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Yes. Flashcards use active recall — retrieving an answer from memory — which research shows is one of the most effective study methods, especially in short, spaced sessions. Because the GRE Psychology test rewards instant recognition of theorists, terms, and theories across the whole major, the cards are an efficient way to make that knowledge automatic.

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All six content categories: Biological (neurons, neurotransmitters, brain, learning), Cognitive (memory, heuristics, language), Social (attribution, conformity, classic studies), Developmental (Piaget, attachment, moral development), Clinical (disorders, the DSM-5-TR, therapies, personality), and Measurement/Methodology (reliability, validity, statistics, and the history of psychology).

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Lead with the largest categories — Biological and Cognitive, which together are about 40% of the test — then work through Social, Developmental, Clinical, and Methods. Mix the modes: flip to learn, type to test recall, match for speed, and quiz to check yourself before working full practice questions.

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Classical conditioning

Learning by association: a neutral stimulus paired with one that triggers a reflex comes to evoke the response on its own. Pavlov's dogs salivated to a bell.

Learning in which behavior is shaped by its consequences — reinforcement strengthens it, punishment weakens it (Skinner).

Neurotransmitter for reward, motivation, and movement; loss in the substantia nigra causes Parkinson's, and excess activity is linked to schizophrenia.

Neurotransmitter regulating mood, sleep, and appetite; low levels are linked to depression.

Neurotransmitter for memory and muscle activation; its loss is associated with Alzheimer's disease.

The brain's main inhibitory neurotransmitter; it calms neural activity and reduces anxiety.

The brain's main excitatory neurotransmitter; central to learning and memory.

Neurotransmitter for arousal and alertness; drives the fight-or-flight stress response.

The brief electrical impulse traveling down an axon when a neuron fires, following the all-or-none principle.

The fatty insulation around many axons that speeds the conduction of nerve impulses.

The junction between two neurons where a neurotransmitter crosses from the axon terminal to the next dendrite.

A drug or molecule that mimics or boosts the action of a neurotransmitter.

A drug or molecule that blocks the action of a neurotransmitter.

The reabsorption of a neurotransmitter by the neuron that released it; SSRIs block serotonin reuptake.

Sympathetic nervous system

The branch of the autonomic nervous system that triggers fight-or-flight arousal.

Parasympathetic nervous system

The branch of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body and conserves energy (rest-and-digest).

The brain structure essential for forming new long-term memories.

The brain structure central to fear, aggression, and emotional processing.

The brain structure that coordinates voluntary movement and balance.

The brain region governing homeostasis — hunger, thirst, temperature — and the endocrine system.

The brain's sensory relay station, routing input (except smell) to the cortex.

The brainstem structure controlling vital autonomic functions like heartbeat and breathing.

The cortical lobe that processes visual information.

The cortical lobe that processes hearing and is involved in memory and language.

The cortical lobe that processes touch and spatial awareness.

The cortical lobe handling planning, judgment, voluntary movement, and personality.

A frontal-lobe region for speech production; damage causes nonfluent (expressive) aphasia.

A temporal-lobe region for language comprehension; damage causes fluent (receptive) aphasia.

The band of fibers connecting the two cerebral hemispheres, allowing them to communicate.

Retinal photoreceptors for dim-light and peripheral (black-and-white) vision.

Retinal photoreceptors for color vision and fine detail, concentrated in the fovea.

The body's primary stress hormone, released by the adrenal cortex.

Endogenous neurotransmitters that reduce pain and produce feelings of pleasure.

The negative electrical charge of a neuron at rest, about −70 millivolts.

The brief recovery phase after a neuron fires, during which it cannot fire again.

A neural pathway that produces an automatic response without involving the brain.

Unconditioned stimulus (US)

A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response (e.g., food).

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

A previously neutral stimulus that, after pairing, triggers a learned response (e.g., a bell).

Positive reinforcement

Adding a pleasant stimulus to increase a behavior.

Negative reinforcement

Removing an aversive stimulus to increase a behavior — it strengthens, not weakens.

The psychological discomfort of holding contradictory beliefs, which motivates a change in attitude or behavior (Festinger).

