Intro To Psychology Final Exam

Malik Morris
Introduction to Psychology
Final Exam

The science of psychology.

Back in the days, many psychologists relied on the concept of questioning or learning how things work the way they work. That’s how psychology was invented. Many psychologists wanted to able to understand and they do believe that there was a reason for everything that happened around them. Eventually it became a cultural transformation for next thousands of generations. So understanding the reason behind “psychology” was that they wanted to look for explanations; they wanted to able to comprehend that things changed over times. Before taking this course, I always thought that “psychology” is simply about a person just listening other people situations that they need to help deal with. Then later, I increased my knowledge and learned that psychology is really just the foundation of life. We use psychology to understand people, to research things that are questionable to us, to not only understand human beings but also with other species like animals because some of the similarities they have as human beings.
This is the reason why it merely impacts me because of the value and the investments that these men and women put into to create for the world to see the true definition of psychology. Without psychology, we wouldn’t be able to run the society like we do now; it would become chaotic with no knowledge of how things function because we depend on explanation, prediction, and control to keep our society stable.
Now that I’m in college, I realized that the way of my thinking and my behaviors before I went into to college completely changed. The one thing that I learned is how I was able to see things clearly in college than I was in high school. The behaviorism was definitely one area that I noticed how it could be helpful for me when I’m college as well as in the future. People change all the time; based on the reasons they’re going through, the childhood they grew up in, how much they are socializing around their peers. There are so many causes for how people behave whether they are alone or with other people, but the one thing that I can say is that they are not right or wrong for the way they act. Things happen for a reason, that’s why I believe that Psychology impacts me in a way that ideas are always changing through out the period, which is why there will always something that is still unquestionable to us and we will always try to find answers someday.

Social Psychology Another area that we discussed and also the topic that I feel more valuable and had the most impact on me is social psychology. It defines a study if how human beings feel, behave, and think by being surrounded with others. Everyday, we are being around with another living thing. We grow, learn, develop, and create by the interactions we have around with other people, directly or indirectly. This topic is valuable to me because this is how we started the minute we were born. We rely on social for our attentions, our needs, and most importantly our attitudes. With this topic in our life, we were able to perform tasks to balance with other people based on their background because we wanted to have that “equal status contact.” Without that, the society will be falling apart and divided from each other just like the time when the Americans was opposed to African Americans in the 50s and 60s. Reading this topic gave me perspectives in a way that I would never thought I could understand before. One section in the textbook talked about how stereotypes can cause people to become vulnerable. Being in a deaf world and being in an African American world, its pretty difficult to deal with the confrontations that people approached to me but learning that people are just being the way they are, yes they might be trashing against me because of my background but over the time, we learned how to behavior the right thing by just letting it go and understand that these people will learn the mistake they made later in the future. I gained the knowledge of understanding how to change my behavior to match other people that aren’t used to my regular behavior, creating new perspectives by learning something new about others and their background, and to reduce any conflicts that may cause some division or separation between people.

Theories of Personality
Another area that we discussed and it’s new in the psychology world is theories of personality. The concept of theories of personality is that each individual go through stages in life to develop the way they think, act, and feel based on the influences they are being exposed when they were younger to adulthood.
This topic is pretty interesting to me because I thought that we aren’t unique because sometime I believe that there are some people that are much alike. But I realized that every human being are unique, there is nothing similar to one another. The one specific area that fascinated me was about Freud’s divisions of personality. In the textbook, it mentioned about how babies do actually have “sex drives” because of the pleasure principle (id) that their needs must be met. Once their needs has been satisfied, that is where the infants become more independent because of how they would able to get their desires met by doing something on their own. Then later their ego and superego soon take over their conscious mind and that what developed their personality.
The main reason why I think this area of psychology impact me is because I sometime wonder where did I get my personality? How did I become like this and not like other person’s personality? Then I realized that we were raised differently. Our parents taught us the way they wanted to teach. My personality tends to be on the tough side but yet I can be soft when something is very close to my heart. This is very interesting and its definitely something that I want to learn more in the future because I want to able to learn other personalities and how I can adjust to match their needs in any situations.
This also applies in my college experience because of the diversity that I see everyday on each different person. It pushes me to expand my thinking and my perspective on how these college students act, think, and feel the way they do on daily basis.

