After learning psychology and the psychological theories for so many years, most things in my daily life are being interpreted and/or understood with what I have learnt in psychology. For me, I would say that it has made my life better as I now understand the reasons for why things happen that way; but, there are also times where conflict or misunderstanding happens, as not everyone will see things that way I see them. I cannot really explain why that understanding through psychology happens, but it does. Probably this is an after-effect of my many years of studying psychology...
Here's a short (but probably non-exhaustive) list of where I have seen psychology in my daily life:
Have you seen Psychology or used Psychology to explain things in your own daily lives??
Here's a short (but probably non-exhaustive) list of where I have seen psychology in my daily life:
- Observation of people in their 'natural' environment - Social Psychology
- Organisational-related things that happen at the workplace - Organisational/Industrial Psychology
- Issues that people face from day to day (i.e. stress, mood changes, mental health issues) - Clinical Psychology
- Learning of new material by students or children - Educational Psychology
- Growth of my nephews and nieces - Developmental Psychology
- My own interaction with people - Counselling Psychology
Have you seen Psychology or used Psychology to explain things in your own daily lives??
Maybe this one you might not have heard of: Analytic Psychology - Understanding the way someone suffering from mental illnesses thinks and processes thoughts and observations on his/her mind.
ReplyDeleteHi Johnathan, Thanks for the reply!
DeleteI did not include it in, as that was rather a framework of psychology than a specialisation of psychology. Of course, there are much more skills that we learn in psychology that can be applied to our everyday lives, such as critical thinking, empathy (not really a skill), etc..This post was more of a reflection that psychology can be very much used in our everyday lives..