• Question: when did you deiced to be what you are now

    Asked by anon-188704 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 6 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-188237.
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      Shanti Shanker answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I wanted to be a neuropsychologist or a neurosurgeon when I was in class 9 (13 or 14 years old).

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      Nadine Mirza answered on 7 Nov 2018: last edited 14 Nov 2018 10:45 am

      I wanted to study psychology since I was 13 (year 7).
      I hadn’t decided which specific areas or what kind of degrees I wanted to do, but I knew some type of psychology.
      As I got older, I became more and more aware of all the different options that were available to me. So by the end of school I new I wanted to do a psychology undergrad. By the end of undergrad I knew I wanted to try some research and went for postgrad. Now, I know that after my PhD I want to focus on clinical neuropsychology and be able to both do research and work with patients, most probably dementia based. Every year I learn more about career options and get closer and closer to narrowing down what I want to be.

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      Alex Reid answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      I never set out to be involved in the specific area I am now. I am lucky enough to have had a good education, and the longer I stayed in education the more control I found I had over what I learned. As such I kept going after things that interested me, and that ended up with me being here. I guess there was no specific moment where I decided to do what I wanted to do, I just gradually arrived here naturally through a series of choices.

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      Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      Hi,

      I started studying psychology so I can understand what controls us as people. Since then, I was always interested in how we process information in the busy, complex, multisensory environments. So that’s forever motivated my research – I started from studying how what we know about the way we attend and learn differs when we use simple, typically used stimuli, like coloured shapes to stimuli that carry emotional information, like fearful faces or threatening words. From there I went to another “salient” category of stimuli – those engaging multiple senses at once – multisensory stimuli. The more I studied it , the more I saw it was important as a research area to potentially support education and sensory and learning disorder rehabilitation. As I said in my bio, I also did some internships at marketing companies at the end of my masters in psychology – after 2 weeks I knew my work has to have a deep wide meaning, boing beyond earing money for a company and wroking 9-5. Then I decided to do a PhD – and the rest is history 🙂

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