Is Psychology Hard To Study?

Is Psychology Hard To Study?

From my own experiences as a psychology undergrad, I find that it depends on which aspects of psychology study we are talking about. Studying psychology involves learning research methods, statistics, writing research or review papers, volunteering or working in labs, participating in clubs, or going through the different courses and much more. So to know if it’s hard, you have to really experience it yourself, because each aspects tap into different parts of your abilities.

For me, I enjoyed studying psychology because it’s one of the few discipline that has such a large range of subjects. Once you go into psychology, you will find that there are an abundance of courses ranging from personality psychology, abnormal psychology, forensic psychology, applied psychology, biopsychology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, cultural psychology, gender psychology and so forth (depending on what your college offers). 

And because there are so many topics and each one taps into different area, you will have to see for yourself which ones you find easy or hard. From there, you then determine what made that subject easy or hard for you. For instance, I found that cognitive psychology was slightly harder than others, because it was more abstract and hard to relate while courses like social psychology was much easier to relate. So for me, I found out that I had an easier time with courses I can relate to.

For those who are studying psychology, how was your experience?

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