Pick one of your GCSE subjects. What sorts of ‘knowledge’ and/or ‘truths’ does this subject convey? Reflecting upon your personal experience, how did you acquire your knowledge in this subject? Was it in an experiential, propositional or practical manner? Was it in more than one way? Remember Calvin and his wisdom about rocks.

I believe one of the most intriguing subjects you could ever come across or have the advantage to be taught, is definitely Psychology. It is considered as a science, purely known as the 'science of the mind', and alongside Chemistry, Physics and Biology, it is very much related to trial, error, stumbling across answers or testing theories or mostly provable explanations, rather than replying on judgement or opinions that could be biased.

As for being related to science, it hold a desire upon certain individuals to require the 'definite and final answers' to be shown through 'evidence'. How these scientists acquire this evidence? Now that is the struggle (just as people have struggles with pronouncing certain words when learning new languages), as you may run a countless number of experiments, and don't find the answers that you truly need, only later discovering that the answers have found you instead! I was certainly in this position as well, being able to run complex experiments, and acquiring my knowledge through trial and error or the proving or disapproving of a hypothesis/prediction, quite the practical and experiential subject, as it involves yourself participating by trying to understand complex behaviours, as well as finding out new or unexpected information from the experiment through the participants.

Psychology is all about wacky experiments that dig deep inside of the brain for cues/clues to behaviour and why we behave in a certain way from other mammals, mental abilities and disabilities, how we learn, and incorporate many of our daily mental processes into life (and being able to cope with them!) Psychology also conveys the history of many famous psychologists that have previously run their own experiments and have found answers that psychologists in the modern day have manipulated further to find out more details about the human mind. A lot of Ethics are involved in psychology as well, in the prevention of deceit, bodily harm, or mental/physical/emotional distress.

Throughout my past two years of learning Psychology, it has been one of my favourite subjects, in allowing me to be able to research, explore and thoroughly understand the darkest corners of the human mind.