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[yearningforsimplicity]

My study plan changes literally like thrice a week. It's ridiculous.

I'm trying to choose between Cognite Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology for next year but I just can't decide! Anyone have any advice? I won't have done a uni psych subject before then, if that makes a difference. Should I not do either? I'm really only interested in psych from an English/writing/sociology perspective, not a scientific one so much.

Haha definitely do personality and social psych! Cognitive psych is more abstract and it takes ages just to understand each study and its intricate details! Though I did like the Language lectures in cog psych but hated the rest haha only ever did cog psych because I had to!! However, in both personality and cognitive psych you're still going to hAve to do a "scientific" lab report (not an essay unfortunately - i wish there were essays!!) which makes up around 40% of your mark - but i think lab reports are okay so long as youre able to analyse your results and statistics properly and have a good background knowledge of the issue of the lab report e.g. In personality psych this sem we covered moral judgements and moral dilemmas in our lab report, which I found really cool!! Im pretty sure you'll find personality psych waaaaaaay easier than cog psych in terms of grasping concepts and understanding studies :-) both have multiple choice exams so i dont think that factor would make a difference:) if you're into essay writing, you can perhaps look into PSYC30014 - the psychopathology of everyday life I took this subj this sem along with cog and personality psych and it was AMAZING!!!! Best uni psych subj ever imo! the main assessment is an essay and the subject is basically all about mental disorders, abnormal psychology and the symtpoms and key features of each disorder - you learn about heaps of mental disorders from anxiety disorders, phobias, depression, bipolar, paraphilias, schizophrenia etc and the exam is also written extended answers so if thats your strength, you should look into its handbook entry

Also, there is an education breadth subject that is typically a Positive Psychology subject in disguise haha i took it last sem, its a level1 subject called "Wellbeing, Motivation and Performance"

[litaluta]

I guess biomed students have somehow an advantage here! I mean most of their subjects are fixed and there is not that many majors (like 37!!) they can choose!

the majors that I am marring and divorcing every day are :
Microbiology and Immunology or Immunology : many people in this forum loved it. and I am only good at memorizing stuff.
Cell and Developmental Biology : it is kindda like pure biology?! so it should be easy?!
Biotechnology: If Dawn didnt make me hate genetic due to this year midsem exam, I would absolutely take this without thinking about other options!
Psychology: again many people liked it...maybe I like it 2! who knows!

funny thing is each of them have their own second year core subject...kill me!

[charmanderp]

Probs do Personality/Social then!  I did Cog and it was good but a bit more Science-y I guess?

Mmm that's what I thought but Slumdawg said he liked Cognitive/that it's the best psych subject he's done so now I'm confused! Like I do really like sciencey stuff as well, just not sure which one I'd find more interesting. I hate decisions.

Honestly chose Biomed over Science because it meant I wouldn't have to choose subjects...contemplating majors makes me sick.

The options are so great though! Like with Arts I'm going to end up doing subjects from like 10 or 12 different faculties which is really cool. I'd hate to be locked in to only a few and not get to explore other interests/fields I wouldn't normally look into outside of formal schooling.

[charmanderp]

Haha definitely do personality and social psych! Cognitive psych is more abstract and it takes ages just to understand each study and its intricate details! Though I did like the Language lectures in cog psych but hated the rest haha only ever did cog psych because I had to!! However, in both personality and cognitive psych you're still going to hAve to do a "scientific" lab report (not an essay unfortunately - i wish there were essays!!) which makes up around 40% of your mark - but i think lab reports are okay so long as youre able to analyse your results and statistics properly and have a good background knowledge of the issue of the lab report e.g. In personality psych this sem we covered moral judgements and moral dilemmas in our lab report, which I found really cool!! Im pretty sure you'll find personality psych waaaaaaay easier than cog psych in terms of grasping concepts and understanding studies :-) both have multiple choice exams so i dont think that factor would make a difference:) if you're into essay writing, you can perhaps look into PSYC30014 - the psychopathology of everyday life I took this subj this sem along with cog and personality psych and it was AMAZING!!!! Best uni psych subj ever imo! the main assessment is an essay and the subject is basically all about mental disorders, abnormal psychology and the symtpoms and key features of each disorder - you learn about heaps of mental disorders from anxiety disorders, phobias, depression, bipolar, paraphilias, schizophrenia etc and the exam is also written extended answers so if thats your strength, you should look into its handbook entry

Also, there is an education breadth subject that is typically a Positive Psychology subject in disguise haha i took it last sem, its a level1 subject called "Wellbeing, Motivation and Performance"

Ugh you people are so amazing, thanks heaps! Do you reckon it would be madness to do a level 3 psych subject without having done a level 1 or 2 subject?

