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By Meagan, December. 4. 2009 10:41

Yesterday, was my very last day of classes for the semester. That includes my Psychology 101 course that I have been registered for this semester. As the last blog of the semester we have been asked to write about what views have changed, what information we’ll most remember down the road and like thoughts now that the semester is over. Well, here it goes…

I think it is safe to say that almost anyone that goes into a introduction psychology course is going to have some sort of ideas on the various subjects, whether it is correct or not. After all, in daily life we are told things about the meaning of our dreams, we are developing our personalities and learning how to social interact, and are aware of some big psychology names like Freud. I walked into the class with both misconceptions and facts in my head. So as the course progressed there were topics were influential enough as to stick with me.

First off, dreams, memory, and personality were big points of interest to me. They tend to be for most students. While I am not pinpointing any specific detail, it was learning about the general developmental ideas related to the brain that then results in the production of dreams, the creation of personality and the maintenance of memory that really interest me. By being able to comprehend the science of such mind functions helps their resulting projections to be understood and for me to be more aware of what is going on with myself than just surface information.

Secondly, I never realized just how much science was truly involved in psychology. I guess in hindsight, it should be obvious that since psychology deals with the brain, and since that is a biological factor, that science would be a key link in understanding. Of course, entering the course I was completely oblivious to the fact that I would have to call upon my memory skills to be able to recall biological terms and processes.

Lastly, I was made more aware of the controversial topics that occur in the psychological world today. As a doubter of certain psychological situations and conditions myself, my attention was reminded that of course this is going to be a controversial topic. Much of this stuff is not easy to understand and can be manipulated by external forces making it hard to distinguish one piece of the puzzle from another. With that said, I feel that as a student and a critical thinker in general my eyes have been re-opened to looking at the world and other people with the concepts learned in class.

Well that’s all for the PSYC entries. It’s been fun. My next post will return to my business and social media posts.