Preliminary Reading For B. Psych. (Question) (1 Viewer)

[Pura]

Hey everyone,
I would first like to note that I am extremely jealous of everyone going straight to university this year, however due to money, living arrangements and all those evil necessities I have had to postpone my course until next year. The problem is, I have many, many (and I can't stress this enough), many days where I have nothing to do (one can only play the guitar hero series for so long).
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has some good suggestions for some preliminary reading as the books I'm reading at the moment correlate with Psych (no, it's not porn). I'm eagerly awaiting uni and I'm busting to learn, so any help would be appreciated.

-Nick

 

[Lord Ac]

When the textbook guide comes out next week (see the UNSW bookstore) go and read, cover to cover, the prescribed text for psychology 1a. This will give you an intro into the areas you will be studying over the next few years.

While doing this reading you will come across many interesting experiments. Go and look up the original journal articles of these experiments and read them. You will find in B Psych that you will start to ONLY read journal articles, so starting early will be good. In order to find these articles you usually need to access through UNSW library, which you wont be able to do. If you dont have a friends unipass that you can borrow to get the articles, then search up the author of the article on google, go to their actual homepage, and in many cases they will have their journal articles free to download as PDF's.

Ac