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[cover drive man]

Originally Posted by silentstriker

Oops, wrong article. And I'm not a med student, I would never demean myself by admitting so. Math > Physics > Biology any day.

Psychology is applied biology, I'm dubious.

[GIMH]

Originally Posted by silentstriker

Oops, wrong article. And I'm not a med student, I would never demean myself by admitting so. Math > Physics > Biology any day.

[silentstriker]

Originally Posted by cover drive man

Psychology is applied biology, I'm dubious.

What else would it be?

[Top_Cat]

Originally Posted by silentstriker

What else would it be?

Depends on what part of psych you're talking. If you're talking cognitive neuropsych, it's applied biology. If you're talking personality theory or social psych, it's applied guesswork and rectal-statistics.

"Hmmmmmm, I think I'll call it 'The Bystander Effect'. Yes! Great name. Now, I just need a sciencey sounding name for when people just stand around and do nothing while something is happening....... aha! 'diffusion of responsibility'!"

You know it's true.

[silentstriker]

Originally Posted by Top_Cat

Depends on what part of psych you're talking. If you're talking cognitive neuropsych, it's applied biology. If you're talking personality theory or social psych, it's applied guesswork and rectal-statistics.

"Hmmmmmm, I think I'll call it 'The Bystander Effect'. Yes! Great name. Now, I just need a sciencey sounding name for when people just stand around and do nothing while something is happening....... aha! 'diffusion of responsibility'!"

You know it's true.

Completely agree.

[Matteh]

Originally Posted by cover drive man

Psychology is applied biology, I'm dubious.

Psychology is applied bull****. Don't care what you say, it's still a Mickey Mouse degree.

[Son Of Coco]

Originally Posted by Matteh

Psychology is applied bull****. Don't care what you say, it's still a Mickey Mouse degree.

Well, it just creeps over the line in front of 1/10 of a degree...but only just.

Some of it makes sense. Given it's dealing with something we don't even fully understand yet, it's probably not going to be foolproof. Doctors and scientists have a fair bit of a headstart on those in the psych field as far as the amount of time they've already spent researching their field since the year it all started. Psych's only just over 100 years old.

I have to admit though, I found the part where you repeat what the person's said back to them in the counselling subject to be a bit off-putting. If someone sat there repeating things back to me I'd want to knock them out after about 5 minutes.

[Top_Cat]

Originally Posted by Son Of Coco

Well, it just creeps over the line in front of 1/10 of a degree...but only just.

Some of it makes sense. Given it's dealing with something we don't even fully understand yet, it's probably not going to be foolproof. Doctors and scientists have a fair bit of a headstart on those in the psych field as far as the amount of time they've already spent researching their field since the year it all started. Psych's only just over 100 years old.

Yeah that's right, even in the brain imaging side of things. It must be such a frustrating field; you divide the brain up into vague regions and decide what they do. As soon as you delve too deep, you discover the parts of the brains where work goes on actually is individual so the image of one brain isn't generalisable to the image of another. If you're doing research, keep it at the sub-cortical level and don't do any more detailed imaging. You'll get your Ph.D.

Originally Posted by Son Of Coco

I have to admit though, I found the part where you repeat what the person's said back to them in the counselling subject to be a bit off-putting. If someone sat there repeating things back to me I'd want to knock them out after about 5 minutes.

Police do it too. Call it cognitive interviewing and is primarily used to get the sequence of events right, enable memory of events which they might have tried to shut out, etc. You can imagine how it goes when you're doing it to a rape victim who's just a bit upset already......

[Burgey]

Fact: cats, when dropped always land on their feet.
Fact: drop a piece of bread on the ground and it always lands buttered side down.
Assumption: a piece of bread is strapped to a cat's back, buttered side up.
Question: When dropped from 1 foot off the ground, will the cat/ bread arrangement land:
a. cat first, on it's feet?
b. bread first, buttered side down?
c. will not land at all, but get 6 inches off the ground and begin spontaneously spinning around, defying gravity?
Bonus point: give reasons for your conclusion.

[Matteh]

Originally Posted by Burgey

Fact: cats, when dropped always land on their feet.
Fact: drop a piece of bread on the ground and it always lands buttered side down.
Assumption: a piece of bread is strapped to a cat's back, buttered side up.
Question: When dropped from 1 foot off the ground, will the cat/ bread arrangement land:
a. cat first, on it's feet?
b. bread first, buttered side down?
c. will not land at all, but get 6 inches off the ground and begin spontaneously spinning around, defying gravity?
Bonus point: give reasons for your conclusion.

Isn't a fact itbt. If you were about 4 feet taller(ish) by the time the bread hit the floor it'd be the right way up and if you were another 4 feet taller than that it'd have turned again and would be the wrong way up. Just isn't enough time for it to do a complete cycle in the time it takes the bread to cover the distance between table and floor.

[Burgey]

Nah, it's an assumed fact for the purposes of the question. It's also a fact from my experience since childhood, and having conducted experiments from sea level, the Australian Alps and at the top of Sydney Tower.

[Top_Cat]

Land on its side. haha

[Matteh]

Originally Posted by Burgey

Nah, it's an assumed fact for the purposes of the question. It's also a fact from my experience since childhood, and having conducted experiments from sea level, the Australian Alps and at the top of Sydney Tower.

That's How, for now!

[Burgey]

[Burgey]

Originally Posted by Top_Cat

Land on its side. haha

An answer so simple that it can't possibly be the right one in the realm of science.....