Getting to the nitty-gritty Any textbook in the world can be reduced to a tiny proportion of itself. Now that you have been through the whole thing you should be able to condense it - in much the same way as I have done things here. The difference of course is that if you do the condensing then you are getting a greater depth of processing of the material and therefore you will remember more of it. Putting the idea with the person Since the broad models of the person aren't too many it isn't too difficult to know simple things, like Freud goes with psychodynamics, but it gets a bit trickier in some areas. Conjure up images or acronyms to help you keep the two together.
Every chapter is a history of ideas or developments.
Get these people in order by creating, for example, and acronym or by using some other mnemonic device. Apply the knowledge you have, for example assimilation and accommodation, to examples from your life so the theories and ideas become linked to you. This will not magically happen in the exam you do have to work at it. You should be actively sketching notes about a couple of theories or theorists and suggesting reasons as to why they are similar or how they differ etc. Think psychologically Use psychological terminology rather than the blarney that I use.