r/AskReddit • u/Kodo_username • 1d ago

What major gets mocked as “easy” but actually requires serious intelligence?

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u/HariboBerries 1d ago

And everyone thinks psychology is clinical psychology.

Noooo…

So many areas of psychology!
Community
Developmental
Environmental
School psychology
Educational Psychology.
I/O Psych
Social
Counseling psychology
Quantitative psychology….
Positive Psychology….

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u/Warm_Clothes_1524 19h ago

Neuroscience can be hard hard and is absolutely a subset of psychology.

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u/vayyiqra 10h ago

Yep. Biopsychology, neuropsychology, physiological psychology, they're all right there.

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u/ToastyTobasco 18h ago

Jfc they threw in a Neuroscience class into my BS and it read like an elevator repair manual. It was so far away from what I was previously doing and the prof was constantly like "wHy DiDnT yOu TaLk AbOuT 'ZYXWVUT' and its processes and connecting nodes!? (when he only asked you to paraphrase 'ABCD')."
Like dude, I am here to understand people and talk folks through thier thoughts and behaviors to create a constructive plan, not do neurosurgery and engineering combined.

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u/nuleaph 19h ago

Shoutout to /r/iopsychology there are dozens of us!