About Tom LaBaff

Barron's creative team,

Been dying to tell you about this! I’m making these short, fun psychology study guides (inspired from Barron’s test prep answer keys) and they’re getting a lot of love from students.

I try to keep these bite size lessons under a minute. There’s four ways I export these: Slide show (like reading a comic), square video, vertical video, and PDF. Here’s the comic version:

Theories, Hypothesis, Bias, and more. A know it all study partner explains the differences.

And the video version below. This one actually went a little over a minute because the narration felt more natural spoken at a conversational pace:

And now the best part. The comments! I’ve been posting these to relevant subs on Reddit like r/psychology, r/psychologystudents, r/studytips, etc.:

I absolutely love the stick figures, it keeps it so focused on the story and meaning. Great idea!

I used your Piaget vs Vygotsky video while teaching about their theories in my early Childhood classes.

Psychology and comic? Here I come!

This is so innovative!! I really liked this and actually learnt something new today. I'd love to see more of these!

I learnt more from this than the studies themself.

Sometimes you need visuals that simplify the textbook definition, to ever

be able to understand the lengthy textbook reading.

We want more!

I agree that a heap of developmental psych students would benefit from watching these.

I would have loved if my professors showed me videos like these before having us read multiple articles on Piaget and Vygotsky.

Early Praise

The team who writes your test questions on the site is great. I can detect a sense of humor:) Also, your Frankenstein/vocab book is brilliant.

In a way, I'm a little bit like Manuel Barron in that when he didn't see study guides available in 1930, he created them. Sure, study guides are widely available today, but not in the form of a comic like these!

How I see a potential collaboration?

Marketing.

I’d bet my videos would do well on your IG. The algorithm would spread them far and wide so Barron’s could attract all kinds of new students. Right now, IG loves the carousel + video posts and will generously push these organically. This is where the first 9 images are swipers then the 10th image is the continuation of the story but as a video. Perfect for these short, educational sprites.

Hey team,

I’m making these short, fun psychology study guides (inspired from Barron’s test prep answer keys) and they’re getting a lot of love from students.)

Anyway, I figured it’d make sense to reach out to y’all. I can tell you more about me and how we can help each other if you want. Just holler! tom@tomlabaff.com

Thanks for your time,

Tom

Swipers:

Psychologists Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky discuss their different methods of learning. As kids. On the playground.

The Pygmalion Experiment. The effect refers to situations where high expectations lead to improved performance and low expectations lead to worsened performance.

The London Taxi Cab Experiment.

Complex spatial memory causes some parts of the brain to grow while other parts will shrink. The London Taxi cab experiment started in 2000 but was revisited a decade later. Here's a visual summary reimagined as a scene at a bar. Enjoy!