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GRE Psychology
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
I · Biological psychology
- Distinguish sensation, perception and psychophysics
- Relate neural communication and brain systems to behaviour
- Explain physiological bases of sleep, motivation and emotion
- sensation
- Reception of sensory stimulation
- response criterion
- The threshold for reporting that a signal is present
II · Cognition, language and learning
- Distinguish classical and operant conditioning
- Analyse memory systems, retrieval and forgetting
- Use language units and theories of thinking and problem solving
- negative reinforcement
- Removing an aversive condition to increase behaviour
- morpheme
- A smallest meaningful language unit
III · Social psychology
- Analyse attribution, attitudes and social influence
- Distinguish conformity, obedience and group processes
- Evaluate interpersonal and intergroup evidence
- attribution
- An explanation for behaviour
- conformity
- Changing behaviour or judgement in relation to a group
IV · Developmental psychology
- Compare developmental theories and lifespan changes
- Analyse cognitive, language and social development
- Distinguish longitudinal and cross-sectional evidence
- cohort
- People sharing a birth period or historical experience
- attrition
- Loss of participants during a study
V · Personality, clinical and abnormal psychology
- Compare personality theories and assessment methods
- Recognise major disorder categories and treatment models
- Evaluate diagnosis, therapy outcomes and contextual limitations
- trait
- A relatively stable dimension of individual differences
- differential diagnosis
- Comparing possible explanations for a clinical presentation
VI · Measurement, methods, statistics and history
- Distinguish reliability, validity and operational definitions
- Analyse experiments, sampling, ethics and statistical inference
- Recognise foundational schools and their explanatory commitments
- reliability
- Consistency of measurement
- validity
- Evidence for an intended measurement interpretation
VII · Historical perspectives and psychometric interpretation
- Distinguish major psychological perspectives
- Interpret test reliability and validity
- Use standardisation and base-rate reasoning
- reliability
- Consistency of measurement under specified conditions
- validity
- Evidence supporting a particular interpretation and use of scores
Preparing for this qualification
- Approximately 144 multiple-choice items in 120 minutes. Biological, cognitive, social, developmental, clinical, and measurement/methodology/other content. Academic clinical concepts do not replace professional diagnosis.
Teaching coverage still needed
- Historical perspectives and psychometric interpretation now have a dedicated unit. Detailed theorist, disorder-classification and instrument-specific coverage remains; the domain lessons are not a complete undergraduate textbook.
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Course preparation
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course.
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