Psychology Reflection Paper

Throughout this semester of Psychology 150 I have learned a great deal about several different concepts that I consciously, and sometimes unconsciously, find myself applying to my life. There are five different psychology topics I found that held the most relevance to my life. Some of these topics do not deal with myself exclusively, but they do affect the people I hold dear to me. The topics range from disorders to personality differences, and they all affect me in some way, both indirectly and directly.

1. Psychology has contributed to the advancement of social issues in many ways. Psychologists challenged societies way of thinking on many social issues, one being segregation in schools. Psychology was used to show the affects of segregation and that psychologically homosexuals were no different than heterosexuals. Psychology has helped drop stereotypes and stigmas and helped create the way of thinking that most of society now has.

In Chapter 7 of our What Is Psychology textbook, we learned about the importance, details and strategies of memory techniques. One type of memory is Short Term, which only last up to thirty seconds before forgetting. Whenever has to remember a number or a name, they often repeat the information multiple times so that the Short Term Memory can transition into Long Term Memory. In order for this transition to occur, the information must be constantly repeated, or important enough to be held in the permanent memory, which helps create a “folder” with all retaining information and reminiscing. Another way short term can become long term is using a method called Chunking, this breaks the bigger pictures into smaller ones for the brain to remember,

In Psychology 101, you learn about a personal fable; something that I have not lost. I have always wanted to change the world that I was destined for greatness and teaching elementary school students gives me that power. In the words of Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

First, children¡¯s acquisition of language is an innate mechanism that enables a child to analyze language and extract the basic rules of grammar, granted by Chomsky. It basically states that humans are born with a language acquisition device that, the ability to learn a language rapidly as children. However, there is one important controversy in language acquisition concerns how we acquire language; since Chomsky fails to adequately explain individual differences. From the behaviorists¡¯ perspectives, the language is learned like other learned behaviors. It is learned through operant

Chapter 13 dives into the idea of stress, the relationship between our health and stress and many other topics in between.

1. What are the feline distance increasing postures? Describe defensive aggression and offensive aggression in dogs.

1. List the three factors that are described in chapter 1 that create a need for screening. Discuss the significance of each one as to why they are key factors. (3 pts)

All I wanted was a duck eraser. When I was younger, my older cousin would ask me to be a part of her psychology research for college. She promised that if I did what she asked I could get the duck eraser I wanted. During my junior year I had space for an extra class. Remembering how much fun I had being apart of my cousin’s experiments and learning about her research, I decided on taking AP Psychology. I am extremely glad that I took the class because I learned a copious amount and had so much fun. My favorite project I did involved interviewing people and psychoanalyzing myself to understand the stages of development by various psychologist. During the project, I was astounded to learn that the interactions we as a species have affect our

I understand that you have asked students to help you improve teaching at ECC by sharing with you examples of good learning experiences. I would like to share mine with you.

According to Dr. Megan Scears, when struggling when an eating disorder, the body is severely affected; bone density is lost, the individual will suffer from chronic dehydration, complications with menstruation and fertility, as well as a loss of brain mass in the frontal temporal lobe – the brain will look similar to that of an Alzheimer’s patient. Partaking in the activities of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and or other specified feeding and eating disorders does not support life and instead pollutes the moment (Scears). Another activity which, when in abundance, pollutes the moment and does not support life is stress. A healthy amount of stress can be an excellent motivator, however, when this stress becomes self-consuming is when the problem arises (Windholtz). Stress related

The section in this chapter that I found fascinating is when the authors discusses intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Before this section, I only heard of these words in my behavior modification psychology class third semester. In this section however, I especially enjoyed the example about the children playing math games. I was not surprised to see that the children spent more time playing the games when a reward was at stake. I feel, people in this day and age work or participate in activities majorly for the prize at the end (whether that be a paycheck, trophy, recognition, etc.). Of course there are many exceptions to this statement, and many people participate in certain things for the self-validation or pure interest.

Journal 2: Introduction to Psychology Before coming into this class, I thought that psychology was working with children and see how they act, but I did not think further that psychology was more than that. So far what I have learned in this class is that Psychology is a scientific study of the mind. The word psychology has two parts. The first one is Psyche it means soul, and the other word is Ology it means the study of. Psychology does show us how children behave

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.

The Gestalt psychology movement was fascinating within the time frame in which it started to develop. While other psychological movements strived to boil down psychology in almost simplistic, scientific terms, Gestalt psychology embraced complexities within the consciousness. Gestalt psychologists argued “that when we look out a window we really see trees and sky, not individual sensory elements such as brightness and hue” (Schultz & Schultz, 2011). There is more to what we experience and see that just the simple elements that make these things and experiences up.