My Final Thoughts
My journey through Introduction of Psychology went really well. In high school we were only able to touch on a lot of these subjects so it was great that I got to learn about them more in-depth in this class. I really enjoyed the online format for this class because I got to hear from a lot of different people during the discussions and I probably wouldn’t have been able to in a regular class.
It is hard to sum up the things that I learned in this class because we covered a lot of information that was usually intriguing. I really enjoyed Unit Three because the topics and the discussions were really interesting. It was neat to hear what my classmates thought about parenting and television violence. I thought the activity we did for this blog for Unit Three was also informative because we got to look at four psychologists (Piaget, Freud, Mahler, and Erikson) and dream up a summer camp that has activities based on their theories of development in children. I want to be a teacher so part of that is coming up with activities that are correctly geared to your students. Unit Four was great because I learned more about our senses and out thresholds. Of course the sleep module was cool because I always wonder whether my dreams mean anything! I know someone who has sleep apnea so I am now able to better understand what he is going through! The discussion for this unit about drugs was also worthwhile because I liked reading my classmates responses and stories. I felt the Unit Seven was so sad because it covered the psychological disorders. I learned a lot doing research for our blog entry for that unit. Study depression in men and women was definitely eye opening. I also learned about online diagnoses web pages; I had no idea that these existed. I have thought about this a lot and I am still undecided whether these are effective or not. I think they are good because some people are too timid to go to an actual doctor so it is probably better than they help themselves online then not seek professional help at all. I think maybe if you can find a reliable site that goes strictly by the rules of diagnoses it can be almost as good as a real doctor.
I think the papers really helped me in the learning process. I think papers are very effective in learning because you are able to immerse yourself in a lot of information and information sticks with you longer when you write it out. It was good for me to learn about alcoholism because I have family members who are afflicted with the disease and I am able to understand them better now. I thought the AIDS paper was a great way to promote our class learning more about the subject. I do not know anyone inflicted with AIDS so by watching the movie I was able to have a different perspective.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Unit Wrap Up
What was your something that you learned in the unit? What other points do you want to share about the unit?
Wow! What an interesting unit. I learned tons about motivation. Motivation is a need or desire that actually energizes our behavior and directs it toward a particular goal. There are three perspectives to keep in mind because they are influential on motivation: the instict theory (replaced by evolutionary theory), drive-reduction theory, and the arousal theory. We can also use Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a fouth perspective. The first module in our unit talked about the motivation of hunger. Hunger is a lower-level need on Maslow's chart and is a physiological need. Sexual motivation was the next module where I learned about Alfred Kinsey's sex studies. Kinsey conducted 18,000 confidential interviews with people where he asked them 350 questions. At the beginning of the interview, he would ask questions about family background, health, and education to make people feel more comfortable and then he would ask them sexually explicit questions. In the next module I learned about motivation at work. Most of us don't get too excited about work and yearn for vacation time but I learned that work does help us satisfy several of our needs.Work helps support us, connect us, and defines who we are!
In the next module, I learned about the debate about emotional response. William James and Carl Lange believed that humans feel emotion after we notice our physiological responses.Walter Cannon and Philip Bard disagreed and thought that we feel emotion at the same time that our bodies responsed. Today, most researchers agree with Cannon and Bard! In module 30, I learned about the effects of facial expressions. This is important in everyday life because you don't want to accidently make a rude face at a teacher or boss! The next module was all about stress and believe me, I knew what that was! I thought the most interesting section in the module was about Stress and AIDS, it is devastating that 22 million people have died in the last century.It is so important to know about because it spreads so easily because people usually don't know right away that they have it. The last module was about promoting health. The module definately inspired me to exercise more because many studies suggest that it can reduce stress, depression, and anxiety.
What was your something that you learned in the unit? What other points do you want to share about the unit?
Wow! What an interesting unit. I learned tons about motivation. Motivation is a need or desire that actually energizes our behavior and directs it toward a particular goal. There are three perspectives to keep in mind because they are influential on motivation: the instict theory (replaced by evolutionary theory), drive-reduction theory, and the arousal theory. We can also use Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a fouth perspective. The first module in our unit talked about the motivation of hunger. Hunger is a lower-level need on Maslow's chart and is a physiological need. Sexual motivation was the next module where I learned about Alfred Kinsey's sex studies. Kinsey conducted 18,000 confidential interviews with people where he asked them 350 questions. At the beginning of the interview, he would ask questions about family background, health, and education to make people feel more comfortable and then he would ask them sexually explicit questions. In the next module I learned about motivation at work. Most of us don't get too excited about work and yearn for vacation time but I learned that work does help us satisfy several of our needs.Work helps support us, connect us, and defines who we are!
In the next module, I learned about the debate about emotional response. William James and Carl Lange believed that humans feel emotion after we notice our physiological responses.Walter Cannon and Philip Bard disagreed and thought that we feel emotion at the same time that our bodies responsed. Today, most researchers agree with Cannon and Bard! In module 30, I learned about the effects of facial expressions. This is important in everyday life because you don't want to accidently make a rude face at a teacher or boss! The next module was all about stress and believe me, I knew what that was! I thought the most interesting section in the module was about Stress and AIDS, it is devastating that 22 million people have died in the last century.It is so important to know about because it spreads so easily because people usually don't know right away that they have it. The last module was about promoting health. The module definately inspired me to exercise more because many studies suggest that it can reduce stress, depression, and anxiety.
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