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What can you do with a psychology major?
In Psychology you can expect to study the mind, its functions and how it influences human behavior and so much more. Basically, Psychology is the study of how the human mind works. If you possess a strong desire to help people and could see yourself working as a therapist, counselor, or child development specialist, then this might be the right major for you!
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:21 - What is Psychology + Why study it
3:19 - What do you really study + Course progression
5:13 - Who should study Psychology
5:50 - Common pitfalls
7:21 - What can you do with Psychology + Next steps
10:00 - Conclusion
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Psychology isn't a "useless" major. No, it doesn't teach you the technical skills employers want,. But the soft skills your learn-like how people interact with each other, learn and behave is useful in advertising, bussiness, human rescources, law and marketing and mangement.
Idk where you live but I've learnt a lot of technical skills in my psychology degree in the UK, like using SPSS and R
Mine taught statistics, the research process, and scientific literacy.
Hello to anyone considering psychology as a major! I double majored in psychology and neuroscience with the intent of going into research. I absolutely loved my classes and found them super interesting. However, I worked in a developmental cognitive neuroscience lab for 3 semesters, and decided I just couldn't make that my career. I was spending the whole day at the computer, and so was everyone else in the lab. I needed more hands on work. So I became a middle school science teacher, earning my license and master's in secondary education as I taught. I may continue on this path, or I have been considering getting into education at museums/zoos. I also looked into occupational therapy, and my psych degree could be a good foundation for that program as well. Just thought I'd share my story for anyone it might help!
thank you, this helps as i’ve been thinking ab many of those careers as well!!
Thanks! I have been a little worried about choosing this degree.
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I'm a Senior. Psychology Major. I need to pick a minor or second major. I still don't know what my "thing" is. But I need to pull myself together and find it. I chose Psychology in the first place because it's the universal degree--I just don't know what subfields to go into.
My favorite part of an intro to psych class at MIT was when the professor brought in his two young daughters to do a “Sally-Anne test”, demonstrating how one was old enough to have developed “theory of mind” but the other wasn’t. It was so cute!
I am currently a psychology major at my community college and I’m starting to think I don’t want to do psychology anymore or I just really don’t know what job I want after I end up finishing at least my bachelors degree. I just really wish there was a guide for all the jobs you could go with with a psychology degree. And not the obvious ones. Like a spreadsheet or something with descriptions and stuff.
Would also like to point out that psychology isn't just for people who want to 'help people'. For example, I'm doing a degree in experimental psychology which is focused on cognitive psychology, neuroscience and conducting research. It's perfect for people who are interested in science and human functioning, but not so much in the counseling aspect of things. We also learn a lot of skills that usually aren't expected from psychology majors, like lots of statistics, data-analysis and programming.
But have your psych studies helped you to answer the world’s greatest question?
WHY is gamora?
Jk lol. Thanks for the info! :)
@@madisonmeyers3907 Sadly that question remains unanswered as of yet.. It'll be the subject of my thesis :p
The world needs this information! Also crazy you responded when you did, the new trailer just dropped a few hours ago 😂
@@madisonmeyers3907 Oh damn you're right, coincidence? I think not lol
Are there any specific careers you’re looking to go into with your degree? I was considering going into experimental psych as well
I recommend that if you want to get a BA in psychology, you need to treat the degree as a supplement to your resume, rather than it being the main focus. I feel that most employers don't care about a BA in psychology, because it doesn't provide practical, direct skills that they can utilize from you. For instance, if we consider a career like sales, would you want to hire someone who has work experience in sales or some fresh undergrad who only knows theories about human behavior yet no work experience in sales or business? The answer is quite obvious.
Thus, if you are going to school for this degree, you really should plan out your career while you are in school (preferably starting by your second year or first transfer year), so you have a plan of what career or jobs you could get post-graduation. Do networking (attend gatherings and workshops, get to know people at your summer jobs or internships, reach out to people who you think could be a mentor) and try to get practical work experience by volunteering, doing internships or even if you are lucky, working a job similar to the field you may be interested once you graduate. Showing employers that you have work experience or something related to it, I personally think is the key to success when transitioning from graduating to finding a job/career.
If you can double major into something a bit more useful which teaches you practical skills related to the field of work you are interested in working in, I think you will be better off in the long run or hypothetically at least. Real life gets in the way for a lot of people, which prevents them from going to grad school right away, so it's good to have back up plans.
