• Question: What is the hardest part in pschcology

    Asked by anon-234545 to Phill, Liam, Kohinoor, Karolina, Jack, Debbie on 11 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-234526.
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      Jack Joyce answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      I think the hardest part of psychology is the research — it’s quite straightforward to learn about things we already know because you can just read them in a book. It’s quite difficult to find new things that we don’t already know, because sometimes it’s hard to say if you’re right or wrong (because no one has probably found this thing out before!) and it takes a lot of time to get to those answers in the first place.

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      Karolina Urbanska answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      I totally agree with Jack – psychology is a science and doing science sometimes makes us feel stupid! We can be asking the wrong question and not getting the answer we expect and it can be frustrating because you don’t know if you are doing something wrong or if your methods are not correct or you’re simply looking for a conclusion that is not true. We need to accept that feeling stupid is a big part of doing research.

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      Liam Wignall answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      I agree with these answers. I think it’s also finding the time to do research. There are so many interesting things I would want to research and it’s about identifying which projects to do next.

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      Debbie Kinsey answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      I totally agree with everyone else – it’s hard when you’re trying to find out something new, and when things aren’t working the way you expect. And it takes a long time to do research, which can be hard because you want to do a good job but you never have as much time as you want, or you’re just frustrated because you want to move forward with your research more quickly! I’d also love more time to do all kinds of projects – there’s always so much interesting stuff and great ideas to investigate, but you can only choose a few to focus on!
      When I worked as a clinical psychologist (a type of therapist) it could sometimes be hard when I was talking to people about difficult things they had experienced. But I always got lots of support from other people and it helped me to know I was hopefully helping them.

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