Often
Questionable.
By
Monisha Das.
Monalisa
Di: “Hi! How are you?”.
Me:
“Hello Di! You here, am good”.
Monalisha
Di: “Yes, had some work. So, what major are you in?”.
Me:
“Psychology”.
Monalisha
Di: “Whoa! So you can tell me everything by looking at my face, right? Tell me
what am I thinking right now?”.
Me
smiling with no answer in return.
Well,
what else would you even expect me to say, at that very moment other than just
smile for no apparent reason whatsoever. Not do just one or two people ask me
or my friends, but often everyone does, when they hear about what background I
am from. Only a psychology student can understand the reason for my uncanny
smile.
Being
a candidate of psychology. I would like to clear up one thing that most people
have a misconception of. Human beings have not got the super natural powers yet,
to determine and say what the other person is thinking without his/her
knowledge or without communicating with the individual directly. Studying
psychology does not mean that! It means a lot, from different perspectives.
Psychology has many different motives other than the misconception of revealing
things on spot without any knowledge of the individual. In fact, the thing is
every human being can study people after observing the person’s
behaviour(pattern). The type of words or sentences the person speaks, which is
linked to how optimistic he or she is towards the perspective etc.
The
word psychology is derived from the Greek word ‘roots’ meaning study of the psyche, or soul and ‘logia’(logy) meaning ‘study of’ or
‘research’. Psychology which is the study of behaviour and mind, embracing all
aspects of the conscious and unconscious experience as well as thought as an
academic discipline and social science which seeks to understand the
individuals and groups by establishing general principles and research specific
people, on the other hand, often misunderstood the concept of reading mind,
omitting the behavioural part that comes former and links up with the mind and
they end up thinking it is the look at the face and things only.
Though
through observation during conversation, one can identify the mood,
personality, following the body language as an indicating factor of how truthful
the other person is being, able to focus, become attentive on a particular
task. One important thing is to understand people’s moods, depends upon the
body language, how the other person shows; whether the particular person has a
‘Closed hand posture’ or a ‘Open hand posture’, backward or forward body
posture and so on.
“Psychology is a science like physics,
chemistry or biology, because they all employ the scientific method. Scientist
employ a certain philosophy towards the entire issue of learning about nature.
In fact, this philosophy starts with the way scientists try to conceptuate
nature”.
Statistically
speaking, Psychology has no exact value in return, unlike Physics, measuring
human behaviour isn’t really as easy as measuring the speed of light. Most
behaviours are assumed, predictable according to the environment in which the
study is conducted, during measurement of human behaviour, rather than
extracting and identifying a specific human behaviour in one person and
generalising it as an outcome regarding to a situation for all different
individuals; in Psychology, it is very important that there are individual
differences and therefore people exist with different personalities. There are
two personalities, although there are three to be counted:
1.
Introvert:
Introvert personality consist of traits like timid, less confident towards
public speaking, calm.
2. Extrovert:
Extrovert personality refers to the traits like open minded, confident and
expressive nature.
3. Ambivert: Ambivert
personality in other words, include both introvert and extrovert personalities.
This means people are introvert and extrovert, referring to different
situations faced in life.
Well
in my case, to be frank, I am an Ambivert personality, for which I find dealing
with situations according to the need of being quiet in one and become exposed
on the other hand in nature.
In
my opinion, it isn’t a big deal, if we possess both the personalities, being an
Ambivert myself. It helps to handle situations intellectually, regarding
different environments rather than only one for self, during self-realization
and working on a particular thing effectively. Furthermore, keeping aside the ego thing for a while to learn things
in life, evaluate and express in nature.
"The above article is written by Monisha Das of Handique Girls College Guwahati. The main topic of discussion is Psychology and how a few have a wrong perception of the same. The article walks around her experience as a student of Psychology and certain situations she has faced. The article is well written and contains insights of the author. If you found this article to be entertaining or useful, then please LIKE the post and share. It is your encouragement that keeps us going :). If you want the author to write more such articles, then please leave a comment below and let us know.".
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