Just to emphasize: there is no clear path to a job or career if you only have a BA or BS in psychology, so you need to be prepared to find your own path.
me, a freshman in high school watching this: yes yes this is very essential to my learning right now
1.Women: instinct, emotion, reason 2. Men: instinct, reason, then emotion. 3. Most psychology can be derived from biology. There you go
You have 2 - 3 years before you'll want to know for sure what major you want to be (of course, you can enter college without knowing, but that might mean you have to stay an extra year, etc). This would actually be a good think to start thinking about. Don't feel like you absolutely need to know what you want to do anytime soon, but taking a variety of classes in high school will introduce you to a lot of new topics. Maybe you'll find one you really like, and from there you can decide what you might want to major in.
Social work career is good
I wish I knew that it takes more than a bachelors degree in psychology to become a psychologist when I started studying! If that’s one thing I could change about my study it would be to be more aware about the post grad requirements to actually practice as a clinical psychologist as well as the competitiveness
Averages are good, but I'd like to see a median salary listing as well to give a better picture of career aspects
I'm graduating soon with a Psychology degree and although I loved learning about people and behavior, I discovered I didn't like the research and heavy science aspect of it. I'm unsure of what I want to do career wise, but I'm thankful that it seems to be a relatively flexible degree to be applied in other fields.
I'm in your same position, not sure what to do next honestly
@@Lhuaaaa You have tons of options! If you like the direct action of helping others, you may want to consider going into a field like education, counseling, or social work (many of these jobs are available with a bachelor's in psych, although for some a masters opens up your options a lot). If you prefer the soft skills taught you can easily find careers in business, particularly HR and marketing, consulting, or nonprofit! Requirements can vary from area to area so I can't give concrete advice on whether or not you should pick up a minor or a few classes, but it never hurts to spend some time on job sites and seeing what requirements are listed. I've seen many jobs that don't even care what your degree is in as long as you have one!
@@misanthropy3801 I’m hoping to eventually major in psychology and become a therapist, school counselors, or a teacher!! Im not sure yet since I’ve still got a bit, but I love finding out how our brains react and change from the courses of our lives, and how I can help people with that knowledge!
I feel this. Same exact situation. I don't know where i fit in and it's a horrible feeling to have when you are about to graduate after spending thousands of dollars. Atleast it's a well rounded degree
Can you please elaborate on the heavy science please? I'd like to know more about that
I'm currently a psychology major in Canada, and I think this video did a great job of explaining the program! In Canada we have the option at many schools to take Psych as either a bachelor of science or a bachelor of arts, which is a great option to have.
That's really interesting. But what difference does that make exactly? does it affect your job choices?
I can only speak on my experience in my home country, Portugal, studying Psychology.
I'm a third year so i dont have a lot of experience yet, but i have some already, and i feel this video is a bit reductionist in terms of what is studied in these types of courses. Operant conditioning is important of course, but i feel like psychology has gone beyond studying solely behavior, and more so perception. For example, social psychology analyses behavior, but the objective is not to understand behavior in a vacuum, but to understand how perception, belief and personality have an effect on society as a whole.
Clinical theory leans much harder in this direction, behavior isnt a reliable source of information when in a clinical sense, you cant see your patients behavior in his or her own daily happenings, you gotta hear about it. Irvin Yalom even advised you develop "Rabbit ears", spotting inconsistencies in the narrative told by the patient. Once again, narrative and perception, not behavior.
Something i can agree on is that you gotta be open-minded! Psychology is profoundly disturbing sometimes. There is murder, suicide, pedophilia, all these are a part of the human condition. In clinical settings youll have clients who are attracted to children, bygots, violent people, and althought this is the exception rather than the norm, you gotta be open-minded enough to understand there is a less destructive pathway for these people, and that its your job to help them.
For anyone thinking about going to psychology, if you're endlessly curious about how people think and why and you're an understanding person, even to a degree some might find excessive, go for it! It is a personal and professional journey in equal amounts :)
ok i love psychology and its gonna be my major but i do want you to know that instead of believing everything everyone tells you about other people's brains like those with mental disorders you should talk to the people with those mental disorders and ask questions them/we dont experience it in the same ways they say we do and they dont listen to us to create the college ciriculum
One thing I wish I would have known before I chose my degree was what entry level jobs paid. Average salary statistics are so misleading. Do a job search in your local area, or areas you want to live, than compare to cost of living in that area. As a first generation college grad no one prepares you for the harsh reality of balancing student loans and food, rent, etc.
