Social Psychology has been one of the most interesting classes that I’ve taken to date. It was difficult choosing the top three things that I’ve learned so far in this course. With that being said, I decided to take a step back and find the three things that I connected with the most, on a person level. Just as the quote from Anais Nin suggests, we don’t truly see things for what they are, we see them from our own perceptions. I truly believe that the things that mean to most to us, are the things that we carry with us the longest.

The power of the “self”, and knowing who we are as human beings, is one of the most interesting things about this course. Not only did we learn about the self in the module, but I also used that knowledge and applied it to a great deal of work that I did in this class, especially the self-analysis assignment. Self-reflection and looking at who I am as a person was crucial in Blog 3 where we created a musical soundtrack for who we are. Believe it or not, that was a difficult assignment to summarize my life into a group of songs.

Emotional intelligence and self-regulation are next on my list of top things that I’ve learned about in this course. This was a difficult topic to learn about as it is something that I struggle with the most. However, it has helped a great deal in my personal life with becoming more aware of what I’m feeling and why I’m having the feelings that I have. Obviously, Blog 7 was dedicated to this concept 100% as we discussed the results of our emotional intelligence test.

Finally, learning about relationships and why we love the ones that we did is something that I won’t forget. One of my goals for this class was to learn about how and why we make the connections that we do, and this module really allowed me to dive into that thought further. I have been able to use the information that I have learned and reflect on my current relationships. After the style of love assignment, I was able to apply this knowledge to the assignment takeaway regarding my thoughts about the style of love results and what I was able to take away from that assignment as a whole.

While this has been my first major-focused course, I have taken developmental psychology in the past. One of the major topics that we have discussed in this class that was also discussed heavily in Developmental psych was Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. Obviously, the development of the mind has everything to do with the way that we think and learn. Therefore, it has a major impact on our social psychology.