Final Reflection

During this psychology course we went over and covered many different topics such as the brain, behavior and learning as well as doing tasks like taking an awe walk or going on a gratitude visit. Some of the topics that particularly stood out to me this semester were development, personality, memory, and the final experiential task about positive psychology. For understand development across a lifespan I took the ACE test and that was a very interesting thing and it’s a tool that is really easy to use during a routine check-up. I think that I enjoyed studying personality so much because  was able to take multiple personality tests and compare all of the results. The results that I received were all pretty close to what I would use to describe myself. I also had my boyfriend take a personality test and it was interesting to see his results and how they compared to mine. I enjoyed the memory module of this course because I was able to relate to it on such a personal level because of my grandmother. Then with the memory task I was able to prove a point to my boyfriend because he hardly ever remembers anything that I tell him so in a way I tested him. The positive psychology task was my favorite all semester because I was able to do something nice and surprise one of my favorite people! Overall, this whole class was a learning experience in terms of technology because using a blog was such a foreign territory for me. This class was also a learning point in how a true online class is, I have taken classes where all assignments are done online, but the learning a lectures were in person. As I said earlier that positive psychology experiential task stood out to me the most because I was able to express my gratitude and surprise my favorite coach at her playoff game, so for this task I was to write a letter to someone that you want to show gratitude to and take the letter to them. I felt as if I learned about the course subjects more so when there were videos and not just readings. I enjoyed watching the Ted Talks! This course was fun to take because of the environment different from a traditional  classroom environment. There were so many resources provided as well, instead of reading out of a textbook(my wallet thanks you) the readings, video lectures, and videos from youtube and Ted Talks.