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What I Learned From It

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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. Homework #1 was the refresher of statistics that we had all learned previously before coming into this class. I was personally happy we had this assignment because stats were one of those subjects I did not excel in, as well as never thought I would be using again in another class. The practice with SPSS proved to be vital for other assignments that came up in the semester. After some practice with SPSS and some refresher on stats, I was confident with my skills and was ready to apply it to what we were learning. Homework #2 was the start to our test conceptualization as well as construction. I worked with my partner, Kevin Ravenelle, brainstorming on ideas for our test. We decided upon a measure on honesty and throughout our repeated trials and errors steps during this phase, we were able to construct a first draft of our assessment. This was an important exercise to go through, because it is one thing to learn these concepts during lectures and notes, but its completely different when it comes time to construct and apply it. I was happy I got to work with Kevin on this because it allowed us to share ideas, working through

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