No I'd definately say it's a science... and a lot of the the psych grads not going all the way with their degree (Hons+Masters) end up number-crunching stats for a living...dour.MaryJane said:Technically, psych is a humanities subject, and there are heaps of us!
Meh, I think its what you make of it. I hate science and anything mathsy based, but love all social psych etc, which I would classify as humanities. But I can def. see the science part of psych (eg. cognition, perception and who can forget stat...GoodToGo said:No I'd definately say it's a science... and a lot of the the psych grads not going all the way with their degree (Hons+Masters) end up number-crunching stats for a living...dour.
Yeah, I almost stayed in psych cos of Kip Williams and his Social Psych component of PSY105. Cognition and Biopsych just did my head inMaryJane said:Meh, I think its what you make of it. I hate science and anything mathsy based, but love all social psych etc, which I would classify as humanities. But I can def. see the science part of psych (eg. cognition, perception and who can forget stat...)
You're lucky you got out while you still had the chance... now I'm stuck! (well, not really, I could change at any moment, but I've only got one more sciency psych left before I can do all the "airy fairy crap" -quote Jamie- that I like)GoodToGo said:Yeah, I almost stayed in psych cos of Kip Williams and his Social Psych component of PSY105. Cognition and Biopsych just did my head in![]()
hehe. and somehow after knocking social psych, i ended up going better in that than the cogition/perception unit.. this makes choosing my 3rd year psych units very difficult. should i do the units with the airy fairy exams.. or the science ones (which would seem harder now). sigh. i could do bits of each i guess.MaryJane said:You're lucky you got out while you still had the chance... now I'm stuck! (well, not really, I could change at any moment, but I've only got one more sciency psych left before I can do all the "airy fairy crap" -quote Jamie- that I like)
ANDAsyLum said:Cos arts students dont know how to use computers, duh!