AP Psych This Semester =)

This year in psychology has had its interesting moments. I enjoyed the parts about abnormal psychology, social psychology, emotion, psychological disorders, and the section about the brain and what it does and how it works. I also enjoyed the discussions and conversations that we had because it made the class more fun to be in. It was a good class to go to first period. Although I did like learning about what the brain does, I did not like memerizing all of the structures and diagraming them on quizzes. It was a lot to remember and it was not fun, but I guess it was necessary.

My favorite activites have been the shows and videos we were able to watch because they were very interesting. I especially liked the one where the people were locked up in a room for a certain number of hours and were deprived of certain senses, such as sight. It was interesting to see what that really does to a person. I also liked the video yesterday on what would people do in certain situations. I did not think that the people wold react the way they did and it was funny to watch.

I took psychology because I actually do have an interest in it and I wanted to learn about what supposidly makes people do what they do, but I do wish that I could have learned more. I wish that maybe we could have covered more topics and gone into more detail at times, but I understand that it had to get cut short because we have only one semester to be in class. My least favorite chapters were the ones about sensation and perception. I thought that they were okay and I learned some things that I did not know, but it is not something I would enjoy hearing about again. The part I liked most about it were the optical illusions.

Overall though, I think that everything that we learned this semester does need to keep being taught because it's important to psychology. The beginning essay we wrote about another person without telling them can be left out though, I think. It was too easy for people to choose someone that they actually were friends with and knew very well and because of that some people did not really get anything out of it. Maybe for the students next year, more acceptable experiments can be performed and there can be more interaction activities. For economics next semester, I hope that we can be able to learn all that we need to know but still enjoy it and not be too stressed out =). But besides that, I enjoyed taking psychology this semester and I am glad that I did decide to.