Blog: 10

My Final Blog Entry for the Semester

By: Danielle Stacey

This final blog gives me the opportunity to reflect on my progress throughout this summer course. After taking a look back at my first Blog post, I was shocked to see how my blog has come together. Initially, at the beginning of this Cross-Cultural course; I was intimated by the syllabus. Upon reading I learned we had to start our own website on Web-press site. Along with one of our first assignments being a blog entry. Upon beginning my train of thought on how I would open my mind to a new perspective and gaining knowledge of the world of diverse and rich cultural experience. My first assumption about this course is that it would give me the knowledge and educate me on different cultures to help me in the consulting process for children in my life journey. Actually this course not only opened up my mind into new realms but has made me go beyond this course and find new communities and outlook groups to find new inspirations from numerous cultures. I even plan to take an international trip next fall to dive into a cultural experience of Europe, somewhere I had never had a desire to visit before. During my revision of this courses syllabus I realized I have learned many tools in my daily life and for my future career. Some of the methods, I have learned such as being able to understand diverse cultures and put into context their meaning/ purposes of each individuals daily life. Also being able to compare the similarities and connections within a society/culture to another in all of my endeavors. My attitude towards Cross-Cultural and Social Psychology has changed from interest into a new found passion and drive to learn an experience new realms of all walks of human life. Although I feel as though my hard work in this course has come such a long way, If I had to retake this course I would do some more in-depth research on how to make a Blog like a professional blogger. I feel this would give me the extra edge I need to be even more practical in my work. The major part of my growth in the past few months has been research. I feel my writing skills have grown and to be able to write,research and outline a paper every week has given me the confidence to take all sorts of research in my career. Even giving me the boost to go beyond paper and pencil or in our case and keys and screen to explore the world hands on. My skills I have gained from this course is my researching skills, I’m glad to know that I have the confidence to research and explore all realms of human life and cultures. This skill set I have learned this semester from research to becoming a weekly blogger can be utilized in my future profession in child psychology and beyond. I have enjoyed the experience of Cross-Cultural Psychology and I look forward to all my upcoming psychology classes that await me in the future.

Blog: 9

Winding Down

By: Danielle Stacey

When I go back to look at the timeline of my Blog page I have come to realize the three strongest points of my learning experience in Cross-Cultural Psychology. As I begin to scroll down through my portfolio page starting from the first post titled Blog: 9, I begin to see a continuing pattern. Blog 4 was an educational experience for me, Because I was able to die-sect my test taking skills and see what my strong points were; along with my weak points in exam taking and studying for this course. Along with Blog 4; Blog 3 brought on the same outlook as I had to take a look into my own self and put together a word cloud of adjectives describing myself. Further down my blog page, at the very bottom my first post; titled Blog: 1, was the most important and influential to me. Blog:1 was not only my first posting to my website but also my first blog post I had ever made. This post titled, “Inspiration of Learning New Perspectives” became one of my goals I made for myself for this summer semester. A goal of looking into others perspectives and really gaining knowledge taking the time to understand many cultures as a whole. As I stated above in Blog: 3, I was able to make a word cloud to describe myself this exercises is similar to me Module 8 Archive and how I used a word cloud to describe my personality throughout my childhood and/ or experiences. These two assignments helped me be able to create a better outlook on my personality and the grow I have achieved from my childhood to present day. As my Blog 9, comes to a close I like to reflect on how some concepts I have learned from this Psychology course in-relation to another Psychology course I have recently taken. The Five Factor Model has been used widely throughout our chapters in our text such as Chapter 9 and Chapter 10. Also the Five Factor Model was used often in Psychology of Women. In many our core assignments we would use the Five Factor Model to classify and compare personalities of women through many cultures, including myself, friends and family. I find it very interesting how different realms of psychology can begin to all merge together, becoming unison.

Blog:8

By: Danielle Stacey

I choose this image because it really showcased different emotions within a wide range of cultures.

My ancestry plays a huge role in my everyday emotions. On my mothers side I have very strong Native American genes and on my father side is German. Throughout my childhood I always noticed major differences between my families. For instance when we visited for holidays,birthday celebrations and family traditions I begin to notice some of the divides and similarities within our emotional attitudes between each sides of my extended family. For example, My grandparents on my mother’s side (Native Americans) were very emotional during some of my big events in my childhood such as graduation and prom they would always be very calm and give me a speech and a riddle, That would leave me confused and wondering. Where as my father side (German Ancestry) would always laugh uncontrollably when they were happy. In these instances between my immediate family’s cultures their emotions during some of my life’s biggest events were very different where one family showed their bold and tough side during such experiences, while the other showed humor. For my Native American grandparents this was an expected emotion as they behaved this way my entire life. Although I did not expected this from my fathers side of the family. I think cultural display plays hand in hand with my experiences with my family, as my grandparents grew in up in different environments they have different outlooks on life. My Native American Grandparents taught me as a child to dream while also standing my ground. I believe many cultures relies on societies exceptions and how cultural displays influence their overall values and the way each culture express their emotions.

