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Reply 20

GodspeedGehenna

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emmie19

Well it's too general a comment tbh.

It was a general question you asked.

emmie19

You mean appilcation to society, not the size of the area of testing right?

Area of testing? wat? I meant what I said. Those particular parts fail to contribute to applicable knowledge in a very moot and invalid way.

emmie19

Well then, psychology needs a starting point and it society is too complex to always generalise to.

Not really relevant to what I was saying.

emmie19

I could argue with you all day. :p:

You're the only person on TSR I have beef with lol

Probably because I'm one of the few people who can actually be bothered (although this is a waning attribute) to translate your typically incoherent and irrelevant posts. I mean, do you actually read back on what you have posted, or do you just rush to click that nice shiny "submit reply" button? Half the time your posts just ramble off on some bizarre train of thought, the rest of the time you have just failed to grasp what the poster was saying originally.

Either English is not your first language or you just don't think before you post.

Reply 21

Liv1204

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emmie19

Well it's too general a comment tbh. You mean appilcation to society, not the size of the area of testing right? Well then, psychology needs a starting point and it society is too complex to always generalise to.

I could argue with you all day. :p:

You're the only person on TSR I have beef with lol

Godspeed Gehenna is right though. Some of the studies have such obvious flaws, and even ones that seems ok as studie sometimes you just look at and think 'Ok, well I could have told you that, it's common sense.'

It is too big a subject though to study as a whole, I'm hoping it will be better once I have specialised more. I thought I'd enjoy social psychology, but I'm actually looking forward to not doing it again. Shame Kent does so much in the area of social psych. :\

Anyways, I don't know much about any of those unis, except I applied to York (who told me they couldn't offer me a place for Psychology, but offered me a Sociology place instead :\ :frown:

), but York looks lovely, their Psychology department sounded good, and their Psychology department website was good (ok, not a great reason to choose a uni, but hey...!)

Reply 22

Tombola

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I'm looking forward to the social psychology parts, less so for the biology parts. From my perspective the neuroscience section of psychology is highly specialised and in most cases unless you are heading into the field, it's not really practical at all.

Social psychology on the otherhand while admittedly really fuzzy, you can derive principles from it to apply in real life. It's basically a little like philosophy. Though I know that there will be people here that don't see any practical value in that subject. But this is totally off topic to the original OP.

Reply 23

Interrobang

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It depends on the university's faculty as to what they focus on more - York is very biological based, with only one term on Social Psychology (along with Personality and Psychometrics). I also had memory taught to me in my third year by Baddeley and Hitch (who is the head of the department). My favourite core modules were perception, cognitive neuroscience and the language parts of our cognition module

Reply 24

Tombola

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Was perception dealing with the biological aspect of perception, or more dealing with what a person perceived influenced by current knowledge?

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That made sense in my head.

Reply 25

Interrobang

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It was to do with visual and auditory perception and very much stuff to do with the brain! All about the different visual areas (V1, MT etc) and fundamental frequency and so on

Reply 26

Mitothy

GodspeedGehenna

Because I find ~65% of the subject to be a waste of time doesn't make my opinion invalid.

I'd quite like to know which 65% you think is a waste of time? I find a similar proportion quite uninteresting, but I still think it's relevant to the furthering of science and society.

Social certainly has fuzzy edges, but the broad direction it travels in is immediately applicable to big problems like immigration, racism and societal scisms. Neuroscience doesn't have the same pragmatism or immediate use, but it is inevitably the way that psychology is going to head as scanners get better.

Sorry, I'm rambling, I was just curious about what had turned you so firmly against such a wonderful subject.

Reply 27

struz

all have a great rep for psychology but i'll make general comments on them all...

St Andrews - great rep, tiny place (though you may like this!), course is 1 year longer because of the Scottish system.
Bath - lovely area and excellent psych deparment, good overall rep, placement year.
Surrey - in my opinion (i live very near it) it's very boring compared to other unis. and guildford isn't a very exciting place to live!
Bangor - brilliant psych dep but uni doesn't have a good a rep as the others listed (dunno if this matters that much to you)
Durham - excellent overall rep and quite a strong psych dep, though not as strong as bath or st andrews.
York - i don't really know much about it! :p:

bristol is excellent for psychology and entry is very competitive (though this is generally the case with psychology courses anyway) - last year there were 22 applicants per place - but don't let that put you off as your grades seem very strong.

like someone else suggested, with grades like that i would strongly suggest you consider oxford. if you want to of course. UCL's also brilliant for psych and i was gonna go there but decided i couldn't afford to live in london just yet, so opted for bristol!

hope that helped! :smile:

Reply 28

angelicgemini

Well, St.Andrews is only a 3 course as well for a bachelors, but because they do 4 year course it's only for a masters.

Hope that helps.

Reply 29

Atrixa

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Meliae

5 - Durham is a great uni, but I don't get the impression their psych department is particularly fantastic. Kind of the reverse of Bangor. Not applying but I would if I was going for another subject like history or law or something.

If you're wanting to actually do something with a psych degree, have a look at the Applied Psych course down at Queens campus. It also has a huge research facilility. I think a lot of Psych students from Durham have to come down and use it from time to time. I originally had straight Psych at Durham on my UCAS, then visited the Stockton campus and learned more about the Applied course, and changed to that. :p:

Reply 30

Meliae

Atrixa

If you're wanting to actually do something with a psych degree, have a look at the Applied Psych course down at Queens campus. It also has a huge research facilility. I think a lot of Psych students from Durham have to come down and use it from time to time. I originally had straight Psych at Durham on my UCAS, then visited the Stockton campus and learned more about the Applied course, and changed to that. :p:

I had another look, but I'm not keen on either of Durham's courses to be honest. I already have my 5 choices anyway and I'm very happy with them all.

Reply 31

Retrospect

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xKTx

It depends on the university's faculty as to what they focus on more - York is very biological based, with only one term on Social Psychology (along with Personality and Psychometrics). I also had memory taught to me in my third year by Baddeley and Hitch (who is the head of the department). My favourite core modules were perception, cognitive neuroscience and the language parts of our cognition module