Anyone on here a student?

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Originally Posted by Lee

Were they Northern by any chance? :)

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no, it was a shoddy test done in the sixties with americans....

the problem with psychology is thus:

If I tell someone they are a w*nker & they should stop being one & straighten themselves out , I am being a bully.

If a psychologist spends several months listening to someone ranting on about how their dad never got them the action man assault tower for Xmas, and they never plucked up the courage to talk to girls properly & they once got picked last for school pe, then tells the person to straighten themselves out, it is considered to be a cure.

most psychology is based on stuff that Freud came up with, and that man had an unhealthy obsession with people shagging their own mother...


most of us normal people teeter between sanity & insanity on a daily basis, we are full of self doubt & insecurity & really want to stand in the street & scream once in a while, but we don't bang on about it, we unwind & get on with life...

I'm scumbag student aswell I'm afraid. Doing a degree in Architectural Technology.

You can take the p!ss out of pretty much any degree tbh saying whether it's pointless or a Mickey Mouse course. People can do whatever they want as far as I'm concerned as at the end of the day a degree's a degree. Often most of the reason for doing a degree is to prove you can do it and you can handle the work load etc which is what employers look for.

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Originally Posted by Matt.

I'm scumbag student aswell I'm afraid. Doing a degree in Architectural Technology.

You can take the p!ss out of pretty much any degree tbh saying whether it's pointless or a Mickey Mouse course. People can do whatever they want as far as I'm concerned as at the end of the day a degree's a degree. Often most of the reason for doing a degree is to prove you can do it and you can handle the work load etc which is what employers look for.

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Unfortunately thats the truth :( A degree is simply a degree, they arent special anymore, they arent for "certain individuals" anymore.... any fecker can go get a degree, hell even I managed it (although it was a quality Social one :D A Desmond)

True, every Tom, Dick and Harry seems to be doing some sort of degree nowadays. I'm just glad I'm not looking for a job or fearing for my job as alot of people are at the min. Hopefully this whole recession carry on will have blown over in 3 years when I finish.

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Originally Posted by Matt.

Often most of the reason for doing a degree is to prove you can do it and you can handle the work load etc which is what employers look for.

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ain't that the truth. back in the nineties, I worked at unipart selling truck spares... one of the product managers actually had a degree in marine biology... he knew less about trucks than a squashed fly....... he actually bought more than 100k worth of parts at a french trade show to fit trucks that were never ever sold in the uk!!

GCHQ will take on people with degrees, no matter what they're in. So if I had a degree in sniffing my own farts, I would stand a better chance of getting an ITSO job there than I do with my xyz years of IT experience. GAY

That psychology test has nothing to do with common sense at all btw, thats about trust of an authority figure :tard:

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Originally Posted by Razorjack

That psychology test has nothing to do with common sense at all btw, thats about trust of an authority figure :tard:

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pretty much,unless you looked at his later studies with buffers and so on where theres no authority figure and yet they still produce similar results.

i think the term common sense is replaced with those such as operant conditioning and social learning theory in psychology.
we learn not to cross the road in front of traffic because:
a) we've seen the consequences on tv etc or that crap look left, right hedgehog thing
b) we learn from our parents about not crossing the road without looking else we get a slap on the wrist blah blah.

i wish psychology was an easy subject, i really do!! but when you gotta start describing the parts of the brain and when neurons start releasing different chemicals such as sodium and pottasium at different action levels to keep stability. starts to become a sh*ter!

this feels too much like homework :tard:

i dunno if this counts i work for the met police and i class myself as a student because im trying to learn why the majority of people are such knobheads!! :)

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Originally Posted by probert_nova

i wish psychology was an easy subject, i really do!! but when you gotta start describing the parts of the brain and when neurons start releasing different chemicals such as sodium and pottasium at different action levels to keep stability. starts to become a sh*ter!

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And knowing that will help you get a job as an estate agent because?

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Originally Posted by mowgli

no, it was a shoddy test done in the sixties with americans....

the problem with psychology is thus:

If I tell someone they are a w*nker & they should stop being one & straighten themselves out , I am being a bully.

If a psychologist spends several months listening to someone ranting on about how their dad never got them the action man assault tower for Xmas, and they never plucked up the courage to talk to girls properly & they once got picked last for school pe, then tells the person to straighten themselves out, it is considered to be a cure.

most psychology is based on stuff that Freud came up with, and that man had an unhealthy obsession with people shagging their own mother...


most of us normal people teeter between sanity & insanity on a daily basis, we are full of self doubt & insecurity & really want to stand in the street & scream once in a while, but we don't bang on about it, we unwind & get on with life...

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:wall: Someones been reading a pop psychology book from the local library

A) You talking about psychiarty not psychology, theres a difference
B) Freud is one of many psychologists in the history of psychology. Most of psychology is NOT based on Freud. He only deals with the psychoanalytic paradigm. There is also cognititve psychology, social psychology, behavioursim, Biological psychology, humanism, existensialism, abnormal psychology... i really could go on
C) your'e refering to the Oedupus complex. At about the age of 6 a young boy has sexual feelings towards his mother that makes him resent his father beacuse he is seen as an obsticle to the mothers affections. So they compete with the father. In the end they indentify with father and become like them and the conflict is resolved. This also happends to girls but the other way around and is called the Electra complex.

Razorjack - I was using it as an example of psychology testing a theory and finding everyone had it wrong :)

Probert_nova - thanks :)

Yeah everyone does have a degree these days. We got given a careers catalogue and Aldi take anyone with a degree lol Unfortunatly I will finish my course next year and probably wont be able to get a job because of the ressession :(