Applied Psychology

Lucario

Does anyone do this course? What's it like, in terms of being difficult, interesting, lecturers, etc? Also why is it called 'applied' psychology and not just psychology?

Steba

It all depends on your interests! Overall, it is a difficult course but if you think you have an interest in it, then you'll find it easy to study. It's quiet scientific in the way that it really draws a line between pop psychology and scientific psychology.

If you're taking this course then you really need to be able to sit down and read. Simple as that. You need to be constructive with how you see things as well. Ask why about everything! There's no real way to know if this course will suit you if you start comparing leaving cert subjects with it. If you're good at English its a great help as your assignments have to sound as academic as possible, but that said, I got a C3 in high for my leaving and I got on fine for first year!
One thing I will say is that its not about being able to read people or psychoanalysis them, its got a bit to do with biology, applying it to today's society and you look at a lot of historical experiment.

Lucario

Steba wrote: »

It all depends on your interests! Overall, it is a difficult course but if you think you have an interest in it, then you'll find it easy to study. It's quiet scientific in the way that it really draws a line between pop psychology and scientific psychology.

If you're taking this course then you really need to be able to sit down and read. Simple as that. You need to be constructive with how you see things as well. Ask why about everything! There's no real way to know if this course will suit you if you start comparing leaving cert subjects with it. If you're good at English its a great help as your assignments have to sound as academic as possible, but that said, I got a C3 in high for my leaving and I got on fine for first year!
One thing I will say is that its not about being able to read people or psychoanalysis them, its got a bit to do with biology, applying it to today's society and you look at a lot of historical experiment.

Oh really? I was kind of looking forward to being able to 'read' people and such. So would you say this is a different course to Psychology, such as in NUIG or UCD? I've this course down as my 3rd choice and I just want to make sure I'm not making a mistake

Steba

Get away from that idea as much as you can, I mean by the end of it you'll have a good grasp on behaviourisms and group process's ect. But it's not about, oh his left eye lid is slightly raised, HE MUST BE LYING! It's a lot more applied to society rather than the individual.

To be honest, if you're going for this, you'd want a good interest in how and why society and groups work the way they do. I find it immensely interesting anyway! Just get ready for a load of terms ending in "ism" "ology" ect and copious amounts of readings! ( In first year 80% of it is optional anyway! )

Lucario

Steba wrote: »

Get away from that idea as much as you can, I mean by the end of it you'll have a good grasp on behaviourisms and group process's ect. But it's not about, oh his left eye lid is slightly raised, HE MUST BE LYING! It's a lot more applied to society rather than the individual.

To be honest, if you're going for this, you'd want a good interest in how and why society and groups work the way they do. I find it immensely interesting anyway! Just get ready for a load of terms ending in "ism" "ology" ect and copious amounts of readings! ( In first year 80% of it is optional anyway! )

Hahaha :pac:

It still sounds interesting, so I'm going to still leave it on my CAO. However I'm leaning more towards Psychology in NUIG or maybe UCD. Thanks for your help though

Steba

Oh well if it's a question of college's UCC is by far the best :L Ignore the bias of this being posted on the UCC forum.
But I'm fairly sure all the psychology courses are more the less the same. Anyway Good luck!