Least Favorite Area of Psychology: Research Methods & Psychological Therapies On this part is about which areas of psychology that I like the least. Two areas of psychology that I like the least is research methods and psychological therapies because both of areas aren’t apply me at all. The reasons why I think this two areas of psychology topic isn’t apply me, In the research method area, I don’t use the scientific method in my daily life like the psychologists use the scientific method which they only want to see what is really there, not what their biases might lead them to see. Psychologists use them for a system to reducing bias and error in the measurement of data that is a way to accomplish the goals of psychology based on description, explanation, prediction and control. So this isn’t really applies me because I don’t really am observer behavior and questioning myself why they are behavior like that way? Or why they are very mean to me for no reasons? Or how comes that all kids often has a big heart but when they gets older then they become have a half-hearted or small heart with fake smile? all that kind of questions that I don’t often to use the scientific methods by observing behavior because the life goes on which is why should I observe behavior. What are benefits for me after find the answers? That isn’t even impacted my own perspective or me as a person. That’s why I don’t really notice anything else in the life by use the scientific methods to develop the perceiving the question to find something what I notice something interesting happening in my surroundings then create the forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, drawing conclusions, and report the results. That is for Psychologists thing to use the scientific methods, not for me. And Psychological therapies, there are two different types of therapy based in psychological techniques, people who has the kind of type disorders or needed for a therapy they will see the therapist to tell about the problems, and the therapist listens and tries to help them or assist them in changing the behaviors relates to the problem. On the other type of therapy use prescribed medical interventions to bring the symptoms under control where the people who has psychological disorders can be treated. My personal characteristic isn’t apply to this area of psychology because I don’t have a certificate or degrees in Psychology where I can’t help those people who has a psychological disorders by assist them to solve those problems or understand those problems then solve by themselves and or prescribe them medical inventions. I don’t have the ability to help both mentally healthy and psychologically disordered persons understand themselves better, only Psychotherapy can do that. I’d send those people who have psychological disorder to seek the counselor or hotline to talk with the psychotherapy.

Course Evaluation As has been noted, I have enjoyed this course because I learned quite a lot than I expected before started for the spring semester.. And I’m definitely not regret to take this online course by under you. This course “Introduction to Psychology” is truly enrichment resource to educate me to understand the basic concept and term in the field of psychology. It helps me gain knowledge about the field of psychology and one of many introductory principles to develop the skills such as gathering, analyzing, evaluating, solving problems, and synthesizing information to applies in my daily life. My responses about the various assignments that I have done through at the very beginning of first week for spring semester to now, is really great experienced for me to take the various assignments by online instead of in-class. I always thought that online will be very difficult for me to understand this course or how to use the online such as do the various assignments through online course. So yeah, in the beginning I found it really challenge for me to understand the deeply depth of how to do online by take any various assignments such as MyPsychlab video assignments, MyPsychlab Chapter Quizzes, Discussion board, and the Debates. Then later on few days, I picked up pretty quickly on how to use the online course and do the various assignments. You should have to set up the schedule to meet up your future students in person and explain them at once how to use the online course for an hour or so during the first week of each semester. I think that MyPsychLab video assignments is really helpful to understand the basic concept of principles in any topics such as research methods, consciousness, motivation and emotion, child development, and many mores. Because the video has a vision with Closed Caption that is easier for me to understand about specially areas of any topics for the assignments before start the answer questions. And also it benefits me to use the MyPsychLab video assignments to be prepared for the Chapter Quizzes in MyPsychLab website. I wish that you could modify MyPsychLab to provide the test review with ready note-takings for each chapter before to take the MyPsychLab Chapter Quizzes that will be help for the future students to be prepared for better. One thing that I don’t like this course is that I have to check out to make sure that i did do the assignments because I often forget about the assignments online which i didn’t even think that I actually have an online course but it’s my responsibility to check it out and everything. Nothing is big deal about that. Although I don’t have much to say negatively or not like about this course. This course is totally fun and enjoyable to ride all the through for a semester. Discussion board, Participants in Research, and The Debates should be keeping for the various assignments. The more various assignments, the more students will be enjoying with the online course of Introduction to Psychology. Nothings can beat wear Pajamas and not going to in-class that’s all I have to do is open the laptop and check out in the online. Have a great retirement times!