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!