still screwed!

pheww history and systems is overrr. but i pretty much screwed it up. hehehe.

expected a general qn for the compulsory qn, which was wat prof told us to expect. but it turned out sooo specific and i was stumped.

Qn: "I know of no introductory textbook that fails to include the term 'behaviour' in its definition of psychology" (Goodwin, 2004). How has this come about, and what does it imply about the legacy of Watson's behaviourist manifesto?

know what, this is an easy qn. but the problem is, i totally left out Watson while doing revision yesterday, and needless to say i've no idea what is in his behaviourist manifesto (name me a yr4 who doesn't know John Watson's behaviourist manifesto). how to write an essay like that... so it was bull-and-crap session. enough said.

for the second section, chose the easiest qn to do:

Qn: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" (Dobzhansky, 1975). In what ways might historical considerations justify saying this of psychology as well?

okie fine not easy too. i said easiest, which means relative to the rest. at least, i took an evo course last yr. sighhh.

i'm soo screwed. and thing is, i dun think other pple are as screwed, becos the qns are really much more reasonable than expected, but the problem lies with me, i.e din study enough and din study the right topic, basically. shite. still can't get over the fact i left out behaviourism, the mama of psychology.

lol. hahaha.

but now i've other serious things to think about. such as the remaining killer papers. next up is wed's human psychophysiology. can't tell u how horrible the mod is.

seriously phobic of studying all the heart, blood pressure, eyes (yeaa even eyes are related to psych), skin plus wateva i can't rem. all the anatomy, physiological systems and functions, measurements and equipments, and how all these relate to psychology such as hostility, cynicism, type A, depression, blah blah blah. i can't imagine the torture of going thru all those psycho-medical journals once again. i hate journals!!!! plus 3 very med textbooks. oh gosh. *breathe and count to 10*

oh well i have 4 days to cover all these. 4 days is the highest no. of days i'm devoting to one mod, so hurray! but then again, i've not touched 3/4 of the stuff for this module. crap. no way i can speed read any psycho-med-physiological thingy. so sssscrewed.