Blog: 7

By: Danielle Stacey

I choose this fairy tale as it has started a new era, In female princess characters, instead of searching for just love. Disney leading female character’s are becoming strong, independent young women sitting examples for all the youth who view these films in today’s society.

This fairy tale about a young princess and soon to be ruler of her tribe, as she grows into a strong and an independent leader for her people on there topical island. Moana journeys across the ocean to save her people, even risking her own life. This character models a young women who follows the beat to her own drum. Also this story shows how many young women are not always just searching for love, also learning how to make an positive impact on the world. I choose this children’s Disney fairy tale because, this movie is one of the few princes stories where the main character is searching for her path in life rather than following after her prince charming. Showing young women in these roles allow for girls to dream big and become whoever they want to be without any limitations. This character made me happy. This generations point of views have changed and how young women in fairy tales are betrayed in the world. This children’s movie made an impact on my personal views of fairy tales and how modern day re-told stories are a more powerful way to spread love, hope and imagination for us all!

Blog: 6

By: Danielle Stacey

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I choose this photo because, makeup showcases one of my greatest passions in life and how something as simple as plant based makeup can make someone feel just as beautiful as they are on the inside as well as the outside. Thus helping a female or males overall psyche.

Throughout this summer semester I have gained much insight into many of my personal views, outlooks and ways of self love. As I read the attach article by Ryan and Deci’s (2000) I began to realize that order for me to life a happy and fulfilled life. I would need a balance of all three items in our rubric to discuss.

Autonomy

Through my journey from adolescents into adulthood. A few ideals stood true to my personality. As a young child my parents governed most of my decision making in efforts to help guide me on the path of adulthood. As I begin to age, learn and make my own decisions on my own. Autonomy has become a huge part of my life. It my own way on how I make decisions, plan for my future and aid in my dreams.

Competence

In my life thus far, my ability to have the drive to continue on my endeavors of life and love. Has lead me to a sense of joy and fulfillment from meeting my soul-mate to finding a new sense of love in having my daughter. Many life lessons have come my way but through my own self fulfillment and curiosity I can find my ultimate path in life.

Relatedness Academically

In the provided Article I read through each researcher ideals and theory’s I begin to put my own thoughts about my academic career into context. I realized that as a young adult I have an imagine in mind a goal I wanted to achieve throughout my college career. Now, As I have matured and grown into my adult self and state of mind I have realized my desires to become a educator for children and help aid them to their own personal dreams.

In the end, we all have to give ourselves some type of self love, become who we are through fashion, family or careers to guide oneself to their own balanced nirvana in life!

Blog: 5

By: Danielle Stacey

Who Am I… 1-10 Statements

I choose this quote as it fits perfectly with my interdependent self.

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As I begin to familiarize myself with pages 108-111 I could compare my numbers of Who I am, 1-10 to each other. Upon comparing this statements, 1,3,7,8 and so on, all fall under my independent construal of self. These numbers include my self as being a fighter, mother and an artist.

My interdependent self encompasses only a few of my statements such as number 10 in which I wrote I am a Diva who paves the way for love and beauty and my number 9 dramatic women who continues to have my own beliefs and boundaries. As I look over my answers from 1 to 10, I believe that I am more independent than interdependent construal person. I consider my self to be a women of her own will. I do not classify myself into a certain genre or class. I am who I am and live and love within my own terms; alone without any influences or disregards.

I believe that for myself it was easier for me to think of proverbs that were associated with interdependent construal self rather than independent self. I came to this conclusion when I reviewed my list on my made on the word document provided I realized my proverbs had the tendency to resemble interdependent self such as my number 8, I wrote I am a fighter of all ideals and faith I posses in my whole body.

I think I have this tendency because I’m a very detailed person and I love to write and dream. Writing allows me to be both with my thoughts and words. I find it kind of iconic I consider myself as independent construal when I view myself. Furthermore I might actually be an interdependent person in writing.

Blog: 4

By: Danielle Stacey

Considering my Test Taking Skills

As I begin to dive more and more into Cross- Cultural Psychology I realized, Ive have not utilized all the tools that are at my disposal. I soon realized that I was focusing less on my text and more on the information that was presented to me in each module. As my test scores definitely shows my inability to not retain the text. I have learned that taking in the text while giving my self time to grasp each concept will help me fully understand the information covered in each section and chapter within out required text. As I begin to review my notes, I saw they were not as detailed as they should have been. Instead using each definition and theory to compare to real life scenario’s I wrote the definitions, in which made it much harder in regards to test taking requirements for this course. By spacing my notes and my reading out throughout the time allowed before my test. This technique will help me retain the information and knowledge needed to understand the core concepts and theories without burning myself out studying before said exams.

My Lesson to Myself:

Overall this insight will help me take in to count that I need to give myself plenty of time to understand each chapter while not allowing myself to become emerged in my work and losing my train out thought.