The limited-capacity system that holds and manipulates information briefly; Baddeley's model has a central executive, phonological loop, and visuospatial sketchpad.

Memory holding about seven items for roughly 15–30 seconds; expanded by chunking.

Durable memory with effectively unlimited capacity; divided into explicit and implicit.

A very brief, large-capacity store of raw sensory input (iconic for vision, echoic for hearing).

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Classical conditioning: Learning by association: a neutral stimulus paired with one that triggers a reflex comes to evoke the response on its own. Pavlov's dogs salivated to a bell.
Operant conditioning: Learning in which behavior is shaped by its consequences — reinforcement strengthens it, punishment weakens it (Skinner).
Dopamine: Neurotransmitter for reward, motivation, and movement; loss in the substantia nigra causes Parkinson's, and excess activity is linked to schizophrenia.
Serotonin: Neurotransmitter regulating mood, sleep, and appetite; low levels are linked to depression.
Acetylcholine: Neurotransmitter for memory and muscle activation; its loss is associated with Alzheimer's disease.
GABA: The brain's main inhibitory neurotransmitter; it calms neural activity and reduces anxiety.
Glutamate: The brain's main excitatory neurotransmitter; central to learning and memory.
Norepinephrine: Neurotransmitter for arousal and alertness; drives the fight-or-flight stress response.
Action potential: The brief electrical impulse traveling down an axon when a neuron fires, following the all-or-none principle.
Myelin sheath: The fatty insulation around many axons that speeds the conduction of nerve impulses.
Synapse: The junction between two neurons where a neurotransmitter crosses from the axon terminal to the next dendrite.
Agonist: A drug or molecule that mimics or boosts the action of a neurotransmitter.
Antagonist: A drug or molecule that blocks the action of a neurotransmitter.
Reuptake: The reabsorption of a neurotransmitter by the neuron that released it; SSRIs block serotonin reuptake.
Sympathetic nervous system: The branch of the autonomic nervous system that triggers fight-or-flight arousal.
Parasympathetic nervous system: The branch of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body and conserves energy (rest-and-digest).
Hippocampus: The brain structure essential for forming new long-term memories.
Amygdala: The brain structure central to fear, aggression, and emotional processing.
Cerebellum: The brain structure that coordinates voluntary movement and balance.
Hypothalamus: The brain region governing homeostasis — hunger, thirst, temperature — and the endocrine system.
Thalamus: The brain's sensory relay station, routing input (except smell) to the cortex.
Medulla: The brainstem structure controlling vital autonomic functions like heartbeat and breathing.
Occipital lobe: The cortical lobe that processes visual information.
Temporal lobe: The cortical lobe that processes hearing and is involved in memory and language.
Parietal lobe: The cortical lobe that processes touch and spatial awareness.
Frontal lobe: The cortical lobe handling planning, judgment, voluntary movement, and personality.
Broca's area: A frontal-lobe region for speech production; damage causes nonfluent (expressive) aphasia.
Wernicke's area: A temporal-lobe region for language comprehension; damage causes fluent (receptive) aphasia.
Corpus callosum: The band of fibers connecting the two cerebral hemispheres, allowing them to communicate.
Rods: Retinal photoreceptors for dim-light and peripheral (black-and-white) vision.
Cones: Retinal photoreceptors for color vision and fine detail, concentrated in the fovea.
Cortisol: The body's primary stress hormone, released by the adrenal cortex.
Endorphins: Endogenous neurotransmitters that reduce pain and produce feelings of pleasure.
Resting potential: The negative electrical charge of a neuron at rest, about −70 millivolts.
Refractory period: The brief recovery phase after a neuron fires, during which it cannot fire again.
Reflex arc: A neural pathway that produces an automatic response without involving the brain.
Unconditioned stimulus (US): A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response (e.g., food).
Conditioned stimulus (CS): A previously neutral stimulus that, after pairing, triggers a learned response (e.g., a bell).
Positive reinforcement: Adding a pleasant stimulus to increase a behavior.
Negative reinforcement: Removing an aversive stimulus to increase a behavior — it strengthens, not weakens.
Cognitive dissonance: The psychological discomfort of holding contradictory beliefs, which motivates a change in attitude or behavior (Festinger).
Working memory: The limited-capacity system that holds and manipulates information briefly; Baddeley's model has a central executive, phonological loop, and visuospatial sketchpad.
Short-term memory: Memory holding about seven items for roughly 15–30 seconds; expanded by chunking.
Long-term memory: Durable memory with effectively unlimited capacity; divided into explicit and implicit.
