PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Religious Studies
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Reach goals easier: example of a study where students participated in a one-off, personal intervention for a few hours about goals, obstacles, solutions and managed to significantly improve their grades. Deal with issues: studies show that a mere 15 minutes of journal writing a day can significantly improve a person"s issues with depression, feelings of inferiority, lack of self-fulfillment, body image issues, etc. Wide variety of career opportunities: teaching, business/international/social relations, therapy, social work, etc. Lots of overlap with other subjects: psychology often used/involved in anthropology, religion studies, sociology, etc. Parallels between how the mind and self function and things like institutional systems, government, large corporations/organizations, ngos, scientific paradigms, etc. Lessons that a century"s worth of psychology research and studies show us. Key points that tie all aspects of psychology through history together. This construction process involves a lot of guesswork filling the gaps . Like reading a story with a percentage of the words erased.
