social (12-14%) 8. Prevention A. Social Perception, Cognition, Attribution, Beliefs 9. Health Psychology B. Attitudes, and Behavior 10. Cultural or Gender Issues C. Social Comparison, Self 11. Theories, Applications and Issues D. Emotion, Affect, and Motivation VI. Measurement, Methodology and Other (15-19%) E. Conformity, Influence, and Persuasion A. General (4-6%) F. Interpersonal Attraction and Close Relationships 1. History G. Group and Intergroup Processes 2. Industrial-Organizational H. Cultural or Gender Influences 3. Educational I. Evolutionary Psychology, Altruism and B. Measurement and Methodology (11-13%) Aggression 1. Psychometrics, Test Construction, J. Theories, Applications and Issues Reliability, Validity IV. Developmental (12-14%) 2. Research Designs A. Nature-Nurture 3. Statistical Procedures B. Physical and Motor 4. Scientific Method and the Evaluation of Evidence C. Perception and Cognition 5. Ethics and Legal Issues D. Language 6. Analysis and Interpretation of Findings E. Learning, Intelligence F. Social, Personality Preparing for the Test G. Emotion GRE Subject Test questions are designed to measure H. Socialization, Family and Cultural skills and knowledge gained over a long period of I. Theories, Applications and Issues time. Although you might increase your scores to some extent through preparation a few weeks or 4 Page GRE ® Psychology Test Practice Book 007630-78581 GRE Psychology Test Practise Book • Dr01 050409 ljg • reprint for service contract change 050609 ljg • edits dr01 051109 ljg • edits dr01 051209 ljg • dr02 5/26/09 mc • D3 5/29/09 mh • [NEW 104028] • CS6 • Dr01 4/24/14 jw • Dr01edits 4/28/14 jw • 114893-007630 • Drft01 7/8/16 jdb • Drft02 7/21/16 jdb • [New] 120764-007630 • Drft01 5/15/17 hr • Draft02 5/24/17 hr • months before you take the test, last minute cramming • Record all answers on your answer sheet. is unlikely to be of further help. The following Answers recorded in your test book will not be information may be helpful. counted. • A general review of your college courses is • Do not wait until the last few minutes of probably the best preparation for the test. a testing session to record answers on your However, the test covers a broad range of answer sheet. subject matter, and no one is expected to be familiar with the content of every question. What Your Scores Mean • Become familiar with the types of questions in the GRE Psychology Test, paying special The number of questions you answered correctly on attention to the directions. If you thoroughly the whole test (total correct score) is converted to the understand the directions before you take the total reported scaled score. test, you will have more time during the test The number of questions you answered correctly to focus on the questions themselves. that belong to a particular content area (content correct score) and the number of questions you answered correctly on the whole test (total correct Test-Taking Strategies score) both contribute to each particular subscore. The questions in the practice test illustrate the types In most cases, questions that belong to a particular of multiple-choice questions in the test. When you content area also require some ability in other content take the actual test, you will mark your answers