Blog #10

I looked back on the on the expectations I set for myself on the first blog and I wanted to apply this class to real life and make sure I used what I learned which I have. Doing these blog posts, let’s me really think and how it applies to my life and family. I also accomplished staying on top of this class and doing the weekly assignments and planning it very well. I felt going into this class, I didn’t really know what cross-cultural consisted of, I didn’t really have an idea and now my attitude towards is that it is really important in the psychology world. You understand people more in different ways and yourself.

I would have studied a bit better before test, I have a hard time studying a week beforehand and instead will do it a couple days before. That’s the thing I would do. But one thing I am accomplished this semester is moving to Texas and maintaining four classes, and doing really well which I really surprised myself. What I gained from this class was to look at things in a different cultural view sometimes. In the first assignment takeaway, I talk about not having a sense of belonging because my mom is peruvain and my dad is in the states and stuck between two cultures. But if anything I learned about my mom more, when it comes to her emotions and how she expresses herself in different ways.

I am posting my current grades like blog posts, exams, and assignment takeaways. This show how acdemically I am doing really good, and I am on track to get a good grade in this class. All the work and time I did put into this class, worked out perfectly.

Blog #9

From the last blog post/last module I learned different cultures have different ways of expressing themselves and ultimately kind of shaping somewhat of their personality. I want to tie it with assignment takeaway #2 , in that assignment I talked about how my mom and abuela are from Peru and that they value different things compared to Americans. I feel it is their culture to keep hustling and work hard for things and they just want to keep the same things they really worked hard for, they could be called cheap. Versus a lot of people in America pay off a car they just bought and want to buy the next one.

Blog #6 i talk about autonomy how I always want things to go to certain way and I am choosing to relate it to my top artifacts #2 where I talk about being on time and being on time consists of making sure things go perfectly. The last thing together would be Assignment takeaway #4 and how advertisements use people’s gender and it relates to blog #7 where I talk about princesses always wanted a fairytale to cater to woman’s dream.

The image I provided is me connecting the dots together when it comes to the material we have learned and applying it to other lessons.

Blog #8

The example they used when reading the article would be how Americans and Japanese watch serious movies and how they react. Americans will show distraught throughout the movie and will not cover or not show what they are feeling, versus the Japanese would smile and make sure to hide their emotions on how they are feeling. I did assume that is how it goes, on my mom’s side that it is how it is. She is from Peru and she never shows any emotions except happiness but never sadness because “she isn’t supposed to in front of us” in her words. I really think it explains expereinces in my life more so with my mother and grandmother. My dad is from America so whenever my mom did something or seemed weird or showed no feelings, my dad will have to explain it’s different where she is from and now I have a better understanding.

Blog #7

I used to think that fairy tales have shared set of cultural norms but in recent years I think movie companies and authors are changing what the norm is for our heroes in these stories. I think of a fairytale, and the first thing that comes to my head is a princess needing help from the villain, and needing a man to rescue and live happily together. I am going to talk about Frozen, Elsa is going through a lot mentally in the first movie. You could say one of the villians is her inner thoughts getting the best of her, but instead of a man rescuing her, its her sister. I just really love that, sisterhood to me is so beautiful and there is so much love, and I feel we don’t hear a lot about. Elsa is a great influence because instead of relying on someone to save her, throughout the movie you see save herself. Trying to heal with past traumas, learning to be close to Anna and Olaf. I chose this picture because it shows how Disney is slowing including different cultures in their studio so people can learn but also people can relate more when they see themselves or someone that kinda looks like them on the screen.

Blog #6

When it comes to autonomy, I focus on everything all at once. I am always planning and and thinking of the best way to set up myself for success in the future. Examples would be having my planner, reminders, and having a calendar in my kitchen so I see it everyday to keep me on track. When it comes to relatedness, I am not very close to anybody in my student career. I just moved to Texas from Norfolk, and I only had one semester in person and I think this whole pandemic threw everyone off when everyone come back, it did for me at least, I was very overwhelmed. I don’t satisfy this area as much as I should compared to autonomy. When it comes to competence, I would say I blend well with my environment in a class or library setting. When I am in group projects, I am super nice and make sure I get it done so others don’t see me as lazy, I think I satisfy this area as well as autonomy.

