--Original published at Grace's College Blog

My name is Grace Cuff and I am a current first year at Elizabethtown College. I am a computer science major with a math minor. I chose to take this course to satisfy my social science credit, but also because I never got the chance to take psychology in high school and my friends who did thoroughly enjoyed it. I have little to no current background in psychology, only from my previous course in foundations of teaching. When I hear “psychology,” I think mostly of studies like the stanford prison experiment or experiments that they do on rats and animals. The three topics that interest me the most are “How to Improve Memory”, “Coping with Stress”, and “Attachment Theory.” I’d like the memory section because my memory tends to be bad and I’d like to see how it works. I also have a horrible time coping with stress so I think that section will be interesting. And I want to know about attachment theory because I think I have an idea of what it is, but I am not sure and would like to know more. The three that do not interest me are “Classical Conditioning”, “Theories of Intelligence”, and “Stereotypes and Discrimination.” I have learned a lot about conditioning in my teaching class. And the other two seemed less interesting than others. I would like to know by the end of this class the reason people have certain personality traits and where those develop from.

1/16/19