Sensory memory: A very brief, large-capacity store of raw sensory input (iconic for vision, echoic for hearing).
Chunking: Grouping individual items into larger meaningful units to expand short-term memory capacity.
Central executive: In Baddeley's model, the attentional system that coordinates the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad.
Phonological loop: The component of working memory that holds and rehearses verbal and auditory information.
Heuristic: A mental shortcut that speeds judgment but can cause systematic errors (biases).
Availability heuristic: Judging the likelihood of an event by how easily examples come to mind.
Representativeness heuristic: Judging probability by how closely something matches a prototype, ignoring base rates.
Anchoring bias: Relying too heavily on the first piece of information when making decisions.
Confirmation bias: Seeking and favoring information that confirms one's existing beliefs.
Functional fixedness: The tendency to see an object as usable only in its customary way.
Framing effect: Letting the wording of options (gain vs loss) sway a decision.
Top-down processing: Perception guided by prior knowledge, context, and expectations.
Bottom-up processing: Perception that builds from raw sensory data without prior expectations.
Stroop effect: The slowed naming of an ink color when the word spells a different color — automatic reading interferes with controlled processing.
Serial position effect: Better recall of the first (primacy) and last (recency) items in a list.
Zeigarnik effect: The tendency to remember incomplete or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
Encoding: The process of getting information into memory.
Retrieval: The process of getting information back out of memory.
Proactive interference: When old learning disrupts the recall of new information.
Retroactive interference: When new learning disrupts the recall of older information.
Algorithm: A step-by-step procedure that guarantees a correct solution, though it can be slow.
Mental set: The tendency to approach a problem in a way that worked before, even when unhelpful.
Prospective memory: Remembering to perform an intended action in the future.
Semantic memory: Long-term memory for facts and general knowledge.
Episodic memory: Long-term memory for specific personal experiences and events.
Procedural memory: Implicit long-term memory for skills and how to do things.
Spreading activation: The idea that thinking of one concept primes related concepts in a semantic network.
Universal grammar: Chomsky's proposal that humans share an innate, biologically based capacity for language.
Phoneme: The smallest distinctive sound unit in a language.
Morpheme: The smallest unit of meaning in a language.
Fluid intelligence: The ability to reason and solve novel problems, independent of acquired knowledge.
Crystallized intelligence: Accumulated knowledge and skills built up over a lifetime.
Spearman's g: Charles Spearman's general intelligence factor underlying performance across mental tasks.
Gardner's multiple intelligences: Howard Gardner's theory of several distinct intelligences (linguistic, spatial, musical, etc.).
Fundamental attribution error: Overestimating dispositional causes and underestimating situational ones when explaining others' behavior.
Bystander effect: The more people present at an emergency, the less likely any one helps, due to diffusion of responsibility (Latané & Darley).
Conformity: Adjusting behavior or beliefs to match a group standard, demonstrated in Asch's line studies.
Obedience: Following the orders of an authority figure; Milgram found ~65% obeyed to the maximum shock.
Groupthink: When a group's desire for harmony overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives.
Self-serving bias: Crediting successes to oneself and blaming failures on the situation.
Social facilitation: Improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others.
Social loafing: Reduced individual effort when working in a group than when working alone.
Diffusion of responsibility: The reduced sense of personal accountability when others are present.
In-group bias: Favoring the group one belongs to over out-groups.
Out-group homogeneity: Perceiving members of another group as more alike than they really are.
Social comparison theory: Evaluating one's own abilities and opinions by comparing with others, especially similar ones (Festinger).
Cognitive dissonance theory: Festinger's theory that holding conflicting beliefs creates discomfort that motivates attitude change.
Stanford prison experiment: Zimbardo's study showing how assigned social roles can drive cruel behavior.
Asch conformity experiment: A study in which participants gave obviously wrong answers to match a unanimous majority.
Milgram obedience study: Milgram's demonstration that ordinary people will obey an authority's order to harm a stranger.
Robbers Cave experiment: Sherif's study showing superordinate goals reduce intergroup conflict.
Superordinate goals: Shared aims that require cooperation between groups and reduce conflict.
