Notes On Middle School Psychology

Checked vital signs, administered medication as schedule, and reported accurate recording of patient weight while gathering collected routing specimens for the immediate supervisor.

My family consists of my mom, dad, two sisters, and one brother. I am the youngest child of the family. With my siblings being a good deal older than me, I tended to feel left out when they got to do things that I didn’t. The age gap left me feeling like an outsider sometimes. As we grew older, the bond between us grew much, much stronger. I think of my siblings more like friends now. They are people that I can tell

On top of this, my parents always specifically looked up to me for being a leader in the house. The reason for this is, my parents knew very little English, and needed assistance with almost everything they would do. Also, I am the first child; the child that has to fall and learn from the mistakes without any older siblings advice or wisdom. Because of this, I make sure that once I learn the most efficient and effective ways of doing tasks, I then pass it down to my younger siblings. I make sure that they learn from my mistakes and accomplishments, while doing my best to lead them in the right direction to attain

A quick aside with my own personally experiences as the youngest of three brothers. Often my siblings have set the curve for what is acceptable and not – weather that be academics or that be sports. In my own competitive nature, I have sought to surpass my brothers, with me being the first of the three to go to

“It takes a village to raise a child.” I never quite understood that saying when I was growing up, but my experiences teaching and working in school settings have showed me how true it really is. Obtaining a degree in school psychology will allow me to give the support that students, families and educators need to ensure that every student will thrive.

But, although we are siblings, we are very different in this sense. Presently, I still do not know what I want to be or where I want to end up, even with the help of courses such as Civics and Careers. My dad often lectures me about knowing what I want to be so that I can plan the future out. Moreover, my sister is a very extroverted person, whereas I am introverted. She is very social and not shy at all towards people she does not know. I, on the other hand, am very shy and not good at speaking in public. My parents often scold me for being so shy and quiet and tell me that my sister got to where she is because she was so social. In particular, the largest expectation that was passed onto me from my sister is academics. For the entire time that she attended school, she was always excelling in all her classes and never had any difficulties. Consequently, when I started to go to school, my parents had the same expectations for me. Although my marks were relatively high, they were always low compared to what my sister had gotten. My parents always expected more of me and pushed me to be exactly like her

​When I declared a psychology major during the second year of my undergraduate career, my objective was to attend medical school and eventually become a psychiatrist. I enjoyed the psychology classes in which I was enrolled and found them to compliment the premed curriculum I also wanted to study. I reasoned that a major in psychology would provide insight that could later be useful in my planned studies of psychiatry. Although I decided against going to medical school, psychology remained the primary area of focus of my studies with the ultimate career goal of becoming a clinical psychologist. While my long term professional plans include achieving a PhD and becoming a clinical psychologist. Pursuing a masters degree in

| Recognise patterns and triggers which may lead to inappropriate behavioural responses and take action to pre-empt, divert or diffuse potential flash points

The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) is the primary professional organization for school psychologists in the U.S. NASP is dedicated to improving the mental health and education of students.

Every parent in the film has their own way to raise their children. In the second family (the one with the strict father while the mother doesn’t support the father’s decisions), the father were a bit an authoritarian parent because there’s little to no communication between he and his daughter. He wants her to be intelligent so, he offer so much structure that the child can only do is to agree and do the things that the father wants her to do such as reading the flashcards, learning words from foreign languages, etc. Cognition is all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. Young infants lack object permanence and by 8 months, infants begin exhibiting memory for things no longer seen. (AP Psychology

Arizona seventh-grader Olivia Vella choked up as she stood in front of her last week, delivering a powerful six-minute monologue about the reality of being a teenage girl today.The 13-year-old openly discussed the struggles young people face during those "awkward" middle school years. The peer pressure to look and act a certain way, the bullying ,all the challenges of transitioning into adulthood.

Both of my parents worked blue-collar jobs, my father was a firefighter and my mother worked in a hospital cafeteria. Both of my parents were very loving and caring, but also respectable and not afraid to instill discipline when required. I was the middle child, my older brother is a half brother from my mom’s previous marriage and my younger brother was in his infancy and toddler stage. My older brother was in his late teenage years and preparing to finish high school. He was very active with sports during those years and would try to teach me to play football or soccer with him. I had lots of friends growing up during this period of my life and spent the majority of my time out doors with them after school and on the

One of the more popular areas of psychology is Educational Psychology. Educational Psychology can be explained several ways. The idea is to study theories and concepts from different parts of psychology and apply them in educational settings. These educational settings may occur in different school settings such as preschool. The goal of educational psychology is to create a positive student-teacher relationship. Educational psychology uses five different types of psychology, behavioral, cognitive, developmental, and social cognitive, and constructivist in this research paper I will be briefly discussing each type of psychology listed above.

Over the course of this semester, I have had the opportunity to learn about educational psychology. I have always enjoyed psychology and was especially interested in how it applied to teaching in the classroom. There were five specific concepts we discussed over the semester that especially interested me. I found that homogenous and heterogeneous grouping, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, operant conditioning, cooperative learning, and divergent versus convergent thinking are five psychological concepts that every teacher should learn about in preparation for teaching.

     Intrinsic motivation can be defined as “motivation associated with activities that are their own reward” (Perry 2003). It is motivation that stems from your inner feelings and views which feed your desires to accomplish and perform. Oppositely, extrinsic motivation is “motivation created by external factors such as rewards and punishments” (Perry 2003). When you are extrinsically motivated, you are only performing the task for what you will gain from completion. On the other hand, when we are intrinsically motivated, there is no requirement for external rewards or punishments