Psychologist is my future profession

Nowadays when our country is experiencing difficulties in all spheres political, economical and social and when there is so much tension in society, it needs well-qualified specialists-psychologists. What are psychologists and what science is psychology?

Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and the reasons for people's behavior. Psychologists are those who study the human mind and explain why people behave in the way that they do. Psychologists also help people to look for the ways out of many situations a person may find himself in. There are many branches in the science of psychology. Among them are social psychology, experimental and educational psychology, clinical and labour psychology and many others.

Social psychology deals with psychodiagnotics, psychobiography, psychodynamics and some other aspects of psychology. A social psychologist carries out testing of individuals or groups to study people's behavior with particular attention to a person's psychological development, motives and emotions of people's interaction. A family psychologist is involved in investigations of family conflicts, teenager's problems, including such social illnesses as prostitution, alcohol and drugs addiction, family abuse etc. A rehabilitation psychologist deals with people who suffered from sexual abuse or became victims of terrorists or experienced traumatic shocks or natural disasters.

That is why the graduates of the faculty work in different areas: business, social services, nursing, education, rehabilitation centres etc.

The work of our brain

Although intelligence has been studied, and the brain has been studied, there is little understanding of how the brain works to produce intelligence. This has something to do with the fact that the brain contains around 100 billion cells (about the number of star in the Milky Way).

One of the continuing myths about the relationship between intelligence and the brain is that the brains of very clever people are somehow physically different from those of ordinary people. At the beginning of the century an American scientist called E.A. Spitzka produced a list of the weights of the brains of important, well-known men. The heaviest brain on the list was that of Turgenev, the Russian novelist, 2000g. The brain of another great genius, Walt Whitman, weighed only 1282g. There are no significant differences between the intelligence levels of males and females. However, men and women do differ in the way they think. Generally, women are more skilled verbally and men do better on visual-spatial tasks. The fibres which join the two halves of the brain have been found to be larger in women than in men. This supports the theory that women can change from "practical" to "emotional" thinking more quickly than men.

There are similarities between brains and computers. Computers can do complicated calculations at incredible speeds. But they work in a fixed way, because they can't make memory associations. Most of our mental processes are deeply formed habits. Try changing routines as often as you can. Exercise more. Good health and fitness levels give you overall improved energy which leads to better concentration.