Blog #5

Overall as a person, I am a shy, introverted person but I am very loyal and happy. I can be too serious but also love having fun and sometimes needs to be reminded to not take life seriously. The cherry on top is I am a nerdy person, if I like something, I will learn everything about it and won’t stop talking about it. In the independent construal of self, none of my statements have a lot to do with me, I am not one to think about myself as my first reaction. But when it comes to the intredependent construal of self most of my mine statements are associated with caring about others and putting my relationships first. I am for sure more intredependent, I have always cared what others think and making sure my loved ones are all good. I think the proverb, if you are right take the humble side. Life is too short to be thinking about yourself and the idea of winning but instead just being with your friends and loved ones. I chose this quote because loyalty is everything and if I get it, you’ll receive my loyalty and love.

Blog #4

For the most part, studying and taking the test went really great. I learned that I should be organizing my notes right before a test, and trying getting the keys points instead of trying to study everything on all the power-points. Also trying to space out the reviewing part by a week ahead instead of a couple of days before, I feel like I would been faster and making sure I am 100% instead of guessing on a few questions that I blanked on. Looking back on the Exam 1 results showed me where I messed up and needed to focus on and those were the questions I should have looked over a little bit more. The image I chose is a page from my notes, showing how much extra stuff I write and what I should be doing is just getting the key points.

Blog #3

When taking this personality test, I figured for the most part I would score and it reflected pretty good on who I am as a person. When it came to the openness trait, it was pretty average score, not too high or low. Which I can agree to, I love doing the same things even more so when I am stressed or feeling sad but there are some days that I want to explore and try new things, it really depends on the mood. The conscientiousness portion, I scored pretty high which reflects pretty accurately on myself. I have a hard time being late and not knowing what the plan is, I like knowing what will happen in my day otherwise I get nervous.

Agreeableness, I am scoring an average score. There are some points in my life where I am hard headed, I think I am right about certain things but other things I can relax and just let things go. For the most part, it depends the situation of the matter. The extroversion was the lowest score I got, if I could be with my immediate family and my dogs, then I would be perfectly fine. Going out with new people makes me really nervous to the point where I will not have fun no matter what unfortunately. The last one would be neuroticism and another high score on this one. No matter what I am feeling, you will be able to tell. It is never 50% when it comes to any of the feelings, it’s always 100%.

Blog #2

In my opinion, the most important life value would be being responsible. It sounds very silly, because we were always taught to be responsible but I feel a lot of people lack it. We need to be responsible for our future employers, to show up on time and doing a task the correct way. Honestly the most important part would also be taking accountability if you do something wrong as well. Being responsible shows the employer that you are interested and want to put in the good quality work.

The main reason why I wanted to pursue college was because I knew my purpose was to help. I want to become a counselor and in order to do that I need a degree. I did take a early off after high school to make sure that is what I wanted to do, that I wanted the next four years to be school. Another reason would be my dad, he really helped me be confident about my decision. He is the one to suggest that I should take a year off to decide, and now that I decided to do college, he has been my number one fan and can’t wait for me to graduate with two degrees.

My acceptance letter to ODU

I was going through a hard time with the pandemic, I lost my job, and my husband was leaving for underways for the Navy. When I got this letter, all the side distractions, a whole pandemic, and I got accepted into the school I wanted to go to.

Blog #1

My expectations for this class is that I take away general knowledge from this course, I don’t want this class to be a class where I take it and forget about it. I feel this is a very useful subject when in the psychology field or in life in general because you will interact with so many different people in our lives. In order for me to succeed in this class, I just have to stay on top of it. I can’t fall behind, otherwise I will lose the motivation. Also I have to make sure I take notes, so just in case I need to study extra hard in a certain area, I can just focus on that in my notes.

The picture that I provided for the first blog post is my notes from the power-point slides, this type of note taking helps me best to track my thoughts and go back into my notes when I need a reminder about certain things. One of the big things that I will take away from this class will be understanding other people’s cultures, and how I can give useful advice when I am a counselor. They are some issues that don’t have the same answer especially when people have different cultures and expectations.