Foot-in-the-door technique: Gaining compliance with a large request by first securing a small one.
Door-in-the-face technique: Gaining compliance by first making a large request that is refused, then a smaller one.
Central route to persuasion: Persuasion through careful evaluation of strong arguments (Elaboration Likelihood Model).
Peripheral route to persuasion: Persuasion through surface cues like attractiveness rather than argument quality.
Mere exposure effect: Increased liking for stimuli simply from repeated exposure.
Self-fulfilling prophecy: When an expectation prompts behavior that makes the expectation come true.
Actor-observer bias: Attributing our own behavior to the situation but others' behavior to disposition.
Just-world hypothesis: The belief that people get what they deserve, which can lead to blaming victims.
Deindividuation: The loss of self-awareness and restraint in groups, often promoting impulsive behavior.
Stereotype: A generalized belief about the members of a social group.
Prejudice: A negative attitude toward a group and its members.
Discrimination: Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members.
Piaget's stages: Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational — four invariant stages of cognitive development.
Object permanence: Understanding that objects exist when out of sight; develops in the sensorimotor stage.
Conservation: Understanding that quantity stays the same despite changes in shape; mastered in the concrete operational stage.
Sensorimotor stage: Piaget's first stage (birth–2): learning through senses and movement; object permanence emerges.
Preoperational stage: Piaget's second stage (2–7): symbolic thought and language, but egocentric and lacking conservation.
Concrete operational stage: Piaget's third stage (7–11): logical thought about concrete events; conservation and reversibility.
Formal operational stage: Piaget's fourth stage (11+): abstract and hypothetical reasoning.
Egocentrism: The preoperational child's difficulty taking another person's point of view.
Zone of proximal development: Vygotsky's gap between what a learner can do alone and with guidance.
Scaffolding: Temporary guidance from a more knowledgeable other that is withdrawn as the learner improves (Vygotsky).
Attachment: The enduring emotional bond between a child and caregiver.
Harlow's monkeys: Studies showing infant monkeys preferred a cloth 'comfort' mother over a wire one with food.
Strange Situation: Ainsworth's procedure classifying infant attachment as secure, avoidant, or anxious-ambivalent.
Secure attachment: An attachment style in which the child uses the caregiver as a safe base and is comforted on reunion.
Erikson's psychosocial stages: Eight lifespan stages, each a crisis such as trust vs mistrust or identity vs role confusion.
Identity vs role confusion: Erikson's adolescent stage centered on forming a stable sense of self.
Kohlberg's stages of moral development: Preconventional, conventional, and postconventional levels of moral reasoning.
Preconventional morality: Kohlberg's earliest level: judging right and wrong by rewards and punishments.
Postconventional morality: Kohlberg's highest level: reasoning from abstract ethical principles.
Gilligan's ethic of care: Gilligan's critique that Kohlberg's model underweighted care and relationships.
Critical period: A window in development when a skill is most readily acquired.
Habituation: A decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentation.
Temperament: A child's biologically based, early-appearing style of emotional reactivity.
Assimilation: Fitting new information into existing mental schemas (Piaget).
Accommodation: Changing existing schemas to incorporate new information (Piaget).
Schema (Piaget): A mental framework that organizes and interprets information.
Theory of mind: The understanding that others have beliefs and intentions different from one's own.
Adolescent egocentrism: Heightened self-focus in adolescence (the imaginary audience and personal fable).
Identity foreclosure: Committing to an identity (often a parent's) without exploring alternatives (Marcia).
Telegraphic speech: Early two-word utterances that convey meaning with content words (e.g., 'want cookie').
DSM-5-TR: The American Psychiatric Association's standard classification of mental disorders and their diagnostic criteria.
Cognitive behavioral therapy: A structured, present-focused therapy that changes distorted thoughts and behaviors (Beck, Ellis).
Systematic desensitization: A behavioral therapy pairing relaxation with a hierarchy of feared situations to treat phobias.
Psychoanalysis: Freud's therapy aimed at surfacing unconscious conflict through free association and dream analysis.
Transference: In psychodynamic therapy, redirecting feelings about important people onto the therapist.
Big Five (OCEAN): Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — the trait model of personality.
Id: In Freud's model, the unconscious source of basic drives operating on the pleasure principle.
