Life-Span class is shortening mine.

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I'm just whinning........certainly to a group of intellectuals that can somehow utilize this contradictory load of crap.

I'm certain this will be the only useless part of school, but I just can't get "up" for this.

I've been staring at it since early this morning. I can't see any content when I read it. It's like one of those pictures that you're supposed to look at and kind of let your eyes go out of focus and out pops a spaceship or some other such image that's not apparent by just looking at it. It's as if it's just someone talking about how thier day went or making casual conversation. When it does try to make a point, it only speculates, never settling on one thing, but presenting a range of possibilities.......all possibilities.

So they can never be wrong.....................how convienient.

I'm supposed to be writting a bibliography. I have to read and summarize ten papers.

I have to summarize speculation................beautiful.

Morons.:p

Originally posted by nightngale1998

C=RN

Absolutely brilliant! Hilarious!

WOW! I remember those classes! That's exactly what it was like. I remember chanting in my head during exams "I only need a C."

But I'd never put it to a formula like that! Good one!

Heather

Peeps, I'm in the same boat with you. I'm taking Lifespan this summer. Only 5 more weeks to go. Thank goodness. I'm so bored that I barely studied for the last test and STILL got an 'A'. :p And I'm the type of person that generally busts my butt studying! Fortunately, I have this really, really easy teacher and it's not as if I don't already know the majority of this stuff anyway. (Took a bunch of Psych classes years ago.)

Then to top it off it's mostly common sense. No big light bulbs going on here that lower socioeconomic status children have more developmental problems. I mean puleeeze! Not to mention that if I see one more picture of a visual cliff I'm going to puke. When I first read about it in high school, it was interesting, but after the 10th time I've had enough!:o

Anyway, good luck. It won't be too much longer.

Cindy

Oh, the "visual cliff"! I remember that. I know why it was "important", but I don't know WHY it was so important, if you catch my drift :)

Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

Sorry Peeps...I absolutely LOVED the class...Aced the class...but then again I'm a psychology major...could stay in college for a lifetime just to take every psychology course known to man. It was my first major in college, and when I return to college, it will become my major again so I can become a certified counselor...maybe even get my doctorate of psychology one day. :)

One thing that helped me in Psychology was something my very first Psych Instructor said to the class. He said, "Psychology represents neither a right nor a wrong in life...it simply represents what EXIST to be according to each individual's perception of the effect life's drama has on their life...as they live it". A mouth full...but it was a very powerful statement that I would come to recall more often than I ever imagined...even since graduation from college.

We live Psychology every day. There's really nothing new about it...and certainly nothing scary about it...we just live it through every circumstance of Life...such as it is.

Out of all the courses in college a student can take, if they go beneath what is being taught in psychology class and see the conceived notions about it that represent Life, it will become so much easier for those who can't seem to "get it" or "choose to hate it" because it somehow isn't clicking as a "reality subject" to undertake, I assure you that you will begin to see the class in a whole new light. Try it...copy the statement that I shared here that an instructor told me, and take it with you to your psych classes...read it when you get bored...maybe that is the entire class...but just try this experiment...then please send me a "PM" and let me know how it affected you during that class, or during your study time. This Psych mind inquires to know...I care. :kiss :nurse:

Specializes in Cardiolgy.

I hope you get through this psychology class, and as for the 'suicial' thoughts.. I sent one of my friends a post card with a stick figure jumping off a bridge when she didn't belive me when I said I was stressed.

I think that was when I was revising for my psychology exam; and one of the long answer question was 'why is psychology important to nursing?' and unfortunalty naff all was not an accepted answer (cheerfuldoer, the syllabus we had had no relevance at all to nursing, or every day life, most of it is rejected by current psychologists)

Look at the pic to see the bridge in question! :)

If I don't jump, maybe I could condition all psychology lectures to...now where is that bell ;)

What is a "Life-Span" class? We never had to take one called that. Is it like psychology?

I'd really like to know....thanks:specs:

Specializes in LTC, ER, ICU,.
originally posted by forevermomof5

what is a "life-span" class? we never had to take one called that. is it like psychology?

i'd really like to know....thanks:specs:

forevermomof5, you might have heard of it by the name, "human growth and development", "human development", or "across the lisfespam."

Imagine a long, long conversation that didn't seem to have a point. The person would speak with a volcabulary with some words they obviously made up to impress you but would apply them as if they could make thier logic work itself out somehow.

