Experiential Psychology Case Study

This general psychology class is preparing me for the child psychology class I plan to take after I am done, as Psychology 101 is the pre-requisite. Child psychology is the main field of psychology that I enjoy and therefore I am planning a career as a child development psychologist. At the beginning of this class I was introduced to all the different fields of psychology by reading “PSYCH” by Spencer A. Rathus. I had no idea that there were Environmental psychologists, Industrial psychologists and Forensic psychologists. I have learned that “Environmental psychologists study the ways in which people and the environment- the natural made environment and the human- made environment- influence one another” (p.5).

Reflection essay In the beginning of this class I had my doubts, I was unsure, confused, and discouraged. I decided to take it anyway. This would be my second time taking English 1301, you would think I would have learned my lesson and go to the physical campus to take English the second time around. The first time I took English I learned absolutely nothing I wrote so many papers and read a full book and I finished that class with a bad grade and no confidence. I can definitely say this class was different, very different I enjoyed every assignment.

Students will be asked to complete the Bem Sex Role Inventory and the Traditional Egalitarian Sex Role Scale (TESR) prior to reading a scenario. After reading the scenarios they will be asked to rate the instructor using a rating form developed by Leventhal, Perry, and Abrami (1977). I hope to present my findings at a regional psychology conference and, if possible, submit the work for consideration for publication. Aside from conducting research, I also have had the opportunity to experience the teaching aspects of psychology while serving as a teaching assistant for a Research Methods course and an Introduction to Psychology course. As a TA for Research Methods my responsibilities included supervising five students' research work.

Technically, infants must be looking at a magic show everyday for months. Piaget coined the term object permanence in 1954 to describe the understanding that objects continue to exist, even when they cannot be directly seen, heard or touched. While conducting an experiment on his son as Piaget often did he found that his son did not reach for a toy that he had hidden with a cover. Piaget took that to mean that his son must not know that they toy exists anymore. When Piaget started these experiments to test this phenomenon light bulbs lit up in the heads of developmental psychologists around the world as they probably said to themselves,”I never thought about that before”.

In a freshman psychology class, a student learns many various things. A student can learn about what exactly is the psychology to what is considered language. In my intro to psych class, I can say I learned more things than I would learn in a psychology class. Some of the things that I learned that left an impact on my brain were heuristics, things needed to perform a case study, learning, and stress. Those five things that I learned definitely made me think of the world differently in ways I never would of before taking psychology.

he first day of class was an introduction to Adlerian psychology where professor asked the students questions about their interests, why we chose our specific program, and our familiarity with Alfred Adler. An emphasis was placed on what was required from the syllabi, and expectations relative to students finishing the class. A video of Dr. Rudolph Dreikurs was also shown in class having giving a discussion some of Alfred Adler’s concepts. In the video conversation Dr. Dreikurs spoke about the following: • Adler’s approach on learning personalities • Social interest (basis of expanding to the need of the situation) • Democratic and Autocratic Leadership styles • Group discussion, techniques In chapter one of “The General System of Individual Psychology,” Adler discusses a variety of concepts to approaching and overcoming the obstacles to completing goals. These sections include titles such as, Striving of life to Overcome; The Pull of a Creative Goal; Artistry to Find Uniqueness; Examples of Types; Reading Movements in a Direction; Social Interest...

Kevin Seybold that Grove City College requires all of its psychology students to take. This class was my introduction to the world of psychological research and was instrumental in shaping my focus. As a class, my peers were directed by Dr. Seybold to explore how priming subjects with a memory of a time when they were socially excluded would affect different measures of religiosity, libertarianism, and political conservatism. Like other students in the class, I was a research assistant and had the opportunity to recruit and run subjects through the research method, score subjects on different measures, enter data, run statistical tests, analyze the results using SPSS, and write a formal APA paper to report our findings. Although

My informal and formal observations fed my interest in the phylogenetic and ontogenetic bases of cognition and language. As a psychology student at [my school], I had numerous opportunities to research and observe human psychology, both in and out of the classroom. As a sophomore, along with a professor and fellow students in a seminar class, I helped design and run a study on categorization and user's intentions. Later that year we presented our findings at the annual American Psychological Society meeting. In that same year I also assisted a professor in conducting a study on the effects of familiar and unfamiliar music on reading comprehension.

I soon forgot about the incident till the next day when he made another comment “in a joking matter.” Right then I started to really pay attention to what he was meaning. He acted as if I owed him money for helping me get the job. He began to get very short with me and I had only been there for two weeks. He was supposed to train me on how to build our e-mail servers and instruct me on how to install the entire standard monitoring software. This was not done.

One reason I chose this field to study is because the human mind is capable of amazing things and psychology gives me more of a chance to learn about it. Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, like seeing how one behaves in context. The first steps to become a psychologist is the first get your bachelor’s degree to gain insight on the fundamentals of psychology. This degree takes four to five years to earn. After that, you go on to attaining your master 's degree.