Ego: In Freud's model, the reality-oriented mediator between the id and superego.
Superego: In Freud's model, the internalized moral standards and conscience.
Defense mechanism: An unconscious strategy (e.g., repression, projection) that reduces anxiety from conflict.
Repression: The defense mechanism of pushing threatening thoughts out of awareness.
Projection: Attributing one's own unacceptable impulses to someone else.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs: A five-level motivation model from physiological needs up to self-actualization.
Self-actualization: Realizing one's full potential — the top of Maslow's hierarchy.
Unconditional positive regard: Rogers's attitude of full acceptance, central to client-centered therapy.
Client-centered therapy: Rogers's humanistic therapy emphasizing empathy, genuineness, and acceptance.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT): Linehan's therapy combining acceptance and change skills; first developed for borderline personality disorder.
Major depressive disorder: A mood disorder marked by persistent sadness, loss of interest, and related symptoms.
Bipolar disorder: A mood disorder alternating between depressive and manic episodes.
Generalized anxiety disorder: Chronic, excessive worry across many areas of life.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Intrusive obsessions and compulsive rituals performed to reduce anxiety.
Schizophrenia: A psychotic disorder with delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thought.
Positive symptoms: Added experiences in schizophrenia such as hallucinations and delusions.
Negative symptoms: Reductions in schizophrenia such as flat affect and social withdrawal.
Conversion disorder: Loss of sensory or motor function with no identifiable medical cause.
Borderline personality disorder: A disorder marked by instability in mood and relationships, often involving 'splitting.'
Splitting: Viewing people or situations as all good or all bad, common in borderline personality disorder.
Antisocial personality disorder: A pattern of disregard for others' rights and a lack of remorse.
Phobia: An intense, irrational fear of a specific object or situation.
PTSD: Post-traumatic stress disorder: flashbacks, hyperarousal, and avoidance after trauma.
Reliability: The consistency of a measurement — whether it gives the same result on repeated use.
Validity: The degree to which a test measures what it claims to measure.
Type I error: A false positive — rejecting a true null hypothesis; its probability is alpha.
Type II error: A false negative — failing to reject a false null hypothesis; its probability is beta.
Confounding variable: An extraneous variable that varies with the independent variable, offering a rival explanation.
Independent variable: The variable a researcher manipulates in an experiment.
Dependent variable: The outcome a researcher measures in an experiment.
Random assignment: Placing participants into conditions by chance to equalize groups and allow causal inference.
Double-blind procedure: A design in which neither participants nor researchers know group assignments, controlling bias.
Placebo effect: Improvement from an inactive treatment due to the participant's expectations.
Correlation coefficient: A value from −1 to +1 indicating the direction and strength of a relationship.
Correlation vs causation: Correlation shows variables relate; only a controlled experiment can establish cause.
Mean: The arithmetic average; sensitive to outliers.
Median: The middle value of an ordered data set; resists outliers.
Mode: The most frequently occurring value in a data set.
Standard deviation: A measure of how spread out data are around the mean.
Normal distribution: A symmetric, bell-shaped distribution where mean, median, and mode coincide.
Positive skew: A distribution with a long right tail; the mean exceeds the median.
Negative skew: A distribution with a long left tail; the mean is below the median.
ANOVA: Analysis of Variance — a test comparing the means of three or more groups.
t-test: A test comparing the means of two groups.
p-value: The probability of obtaining results as extreme as observed if the null hypothesis were true.
Statistical significance: A result unlikely to be due to chance, conventionally p < .05.
Null hypothesis: The default claim that there is no effect or no difference.
Test-retest reliability: Consistency of scores when the same test is given to the same people at two times.
Inter-rater reliability: Agreement among different observers scoring the same behavior.
Internal consistency: The degree to which a test's items measure the same construct (e.g., Cronbach's alpha).
Construct validity: Whether a test measures the theoretical trait it intends to.
External validity: Whether findings generalize to other settings, people, and times.
Internal validity: Whether a study can confidently attribute results to the independent variable.
Cross-sectional design: Comparing different age groups at one point in time.
Longitudinal design: Following the same participants over an extended period.

