Introduction
Academic Background
As a student of History and Systems in Psychology class, I significantly understand all the course requirements due to the good academic background that provided me with the extensive knowledge regarding psychology. While pursuing my high school diploma, I studied history as one of my optional subjects, which introduced me to the history of psychology. This also enabled me to develop more interest and motivation to major in psychology when pursuing my undergraduate degree. Working as a volunteer in one of the psychiatry healthcare institutions also enabled me to acquire more knowledge and interest to venture into the field. I am confident that my educational background and exposure will enable effectively achieve my target in the History and Systems in Psychology course.
Self Evaluation on learning skills
Providing an honest opinion about me will be one of the most significant processes in attaining my set grades in the course. Ensuring that I ask myself various questions about what, how, and why I have problems in certain aspects or how I succeed in some will enable me to acquire an honest opinion on my learning skills. Developing an achievable grading system will also enable me to evaluate my learning skills effectively. A grading system will allow me to evaluate my performance in different topics and identify my strengths and weaknesses.
Strength and weaknesses in college courses
Some of the major college courses I identified as my areas of strength include Life Skills and History Units which are significantly related to History and Systems in Psychology. However, since psychology requires a lot of memorization, I encountered difficulties with various units that entailed many neuroanatomy concepts and theories. I performed dismally in the memorization-based questions. I also experienced difficulties in coordinating hybrid and online classes, which negatively impacted my learning processes.
Workload Assessment
The History and Systems of psychology class has been recommended to allocate at least three semester hours to effectively complete the course. The course entails at least 20 chapters that require an individual to undertake to be knowledgeable in the field. I will ensure that I attend 90% of the lessons to acquire firsthand insights from the instructors since they make concepts that seem difficult to be easy to understand. Some of the main non-academic activities affecting my class attendance are participating and representing the school in different extra curriculum activities such as sports.
At the end of this class, I would like to have acquired vast knowledge and understanding of the history of psychology and how it has impacted the world. My main aim is to ensure that I attain a mean grade of (A) in the course. I would also like to acquire knowledge that would enable me to differentiate between traditional and modern psychology ideas. The modern world majorly consists of diverse aspects, and effectively studying History and Systems in Psychology will enable me to acquire more knowledge and understanding of modern-day diversity (Muthukrishna et al.). Cross-cultural diversity is also a major concept that I would like to perceive to gain more understanding of human behavior and various mental processes.
Time Management
Work Cited
Muthukrishna, Michael, et al. “Psychology as a Historical Science.” Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 72, no. 1, Web.