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Paragraph 4- Module 2B Biological Psychology.
In this section, we learned how biology affect our own perception and behavior through the studies of pioneers of psychology, nature vs. nurture, behavior, and psychological health. Nature versus nurture, to me, was one of the most interesting aspects we discussed because I've never really thought about what makes me who I am. Is it my personal genetics or the environment I grew up with? I really enjoyed applying this to my Nature vs. Nurture Analysis as it made me think about how I got my personal traits such as hard-working, which through this I discovered was both nature and nurture due to my family and adapting to the friends I've grown up with. Furthermore, we went on to learn about the importance of sleep, nutrition, and stress prevention, and how they play such a huge role in our health. It was interesting to learn the sleep aspect because of the different stages of sleep that are marked by changes in brain activity, how dreams occur during REM Sleep, and all the sleep disorders I learned (Insomnia, Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy). There are many takeaways from this in terms of my personal life since I haven't been sleeping all that much, and I can get decently stressed sometimes, so after learning this I plan on getting more sleep and finding better ways to relax in the future.
Paragraph 5- Module 3A on Theories and Cognition.
This lesson was all about the cognitive perspective in terms of behavior, how it compared to behavioral perspective, and the psychologists that applied these theories. First, we learned about the numerous psychologists and there personal theories such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs and self-actualization and Skinner's theory of Operant Conditioning. Nonetheless, as shown in the Psychologist/theory is the best forum, the person I agreed with most was Hermann Ebbinghaus due to his work in human intelligence and memory.