They would claim to know the thoughts of a newborn baby with amazing powers of scientific observation and would use them as predictors for all the nuances of your adult life. If you challenged a contradiction they would counter with an explanation that the ideas they are presenting are "abstract" and don't always fit neatly together. They'll treat you as if you have no "common sense" to see the logic in thier musings and no vision for its brilliance because you are just a simple student after all.

They will try to apply the observations of individual samples of humanity over the entire life-span to anyone you come in contact with. Various graphs and pie-charts will make the nothingness more concrete and OH YES the volumes of the same precise radomness that you'll be required to read as if its "abstract" thought could be learned somehow.

Here's the line-up of "great thinkers":

Freud(the guy with the couch for everyone to lay on) came up with a strange set of theories. Coming from another guy, I'm very proud of him to have the guts to tell ANYBODY this stuff! What it boils down to is that he was apparently just horny.

Erikson: (Not his real name) He was an artist and then hooked up with the horny guy with the couch he wanted everyone to lie on. Erikson decided to get his own theory that seems to have a sort of Ying and Yang twist to it. Good vs evil, in stages. People bought it more than his paintings so he switched careers.

Pavlov: He based a theory of conditioned learning to apply to our nursing practice somehow that had to do with the fact that some poor dogs were taught to salivate.

I think we covered enough for today.

I could go on.......................no really, I could and so could they.

Some people really like it. Some people really hate it............Nobody just tolerates it.

I urge you to get a book on the development through life-span. any book will do. If you just love it then you are blessed with the "psychology" allele(that's a variation of a gene for you abstact thinkers out there) and you are blessed with a bright and interesting future. If not, then welcome to reality.

I envy the people that can actualy enjoy this material, but I will NEVER be in that camp.

I have dropped the course for the second time and am going to withdraw my seat for the nursing program on Monday.

I do not believe in Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny either.

:eek: Did you seriously drop it?? I'm taking the class right now too and it bores the crap outta me. It's all I can do not to end up in the corner in the fetal position humming to myself....my midterm is on monday, guess I should start reading....:rolleyes:
Specializes in LTC, ER, ICU,.
originally posted by peeps mcarthur

imagine a long, long conversation that didn't seem to have a point. the person would speak with a volcabulary with some words they obviously made up to impress you but would apply them as if they could make thier logic work itself out somehow.

they would claim to know the thoughts of a newborn baby with amazing powers of scientific observation and would use them as predictors for all the nuances of your adult life. if you challenged a contradiction they would counter with an explanation that the ideas they are presenting are "abstract" and don't always fit neatly together. they'll treat you as if you have no "common sense" to see the logic in thier musings and no vision for its brilliance because you are just a simple student after all.

they will try to apply the observations of individual samples of humanity over the entire life-span to anyone you come in contact with. various graphs and pie-charts will make the nothingness more concrete and oh yes the volumes of the same precise radomness that you'll be required to read as if its "abstract" thought could be learned somehow.

here's the line-up of "great thinkers":

freud(the guy with the couch for everyone to lay on) came up with a strange set of theories. coming from another guy, i'm very proud of him to have the guts to tell anybody this stuff! what it boils down to is that he was apparently just horny.

erikson: (not his real name) he was an artist and then hooked up with the horny guy with the couch he wanted everyone to lie on. erikson decided to get his own theory that seems to have a sort of ying and yang twist to it. good vs evil, in stages. people bought it more than his paintings so he switched careers.

pavlov: he based a theory of conditioned learning to apply to our nursing practice somehow that had to do with the fact that some poor dogs were taught to salivate.

i think we covered enough for today.

i could go on.......................no really, i could and so could they.

some people really like it. some people really hate it............nobody just tolerates it.

i urge you to get a book on the development through life-span. any book will do. if you just love it then you are blessed with the "psychology" allele(that's a variation of a gene for you abstact thinkers out there) and you are blessed with a bright and interesting future. if not, then welcome to reality.

i envy the people that can actualy enjoy this material, but i will never be in that camp.

i have dropped the course for the second time and am going to withdraw my seat for the nursing program on monday.

i do not believe in santa clause or the easter bunny either.

hi, peepsmcarthur, you are going to withdraw from nursing school? do you have to have "lifespan" before entering the program? did you take it from another instructor or the same instructor?

i am grateful i had an instructor who made learning fun with this class or i may have felt like some of you that repsonded to this thread.

i do wish you would reconsider?

Specializes in LTC, ER, ICU,.
originally posted by forevermomof5

what is a "life-span" class? we never had to take one called that. is it like psychology?

i'd really like to know....thanks:specs:

by the way, it is a psychology class.
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