5 Things to Know Before Taking Psychology Courses

Knowing what to expect in a psychology course can help you prepare mentally, as well as strategically. Psychology is not about learning manipulate tactics or why someone does what. Yes, psychology course gives you theories and concepts to help you make inferences into people's behaviour, but it is not really just that. In this video, we talk about 5 misconceptions or things you actually learn in a psychology course. Enjoy!

Script: Lyndsay Brauch
Animation: Grace Cárdenas Cano

Feedback Editor: Risha Maes
Project Manager: Erin Bogo
Producer: Psych2Go

[psychotrickser]

I haven't learned analyzing myself by learning psychology. I've learned psychology by analyzing myself.
If you want to understand other people, you have to understand yourself...

[jamilmalik]

I want to take up a Psychology degree... because I want to help people who're suffering mentally just like me

[phoebeavelino]

Still in 9th grade and already worrying about which course to take lmao.

[me]

Fun fact there was a famous gangster from Liverpool, England known as The Devil who studied psychology so he could better torture drug dealers for their money. You've got to respect that level of commitment that you basically erarn professional degrees solely to be a better criminal.

[ajstar]

Just in time, I'm going to start a psychology class in a few days

[truemobsterz]

I feel like psychology opens up a whole new level to life and is very interesting.

[inhalatorrr]

"do not analyze ppl" THATS THE ONLY THING IAM DOING AT HIGH SCHOOL... not going to stop, sry bro

[akelanefertari]

When I tell people what my major is, some are like "oh please don't read my mind" and that is the most annoying thing ever lol at first it was funny but now it's just like please stop

[imonlyhuman]

I'm always interested to learn Psychology. I was going to take Psychology for bachelor degree. But my father didn't allow me, and then I took Communication, gratefully it has psychology classes even though it was not enough. Thanks Psych2go for giving me information more about psychology ❤️❤️❤️🌻🌻🌻🌻

[artiemauve]

I've always wanted to be a therapist, or at least work in the field of psychology. I haven't taken any courses yet, but I want to within the next year or so (I'm entering sophomore year). Thanks for the video, this was very helpful!

[zmijozmajo]

There are some key missing points here. First, to say that psychology is often referred to as the "relationship between brain functions and behavior or environment" is kinda dangerous to say to the audience and also incorrect. The thing about psychology is, even though there is empirical research going on, there are still many different "schools" (behaviorism, psychoanalysis, humanistic approaches, gestalt etc) which all look at people's behavior from different angles. This is kind of a thing that we had in natural sciences a few hundred years ago when there was no universal consensus. The definition of psychology stated is simply incorrect because it makes a person believe that if they take psychology class that it is going to be biologically focused, which is only one of the perspectives you must take when trying to grasp something as complex as the mind, actually this definition is closer to a field called cognitive neuroscience. If you truly want to approach the field of psychology without becoming too conservative, I advise you to read something on philosophy of mind, philosophy of social sciences and epistemology before starting with psychology per se, it will give you a perspective on which aspects of the human mind can actually be measured (in a scientific way), and why you don't want to disregard something about the mind as a psychologist in your practice (depending on your subfield) just because it can not be truly empirically tested.

[MathewAGTales]

If you're a professional psychologist, you must have a moustache.

[GetPsyched]

A brilliant video. Starting out in psychology is always exciting! I would recommend it to everyone but there are always things to be aware of. Like you say, psychology is massive and there is so much to learn, one benefit of an introductory course is to find what area of psychology you are most interested in. thanks again for another great video.

[Rainbowthehedgehog]

I'm currently majoring in Psychology and going for a minor in art. I didn't need to take the General Psychology (beginners class) course due to the fact I passed my AP psychology exam back in high school so I got extra credit. So for my freshman year of college, I took Adolescence Psychology, Human Development Psychology and Abnormal Psychology (which I completely enjoyed) and passed with A's 😊Now that I'm a sophomore, I'm gonna be taking Neuropsychology, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (pretty much statistics in psychology), and for 2nd semester (I'll be a junior then) I'll be taking Research methods, Social Psychology and Theories of personality. I might end up graduating early tho. After these courses, I'll need about 2 or 3 psychology courses left.

[wooekkd]

Me: Psychology is so cool! I'm gonna study it!
*Looks at future jobs from taking psychology classes*

- Becoming a therapist

Inside Head: *How ironic, my parents say I need therapy, and I will become a therapist* 🙂

[groentje]

Great video. Very true too. When people take a course on something like psychology, but also on, for instance, analyzing popular culture, there can indeed be a tendency to overanalyze and to recognize the things that were learned in the course elsewhere. I've had issues similar to that myself, and I haven't even taken a psychology course; I only read up on it online. I'm glad you made this video. Good luck with the psychology classes!

[dhivya]

The fact that I've been coming and watching this video whenever I feel down to work towards my goal! And yeahhh! I'm a Psychology freshman now!!😭 And I really do hope that I do become a good Psychologist!😭💫 Love youu Psych2Go!!!

[ContinualImprovement]

Number 1: will this get me a job at the end of the course?

[yellowcowzproduction]

Thank you!!! I'm about to start my junior year of high school and I'm taking psychology. I wasn't sure what to expect, but this makes a lot of sense. Thank you for giving me this information!!!

[golden.fire.princess]

I'm taking psychology next week! Thank you so much!