I'm looking forward to your physics and engineering videos if you decide to make them :)
Thank you so much for this series!! I'm currently deciding on a college major (or the European equivalent) and these are SO helpful
The interdisciplinary field of neuroscience is a real possibility as well! There’s so much you can do with a psychology degree! I’m currently a neuro PhD student. If you want to learn more, ask!
Thank you guys so much for making this series!!! An amazing idea that is so needed right now. I'm sending it to my little brother!
This is extremely helpful. Thank you for making this video.
Thank you for these. I was the first in my family to go to university and likely would have chose a different path if I knew what else was out there.
Psychology was my dream major since I was in middle school, I wanted to be a researcher. There is something that I want to learn a lot, it's about emotional numbness. I think as the information technology keeps growing rapidly, many people tend to barely communicate in 'real life', and that causes some kind of loss feeling of presentation that causes the 'numbness'. I've experienced it myself, I thought that I was the only one but as I started talking about this with several people, they felt the same at some moment in their life. I live in a developed country where having a certain mental health condition is still considered odd and shameful and many people don't really understand how the enviroment can make huge impacts for happiness and productivity. I was struggling so much in high school because of my family condition (divorce), financial condition, and the teachers who heartlessly don't care for students who's craving for education. After all I did well in school eventhough I didn't do as best as I think I could. Psychology major here doesn't offer many opportunities to get a job, especially in researching field. Most of them ended up if not being an HR, then switch to even unrealated career. I know that if I just do my best at thing I want to persue I can make changes, but still I'm scared this will lead me nowhere, because I don't have the time and money to just 'try it' and see what'll happen
Commenting to help the algorithm, more information about things like this is a good thing
I wish I would've seen this channel before starting university. This is amazing resource, thanks!🌟
Can you guys please do neuroscience? I’m choosing between psychology or neuroscience and it would be so helpful. Thank you for this program at all!! Thank you to the study hall team!!
I took ap psych last year and this pretty much seemed like an easy review. If this seems interesting I suggest taking the class if ur school offers it. It is a ton of work tho. Upwards of 1,000 terms learned throughout the year.
Gosh, that animation was incredable
Can yall do one on social work please? I feel like it is so broad and yet I don’t know what I can do with it
I'm currently a junior in high school and am taking psychology this year and, like it. Next semester I signed up for developmental psychology at my school 🏫.
1.Women: instinct, emotion, reason 2. Men: instinct, reason, then emotion. 3. Most psychology can be derived from biology. There you go
Hey, Study Hall. I was wondering if this series is too focused on colleges in the United States and not al over the world. An informed decision would include all the choices right? So isn’t restricting yourself to the US already narrow?
Thanks
I think it'd be good to at least have an episode about opportunities to study abroad.
That being said, study hall and crash course specifically target US American students. They are even partly funded through PBS, a public broadcasting organisation of the US government (if I understand everything correctly).
Imo it's ok for the channel to pick a focus. Although I am a little sad bc I'm European myself
Please make a fast guide about genetics and molecular biology
Would love to see an episode on nursing!
Nursing is on the way. You can check out future episodes at gostudyhall.com
Hey study Hall, Thank you from Cavendish University Zambia
Please discuss Graphic Design Major! 😍😇🙏
Engineering graduate here! I’m sure you’ll get to engineering, but here’s my advice on majoring in engineering: 1. The basis of engineering if problem solving. If you like solving real-world problems, its a great path to follow. While there are foundational courses in math and science that you need, they are just tools that help follow the engineering design/thought process, so don’t base your engineering prowess on how you do in those classes. 2. You need to enter college committed to the engineering department if you’re interested in it. Switching to an engineering major from something else can add many years and expenses to your college degree because engineering-specific courses usually start during your first term. While people do it, the people I know regret not starting sooner. Conversely, if you transfer out of engineering, many of your fundamental classes may not transfer to other majors. 3. Engineering is becoming a 5 year degree. The extra year seems to be coming from work experience. Completing internships/co-ops is really helpful for engineering students. But that also adds time and potentially costs. 4. After college, you’ll probably need a masters degree or a Professional Engineer license depending on your field to move up in your career. The PE license requires some additional studying, tests, and work experience that I did not know about when I started college. Luckily, the work I wanted to do does not require a PE, but I am planning on getting a masters.
the foundations of logic and physics is the best for critical thinking. Psychology is derived from biology and can be learned in a year
awww the u of i shoutout was so cute
Very nice ❤
I thought this was going to be in order seeing as the first video was Anthropology so I was a little confused when the next major was Psychology. Although, now that I think about it there are a few majors that would've gone before Anthropology.
