WTF is wrong with psychology?

Oxford teaches History of Art as an undergraduate degree.

By the way I actually agree with you, with respect to Psychology. Just disagree with the argument "Respectable university teaches x, therefore x is respectable"

I just finished my Psychology A Level and I can honestly say it's rubbish. It's interesting in parts but unless you really want to go into a career in Psychology, it's all completely useless information. The exams are absolutely gash too. It's all just memory work. There is no real skill involved in the learning whatsoever. It's also very boring in parts. If I could go back in time I definitely would not have chosen it. The only reason I chose it in the first place was because I thought 'ooooh Psychology, that sounds interesting'.

And no, I don't hate it because it was 'hard' either. I got 90% in my first year but turned out with a B overall because it just got to the point where I couldn't motivate myself any more.

When a psych does an experiment and they get a result of 97%, they pretend that it is true for 100%.

When a pharmicist does an experiment and they get results of 97%, they stick with the 97%.

They are different.

Got slagged off by a neuroscience student the other day. Had no idea how to come back to it as we're pretty much studying the same thing, just as I psychologist, I study the applications of neuroscience, whereas they're studying the methods behind it.

So degrading when people slag off my course or any course for that matter, but I couldn't care less as I know what I want to do with it and am not going to let people's opinions of it deter me!

Studying the underlying causes etc. is much more academic than the applications..



Personally I wouldn't even regard Psychology as a science but anyway

Psychologists study the underlying causes of behaviours...

What would you define as a science then?

Psychology is fun though I enjoyed it, and want to take it further at university alongside English

I don't know what psychology course you were doing. I took Psychology As a year back and I found it VERY useful.

I don't think people are slagging off the subject so much as the hoards of people who choose it because they think they're so deep or something.
Obviously a lot of people who choose to do it, choose it for the right reasons and will do very well for themselves, but IMO it seems to be quite a "fashionable" degree right now.

Yes I realised that after I had written it, but cannot describe what I mean about the neuroscience field being more 'pure' than the psychology (and therefore more academic, IMO)

Well as a 'social science' as opposed to a natural science which people often incorrectly affiliate it with.

Well that's you then.

Out of curiosity, what did you find it useful for?

Yes I realised that after I had written it, but cannot describe what I mean about the neuroscience field being more 'pure' than the psychology (and therefore more academic, IMO)

Well as a 'social science' as opposed to a natural science which people often incorrectly affiliate it with.

You do realise that about 70 people each year graduate from the Cambridge natural science tripos with BPS (british psychological society) accredited degrees.

Also from what i've been told many people actually find social psychology and developmental psychology harder than the biological parts of their degrees. Less pure doesn't nessesarily equal less academic, whatever you mean by academic...

Yes and Oxford don't class it as a science..

Sorry the A Level? Of course Oxford class psychology as a science, the names their course Experimental Psychology specifically to highlight that psychology is a science. You can study psychology as part of THE BEST science course in the UK- natural sciences tripos, so its clearly a science!

Well NO Uni class Psychology A level as a science.

Yes and you get A BA in it, not a BSci, because it is not a science..