What I've Learned/ Poem

When I first started this class I wasn’t sure what to expect. I learned the basics from the first chapter. I knew that a psychologist was classified as a doctor but, I was not quiet sure how the practice came about. I never would have thought that it was so hard to think about think and to analyze a persons thoughts. I can see that in a society like today’s this would be necessary to see why some people do the things that they do. I see this relevant in today in learning how to help people who have mental issues or problems that effect their lives.
After I started learning what it was all about I felt a little more enthused to learn in the chapters to come. I have learned that psychology is a science, and learned about all of the different studies that they may use to analyze an issue. I never would have realized how many different ways you can do experiments for different things and how in depth each one goes. With the different experiments that psychologists have done I would not have guessed that they would use the math technicalities such as mean, median, mode, and range. I have never thought of it to be much of a science before. When they do the studies I never took into play how different aspects can effect it. Such as using different variables and subjects, or the culture, the size, shape, color, of a person.
In the most recent chapter that we have been studying, nature, nurture, I have learned that different aspects in nature and how someone has been raised can effect a lot of how their behavior is. I also have learned a lot about the twin studies in all of the articles I have researched. I always thought that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson were identical twins, because you can not tell them apart. It blew me away when I read in the book that they are fraternal twins. I understand that twins are a rare thing, and that identical twins are even more rare, but what I do not understand is why they are treated so differently by researchers. When scientist want to do studies on them they are more interested in the identical than the fraternal. I see that it is less common, but not why they are treated so differently. In today the studies may come in helpful to see why the reasons for the different behaviors and just exactly how nature and nurture effect them. This could be helpful when it come to diseases or illnesses so that others can be treated.
Out of everything that we have so far in this class I thought that It was most interesting that people see it so hard to have to think about thinking. I never had thought about how it have ever come about either and that I have realized that it actually does take some work. Seeing that that is what this whole class is about I should be able to get pretty good at it. Thinking about thinking is the most interesting to me, it seems so simple until you actually think about it.
?1- I would like to know when the first signs of the use of psychology were….
?2- When was the first set of twins born and how did they figure out the behavior due to nature nurture?
?:3- Is psychology the same in all cultures?
Poem:

Psych is fun, psych is cool,

I take the class when I’m in school.

It takes hard work and the work is a lot,

And if you don‘t finish you might get shot.

Or maybe not.