Well, so this young fella, Akira, yeah? He’s pickin’ psychology as his thing. Big word, ain’t it? Psycho-somethin’. Anyways, means he’s gonna be lookin’ into why folks do what they do.
He’s gonna be studyin’ brains and stuff. How people think, how they feel. You know, like why Mary down the road gets all weepy watchin’ them soap operas, or why old man Johnson yells at the squirrels in his yard. That kinda thing.
- Thinkin’ Stuff: He’s gonna see how our minds work. Like, why you remember where you put your keys sometimes but not others. Or how you learn new stuff.
- Do-in’ Stuff: He’s gonna watch how folks act. Why little Timmy throws a fit in the store when his ma won’t buy him candy. Or why folks clap when a show’s done.
So, Akira’s gonna try and figure out all that. It’s a lot, ain’t it? People are complicated. He’s got his work cut out for him.
He’ll be lookin’ into when things go wrong in the head, too. You know, like when Sarah got all scared to leave her house. Or when Billy kept seein’ things that weren’t there. Akira’s gonna learn about that stuff, how to help folks get better.
I heard tell there’s different kinds of this brain studyin’ stuff. Some folks look at thinkin’ and rememberin’, others look at how we feel things. Like that time you got that gut feelin’ not to go down that road? That’s the kind of thing he’ll be lookin’ into. He’ll be connectin’ the dots, seein’ how it all fits together.
They say he’ll be doin’ some readin’ too. Learnin’ about experiments, where they test folks and see how they react. Like, if they show you a scary picture, what does your heart do? Or if they tell you a sad story, do you cry? They do all sorts of things to figure out how our brains work.
Sounds like a big job, huh?
This brain business ain’t easy. Gotta learn a whole bunch of stuff. He’ll probably have big books full of big words. But hey, gotta start somewhere, right?
People are funny creatures. We do things sometimes that don’t make no sense. Like when Mrs. Henderson bought that ugly hat just ’cause it was on sale. Akira’s gonna try and make sense of it all. Why we do the things we do, even when we know better.
I reckon it’s good someone’s tryin’ to figure us out. Maybe then we’ll all understand each other a little better. Maybe we’ll be nicer to each other, too.
So, good luck to this Akira fella. Hope he learns somethin’ useful. Maybe he can explain why my chickens keep gettin’ out of their coop, no matter how many times I fix the fence. That’d be somethin’, wouldn’t it?
This studyin’ brains thing, it’s important. Might even help folks live better lives. Maybe it’ll help us figure out why we’re here in the first place. Who knows? But it’s somethin’ worth lookin’ into, that’s for sure.
Tags: Psychology, Major, Behavior, Mental Processes, Brain, Study, Cognitive, Experimental
