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Social Psychology Midterm

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Since it is already past halfway through the semester (time flies!), I have already had midterms in a couple of my classes at Wake Technical Community College. However for one of these classes (Social Psychology) we were given a split midterm in which half of it was an essay portion that was to be taken in class and the other was a multiple choice portion that was to be completed over the weekend. Although they were two pieces to the same midterm, the process of completing each one contrasted drastically in comparison with one another. From my perspective, the essay portion of the test was very high pressure because it not only required me to define, identify, and apply different psychological concepts to a real life scenario, but it forced …show more content…

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