Psych resources 2009

[Nick]

It's almost time to purchase your books for next year and I thought it would be a good idea to post some resources that I found handy for psych in 2007.

 All these were extremely valuable and I think it would be an advantage to get your hands on one or more of these resources.

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Psychology for the VCE student- by John Grivas/Linda Carter/Ross Down This would be the best text book by far. It can be wordy at times, but it states everything well and goes into sufficient detail in a fairly simplistic manner.

Psych NOTES Unit 3/ Psych NOTES Unit 4 2nd Ed.- Milesi/Vainer
These paperback books summarise the course content well, although they should not replace the text. It also contains good practice questions for exam preparation.

Psychology Checkpoints- Max Jory. This is an excellent buy. Includes past exam questions (short answer and multiple choice).

Psychology Study packs (Unit 3/4)- published by Jacaranda
These are good summary cards which are useful for short revision sessions leading up to the exam. They outline the basics, but are still useful at times.

NEAP Practice exam publication- this contains about 6 practice exams which NEAP have published into a paperback addition. It can be purchased from the NEAP website.

Psychology revise-in-a-month paperbackThis resource didn't really appeal to me but some of my class mates found it to be of good assistance.

Hope this helps  :wink:

[Eriny]

I found NEAP Smart Study Practise questions to be quite comprehensive and challenging (which is what you want, really) and of course, practise exams especially VCAA ones are a must.

[Nick]

I found NEAP Smart Study Practise questions to be quite comprehensive and challenging (which is what you want, really) and of course, practise exams especially VCAA ones are a must.

Was that a greenish book, Eriny?

[Eriny]

I think it was orange or red. I can't really remember, I borrowed it from the library.

[Odette]

I have a few powerpoint presentations that carla (justcarla on bos) sent to me, for unit 3 they were quite useful =) and i came across one for unit 4, if anyone wants them just let me know and ill post them =) or send them to you directly

[costargh]

Yes please
Im new to Pysch so I need all the help I can get lol

[Odette]

Ok here are the powerpoint presentations ... Hope they are useful =)
Unit 3:
http://rapidshare.com/files/75568291/Brain_and_Nervous_System.ppt.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/75567266/Visual_Perception.ppt.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/75568292/States_of_Consciousness.ppt.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/75568294/Sleep.ppt.html (just an extra one)
Unit 4:
http://rapidshare.com/files/75567264/VCE_Psychology_Unit_4_Exam_Revision_2007.ppt.html

[Eriny]

And podcards: http://www.podcards.com.au/
The site isn't working right now, but you can download flashcards for each ares of study and they're perfect to view on your phone/ipod or to print out and use as real flashcards.

[Eriny]

I was looking through my bookmarks, and found some Psych sites I found to be really useful

YouTube video on neuropsychology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eZTAAIt3QU

Visual Fields: http://www.e-advisor.us/visual_fields.php

Sleep Disorders: http://www.neurologychannel.com/sleepdisorders/

Memory Test: http://www.plasform.com.au/worksheets/00_memory.html

Learning - Classical Or Respondent Conditioning, Operant Or Instrumental Conditioning, Relationship Of Learning To School Performance - Observational Learning: http://social.jrank.org/pages/368/Learning.html

Videos of most of the experiments in 'Learning' can be found on YouTube (yes, YouTube is an educational tool)

APA's ethical guidelines in psychological research: http://www.apa.org/ethics/code2002.html

Online Psychology Dictionary: http://allpsych.com/dictionary/

Hope it helps

[Nick]

The one about visual fields is particularly good- nice one Eriny. I remember using that for revision of visual perception as it was often a pretty complex topic to get your head around. 

[Eriny]

I can't believe I forgot to post the Study Design. That is one very very important resource:
http://vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/psychology/psychoindex.html

[Galelleo]

I /heart the leading edge

[cathtacular]

my boyfriend (timtasticle) who did psych last year gave me these psych podcrammers there from pearson interactive and you can get them off the net i thought they were great when i was reading through chapters for my holiday homework to make sure i understood it all.

[sisqo1111]

my boyfriend (timtasticle) who did psych last year gave me these psych podcrammers there from pearson interactive and you can get them off the net i thought they were great when i was reading through chapters for my holiday homework to make sure i understood it all.

do u mean podcards? www.podcards.com.au

[cathtacular]

nah podcrammers there like audio notes you put onto your ipod