Reflection Paper: A Career As A Psychology Class

Throughout this semester, I learned a lot about myself, and I found a new passion, psychology. In high school I had the privilege to take a sociology course, and I really enjoyed it, so I was enrolling for my first semester in college and decided to take psychology 1101. This by far was one of the best decisions of my freshmen year. This class opened an entirely new world within my degree. As a Biological Sciences major, I was excited to explore different branches of biology but I never thought one would inspire me as much as this one class did. My family suffers from many mental illnesses, specifically my mother. She actually was diagnosed with bi-polar about 5 years ago along with a personality disorder. My mother always seemed to be a little off, because sometimes she would be coming home from work with 4 bags from JC Penney happy as hell, and would cook a great dinner, and hangout with the family. Other nights she would come home and collapse on the couch crying, and then yell at anyone who got close. She then got diagnosed with bi-polar after she drove herself to the hospital after downing a handful of pills. Later she received disability because she was unable to work after that. The class taught me that the …show more content…
During these moments within my family, I notice that when it comes time to prove their point both sides can find some article that shows that they are correct and neither take the time to look at the others article because it would challenge their way of thought. I always wondered why people did this, and then I found its actually a term in psychology called confirmation bias. Right as I heard this in class it changed the way I took in information, and I realized social media allows you to do it so easily, and that’s what happened to me. Now I do my best to challenge my own views to learn more about this