Monthly Archives: January 2017

Introductions…

My name is Suruchi Sharma and I am a Freshman at Austin College. I am creating this blog because of my General Psychology class! I took this course because I am a psych major (provided that doesn’t change within the 4 years I’m in college, and from what I’ve heard.. it probably will. I don’t have much of a background in psychology. I’ve heard about it briefly because my aunt is a clinical psychologist. When I hear the word psychology I think of the words “complicated”, “confused”, “thinking” and “mindset”. I think of the word complicated because I feel like to be able to understand you have to think on a different level which may cause people to think you’re a complicated person. I think of the word confused because of how perpetually confused I am as a person and how I think I need a psychologist. “Thinking” because.. well I think this one is pretty self explanatory. “Mindset” because I feel as though many people who have the right mindset are able to understand others on a different level, which is why it’s important to try to keep an open mind about a course like this one. After taking a look at the Syllabus I think the courses that interest me the most are Memory Retrieval, Memory Failures, Drugs, Alcohol & the Brain. Memory Retrieval has always been of interest because I suffer from Short Term Memory Loss (yes, it’s diagnosed). Memory Failure, because due to my Short Term Memory Loss, I was always having such bad memory failure, I can listen to one thing one second and then don’t remember it the next. Drugs, Alcohol & the Brain looks very interesting because I know people who have suffered really drastic brain changes and just the way their brain is wired is completely different now thanks to the drugs they’ve done during their early teen years. Three topics that look the least interesting are Cognitive Development, Classical Conditioning and Scientific Method. I think these sound the least interesting because they just sound very complicated, which I could be completely wrong but on first glance they look like they’d be complicated. By the end of this course I really hope to grasp a better understanding of why people act and communicate with others the way they do. Why do we struggle with memory deficiencies. What in our life could cause those things.

Despite this being an intro class I really hope it broadens my horizons and really helps me decide which upper level psychology classes I’d be most interested in.

Until my next entry!

Suruchi Sharma

 

 

Introductions…

My name is Suruchi Sharma and I am a Freshman at Austin College. I am creating this blog because of my General Psychology class! I took this course because I am a psych major (provided that doesn’t change within the 4 years I’m in college, and from what I’ve heard.. it probably will. I don’t have much of a background in psychology. I’ve heard about it briefly because my aunt is a clinical psychologist. When I hear the word psychology I think of the words “complicated”, “confused”, “thinking” and “mindset”. I think of the word complicated because I feel like to be able to understand you have to think on a different level which may cause people to think you’re a complicated person. I think of the word confused because of how perpetually confused I am as a person and how I think I need a psychologist. “Thinking” because.. well I think this one is pretty self explanatory. “Mindset” because I feel as though many people who have the right mindset are able to understand others on a different level, which is why it’s important to try to keep an open mind about a course like this one. After taking a look at the Syllabus I think the courses that interest me the most are Memory Retrieval, Memory Failures, Drugs, Alcohol & the Brain. Memory Retrieval has always been of interest because I suffer from Short Term Memory Loss (yes, it’s diagnosed). Memory Failure, because due to my Short Term Memory Loss, I was always having such bad memory failure, I can listen to one thing one second and then don’t remember it the next. Drugs, Alcohol & the Brain looks very interesting because I know people who have suffered really drastic brain changes and just the way their brain is wired is completely different now thanks to the drugs they’ve done during their early teen years. Three topics that look the least interesting are Cognitive Development, Classical Conditioning and Scientific Method. I think these sound the least interesting because they just sound very complicated, which I could be completely wrong but on first glance they look like they’d be complicated. By the end of this course I really hope to grasp a better understanding of why people act and communicate with others the way they do. Why do we struggle with memory deficiencies. What in our life could cause those things.

Despite this being an intro class I really hope it broadens my horizons and really helps me decide which upper level psychology classes I’d be most interested in.

Until my next entry!

Suruchi Sharma

 

 


Blog Intro // About Me

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my blog! I’m Holly, and I am a freshman at Austin College. I was born in China, immigrated to Los Angeles, moved to Dallas and now I’m here in Sherman. I am in the pre-medicine program, planning to major in biology, go to medical school and become a plastic surgeon or a women’s health doctor. As you can see, I have my life put together. Just kidding, I’m actually a mess, like most college students.

I created this blog for my general psychology class. To be completely honest, I took this course to fulfill my pre-med and social science requirements, but I’m excited to start learning more about the subject. Psychology has always seemed interesting to me because it studies the human mind and behavior. As someone who plans to work with humans for the rest of her life, this class will definitely be useful for my future. I have never taken a psychology class before, and the only background I have close to the field was studying characters as an actor in acting classes and theatre.