Regardless, I was looking forward to the Psychology video since I don't really understand the major.
I would love to see a video on Music degrees
I started my college career as a music major (in trombone performance) at Northwestern University. Then I transferred to Berklee College of Music as a piano major. Then I left school to play with a rock band. In retrospect, I should have completed my 4-year degree at NU as originally planned. Having said that, unless you plan on an academic career which will require a Masters or PhD, probably the best thing you can do for your music career is (1) find a good teacher, (2) practice your butt off, (3) play out as often as possible in any situation that presents itself, and (4) take any audition you can get. Go for it!
Discuss film majors!!!!!!
Dear Study Hall, just a request, could you please do a Fast Guide to Computer Engineering sometimes in the future
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Hey study hall, please do a guide on economics 🔥😍
Noted, thanks for the suggestion!
Or anyway it wants to go right computer science and psychology that's what I want to attempt how do I do that in a sensible fear way can I minor in the psychology and major in computer science or should I minor computer science and major in psychology
What if I want to do psychology minor and computer science as my major how would that be useful
Do sociology!
Cool
ABA? Really? I mean great video and all, it's just that ABA is highly unethical and should not be used for anyone, especially the target audience (people with autism). Just putting that out there. Otherwise, I'm the type of person who's very interested in personality psychology in particular, so thanks for the video!
Can I know if any college provide masters degree in experimental psychology and social work
Applied behavior analysis is abuse
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I didn't even know there was was a thing called Political Psychology 🤯
There is psychology studies for vary topic and discipline! For example artistic psychology and many more
me, studying psychology: yeah why do people study psychology?
I love that the April's Fools episode of Fast Guides is Psychology. I find that so fitting.
Why? Do you consider psychiatric research and methods of therapy unworthy of pursuit/useless?
@@LikeTheProphet My views would be considerably more nuaunced than that. I think that among the hard-ish sciences, Psychology has struggled to find a foothold. My own experience with psychologists has led me to the conclusion that it takes very little evidence to convince them of what they want to believe and mountains of evidence to convince them of something they find counter-intuitive. But I think the replication crisis and other recent problems have started to raise a generation of researchers that are trying to develop more riggerous and robust research methods. I would personally find it fascinating but not surprising if the next couple generations saw a change in psychology analogous to the change from alchemy to chemistry. As it stands, it's what we've got and it's going to be better than nothing.
@@sthelenskungfu You need to remember that Psychology is a relatively (but necessary) interdisciplinary science.
Spot on releasing a psychology video on April fool's day
Why do you think such a thing?
@EllzBellz likely because OP believes, like many others, that the study of psychology is one dimensional and is only ever lucrative in a capitalist society when pursuing a graduate degree in counseling. I’m a psychology grad, husband, father, and veteran. My pursuit of psychology is guided by my passion to help those afflicted with anxiety disorders as a result of trauma. I’m now pursuing a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology researching learning and memory. Specifically how we learn to fear and the molecular basis of fear in hopes of informing possible novel treatments for those suffering. April fools?
1.Women: instinct, emotion, reason 2. Men: instinct, reason, then emotion. 3. Most psychology can be derived from biology. There you go
Biological determinism, a view that was really en vogue in Psychology like 70 years ago, then the cognitive revolution happend. A paradigme shift in scientific thinking. Today, we view human behavior as a complex result of the interaction of biological, social and psychological factors. One of the most recent addition to this model is epigenetics. Research found that not only do our genes influence our behavior, but in fact, our behavior influences our genes, too! Different gene alleles can be turned on and off depending what we experience, think and behave. For instance, people who lived through a traumatic experience showed a specific change in their gene alleles. However, those that did psychotherapy, later showed their original allele configutation! An indication of the effect of psychotherapy. One question that is still up to debate is whether the epigenetic changes to our genes are passed on to future generations or not.
No
nope buddy
Incorrect