Introduction

My name is Maddy Vingom, I am currently a freshmen occupational therapy major at Elizabethtown College.

Although Psychology 105 is a required course for my major, I am looking forward to taking this course. I am genuinely interested in the topic and is a very important aspect within any career in the field of healthcare. During my junior year of high school I took a psychology course and loved it, my teacher made the class very engaging and left me wanting to learn more. Psychology is a science like no other making me associate it with people, because it is the study of the human mind and the mind controls everything we do. The topics I am most looking forward to in this course are developmental psychology, mental illness, and past psychological studies. Occupational therapists work with people who may have mental illnesses or developmental disabilities, therefore this information is vital for me to understand in order to improve their lives. I also find past psychological studies very interesting and truly enjoyed learning about them in high school. The topics I find least interesting are personality development, intelligence, and stress. When learning about personality development and intelligence in high school my teacher was unable to give my class a lot of information about them, due to it being difficult to compile research and I found those units to be less engaging than other course material. Stress is a topic that I have learned almost every year since the 7th grade, in both health and psychology classes, the information I am given is typically very similar to previous courses. I am hoping to gain as much information about mental development and mental illness as possible from Introduction to Psychology.