When I hear the word “psychology”, I think about a psychiatrist. A lot of the people I know who want to major in psychology also want to become a psychiatrist. In the past, I have thought about becoming a psychiatrist. I also have a strong interest in mental health and illness since I’ve had several encounters and experiences with them in the past. That being said, the three topics in the syllabus that look the most interesting to me are classifying mental illness, treating mental illness and stereotypes and discrimination. Although our country is considerably more progressive than many other countries, mental illness is still commonly neglected and dismissed today in our country, especially in the public school system. I have attended public schools up until college, and mental illness was a topic that was never thoroughly discussed in the classrooms. I hope studying these topics will improve my understanding on how different kinds of mental illness and treatments work. In addition to mental illness, I am also eager about the discrimination and stereotypes topic, since it is very prevalent today. As an immigrant and a minority, I have experienced discrimination and stereotypes throughout my life and even have been guilty of discriminating and stereotyping against others in the past. I am looking forward to studying discrimination and stereotypes from a psychological point of view. The three topics in the syllabus that look the least interesting to me are scientific method, research methods and experimental design. As a science major and pre-med student, every single one of my science classes have gone over those topics to the point where they are bland and repetitive. Don’t worry. I’ll survive through it.

By the end of this semester I hope my questions about mental illness will be answered, such as how do depression and anxiety form and are there treatments for mental illness other than pills. I also hope I do not look like a corpse by the end of this semester. A lot of upperclassmen have told me freshman pre-med spring semester is tough.

Wish me luck, and see you guys soon!

Holly


First blog post

My name is Natalie Readnour and I am a freshman here at Austin College. I chose to take this class because I want to take more psychology classes in the future. I have no personal background in psychology but both my mom and my sister have degrees in psychology. When I hear the word “psychology” I think about the mind and often time, mental illness. The topics “Coping with Stress,” “Stereotypes and Discrimination,” and “Social Roles & Conformity” sound the most interesting to me because they seem most applicable to my present life and many situations. The topics on conditioning as well as intelligence sound the least interesting. I have no question that I want to answer about psychology but I would like to just be more generally knowledgeable about psychology.


Introduction

Well hi. So my name is Haeley, but you already knew that. I decided  on psychology because none of the other classes looked very interesting, plus my mom majored in psychology. What background do I have in psychology you ask? Well not much personally, but my mom loves to talk about it all the time and diagnose me and my friends with some sort of mental problem any time we do something even slightly out of the ordinary. OH, your friend started smoking? It must be because she’s depressed from the lack of discipline and love she gets from her alcoholic parents and is just acting up for attention. …Ok mom. When I hear the word “psychology” I think of brain synapses and all those connections. Thoughts. Behavior. That kind of thing. Week 5 (memory), week 6 (sleep and drugs), and week 14 (psychotic, traumatic, and personality disorders) look the most interesting to me. 14 because, well come on, who’s not interested in crazy people? I’m curious about the sleep section, what we’re going to talk about, because everybody in my family has some kind of sleep disorder. And then I assume we’re going to talk about false memories and stuff like that so that’s always fun. Week 3 (cognitive/moral development), 8 (conditioning), and 13 (social roles and conformity) look the least interesting. I can’t tell you why, they just don’t sound like much fun. It’s like not liking a vegetable. You don’t know why you don’t like it, you just know you don’t. But I may be wrong, who knows? I don’t have any questions to be answered.

Introduction

Well hi. So my name is Haeley, but you already knew that. I decided  on psychology because none of the other classes looked very interesting, plus my mom majored in psychology. What background do I have in psychology you ask? Well not much personally, but my mom loves to talk about it all the time and diagnose me and my friends with some sort of mental problem any time we do something even slightly out of the ordinary. OH, your friend started smoking? It must be because she’s depressed from the lack of discipline and love she gets from her alcoholic parents and is just acting up for attention. …Ok mom. When I hear the word “psychology” I think of brain synapses and all those connections. Thoughts. Behavior. That kind of thing. Week 5 (memory), week 6 (sleep and drugs), and week 14 (psychotic, traumatic, and personality disorders) look the most interesting to me. 14 because, well come on, who’s not interested in crazy people? I’m curious about the sleep section, what we’re going to talk about, because everybody in my family has some kind of sleep disorder. And then I assume we’re going to talk about false memories and stuff like that so that’s always fun. Week 3 (cognitive/moral development), 8 (conditioning), and 13 (social roles and conformity) look the least interesting. I can’t tell you why, they just don’t sound like much fun. It’s like not liking a vegetable. You don’t know why you don’t like it, you just know you don’t. But I may be wrong, who knows? I don’t have any questions to be answered.

