ARE
YOU INTERESTED IN PSYCHOLOGY?
Are you are interested in being involved in any of the following areas?
Studying mental processes that
underlie acquisition and memory of information and how to improve our everyday
memory?
Working with people with behavioral
disorders enabling them to help themselves and achieve a better quality of
life?
Working with the health profession to
promote wellness and prevent illness?
Working with people to improve coping
strategies for stress, pain or terminal illness?
Working with local communities and
neighborhoods to help them deal with growth and to plan for the future?
Studying factors that facilitate
teaching so teachers can be taught techniques to improve their effectiveness
and student learning?
Working with the legal system to
facilitate understanding criminal behavior, understanding the problems with
interrogation, eyewitness testimony and lie detection?
Studying to better understand why
people behave differently in a group than when alone?
Studying to better understand how the
immediate situation may affect personal decisions?
Are you interested in trying to
understand how the brain functions and what changes occur in different
cognitive situations (such as solving a math problem)?
Are you interested in trying to
understand how the use of drugs or an injury may affect the brain’s function?
If any of these areas of study interest you, then psychology may be the major you want to consider.
Source: Landrum E. R. & Davis S. F. (2003). The Psychology Major: Career Options and Strategies for Success, 2nd ed., Pearson Education Inc.: Upper Saddle river, NJ.
The following professors can assist you and help you investigate psychology as a major.