Jade Griffin
Signature Assignment: My Evolution
Professor Katerina Salini
Psychology 1010
My Experience in Psychology
My first day in Psychology 1010 class I didn’t know what I was going to
expect to learn from taking this course. I already had an idea of what psychology
might be and I would usually associated psychology with “shrink”. That was my only
perspective of what I had of this course. But after the first couple days I started to
have a whole new perspective of Psychology that really started to open my eyes and
become more interested in the subject. And I will describe to you briefly on how my
thinking changed over the semester in this course.
My thought process of this course has changed dramatically over the past few
months I have been in this class. From doing signature assignments (Mcgraw
Hillconnect assignments online), to reading the text, and the lectures our professor
would give would help change my thinking of this course for the rest of my life. I
have learned new information on how the brain works and shapes who we are,
personality wise. Which I thought was the most interesting part of the course to
experience and gain knowledge on was how our minds worked. For example, what I
thought was interesting was Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, which was an
approach to personality and how it works. What he thought mainly was that most of
our thought processes operate in our unconscious part of the mind, like our ego
(deals with the demands of reality), superego (internal judge of our behavior), and
the id (our unconscious drives). I just found this to be so interesting on how Freud
thought the mind worked. But there are going to be critics out there that may or
may not disagree, but all I know is it that it was a very interesting theory to learn
about in my class.
The next top interesting subjected that I was interested in learning was the
psychological disorder section on my textbook along with the teachers’ lectures
(which helped me understand it more). I always found it fascinating on how people
with different mental illnesses acted the way the do, since I know of people in my
family with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and eating disorders; I was just always
interested in why they act the way they do. For example, people with schizophrenia
have either positive or negative symptoms of the mental illness. Positive symptoms
include hallucinations, delusions, and referential thinking (personal meanings to
random events). And the negative symptom is a flat effect (showing no emotion).
At the end of this section of psychological disorders, it has helped me gain more
insight on what some people go through when they these mental disorders and I
respect them for enduring the challenges that they face everyday.
So in the end after this course ends I will have more knowledge on how the
human brain works with dealing from a wide range of discrepancies that we all
must go through and what shapes us to well, become us. There are many more that I
would like to discuss that I enjoyed about this class, but it would be too much to
discuss. Hopefully you have gotten a small idea of what psychology is like. After
taking this class I will use the information I have hopefully down the road to help
out with certain situations in someone’s life or even my own.
Thanks for reading!
APA Citation:.
King, L. A. (2010). Experience psychology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Freud, Sigmund. (1917). A general introduction to psychoanalysis. New York:
Washington Square Press