--Original published at AlexisPattersonBlog

My name is Alexis. I am a freshman here at Etown. I am taking Psychology not only for the sole purpose that it is on my required schedule for Physical Therapy (Biology Major), but I find it interesting. I like to wonder why people do the things they do and I find that this class will help me find those answers. When I think about psychology, I think about the brain and how that functions to make people react a certain way that they do.

Three topics that interest me are Memory, Coping with stress, and the mechanics of sleep. These look interesting to me because they seem like the most interesting topics to learn about as they are the most popular in society as well. The ones that don’t look interesting would be the ones from the theories, observational learning, and emotion. These seem really complex and may be hard to understand.

I don’t have any background in psychology unfortunately, but I’m open for learning and obtaining any information that comes my way. One question that I want answered would be is: does what we dream have some form of meaning to it?