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Flip mode lets you work through cards one at a time and check yourself. Match turns terms and definitions into a timed pairing game. Type shows a definition and asks you to produce the term, so a card like Morpheme has to come from memory. Quiz builds multiple-choice questions from the same cards, which is closer to how test items read.

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Biological is the largest domain at 40 cards, and it drills the vocabulary of neurons, neurotransmitters, sensory structures, and brain anatomy. You get receptor-level terms such as Rods and Cones alongside Synapse and Reuptake, plus chemical and structural entries like GABA, Agonist, Medulla, and Amygdala. These are the definitions that show up as stems you must recognize instantly rather than reason through.

Cognitive follows with 38 cards covering memory, language, and problem solving. Encoding and Retrieval anchor the memory sequence, Chunking shows up as a capacity strategy, and language units appear as Phoneme and Morpheme. Reasoning terms including Heuristic, Algorithm, and Mental set force you to keep similar-sounding concepts separate, which is exactly the kind of distinction that gets tested.

Measurement, Methodology & Other holds 32 cards on statistics and research design. Central tendency shows up as Mean, Median, and Mode, inferential tests as ANOVA and t-test, and interpretation as p-value. Validity and Reliability round out the psychometric side. These cards reward exact definitions, since the differences between them are narrow.

Social and Developmental each carry 30 cards. On the social side you get group and attitude terms such as Conformity, Groupthink, and Social loafing, plus Prejudice, Stereotype, Discrimination, In-group bias, and Obedience. Developmental covers stage and process vocabulary including Assimilation, Accommodation, and Conservation, with Attachment, Egocentrism, Scaffolding, Habituation, and Temperament filling out the infancy-through-childhood range.

Clinical also has 30 cards, spanning psychodynamic structures, defenses, and diagnostic categories. Id, Ego, and Superego sit next to Repression and Splitting, while Phobia, PTSD, and DSM-5-TR cover the disorder and classification side.

The GRE Psychology test rewards instant recognition of theorists, theories, and terms across the whole major.^[2] Spaced flashcards are the most efficient way to make that knowledge automatic. Used alongside our practice test and study guide, they turn review time into measurable progress.

GRE Psychology Flashcards by Category

The cards are organized by ETS’s six content categories. Drill the largest ones first — Biological and Cognitive together are roughly 40% of the test — then work through the rest:^[1]

GRE Psychology flashcards by content category
Content category	What it covers
Biological	Neurons, neurotransmitters, brain structures, sensation, learning
Cognitive	Memory, attention, heuristics, language, intelligence
Social	Attribution, attitudes, conformity, obedience, classic studies
Developmental	Piaget, Vygotsky, attachment, moral development
Clinical	Disorders, the DSM-5-TR, therapies, personality theories
Measurement, Methodology & Other	Reliability, validity, statistics, history of psychology

How to Get the Most Out of These Flashcards

Start with Biological. At 40 cards it is the deck’s largest domain, and terms like Synapse and Reuptake support items you will meet again in the Clinical and Cognitive cards.
Type-drill the confusable pairs. Rods and Cones, along with Assimilation and Accommodation, are easy to recognize passively but hard to produce, which is what Type exposes.
Use Match for the statistics vocabulary. Pairing Mean, Median, and Mode against their definitions under time pressure is a fast way to stop mixing up the Measurement, Methodology & Other terms.
Move to the practice test once recall holds. When Quiz runs clean across Social and Developmental, switch over to see how the terms behave inside full-length question stems.
Rotate rather than cram. With 200 cards across six domains, work two domains per session and revisit the previous session’s misses before adding anything new.

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References

1.ETS. “GRE Psychology Test Content — Subject Tests.” ETS. ↑
2.American Psychological Association. “APA Dictionary of Psychology.” American Psychological Association. ↑
3.ETS. “About the GRE Subject Tests.” ETS. ↑

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