For those who believe Psychology is a "soft subject"

Not relevant to the thread, but it's similar to Film Studies. Obviously most people look at it as a weak A-level, which is true in terms of how universities see it, but this is completely unjustified. Most people have no idea what's actually on the course - the question I'm most commonly asked is "Don't you just have to watch loads of films and review them?". In reality, it's not too dissimilar to English Literature, in that you're just examining the themes presented in a medium of art, and how they're presented to the audience. In addition to that, you've got to be aware of the social and political context under which the films were made (involves a fair amount of History), and, of course, various filmmaking techniques and film history. Not saying it's as hard as Maths (although I got a lower grade in Film than Maths), but anyone who thinks it's easy is an idiot.

They're all easier than English Language anyway. Now that's a doss subject.

The thing about Psychology is that the brain is almost impossible to observe and experimentation on

Burn.

I've also just seen your comments on a rather lewd thread, hahaha, shocking.

I don't memorise philosophy and ethics that's for sure. I don't just reiterate Kant said this, a recent study/theory supports him to achieve an A grade. Honestly, the A-level is a load of crap.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it is Jargon. In fact, if anything it shows that psychology isn't just 'common sense' or Derren Brown tricks.

Newton conjectured about gravity, "The force is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them."

Newton was also into mysticism, religion, alchemy and a whole lot of other bat **** crazy stuff.

I understood it. All your big science words you used I learnt about in my Biological Sciences module (mixture of physiology and anatomy) at uni. The jargon is not psychology, it's biology.

I remember a lot of my friends at school did Psych A level cos it was easy. The coursework involved cutting out personal dating ads and saying men all valued beauty and women valued personality and saying yes this agrees with the theory we learnt in class.

Compare with the coursework in History and R.S. A levels of carrying out your own independent study using resources and references - comparable to a degree level essay.

Compare with the coursework in History and R.S. A levels of carrying out your own independent study using resources and references - comparable to a degree level essay.

Err.. What?

Have you actually read any cog neurosci literature?

how applicable is psychology? how useful is it in real life?

I think this image sums it up suitably.

hmm if you're talking about A-level then let me put it this way.

Let's take you're average further maths class and and your average psychology class. Now make them switch places so they're learning the other subject. i.e. further maths students learning psychology and psychology students learning further maths. I'd place my money on the further maths students getting an A in psychology more often than the psychology student getting an A in further maths.

Now this doesn't mean neccessarily it's a soft subject. Further maths would generally be considered more difficult (to be fair this is the same when comparing it to most other subjects save physics or chemistry) but I believe this 'softness' of A level psychology is heavily exaggerated. It's still reasonably challening compared to similar 'respectable' subjects such as history or english.

In fact, go read about the origins of consciousness in the cerebral cortex where it's possibly derived from modalities within the visual and olfactory system and the binding of information through neural oscillations of synaptic threshold in action potential localising within the cerebral cortex. Then tell me if a) you even understand and b) psychology is not a science.

Psychology is not physics, therefore it is not a real science.