Reflective Essay: My Pursuit Of Psychology

The Pursuit of Psychology Psychology is a diverse field of study that one could find hundreds of reasons for taking this course. I had multiple reasons for taking course, I have always been interested in psychology and throughout the years I have done more and more research in it. When I started college I chose to major in psychology because it is currently what I like to learn about but I am still not sure if it is what I want to stick with. This course is a way for me to gauge what parts of psychology I would be more interested in learning about and to see if this is really the field that I would like to pursue. I decided to take this psychology class because of my initial interest in psychology, to help me find which branch of psychology I’d like to pursue, and figure out what else there is in psychology for me to learn.
Psychology has always been an area of interest for me that has carried on through high school to now. This subject is something that shows up in many different courses so it was exposed to me before even taking a psychology class. In many of my former classes, the teacher would give us test to see what kind of learner we were or they would put optical illusions on display to entertain us. These things were what stuck with me …show more content…
I was even planning on completing this course while I was still in high school but I did not manage to fit it into my schedule. Even through the short time in this class I have learned many new things about this field that I never even considered being interested in. After finishing this class I know that interest in psychology will only increase and I will have to dig even further to see what part I really do want to pursue a career in. My interest in psychology is what brought me into taking this course; I wanted to figure out what there was in it for me to apply towards my future and what else there was for me to