What are your honest thoughts about psychology?
What are your honest thoughts about psychology?
Henry Cooper
Nicholas Thomas
It's dumb.
Dominic Brown
makes humans look ignorant
Hunter Bell
90% of psychology is completely subjective per the individual. There for making it, to me, a form of pseudoscience. People will disagree.
Caleb Cox
Dunno why it hasn't been replaced entirely by neuroscience.
Luis Evans
not a science
Thomas Williams
>be in statistics class
>studying correlation test
>The Professors talks about how psychologists ditchs the mathematical basis of correlation and are satisfied with if there is " Association" or not
Psychologist can't even get statistical tests right, they will never be a science.
Colton Stewart
If you need to use complex statistical analysis of your data you're not doing real science anyway, just stamp collecting.
Wyatt Baker
Trends and justifications for human behavior/cognition isn't constant.
You can't make a law that says humans will always act like x or think like x given some situation.
Human behavior and though are more akin to microevolution. Some psychologists can say that this is the way it is and this is what you need to do to feel better, and they can be right-in their own mindframe, timeframe, within the cultural zeitgeist.
But as soon as timeframe,mindframe, and zeitgeist get changed the psychologst will have to re-evaluate, becuase his study,findings, and perscriptions won't work any more.
To understand behavior is literally an art.
Psychology itself should be placed more along side literature, or philosophy. Than couched in any of the hard sciences.
Also to note there is also alot of disinfo, and "boogeymen" that litter the field esp. the public perception of it. But do not be dissueded, any master of psychology will also be a master manipulator, and in that there is great power. Even more so than what one could accomplish with a gun and a few bullets. Which is why I feel there is such a stigma placed with it as well as what said. The field sounds spooky,shakey and ricketty, but once you get to the other side a golden paradise of personal power awakens.
Which I think is why we don't shift completley over to neuroscience model becuase we take Timothy Leary's 8 circuit model of consciousness, and expand that out and wer start treating other people as well as ourselves like robots, and cogs in a machine. Tomas Zasz has wrote extensively on the control the field of psychology has over society in general, because that field has offically become the "specialists" on what is normal and what is abnormal. GIven treatment modalities are trying to shift away from the clincial/medical model, but it still persists, and benzodiazepines are addictive as hell.
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Jaxson Foster
I also feel that when the medical community doesn't really have an asnwer for you.
Most likely becuase your insurance is cheap as fuck, and they don't really care enough about you as a person to put more than 20-30 minutes of researching shit online. So if their "efforts" turn up nothing they send you to a psychologist, neurologists, psych unit. becuase if they can't treat the symptom, maybe they can treat your perception of the symptom. And they are getting sick and tire of you pestering them when they have more wealthier clients they have to attend to.
psychology seems like a pit of despair.
A scientist can try to analyze it, but an author is the only one who truly understands it.
James Green
You can google Karl Popper's distinction between science and pseudo-science (psych), which sums it up for me.
Ayden Sullivan
It has a right to exist, since there are methods and drugs that actually help many people with mental health problems. Even though if something is "not a real science" by physics standard, where you could replicate everything, good things can still come off of researching a lot (i.e. observing a lot and trying out a lot of different treatments).
Think of it this way: medicine around the world did not work with statistical tests or papers that were tested for their replicability until maybe 100 or even 50 years ago. Still useful treatments where found through a lot of reasearch
Oliver Martin
For those espousing psychology isn't a science
It follow the same method of experimentation and protocols as medical science.
Medical science just uses alot more chemistry than psychology. They replace the chemistry with literature.
Kind funny how it was started by a physician.
Ethan Thomas
and theres the article everyone likes to bring up.
but then a few months afterwards they noticed that the experimenters replicating said tests, did it so slapshod its no wonder why they got largly different results
But when it was readjusted their conclusion fell in line with previous experiments and research.
Justin Evans
The Scientologists are right.
Michael Smith
There is nothing wrong with psychology. Its very important to study how people think and why they act in particular ways.
However, its credibility is being destroyed by girls with blue hair. Too many people are spouting their misinformed opinions and giving psychology a bad rep. Likewise far too many people seem to think Psychology starts and ends with Sigmund Freud and that everything he has said is irrefutable. Freudism is like some sort of horrible cult.
Samuel Davis
fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
The earliest psychologists described perfectly the constants of human existence. All Psychologists and science has done since then is partially validate the origional theories or simply lie for money.
Easton Clark
depends which kind of psychology.
Wyatt Stewart
>Asking opinions on Veeky Forums
You've made a great mistake friend.
Joshua Sanders
Analytical Psychology is pretty cool, but you gotta look at without any judgment and take everything with a grain of salt.
Jason Sanchez
Cool pic
Andrew Hill
Because Jews fund psychology. Freud was a kike himself.
Oliver Walker
Too much bullshit "empirical" statistics, not enough real (abstract/inductive) math. If it embraced shit like Category Theory, it might actually have a shot at providing legitimately interesting and falsifiable hypotheses/models to test.
Frankly, the old school "psychoanalysts" were probably closer to building real scientific models than the hodgepodge of psychology bs we have now.
Luke Phillips
There is still a reproducibility crisis even if that paper exaggerated it.