Reflection Essay

Over the course of my three and a half years as an undergraduate psychology major at Grove City College, my passion and interests have developed in interesting and unexpected ways. As a freshman, my introduction psychology courses fascinated me and sparked a passion within me; however, I struggled with finding a direction for what I would do with my degree when I graduated. Sophomore year, I changed my major to a Bachelor of Science in psychology, with the intent of taking a pre-med route, attending medical school upon graduation, and eventually becoming a psychiatrist. I was enthusiastic about this prospect, and was doing well in my chemistry and calculus classes when I began to really research and dig into what it means to be a psychiatrist and how that career path would fit in with my interests and strengths.

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