Week 9

 To future psych students,

My advice to you would be to do the vocabulary because they really do serve as a good review and if Ms. Halfen has an open note quiz they will be very helpful. Unless you are amazing at memorizing or are just naturally very smart, don't expect to get an A on the vocab quizzes so do your vocab! Don't cram all of the vocabulary into one night! I did that once and it was hell so just don't do that to yourself. Besides vocab quizzes, all the other parts of psychology are pretty manageable. For step 2 tasks I would just go for the easiest one personally but if you do have the time, I think mindmap is the most useful step 2 task you can complete and it really helps in the long run. Some of my favorite activities included the quizziz and quizlet review games we did in class as well as the personality tests we took. Something I think Ms. Halfen can revamp next year is the disorders project because it is truly a struggle to create a long presentation that is also very engaging. This is probably mostly my own fault but after that project, the only disorders I knew extremely well were my own and not any others and I feel like I could have benefitted more if we just had a lecture or another more engaging activity about it. FYI after this class, you'll literally see psychology in everything which is both fun and crazy at the same time. My best study tip for the AP exams would be to take a lot of practice tests and for terms or concepts that you don't know in the practice tests, review them and write it down as a form of studying and active recall. 

Best of luck,

Nicole Zeng

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