Introduction

Well hi. So my name is Haeley, but you already knew that. I decided  on psychology because none of the other classes looked very interesting, plus my mom majored in psychology. What background do I have in psychology you ask? Well not much personally, but my mom loves to talk about it all the time and diagnose me and my friends with some sort of mental problem any time we do something even slightly out of the ordinary. OH, your friend started smoking? It must be because she’s depressed from the lack of discipline and love she gets from her alcoholic parents and is just acting up for attention. …Ok mom. When I hear the word “psychology” I think of brain synapses and all those connections. Thoughts. Behavior. That kind of thing. Week 5 (memory), week 6 (sleep and drugs), and week 14 (psychotic, traumatic, and personality disorders) look the most interesting to me. 14 because, well come on, who’s not interested in crazy people? I’m curious about the sleep section, what we’re going to talk about, because everybody in my family has some kind of sleep disorder. And then I assume we’re going to talk about false memories and stuff like that so that’s always fun. Week 3 (cognitive/moral development), 8 (conditioning), and 13 (social roles and conformity) look the least interesting. I can’t tell you why, they just don’t sound like much fun. It’s like not liking a vegetable. You don’t know why you don’t like it, you just know you don’t. But I may be wrong, who knows? I don’t have any questions to be answered.

Introduction

Well hi. So my name is Haeley, but you already knew that. I decided  on psychology because none of the other classes looked very interesting, plus my mom majored in psychology. What background do I have in psychology you ask? Well not much personally, but my mom loves to talk about it all the time and diagnose me and my friends with some sort of mental problem any time we do something even slightly out of the ordinary. OH, your friend started smoking? It must be because she’s depressed from the lack of discipline and love she gets from her alcoholic parents and is just acting up for attention. …Ok mom. When I hear the word “psychology” I think of brain synapses and all those connections. Thoughts. Behavior. That kind of thing. Week 5 (memory), week 6 (sleep and drugs), and week 14 (psychotic, traumatic, and personality disorders) look the most interesting to me. 14 because, well come on, who’s not interested in crazy people? I’m curious about the sleep section, what we’re going to talk about, because everybody in my family has some kind of sleep disorder. And then I assume we’re going to talk about false memories and stuff like that so that’s always fun. Week 3 (cognitive/moral development), 8 (conditioning), and 13 (social roles and conformity) look the least interesting. I can’t tell you why, they just don’t sound like much fun. It’s like not liking a vegetable. You don’t know why you don’t like it, you just know you don’t. But I may be wrong, who knows? I don’t have any questions to be answered.

Introduction

Well hi. So my name is Haeley, but you already knew that. I decided  on psychology because none of the other classes looked very interesting, plus my mom majored in psychology. What background do I have in psychology you ask? Well not much personally, but my mom loves to talk about it all the time and diagnose me and my friends with some sort of mental problem any time we do something even slightly out of the ordinary. OH, your friend started smoking? It must be because she’s depressed from the lack of discipline and love she gets from her alcoholic parents and is just acting up for attention. …Ok mom. When I hear the word “psychology” I think of brain synapses and all those connections. Thoughts. Behavior. That kind of thing. Week 5 (memory), week 6 (sleep and drugs), and week 14 (psychotic, traumatic, and personality disorders) look the most interesting to me. 14 because, well come on, who’s not interested in crazy people? I’m curious about the sleep section, what we’re going to talk about, because everybody in my family has some kind of sleep disorder. And then I assume we’re going to talk about false memories and stuff like that so that’s always fun. Week 3 (cognitive/moral development), 8 (conditioning), and 13 (social roles and conformity) look the least interesting. I can’t tell you why, they just don’t sound like much fun. It’s like not liking a vegetable. You don’t know why you don’t like it, you just know you don’t. But I may be wrong, who knows? I don’t have any questions to be answered.

Introduction

Well hi. So my name is Haeley, but you already knew that. I decided  on psychology because none of the other classes looked very interesting, plus my mom majored in psychology. What background do I have in psychology you ask? Well not much personally, but my mom loves to talk about it all the time and diagnose me and my friends with some sort of mental problem any time we do something even slightly out of the ordinary. OH, your friend started smoking? It must be because she’s depressed from the lack of discipline and love she gets from her alcoholic parents and is just acting up for attention. …Ok mom. When I hear the word “psychology” I think of brain synapses and all those connections. Thoughts. Behavior. That kind of thing. Week 5 (memory), week 6 (sleep and drugs), and week 14 (psychotic, traumatic, and personality disorders) look the most interesting to me. 14 because, well come on, who’s not interested in crazy people? I’m curious about the sleep section, what we’re going to talk about, because everybody in my family has some kind of sleep disorder. And then I assume we’re going to talk about false memories and stuff like that so that’s always fun. Week 3 (cognitive/moral development), 8 (conditioning), and 13 (social roles and conformity) look the least interesting. I can’t tell you why, they just don’t sound like much fun. It’s like not liking a vegetable. You don’t know why you don’t like it, you just know you don’t. But I may be wrong, who knows? I don’t have any questions to be answered.