Reflection On Psychology

What were the objectives of this lesson? How well do you think your students understood the overall purpose and relevance of the lesson? (APS 4.A–C)

Module two focused on the nervous and endocrine systems. I learned about the structure and function of the nervous system. I learned about the way it reacts to different stimuli and which parts of the nervous system are reacting. I did an assignment where I explored different scenarios when each part of the nervous system would act. I also talked about the anatomy of the brain and the function of each region. The assignment that best helped me to grasp this concept was the honors summative. Locating and giving image descriptions for each part of the brain really helped me. Finally, I learned about the endocrine system and hormones. I found it really interesting to learn what parts of my body and what chemicals are causing the feelings that I fell in different situations. As I have gone through life since this module, I try to think about hormones and my nervous system when I am in a certain situation and feeling a certain way. I try to think about what is causing the way that I am feeling and it

This week was I was relaxed and nervous. I was relaxed because I am done with my individual assignment, and nervous because we have presentation. I think group member before us as set the presentation standards high, and we as a group need to at least try to match the level. Other than reading and working on the presentation I had two case studies, 9 discussions board posting to finish. I am poor public speaker, I get extra nervous to talk in front of the class. Hope I can manage to talk for two minutes, and explained what I read and research on my topic.

The reading the material of last week was very interesting, as it described the term “Helper” as of someone like counselor, psychotherapist, friends and family. It is so fascinating to have this type of description when it comes to counseling. The class discussion was very important as we get to see our first role play between the professor and a volunteer student, and the whole class observed their role play.

Describe one or two events that occurred or observations you made during the week. Next, describe what you thought and/or felt about those events or observations. Use an extra sheet of paper if necessary.

This week was very impressing and confusing to me because of the different subjects you went over. I say impressing because of the day we had to ask questions and research the questions to find the real answer. It was many questions that striked me because I never thought to ask or think about to get the real truth. It was also interesting because of the day we had to draw out pictures of the ways of knowing, I liked how everybody showed their creativity in the room. This week was also very confusing to me because of the first unit we went over called “Claims for Relativism”. I didn’t understand anything in that whole unit because it seem like it was moving from one subject to another. For example it went from talking

Week 6 is getting a feedback from the Instructor and submission of Annotated Outline for the Final Project to the Instructor.

Throughout my 5 years of college and high school in the U.S, this is the first psychology class that I have taken. This class has helped me understand concepts of the human mind, such as intelligence, problem solving, and differing personalities. These lectures are supported by various scientists and psychologists, and are relevant to real life circumstances. However, the most valuable lesson I have learned in this class is motivation.

This is the second week of our sociology course. Now that I am familiar with the structure of the class, I felt that learning the material and discussing it with classmates was smooth. This week, I took a lot of information from our course and was able to connect it with my life.

Well the classroom is not an option anymore. So how are you going to change your behavior?

I enjoyed taking this class and learning about the foundations of psychology. This class was interesting to me because it explained the reasons for many events in my life. Unlike a portion of other topics I study, I could relate to the information within psychology. I tend to find topics much more interesting when they apply to me and I can relate to them. Psychology explains the emotions, feelings, thought processes, and development I experience. The most interesting topics to me were human development, health psychology, psychological disorders, learning, and memory.

Psychology is “the systematic, objective study of our mental activity and our behavior” (Grison, Heatherton, Gazzaniga, 2017, p. 5). In order to fully comprehend ourselves, we should understand the reasons for our behaviors and if the behaviors are healthy. Habits and behaviors have positive and negative effects in our life and health. When we know ourselves and learn about our unique personality, we can develop as confident individuals and pursue endeavors and goals. Psychology also enables us to understand other people and the differences of people. Gaining this knowledge and understanding enhances the relationships in our lives and allows us to develop stronger communication skills. Throughout the psychology course, I encompassed knowledge in various areas, and the topics that impacted me included: the introvert, anxiety disorders, coping with stress, sleep and how to develop strong relationships.

Tomorrow, tomorrow was my moto for achieving my goals before I joined this class. However, once I joined the class and begun to evaluate my lifestyle I realized I needed a major change. First information I learned were the three keys for psychological skills interventions; be ready to change, assume responsibility and believe in yourself. Before, I even begun this class I was ready to change my sedentary lifestyle however, I didn’t know where to begin, I had no vision. My lifestyle had caused distaste towards my body and left me feeling physically and mentally unhealthy. My second step was that I was responsible for allowing myself to live in damaging lifestyle. A change had to be made, I began by believing that I could change my sedentary lifestyle into one of fitness. Then I identified my process goal of running one or two miles every other day. Eventually increasing to two or three miles during October and November. My second process goal was to assess my mile time after every month. Finally, my performance goal was to reduce my mile time by four minutes with an ultimate goal of running a mile in under eight minutes.

This semester, I took the class Intro to Psychology where I learned about the scientific study of thoughts and behaviors. Throughout the class, we were taught basics of psychology, researching in psychology, biology of behavior, the human development, and human learning. Intro to Psychology prepared me for my future and provided me an understanding of how behavior and thoughts worked. Four things that I learned about psychology out of the whole class, however, is how the nervous system, fetus development, teratogens, and classical conditioning all relate to psychology and how each one works.

In my summary of the work I have done throughout the semester, I will like to go through each assignment and what I learned from it, as well as the impact it had on me a psychology concentration. All of the assignments proved to be valuable in some way to my learning, pushing me farther intellectually than I ever though I would in this class.