As I was doing my discussion this week I went ahead and
looked at the next chapter to see what we were going to be learning about. Not
to my surprise it was the main theories of psychology with the famous
psychologist such as Freud, Skinner, etc. Having taking two other psych classes
before this I know a lot about these guys. However I always seem to come across
new information or learn new things about them each time they are repeated in a
course. I feel like this is also how
psychology works. In a normal everyday math class 2 + 2 is always 4 however in
psychology things are always changing. New information about the brain is
discovered every day because it is so complex. Every year I take a new class
things are added to these theories or I am learning new information about these
theorists. It’s so amazing that in a year a whole new world can basically be
opened up psychology wise and I’m learning so many different things in my next course
about it that’s totally different from my previous ones. That’s why psychology
is so interesting to me and even though I’m not a psychology major I still
choose to take psych courses as my gen. eds. rather than other courses. I’m not
getting taught that the same things every year and falling asleep at the
thought of opening up a history book to learn about the revolutionary war for
the billionth time. Psychology gets me excited and I can’t wait to get started
and dive into new information this year.
I completely agree with everything you just said. Although this is only my second psychology course I feel I have experienced the same thing. I find it so interesting to learn about how we function from day to day. I believe that 20 years from now we will look back at the information we are being taught now and say wow, a lot of that is not even close to being the same anymore. The next couple of chapters I am looking forward to reading, so that I can compare those ideas and thoughts to ones that I have previously learned.
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