Myers' Psychology for AP® by David G. Myers

Myers' Psychology for AP® Reviews

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  Liz ardeez

  this is the best textbook ive ever read.
  they mentioned taylor swift at least 5 times, which makes you think duhhh this is a 5 star but it lost stars for being educational and being assigned to me :)
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  Emily

  Would have given five stars but had to subtract one for all the pain AP Psych caused me.
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  Ren

  For a class where I had to teach myself half of it to myself, this book actually came in hand and wasn't impossible to understand like some of the others.
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  Cherry Wu

  listen, this counts cause i really read every single page.
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  ella

  one star for the score i got on this exam 🤩
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  Varshy

  LOVED THIS BOOK
  ugh would totally read again😍
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  safa

  i’ll give this 5 stars if i get at least a 4 on the exam 😭 it was very interesting though i learned a lot
  
  edit: i got a 5 so 5 stars it is
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  Ed Smith

  Amazing. It took me an hour or two every Saturday for a period of five months, but I got it done. Totally worthwhile endeavor. Here is just a brief list of personal highlights:
  
  From Unit 2, Research Methods: "In the United States, Republicans have tended to tout the economy’s solid growth since 2000 using average income; Democrats have lamented the economy’s lackluster growth using median income. Mean and median tell different true stories."
  
  From Unit 3C, Genetics...: To excuse our failings by blaming our nature and nurture is what philosopher-novelist Jean-Paul Sartre called “bad faith”--attributing responsibility for one’s fate to bad genes or bad influences.
  
  From Unit 5, Consciousness: “How strange would appear to be this thing that men call pleasure! And how curiously it is related to what is thought to be its opposite, pain! Wherever the one is found, the other follows close behind.” --PLato, Phaedo, fourth century B.C.E.
  
  From Unit 6, Learning: Mirror neurons help give rise to children’s empathy and to their ability to infer another’s mental state, an ability known as theory of mind. People with autism display reduced imitative yawning and mirror neuron activity--”broken mirrors,” some have said.
  
  From Unit 8B, Emotions...: Venting to reduce anger is like using gasoline to put out a fire.
  
  From Unit 10, Personality: Recent research has provided some support for Freud’s idea of defense mechanisms. For example, Baumeister foudn that people tend to see their foibles and attitudes in others, a phenomenon that Freud called projection and that today’s researchers call the false consensus effect, the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors. People who cheat on their taxes or break speed limits tend to think many others do likewise.
  
  From Unit 12, Abnormal Psych: Recall that, biologically speaking, life’s purpose is not happiness, but survival and reproduction.
  
  From Unit 14, Social Psychology: Social loafing is the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.
  
  And, finally, this quote, atttributed to George Bernard Shaw:
  If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then hou and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas”
  
  I'll be keeping this one on the shelf, as I'll be able to return to it again and again to support things that I tell my students and kids. There's objective, definitive support on everything from that fact that "playing violent video games increases aggressive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors" (677), which is something students try to categorically reject, to the idea that self-esteem comes not from praise and recognition, but from successfully completing difficult tasks.
  
  This is definitely the good stuff!
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  regan

  4 stars because I HAD to read it for my AP Psych class. Otherwise, it'd be 5 stars because it prepared me excellently for the AP exam at the end of the year. It was so well written and helpful.
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  Yasmin Zare

  BEST TEXTBOOK IVE EVER READ. Gosh me and this book went through it all. Includes so many example and cartons and charts to help you learn.
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  Cara Chen

  had to read this for ap psych (10th edition) thanks for making the content entertaining, 0/10 would not recommend putting a very zoomed-in picture of a spider on the phobias page next time thank u
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  baruee

  i will be very sad if my tomorrow's score at least doesn't match the rating, just saying
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  Dieter Umholtz

  mid. but definitely it teaches you what you need to know. AP Psych is a pretty easy class so ig i recommend it
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  Jack Blashchishen

  Myers is a truly beautiful man. The way that this book is written will make you prefer it to any other book. It tells Psychology like a story while still being very professional in its presentation. The layout is great, with definitions of vocabulary words on the sides right by all of the text and at key points throughout the book, there are questions that make you consider what you just read. There are also relevant quotes on the sides in the margins. I won't spoil anything, but will only say that Myers is brilliant and often very humorous with his choice of quotes. I recommend this book for anyone, and especially for high school AP Psych classes.
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  Fan Liu

  As a high school student studying psychology, I'm usually forced to read 50 or so pages of this online textbook per week... which can be pretty annoying. Despite that, Myers writes psychology in an easy to understand approach, although sometimes he can be pretty digressive. When his language becomes too flowery or philosophical (I remember reading a whole entire page on his genius but utterly boring interpretation of consciousness or something like that), you know it's time to stop. Other than that, it's clear and covers almost everything. (PS: I like the comics!!!)
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  Ashley

  I had to read this for AP Psych, and as long as I actually read the chapters, I did very well on the tests. This book did not make me fall asleep, which I cannot say for my chemistry textbook, and I actually found it very interesting. I liked that the author's personality shone through.
  
  I got a 5
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  Sarah

  This book was for my AP Psychology class, and it made vocabulary really simple. The only thing is.....if you're taking AP? Please just sit down every night and read the book. Just read it. It'll help, I swear.
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  Katie

  Best textbook ever!
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  Hannah

  Best book ever it's my BFF <3
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  Madison

  I loved psychology but I am so glad we are done with this book