Psychology Degree
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The UK fee protests.
I now listen to a topical news discussion programme on the radio on the way to work. It makes me fucking angry.
The UK is full of snivelling little pussies who have been conditioned to expect life to be handed to them on a plate. What a bunch of stupid cunts. You want a degree... Fucking pay for it. It's a deferred loan that doesn't start until you earn £21k. If you want a car, you have to fucking buy it.
And our benefits system is the most generous. Yet, they are all moaning now there is a much needed reform. The aim of the benefits is to help you through hard times. It isn't a fucking lifestyle choice.
I fucking hate this country. Sure, there's things I love about it. But I don't think the people are one of them. I like how we have bailed out Ireland, a country who thought their people deserved more, yet over extended themselves like a benefits cheat at Xmas. Even thought the Irish are very anti-England. Their hate doesn't extend to our money. That's a good use of my tax money, paying for flat screen TV's, Nike TM's and takeaways for the "poor" is not.
I talked to my cousin the other night and he told me he wishes he went into psychology instead of comp. sci. He told me the experience he gained from meeting new people and socializing with them was something he never learned in any of his classes in college. He also told me the psychology aspect in the business world, and how he wished he had learned more about that and then went around talking to people, since people that can do that are the most successful people and enjoy their jobs more as a result.
I find this fascinating. I must look into this further.
I also have a question for psychology students by the way.
Sometimes when I speak with someone who studies psychology there's a thought somewhere in my mind that they can read me better than other people. It made me wonder if it's true and I thought that I'll ask here.
On another hand a female friend of mine who studied psychology for a year and quit said, that university studies on psychology only teach you to name and find relations in human behavior and that most psychology students are as good at "reading" people as their apathy and natural observation skills go. And that they're not any better than any other observant person without a psychology degree.
Since she tends to naturally analyze people and has a sociology degree she said that she didn't learn anything new or anything that would be really useful in real life.
I won't lie that I enjoy reading about human behavior "tips & tricks" types of books and find them useful but I heard that things like these don't really have much to do with psychology studies. Would that be true?
Sometimes when I speak with someone who studies psychology there's a thought somewhere in my mind that they can read me better than other people. It made me wonder if it's true and I thought that I'll ask here.
On another hand a female friend of mine who studied psychology for a year and quit said, that university studies on psychology only teach you to name and find relations in human behavior and that most psychology students are as good at "reading" people as their apathy and natural observation skills go. And that they're not any better than any other observant person without a psychology degree.
Since she tends to naturally analyze people and has a sociology degree she said that she didn't learn anything new or anything that would be really useful in real life.
I won't lie that I enjoy reading about human behavior "tips & tricks" types of books and find them useful but I heard that things like these don't really have much to do with psychology studies. Would that be true?
masta, not even police or professionals can read people i.e. detect deception higher than chance. this has been proven in various studies. only secret service agents and i think clinical psychologists if i remember correctly were so highly trained that they could detect cues to deception and 'read' people.
a problem with 'reading' people lies within the context of how we as society talk about it in everyday language. just like saying we are stressed, its a misinterpretation of what it really is.
a problem with 'reading' people lies within the context of how we as society talk about it in everyday language. just like saying we are stressed, its a misinterpretation of what it really is.
Once my social psychology mentioned an example of how psychology students think different. For example, if a guy slips and falls. Regular people will say that this guy is clumsy, associating his fall with personal attributes. Psychology students will say that the floor was probably slippery, wet, or another factor of the environment.
And I think he's totally right. There are some exceptions (obviously) but I think because we study psychology we look at situations a bit differently.
But I don't think I read people better than others. I do give fucking good advice though and call things how I see them. But that's unrelated to psychology I think.
And I think he's totally right. There are some exceptions (obviously) but I think because we study psychology we look at situations a bit differently.
But I don't think I read people better than others. I do give fucking good advice though and call things how I see them. But that's unrelated to psychology I think.
Locus of Control (Rotter, 1966). Sorry....... [ah, that's outta my system now]
i agree with what carmi just said: 'reading' people requires a lot of skill and even then its a difficult thing to do, what people can do is be trained on how to handle various problems, situations and understand clients or problems in order to minimise these problems - whether that's in a psychiatric, counselling setting, research or whatever else... judgements are always made.
i agree with what carmi just said: 'reading' people requires a lot of skill and even then its a difficult thing to do, what people can do is be trained on how to handle various problems, situations and understand clients or problems in order to minimise these problems - whether that's in a psychiatric, counselling setting, research or whatever else... judgements are always made.
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