Learning Outcomes from General Psychology Course

Throughout this class I have learned how much of a role psychology actually play in our lives. We are taught that there can be many different ways that we interact with others as well as how others interact with myself. This class overall has given me so many different perspectives on life and how to live life to the fullest. Every chapter in the textbook for this class has taught me something so substantial that I can apply it into my everyday life. This course PSY-102 has shown me the most beneficial understanding on the difficult language of psychology and how to apply it into my everyday life with.

Personal Life: Taking a Psychology class has definitely helped me learn how I go about my everyday living. I have learned such informative lessons about myself such as sleep. From the time you are younger you are told that eight hours of sleep are what is needed in order to function. But studies show that getting six hours is just as helpful for mind, body and spirit. Through our book I have also learned so much about other people. It has given me a new outlook on how to become more compassionate and understanding to others. It is such extremely beneficial to understand how others act and react. When knowing something like that, it can be extremely healthy for relationships. I now can know why people have different behaviors and attributes. Understanding those traits can help give me a deeper sense of someone allowing me to fully except others. Through this course I have also learned that anxiety and stress is a common factor of life. It can also be a good thing to go through. It helps the human body arise to the challenge that can be set before us.

Professional Life: Professionally, knowing how to use psychology to your benefit is such a helpful tool. You can learn what your strengths and attributes are. Through this course I have learned where I exceed expectations and where I can always improve professionally. I can use psychology tools to gain knowledge, establish repour, and deal with the stress of the professions that I am going into. Being a lawyer or a police officer comes with many different stressors. Psychology can help me deal with the stress of these jobs by using tools such as applying relaxation techniques and outputting that stress into something like physical activity. Through our course I was also able to learn people’s behaviors, this can come into play while being a police officer. I will be able to understand as to why someone does the crime they do. Understanding other behaviors can also help the social connections while having a professional career. It lets you relate to others in your professional world. Time management is also a large role in a professional career, especially for lawyers. While being a lawyer you are through many different cases that can become overwhelming. Having a concept of time management through psychology can help me build a schedule to attain the professional life that I aspire to have.

Academic Life: Academically, psychology hold the same value to me just as it does in my professional life. In my school life i believe that psychology can play an even larger role due to the large amounts of homework and stress that school sometime can cause. I need to do small amounts of homework and studying throughout the week and not pile it all into one day. I need to find a better time management schedule in order to not put myself into that situation anymore. This would also help me stress wise, I would then be able to enjoy a day off of work and school.

Psychology also has taught me my strengths and weaknesses when it comes to academics. I obviously know that I struggle with time management. Knowing more about myself though psychology has made me more self aware as well as more aware of those I go to school with, that even being said with online classes. When doing a group presentation with other students I tend to get frustrated if there are other students not putting in the same amount of work as me. But I have known learned that not even operates the way that I do. Psychology has also taught me which learning style that I am. My learning style is Auditory. I learn best while hearing and putting a connection between relevant information.

Through this course PSY-102 (General Psychology), I have been able to learn the meaning behind many things that go on in my day to day life. I am a firm believer that through a course like this we are able to learn the basis of psychology and learn what we need to understand to become a wholesome individual.

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