[simpak]

Microbiology and Immunology or Immunology : many people in this forum loved it. and I am only good at memorizing stuff.

There's sure a lot to memorise, but you'll struggle a bit if you don't catch on to scientific concepts too quickly.  Immunology and the prac subject mostly.

[simpak]

Ugh you people are so amazing, thanks heaps! Do you reckon it would be madness to do a level 3 psych subject without having done a level 1 or 2 subject?

No.  Is it the sleep one!  Do that.

[yearningforsimplicity]

Ugh you people are so amazing, thanks heaps! Do you reckon it would be madness to do a level 3 psych subject without having done a level 1 or 2 subject?

Haha no worries! and hmmm I think if youve got a stable knowledge of your research methods for Psych , you should be fine! I know that in PSYC30014 we didnt do any mathematical stats or statistical analyses (which was amazing) and it was really focused on the clinical side of psychology, like symptoms and key features of mental disorders and models to explain some mental health conditions (e.g. The transactional model of stress) and controversies surrounding disorders (e.g. Do we stigmatise people by labelling them as having a mental disorder?). So if you were going to take PSYC30014 without a level 1 or 2 psych subject, I wouldnt think that was crazy haha because that subj doesnt exclusively depend upon a lot of the annoying stats we had to learn in level 2 subjects haha but it is a psych subject after all and so its quite a bit of content to cover and memorise but if abnormal psychology is a field you find interesting then The content wont seem like that much

[vox nihili]

The options are so great though! Like with Arts I'm going to end up doing subjects from like 10 or 12 different faculties which is really cool. I'd hate to be locked in to only a few and not get to explore other interests/fields I wouldn't normally look into outside of formal schooling.

Yeah, I see what you mean, but it's just too hard to decide what to explore! So Biomed and core subjects are the way to go

[vox nihili]

Speaking of actually, does anybody know if you can take Intensive Latin as a level 2 or 3 subject rather than level 1? I know it has a level 2 and a level 3 code, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's regarded a level 2/3 subject does it? Really keen on underloading guys, so help plz

[LeviLamp]

There should be some flexibility, but you'll have to ask the faculty about it. I'm fairly sure it's possible, though; it allows for all year levels to take the subject without repercussions.

Side note: Dawn Gleeson just upmarked my eFly assignment (I don't know how much by, though, since she forgot to tell me), happy days
(She also upmarked the assignments of three friends by between 1 and 5 marks, what is life)

[scribble]

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WHO ELSE HAD THE TIME OF THEIR LIFE WRITING THEIR STUDENT NUMBER DOWN 37 TIMES IN TODAYS ESD EXSAMMMMM?!/!?!!!
and i shit you not, the invigilator who checks ids and stuff came around to me during writing time AND STARTED TELLING ME JOKES ABOUT ENGINEERS. in the silent exam hall. i was like ...wut... wut wut. IM IN AN EXAM ALL I WANT TO DO IS WRITE A FREAKING CODE TO REMOVE EXCESS ELEMENTS FROM A MATRIX LEAVE ME ALONE I JUST SPENT 5 MINUTES WRITING MY NUMBER DOWN 40 TIMES FOR YOU WHY WONT YOU JUST LET ME DO MY PAPER. Q____Q it was so sad.

[simpak]

Does anyone else have an exam tomorrow lol

[vox nihili]

There should be some flexibility, but you'll have to ask the faculty about it. I'm fairly sure it's possible, though; it allows for all year levels to take the subject without repercussions.

Side note: Dawn Gleeson just upmarked my eFly assignment (I don't know how much by, though, since she forgot to tell me), happy days
(She also upmarked the assignments of three friends by between 1 and 5 marks, what is life)

Cheers! I'll shoot off an e-mail..I've been meaning to for days, but I've been studying (which is code for procrastinating).

Wow, that's amazing that Dawn did that :| She's always so...grrr with us

[litaluta]

There's sure a lot to memorise, but you'll struggle a bit if you don't catch on to scientific concepts too quickly.  Immunology and the prac subject mostly.

this question sounds childish I know! but I was really good at (at least I thing I was ) memorizing all zoology and botany part of Genetics & The Evolution of Life! and on both bio and chem prac I was okay! main point = I didnt start to cry in the middle of each one!as I used to do in high school:D:D so do u think based on theseeee...I may survive Micro immuno?

and yeah...I have psych exam tomorrow at 8:30.. why not 9?...why they do this to us

[simpak]

Haha I'm not sure, it's a bit different for third year level immuno there's more critical thinking.  You have to memorise a load of ligands but there is proper application of the knowledge too as opposed to just regurgitation.

I have prac subject at 12 30 (written) and nobody knows what they are doing.