What is Psychology?
1.
Psychology is everyone's major at some point during their college career.
Me: What are you majoring in? (Dont you dare say psychology)
Random Person: Psychology.
Me: OOOOH exciting.
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2.
The study of human thought and behaviour. A social scientific subject which can trace its origins back to ancient Greece.
Psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy are all different.
3.
It's an interesting class to take for a semester, but anyone that majors in it is really just trying to figure themselves out. All the people with psych degrees are usually the most messed up, they think the more they learn the more they might figure out their own problems. Then they graduate, and tell other people whats wrong with them...it's healthy, I swear
Jack: How is your semester going?
Jill: It's so stressful, I have started throwing up all my food again, and I hate my family, and I hear voices, and I think I might have the ugliest nose on the continental United States.
Jack: What's your major?
Jill: Psychology! I'm going to help people someday!
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4.
An interesting discipline no doubt, but not without its share of problems. For more on those, see
Psychology is good, psychologists are bad.
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5.
The section of Borders bookstore where all the porn is hidden, believe it or not.
Dude, have you been the psychology section before? There's a whole wall of erotica in there! You've GOT to check it out!
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6.
is generally defined as the science of behavior and mental processes and the application of the resulting findings to the solution of problems.
The word thus simultaneously refers to a science (involving the study of the behavior of humans and animals) and to various interventions (treatments and therapies) in the mental processes and behavioral patterns of people. It is a branch of science that studies the cognitive, perceptual, and behavioural characteristics of human beings. The "how and why" of our behavior.
"To cause an organism to respond in a specific manner to a conditioned stimulus in the absence of an unconditioned stimulus."
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7.
A degree you can get on
-Two guys watching TV-
Friend 1: Doesn't that guy have
Stockholm Syndrome ?
College Grad Friend: Yes, Stockholm Syndrome is where the vi-
Friend 1: -the victim is, for some reason, attracted to the attacker.
College Grad Friend: Who told you that?
Friend 1: I read it on
Wikipedia , for free, with the $3000 laptop I got from investing my folks'college money instead of wasting it on a psychology degree.
College Grad: -_-, u suck
See
1.
Psychology is everyone's major at some point during their college career.
Me: What are you majoring in? (Dont you dare say psychology)
Random Person: Psychology.
Me: OOOOH exciting.
See
2.
The study of human thought and behaviour. A social scientific subject which can trace its origins back to ancient Greece.
Psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy are all different.
3.
It's an interesting class to take for a semester, but anyone that majors in it is really just trying to figure themselves out. All the people with psych degrees are usually the most messed up, they think the more they learn the more they might figure out their own problems. Then they graduate, and tell other people whats wrong with them...it's healthy, I swear
Jack: How is your semester going?
Jill: It's so stressful, I have started throwing up all my food again, and I hate my family, and I hear voices, and I think I might have the ugliest nose on the continental United States.
Jack: What's your major?
Jill: Psychology! I'm going to help people someday!
See
4.
An interesting discipline no doubt, but not without its share of problems. For more on those, see
Psychology is good, psychologists are bad.
See
5.
The section of Borders bookstore where all the porn is hidden, believe it or not.
Dude, have you been the psychology section before? There's a whole wall of erotica in there! You've GOT to check it out!
See
6.
is generally defined as the science of behavior and mental processes and the application of the resulting findings to the solution of problems.
The word thus simultaneously refers to a science (involving the study of the behavior of humans and animals) and to various interventions (treatments and therapies) in the mental processes and behavioral patterns of people. It is a branch of science that studies the cognitive, perceptual, and behavioural characteristics of human beings. The "how and why" of our behavior.
"To cause an organism to respond in a specific manner to a conditioned stimulus in the absence of an unconditioned stimulus."
See
7.
A degree you can get on
-Two guys watching TV-
Friend 1: Doesn't that guy have
Stockholm Syndrome ?
College Grad Friend: Yes, Stockholm Syndrome is where the vi-
Friend 1: -the victim is, for some reason, attracted to the attacker.
College Grad Friend: Who told you that?
Friend 1: I read it on
Wikipedia , for free, with the $3000 laptop I got from investing my folks'college money instead of wasting it on a psychology degree.
College Grad: -_-, u suck
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