Week 1: Post 1

Week 1.

Post 1:
This is my third psychology course, but I think this will be the most interesting for me. I am achieving a biology degree, so this course involves my field of study. As mentioned in the text, human development is multidisciplinary; it involves biological, cognitive, and social consideration. In my biology education, I have taken genetics and this field is gaining in popularity because people want to know how their genes will affect their development. Parents care about their children, so more and more are sending DNA samples to laboratories for genetic testing to catalog abnormalities.

Human development is very pliable. As mentioned in the text, nearly anything can have an effect on the developing human. The text mentioned that development is multidirectional, multicontextual, multicultural, multidisciplinary, and plastic. These make me think about my own life and how many life events have molded who I am right now. When I was about 7 years old, I had 3 hornets stuck in my hair for a period of 10 minutes. That 1/6 of an hour changed my life in the aspect that I react terribly to buzzing sounds; it is an uncontrollable reaction. I also think about how I am in my relationship with my fiance; do I act a certain way because of how my parents were or did I learn from media? Humans are exposed to things that could change them developmentally everyday. This makes me want to become more conscious about how my actions affect other people because I could have an effect on their development somehow and I do not want to have a negative effect on someone else especially if it could stay with them for life.