Question

Is psychology common sense?
Why study psychology?

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Answer 1

According to the psychologists, psychology is not just a common sense. Because psychology always use some systematic or scientific methods for predicting something. In other hand common sense basically provides an intuition which is mostly contradictory to person to person.

We can say that common sense basically a short-cut for assuming something. But in psychology, we need to research or study a lot before reaching an ultimate assumption. Common sense always sets a limit of objective judgment, in other hand psychology always try to develop the objective methods for making an assumption.So we can say that common sense can be used in the psychological field, but it is not similar to the psychology.(Wright, 2010).

Psychology basically a study of mind, which helps us to discover ourselves. There are so many reasons which also help to understand why studying psychology is important for us.

Understanding Ourselves- When someone is a student of psychology, she or he will get the opportunity to learn some factors like how personality develops? How society or culture can influence our behaviors etc. By learning about these factors we can understand many influences that played a major role in our own life also. ( Cantril, 2017.)

Understanding others-

Another privilege of studying psychology is we are able to make an assumption about others. As we are studying the psychological behavioral theories, we are able to do analysis about someone’s behavior by psychological theories like Psychoanalysis theorey ( Boot & Stutts, 2013)

Knowledge of Research Methods

We can gain the knowledge of research methods by studying psychology. As it helps to know the reliability of something. We can better understand the reliability of something. Not only that, research designs can help us to find the significant co-relation between two individual events.(Plant & Asberg, 2005)

Employment Matters

Studying psychology helps to know about the ability of someone’s. Business organizations are appointing psychologists for selecting the ideal candidate for their organization. As psychological tests like testing aptitude or reasoning helps to know the candidate’s ability. ( Heine,2015)

Identifying Mental Illness

Studying psychology helps to identify the mental illness or disorders like Depression, OCD, GAD etc. As these mental illnesses is very unhealthy for our life, so identifying these disorders also helps in the treatment.( Csikszentmihalyi. 2014)

Psychological Therapy

So many people are suffering for the psychological issues. Studying psychology helps to cure these psychological issues. Therapy like hypnotherapy, counseling therapy helps in the treatment of many kinds of psychological illnesses.( Bacchi, 2012)

References

Cantril, H. (2017). The invasion from Mars: A study in the psychology of panic. Routledge.

Bacchi, C. (2012). Why study problematizations? Making politics visible. Open Journal of Political Science, 2(01), 1.

Wright, R. (2010). The moral animal: Why we are, the way we are: The new science of evolutionary psychology. Vintage.

Heine, S. J. (2015). Cultural psychology: Third International Student Edition. WW Norton & Company.

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). Toward a psychology of optimal experience. In Flow and the foundations of positive psychology (pp. 209-226). Springer Netherlands.

Boot, W. R., Simons, D. J., Stothart, C., & Stutts, C. (2013). The pervasive problem with placebos in psychology: why active control groups are not sufficient to rule out placebo effects. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(4), 445-454.

Plant, E. A., Ericsson, K. A., Hill, L., & Asberg, K. (2005). Why study time does not predict grade point average across college students: Implications of deliberate practice for academic performance. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 30(1), 96-116.

Akerlof, G. A., & Shiller, R. J. (2010). Animal spirits: How human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism. Princeton University Press.

Landrum, R. E., & Davis, S. F. (2010). The psychology major: Career options and strategies for success. Prentice Hall.