Psychology in general

Ok as i'm studying psychology at uni i'm a little biased. In my mind this is an amazing subject and everything about it is truly fascinating. People usually have the wrong idea about psychology. Whenever i tell someone that i'm studying psychology the usual responses are: 'can you read my mind?', 'can you analyse my behaviour?' and 'ooo i better be careful what i say around you'. Let me clarify one thing studying psychology doesn't allow you to read people's mind and we don't analyse and judge your behaviour. The stereotype of psychology is probably someone laying on a couch while some guy in a beard with a pipe is listening and writing things down on a clipboard. This ...  Read the complete review

I am currently studying Psychology and find it extremely interesting. When people find out that I am studying it they either say 'are you going to analyse me?' or 'what is psychology all about, anyway?'. So, I better try and explain a little... My Uni defines Psychology as 'The scientific study of behaviour and mental activity'. Which is basically it. It's hard to define Psychology as it covers so many areas. It is also hard to catagorise it, some people would say it is a Science based subject and others say it is Humanities. It is both really, depending on the content in which you are studying. It is a 'social science', not a true science, ...  Read the complete review

Psychology is the study of mind and behaviour. It looks at the ways in which individuals behave, based on either processes in the brain or their surrounding environment. There are many different fields of psychology that you can study. Whilst at University I studied psychology, and found it to be a extremely interesting subject. Some of the different areas I personally studied where Cognitive Psychology (which looks at behaviour based on brain functions), Abnormal Psychology (which looks at specific abnormalities such as depression and schizophrenia and ways of dealing with them), Counselling Psychology (which quite obviously looks at Counselling and different forms of ...  Read the complete review

Psychology is one of those subjects which shifts between the boundaries of being a humanity and a science. As such, some university courses offer a BSc, and some offer a BA depending on how scientific the nature of the course is. Psychology essentially is the study of the mind, and how the brain works to influence our behaviours. Within psychology itself however there are many different subdivisions, such as neuropsychology which looks at the activities of neurons and the physical structure of the brain, develpmental psychology, looking at how we become who we are and the development paths of children, language which looks at how we learn to speak and read and ...  Read the complete review

I was under the impression, having studied psycholgy at gcse,'a' level, degree & post-graduate levels, that I would have at least some explanations for all human ( & other animal ) behaviour. How wrong could I be? I even taught psychology for several years, but still I don't understand people's behaviour! A good defintion of psycholgy is 'the scientific study of the human mind & the science of human ( & other animals' behaviour) - Gross R, 1991. But here's the first problem - what do we mean by 'the mind'...? Psychology is really more a science than a social science ( although this is still questioned ...  Read the complete review