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[sebastienne]

Ok, as I'm sure you're all aware I have finals in less than two months.

After them, however, I get to study fun and exciting things! I will be studying 3 psychology options, although I have to give 5 choices ranked in order of preference. This is where you people come in: I've narrowed it down to 6 I'm interested in, but how do I decide which 5 to list and which order to list them in?

Personality & Psychological Disorders: "connect psychological disorders and..personality theories..dimensional continuity between the normal and the abnormal...personality disorders..addiction..schizophrenia" fascinates me. will be obscenely oversubscribed.

Language Acquisition: "cognitive, computational and linguistic perspectives..fundamental questions..rules?..innateness?" oh, language. you are so difficult, and so fascinating.

Social Psychology of Intergroup Conflict: "social identity theory, optimal distinctiveness theory, terror management theory, social dominance theory..approaches to the reduction of bias and conflict" interesting. also a lot of pseudo-scientific waffle.

Emotion: Appraisal & Feedback: "are physical manifestations of emotion determinants or consequences of our feelings? are there biologically basic emotions?" the organiser of this course makes me excel. i get on with his style of teaching very well. but if it's popular i may get someone else for tutorials.

Developmental Questions in Science and Religion: "looks at religion as a domain of cognition rather than just culture..natural theology..do we naturally develop religious ideas as we do scientific ones, or are they culturally imposed?"

General Linguistics: studying language. mmm, language. less psychological & more rigid. shares some enjoyable similarities with prelims logic that i loved.

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Comments

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

Emotion: Appraisal & Feedback - would you still be interested in this subject if you had a different tutor for it?

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to say, beware of taking a course because of the lecturer. If, for any reason, the lecturer is unable to take the course after all, you may end up with a less congenial lecturer. (My favourite lecturer had to retire due to ill-health in the middle of the term. While the series of replacement lecturers that came in were all good, it just wasn't the same experience.)

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

do we naturally develop religious ideas as we do scientific ones...

An interesting question. But I feel they must be thinking of a very fuzzy concept when they use the phrase "scientific ideas". I would tend to think of religious ideas as in some way natural in the general population, though not inevitable in the individual, but scientific ideas as much harder and having to be worked for.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

oh yes, it's still a great topic. hard to completely divorce it from him in my mind as he's the course organiser, lecturer, and potential tutor, so it's very -him-... but definitely i'd not wish to have made a different choice if i ended up doing it without him.

[stronglight.livejournal.com]

Have you picked yours yet? I went for PsychDis and Post-genomic psych for the two I actually want. And left a note telling them to please let me do them, please...