How This Course Has Changed Me
The information I have learned in this psychology course has changed my thinking and helped me change my views on many parts in my life. My viewpoint has changed when it comes to my job. The different types of psychology involved with parenting has encouraged me to continue in the way I have been parenting. Also will help me continue good parenting skills. The things I have learned in this course, I have also applied to my marriage to keep it strong. This course has changed things in all aspects of my life including my job, parenting my children, and my marriage.
My job I work in a special needs class at a high school. So this course has changed how I relate to some of the children and also just my viewpoint …show more content…
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people (King, p.400). Specifically social cognition, which is the area of social psychology that explores how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information (King, 2016, p.402). Students like to stick to certain groups of friends in schools. These groups get stereotyped, which is a generalization about a group’s characteristics that does not consider any variations from one individual to another (King, 2016, p.403). Kids will do almost anything to try and fit into these groups. They will go to the extent of getting bad grades to fit into certain groups because they don’t want to be labeled as the smart one in their group. Some kids get into bad situations like drugs and drinking just to try and fit …show more content…
When my daughter was younger and I would leave her with my mom, I wouldn’t want to hear her cry because I was only thinking about my feelings. I would leave when she was in a different room and distracted. I did not know how that affects children’s attachment. “The attachments we form in our early relationships with caretakers can have a serious impact on our feelings of insecurity, anxiety, fear, avoidance, and satisfaction in our closest relationships throughout our lives” (Firestone, n.d., p.1). Knowing what I do now about infant attachment, I would have changed the way I went about leaving her. She developed an anxious attachment. As a result, she is very clingy, desperate, and anxious around me, and I never even knew I did anything
The information I have learned in this psychology course has changed my thinking and helped me change my views on many parts in my life. My viewpoint has changed when it comes to my job. The different types of psychology involved with parenting has encouraged me to continue in the way I have been parenting. Also will help me continue good parenting skills. The things I have learned in this course, I have also applied to my marriage to keep it strong. This course has changed things in all aspects of my life including my job, parenting my children, and my marriage.
My job I work in a special needs class at a high school. So this course has changed how I relate to some of the children and also just my viewpoint …show more content…
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people (King, p.400). Specifically social cognition, which is the area of social psychology that explores how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information (King, 2016, p.402). Students like to stick to certain groups of friends in schools. These groups get stereotyped, which is a generalization about a group’s characteristics that does not consider any variations from one individual to another (King, 2016, p.403). Kids will do almost anything to try and fit into these groups. They will go to the extent of getting bad grades to fit into certain groups because they don’t want to be labeled as the smart one in their group. Some kids get into bad situations like drugs and drinking just to try and fit …show more content…
When my daughter was younger and I would leave her with my mom, I wouldn’t want to hear her cry because I was only thinking about my feelings. I would leave when she was in a different room and distracted. I did not know how that affects children’s attachment. “The attachments we form in our early relationships with caretakers can have a serious impact on our feelings of insecurity, anxiety, fear, avoidance, and satisfaction in our closest relationships throughout our lives” (Firestone, n.d., p.1). Knowing what I do now about infant attachment, I would have changed the way I went about leaving her. She developed an anxious attachment. As a result, she is very clingy, desperate, and anxious around me, and I never even knew I did anything