Blog: 3

By: Danielle Stacey

Adjectives About Me

I choose this image because it explains myself with adjectives, being able to express one’s self through words is just like reading a code. Note* I used a word cloud on a website I found and include the link under the image, I created. I was not able to download the link on the blog 3 document your instructions provide.

During my NEO summary I started to realize how consistent my ideals in the first set of questions within each column; Each column has their own choices, three to be exact they range from high to average each of my responses fell under average for most while others fell just above and/or below average. Next I will list how I compare to the next questions and how I relate to each of the dimension of personality.

Openness : Average

Conscientiousness: Average

Agreeableness: Low

Extraversion: High

Neuroticism: Average

My scores range similar in score, until my third dimension I encountered a change to more personality traits score. I scored low in Agreeableness which put me just below average. Also I scored high in Extraversion once again just above average, I started to notice a trend in my personality. Overall my scores were very consistent. Last but not least my remaining dimensions Openness,Conscientiousness and Neuroticism all were very consistent with scores as they were all average. Although two of my dimensions were not average they were close in relations to one another. For openness, my personality fits, I’m a very outgoing and likeable individual. Following the same theme of my example for openness, I never put my self on any certain spectrum I like to keep my conscientiousness open to all realms of ideas and shy away from categories. For example if my scores averaged out to be high and very low I feel I would see some major high and lows within my own personality. Overall I was enlighten to understand my personality a little more at time during this semester.

Blog: 2

By: Danielle Stacey

My Journey to College

This picture is a perfect representation for my Blog: 2. This photo of my fur-baby Zeppelin reminds me of my myself the first semester of college. I had to re-learn many new methods and techniques to be successful in my educational desires.

Throughout my teenage years into my adulthood I struggled with the aspects of my future, what I was going to become, the person I wanted to be and how I was going to leave a mark behind in my existence. One day as I was reading at my current job and life suddenly hit me, like a slap on the back from a familiar friend. At this point in my life I knew I needed to take my ambitious, motivation and love for teaching down a path through college. I knew my journey would be long; full of ups and downs, although in the end I would be so satisfied to know this was one of my finest moments something my children, myself and family would be so proud of my accomplishments. I believe my traits gave me success throughout my educational journey from my previous college to Old Dominion University. Also the wisdom I have gained has shown to be beneficial in my career path as well. Referring back to how I came to be a college student, this was a stubborn road for me after High School I had plans of taking my Cosmetology license to the next level and opening my own business once I realized this was not a overnight goal. This dream would take me many years of blood sweat and tears, This dream became a nightmare. I discovered my way to self discovery is growth, change and hardship would guide me to my chosen path. I enjoy the challenge and stimulation of learning, the satisfaction I get when I learn a new theory or concept makes me want to continue my education as far as my mind can handle. I’m a curious individual so the more knowledge I can gain helps guide me to my own personal nirvana. Honestly, I have lost some of my friends throughout my journey through college some friends were not interested in continuing their education and did not see eye to eye with myself when I had to study instead of going out. I had to make some sacrifices, like weekends studying and most of my free-time but I knew this was the path for me. Although my peers/friends were not so forgiving about my decision for school my parents and academic teachers gave me much praise and help along the way through each barrier and accomplishments. Although I have had some negative and positive experiences I still know I made the right decision for my overall success in my life.

Blog: 1

Planning for the Future

By: Danielle Stacey

Inspiration of Learning New Perspectives

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Upon my review of the Course Objectives stated in the Cross- Cultural Psychology syllabus, I soon realized all the objectives stated will prepare me for my future in Child Psychology. This course among many other tools and knowledge, I will abstain from this semester will be the ability to take my creative ideas far beyond paper and pencil. By utilizing the internet to help me with new topics such as E-portfolio to show other schools, job searches and my personal knowledge of useful online tools. A way of expanding my knowledge in cyberspace finding the resources available to me as a student and future educator. Also challenging my thought processes; increasing my critical thinking skills and heighten my knowledge of other cultures. These skills combined all together giving me an better insight, understanding of diversity and interacting with one other to apply these theory’s I will learn in this course in my career and daily life.

I choose this course in preparation for my dream of becoming a Child Psychologist. Along my educational journey, I seek the knowledge to numerous topics that help me gain the understanding of human kind. Humans are vast growing, with populations growing everyday. I hope to gain the knowledge into other cultures and how children are treated in all communities, traditions children grow up engaging in and the history of children’s positions in the world throughout time.

Since summer classes are usually more fast paced than traditional spring and fall classes. I intend to keep my schedule up to date in my planner, as well calendar in my cell phone. I feel by setting reminders and leaving sticky notes up on school board will help me keep myself on track for my classes. Also set a number of pages to read a night allowing me the time to study and take notes. I soon found that when I tired to read as much as a could in one night, I would not retain all of the information and while losing site of the main theme of the text. Breaking my reading into sections throughout the week gives more time to understand the material while keeping the topics fresh in my mind.

“Studying and understanding the material is the success to knowledge so the more time you take to open your mind and relax; in understanding the art and madness of learning it will sure pay off.” – My Quote of the Day