Hi, I've been around here for some time now; decided to write something about myself

My name im Tom, I'm a psychology student plus I work as a information architect (this is fun ) in one of the polish "new media" agencies.

I know Lim-Dul from RL - have won like 6 EUR from him in poker once (btw. Lim old chap, I say we rematch) - also we were clan buddies.

I have played TF2 for about a year now - however I don't seem getting any better in it.
Other games I play: CIV IV (also new colonization) and Portal. Hm, that's it.

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Welcome!!
I am a psychology student as well so nothing to be ashamed of haha

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I miss my pownie

Seen you around for a while mate

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You'll Feel A Little Prick

Hey there!
Yay! Civ rules, Portal too. How is Colonization? Only read good things about it yet.

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hello there! welcome to the forums!

welcome to the forum (even though you've been here for some time) ^^

Howdy

Psychology students ftl!

Welcome chap

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Yo, kato! ^^

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

Guttentag

Hey buddy!

I like you, hope you like me too!

thx for all the replys

Yes, psychology, nothing to be ashamed of. Although still it's pseudoscience. I mean major part of clinical, whole personality, some part of social psychology. Cognitive, neurocognitive and evolutionary are ok

Regarding colonization - sue me but I have never played the original The new one however seems like fun - If you have played CIV IV before it will be basicly like huge, detailed mod. My friend who spent hours over old col. said it's like the old one with new graphics. Works for me

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I have some concerns regarding your avatar now...
Never played the good ol' Colonization? Dude... that's a shame . So most ppl are telling the same about the game... need to buy it... but this has to wait.

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fjew, i'm a neuroscience person haha

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The most I like the clinical parts, neuropsych. biopsych. and a big part of diagnosis. But there's a big part i really don't like. All that statistics crap, social psych, etc.
Next to that the whole scientific world has so much bias in every empirical research strategy. Scientist tend to forget that when there's a small chance your research findings are based on chance (alpha of 5%) , ergo they say that your research findings have the highest probability to be true and it often get's translated as "that is true", that there's still that chance that it ain't true. The chance of ppl getting hit by lightning or winning the lottery is fokkin small as well, but it still happens right?
Millions of theories who are believed as true now, will be proven wrong in 10 years. Millions of ppl still having Freud very high in there list while Freud was one of the biggest drug fiend, coke snorring mofo out there. Psychology is very much in their baby shoes,even when you considder the whole scientific world rests on the shoulders of the old philosophers. Philosophy which was on it's turn the father of psychology. A couple of hundred years back the line between a philosopher and a psychologists was namely very vague. Still , major interesting stuff, don't get me wrong, but it has loads of major flaws as well.
On top of this all, there are wayyyyyyyy too many psychology majors in the world, so when you do finish your major, you'll have to stand out to be noticed. Nice and interesting study, get's thought of lightly by all those students who get good grades by only looking at resumes of the matter, but in the end, it's a pretty hard profession.
The idea of having a profession with my study does sound very good though
What d'you wanna do with it? Psychotherapy? That's a bit the side I wanna go to. Start of with psychotherapy and eventually start or manage a different form of therapy and help for the ones in need.

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Basically I like these parts of psychology which revolve around brain activity, evolution or have strong foundations in experimental data. Every theory that goes beyond observed facts is purely bullshish for me. One of the worst: humanistic psychology. And also here comes statistics... I don't understand why don't like it... it is the statistics that stand between senor Freud and the scientist. Note: Freud - Fraud.
Regarding false theories - the vast majority of them are non-falsifiable. Meaning (from my POV) they really shouldn't be treated as theories. That's why I don't like psychology very much Or rather don't have much respect to many of so called psychologies.

I liked the idea of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy - it's like telling somebody - ok, we are not sure what's going on in your head, but if you follow these steps it will probably get better Not some holistic, psychodynamic bullshit.

There are WAY to many psychology majors - I totally agree. Most of them end up in HR-related fields, not doing any research. Which is ok, I guess. Well, you have to admit that psychology isn't the hardest subject to learn. Use common sense (maybe a little bit twisted ) and you should be fine during your exams. At least it works for me. Maybe that's the couse of so many psychologies Of course if you want something more than it is much more complicated with all the new experiments coming up every month, and so on.

I'm not that into helping people Maybe in a way - by designing usable, fun, desirable, kind and smart interfaces. That's pretty much what I do now (mainly for the web now) and what I'll probably do in the future. There is a whole field of study regarding usability, user experience and so on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction

You can conduct experiments to determine usability of a product (site, anything), use fancy equipment (eye-tracker), do some field research, understand others' points of view and eventually design interactions, interface, information to suit user's needs.

And there is a pretty strong link between psychology and HCI, so it's not like I'm studying something completly useless for my future profession

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What's up Tom?

Totally agree with you guys.
I'm still in my first year now, but it is so f.cking easy uptill now. O my god, the difference between biomedical scienice (my main study) and psychology is HUGE. And now my tutor told me that the first semester is the hardest one. I almost died of laughing over there. On the other side it is good, because then I still have some time left for social things in stead of just schoolschoolschool hehe.
Psychology is just my second study, I want to learn more about the psychological part of the brain. In my biomedical course it is only the physiological part that matters. So I hope to end up in the biomedical research and do research about brain diseases, and hopefully I will be a promovendus (that's not the right word is it.. ) sometime hehe. But I also like the clinical part, so a combo would be very nice. Also because of the fact that I want to start a family some day. Don't want to be a very old mam haha. I think that clinical work is easier to combine with children then research work. So I want to do something like clinical neuropsychology in psychology, and neuroscience in my biomedical study. A combined master would be nice. But don't think that is possible. We will see. Long road to go hehe.

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All the psychology students I know over here have to work quite hard for getting through.

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It's the same here.

Mummy Miek Somehow that makes me smile hehehehehe (I see a dreadlocked baby playing hardcore tracks with a TF2 tattoo and SpA goldplated teeth )

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hahaha that makes me laugh too

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feel welcum m8

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