Reflection On Braveness And Strengths In Psychology

Knowledge: Throughout the course, I have learned a lot about myself as well as the others around me. I learned that is it both nature and nurture that makes us the person we are today. This goes hand in hand with our behavior. Naturally, we contain unconditioned stimuli that automatically lead to outcomes, such as salivating at the sight of food. However, throughout life as we experience more things, we learn that our own actions produce outcomes; after studying for hours, I received a good grade on the last exam, leading me to do it again. I learned that these experiences help form my personality. Positive or negative, the way I interpret these experiences leads to my personality development. I also believe in Freud’s unconscious mind, and that some memories, urges, and conflicts, are hidden yet still affect my behavior

Based on the Clifton Strengths Assessment my top five strengths are strategic, deliberative, learner, maximize and individualization. As an individual, I rarely look into my weakness. I believe that when your too focused on your weakness, you forget about your strengths. Everything the book said is true, and we need to take the time to look at our strengths and make it perfect. It is true that in this world or the school system, we are taught to look at our weakness and correct it so that we can become stronger in our life. This book brings out the truth that I longed to hear for a long time. Invariably, I hear my professor tell their students that for them success in life, they must practice and look at our weakness. This book proves it wrong because for us to become successful, we must stay to our strengths’ path.

In my initial post, I wanted to learn more about myself and those that I am around daily. In fact, I should have given more detail since I am interested in learning about how to communicate effectively with different personality types because I supervise many different individuals. In reality, I feel that this will give me a gateway to evaluate myself as a teacher and learn what works best for each employee. Also, we find that when we understand the people that we are around it makes us more effective leaders which can lead to a more successful workplace (Dibra, 2014). However, I have found that this class offered so much more than I first realized. During the last four weeks, we have discussed that sleep plays such a significant role in repairing our bodies, sleep deprivation can cause serious health issues, the beauty industry and environmental factors can lead to an unhealthy lifestyle, and the differences in the parenting styles. We have covered several areas in our comment section that consist of how the mind and nervous system are associated by having overlapping patterns of activity, how brain trauma can affect an individual and the discussion of neuroscience as it relates to the criminal justice system (Cacioppo & Freberg, 2013). Also, we have learned how the

This week’s assignment started by directing us to complete a self-assessment, which I felt was a well laid out chart with established skills and a level in which to rate yourself from 1 being poor up to 5 being good. I think it was a good exercise, giving us a better insight to our strengths and weaknesses. I do in fact think that I learned something new about myself and could more easily answer the question of “tell me your strengths and weaknesses”, which is often asked at interviews or promotion boards.

Critical reading for this class comes easily. Reading the chapter, highlighting certain points and writing notes helps to understand the content. The topics mentioned thus far have all been fairly easy to grasp, especially since they are familiar topics but as time progresses and the reading become more in depth, this strategy will be increasingly more helpful. Critical reading is always a struggle but hopefully this class, with all of the assigned reading, will help teach how to properly read a textbook, fully understanding each and every phrase mentioned. While reading a textbook, it is easy to get distracted and forget everything that was just read, by taking notes and highlighting while reading, it is easier to grasp the information given. Being able to stay focused and be more insightful throughout this class is a definite growing

Time management is extremely important. Make sure to write down all the assignments, readings, due dates, and test/exam dates. Make sure to stay organized, that’s the most important thing! Never fall behind on the work and never cram!! It is impossible to cram for this course, I know you may think differently, but you will learn either the easy or hard way that cramming is not the answer. This course may sound scary, but just relax! Maintain a positive attitude, good study habits, and time management skills and you will succeed! GOOD

When writing, I try to gather as much information about the topic, I am getting ready to discuss before I start writing. What that does is it helps me get organized and have a greater understanding about what I will be writing. Not only do I try to gather as much information, I also try to organize myself and my writing by starting an outline to help me stay on topic. As a writer, I am not always as confident as I wish to be. Some improvements I hope to gather from taking this class is being able to keep my writing flowing and sounding efficient. When writing has positive flow and understanding, people are more likely to stay engaged in what they are reading. Transition words, phrases, and sentences is also something I would like to improve.

Over the course of this class I have pieced together many things about my own life that before went unnoticed. I am now able to see things in a bit of a different light. Now that I have been introduced to the realm of psychology I understand some of the reasons for behavior around me. I have learned that there is a reason for most everything and a lot of our behaviors and mental processes can be explained through psychology. Studies have been conducted for many years to try and pinpoint the source of our behavior and it is not something that most people think about every day. Having a better understanding of why we operate the way we do will help me to better understand myself and the others around me.

After taking the “VIA Survey of Character Strengths” quiz it stated my top five strengths were honesty, kindness, modesty, fairness, and perseverance. Surprisingly, I agree with the strengths the quiz stated. All the strengths are very important to me as a person. The First strength was honesty and I value myself on being an honest person. I believe if you are not honest, how can someone trust anything you say or do as a person?

Even though I believe this class is helpful, I believe this class might be harder for me than expected. I do not do very well when it comes to writing and reading comprehension, but I hope that through this class I will be able to excel and do much better than before. I believe that through proper time management, I will be able to do well and meet each deadline on time.

I had prepared myself prior to taking the course, by researching study techniques online. And went from simply rewriting the material to writing it in my own words. As well as this, including doodles and visual cues which, as a rather creative person, I have found work well for me. However something I feel rather lets me down is my inability to manage time well, which I have also been working on. At times this is not something I am in control of, but that is not to say that I always make the best use of my free time and the time I have in which to study.

Before entering this class I had moderate writing abilities and poor analyzing abilities. Since this is a writing class I knew it would consist of a lot of writing. However I didn’t expect this class to be so focused on research. So from this class I learned more than just writing and research abilities, I absorbed the capability to read better as well as reflect.

There came a point in time that I needed to change everything in my life. I came to the decision that it would be best for me to enroll in college. I was learning everything about me at that point in my life, so it seemed like a great time to learn about other subjects while I was open and growing. I was learning so much about myself at that point in time that my thirst for knowledge seemed unquenchable when I wasn’t exhausted from my efforts. This led me to Lane Community College where I have been a part time student since summer of 2011.The campus has changed throughout this time as have I. This assignment happens to involve one of those changes to the campus that correlates to a way I have changed my thinking. There is a wave pattern of

My current strengths include; my honesty and passion towards my work. I have always been positive and confident regarding my aims and targets. Along with these, I am a good decision maker, due to which I can make right and quick decisions. Moreover, I have ability to motivate others and do team work. I am also a responsible person, when I make a target; I work day and night to achieve my goal.

The first category is self-awareness. It is made up of three competencies; they are emotional self-awareness, accurate self-assessment, and self-confidence. These sub-categories allow you to be critically self-reflective, which helps in improving yourself. In this categories I only got a six out of ten which leads me to believe that my emotions play a part in my work and personal life, and that I need to work on recognizing how to read and understand my emotions. It also shows I may be unrealistic about my personal evaluation of my strengths and weaknesses. And lastly, that I may not recognize my own positive self-worth. I think my strength in this category is my self-confidence. As I may not always allot for it, I do know I have self-worth. I am confident in my work abilities and that shows, it also shows that I am less confident in my personal life. My weakness in