<p>Does anyone know where any practice tests/released exams can be accessed? I've heard this exam is pretty easy, but I still want to be prepared. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m personally scaerd for psych.</p>
<p>Well, then, let’s start a discussion. 
What do you have questions on, I can probably help you out.</p>
<p>How do you go about memorizing all the effing vocab? I’m getting like around 65-70 questions on multiple choice but like apparently that’s not good enough for a 5 unless i get 13/16 FRQ.</p>
<p>For a lot of the vocab, I use mneumonic devices. For instance, PROactive interference with memory: PROkaryotes were the first cells, came before eukaryotes, they are older, therefore, PROactive interference has to do with the failure to encode new information because of old information. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what book you use, but if you go to google and type in “Myers 7th edition psychology”, it has e-notecards for most of the vocabulary you need. Barrons is great as well, I took a real released exam and basically everything on it was in Barron’s. If there’s specific vocab you need help with, let me know, I can let you know how I remember it… i’m so wierd hahah .</p>
<p>How do I remember all the stages of development (in that barron’s chapter with Ainsworth, Erikson, Piaget, Freud,etc)</p>
<p>Wait…so are all of you, like me, take one day off to study?
For me, I am studying ES, now…Ughh, learning about mining methods…</p>
<p>No, but I have a free. For mining methods, isn’t there tunnel mining and then open pit mining (strip mining?) what else is there? they also use cyanide to get the gold right… but that can cause leaching.</p>
<p>Okay… </p>
<p>Ainsworth was a woman, women love babies, and they don’t want to leave them, therefore she did attachment studies with infants.</p>
<p>Freud, honestly, just remember he was all about sex. The psychosexual stages basically had to do all with sexual desires. Remember OAPG, Oliver And Patrick Guessed, for Oral, Anal, Phallic, and Genital. </p>
<p>Erikson is tough to remember… the only thing I’m going to do for that one is read over it a few times. </p>
<p>Piaget = Cognitive. PC, personal computer. (I remember things in such strange ways).
Sensorimotor: babies can’t really do anything, they’re just SENSing the world. They have a motormouth because they cry a lot when they are first born.
Preoperational: Has to do with Object Permanance (Preop and Premanance PP), the kids want to be OPERATIONAL by themselves, but the parents want to still keep them little, therefore they are PREoperations.
Concrete Operational: Think of someone drawing with chalk on the CONCRETE. they are drawing pictures of the logical and complex ideas that they can now think, and they understand why two small pieces of chalk is the same as one big piece of chalk (kind of the conservation principle).
Formal Operational: The oldest, when you get married, it’s very Formal. Has to do with hypothesis testing, you form hypothesis in science class, when you are older. </p>
<p>I hope that helps, I know I explain things really wierd. </p>
<p>This link is good too.
[AP</a> PSYCHOLOGY EXAM REVIEW](<a href=“http://wchs.woodfordschools.org/apreview/default.htm#histor-and-methods]AP”>http://wchs.woodfordschools.org/apreview/default.htm#histor-and-methods)</p>
<p>I took bio this morning, then came home to study for psych. :D</p>
<p>How do you remember the parts of the brain?</p>
<p>I don’t remember any cyanide thing except when it is in-sita mining to remove copper. They insert a “weak acid” - book didn’t specify which one…
I remember the open-pit, and for tunneling, I guess that is the traditional kind.
I have 5 Steps to a 5…it is awfully detailed.
Forgive me for being off-topic.</p>
<p>EDIT: Now, I remember about the cyanide thing to remove gold! I really need to concentrate and study. Heap leaching…Ughh, the dooming of APs</p>
<p>For parts of the brain? ummm, I don’t know I just “remember” But having the diagram of the brain into your head really helps me. Well bye guys, I have to get back to studying.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, thanks hellohellicopter for the link!</p>
<p>Smartypants guide to APES is amazing btw. kinda late now but hey!</p>
<p>Hey to you too mchammer312.</p>
<p>Remember P.O.R.N. = Proactive Old info gets in the way, Retroactive New information gets in the way</p>
<p>Hahah I like that one, trav23! </p>
<p>Gah parts of the brain are HARD to remember. </p>
<p>Hindbrain: if the hindbrain “falls beHIND”, then bad things will hapen because it is our life support system.</p>
<p>Medulla: Sounds kinds of like Medusa. If you thought you might see Medusa and turn to stone, your heard rate, blood pressure, and breathing would increase, which is what the Medulla regulates.</p>
<p>Pons: Control facial expressions, and connects hindbrain with midbrain and forebrain. There is some soap called Ponds, and you can wash your face with soap.</p>
<p>Cerbellum: Habitual muscle movements, balance. Bella,-um in Latin means war, war offsets the balance of power. Also, if you know anything about Twilight, the main character Bella, has no balance, she is clumsy. Heh.</p>
<p>Midbrain: Small in humans, but still important. You want your midsection (Stomach) to be small, but without it, you wouldn’t be alive. It has the reticular formation, which control general body arousal and the ability to focus attention. If your midsection is too small, and you’re hungry, then you won’t be able to focus. </p>
<p>Forebrain: Think beFORE you speak. “Areas of the forebrain control what we think of as thought and reason.” Our ability to think beFORE we speak is one of the things that makes us human.</p>
<p>Thalamus: It’s the Sensory Switchboard. S.S. Thalamus, it’s a boat! (that one’s a little far fetched)</p>
<p>Hypothalamus: It controls several metabolic functions… if it fails to function, and goes BELOW (HYPO) normal functioning, then metabolic functions will not occur correctly. Also controls biological rythyms. Think “tha” “la” “ma” sounds like a rythym.</p>
<p>Amygdala: Has to do with emotion, think of a girl names Amy who is emotional.</p>
<p>Hippocampus: Memory, on a college CAMPUS, you might forget some stuff from too much partying. You learn stuff on campus, then apply it to the real world later, memories are sent to other locations. </p>
<p>Hope that helps, a litte.</p>
<p>Wow, those are really good mnemonics.
I never really use mnemonics to study before so maybe I will try now. I heard of the PORN and the thalamus ones though.</p>
<p>for hippocampus, i just think of the site hippocampus.org :D</p>
<p>I think about Big Man on Hippocampus, a family guy episode where Peter loses his memory.</p>