Psychology Portfolio Reflection: Integrating Course Concepts into My Life and Career Path

The assignment below is a Portfolio Project paper for my psychology class. Important things to note when writing the paper: 

1. I am a 22 year old single male with no children
2. I am going to school to become a nurse. I want to be an ER nurse, and eventually a flight nurse.
3. I work in a Cannabis facility as a plant grower
4. I breed snakes and reptiles, and own over 40 different snakes, frogs, lizards, scorpions, tarantulas, and have one cocker spaniel dog and a green-cheeked conure bird.
5. I live at home with my mom, so you could incorporate scenarios that pertain to the challenges of that (it is too expensive in Colorado to live on my own yet)

The modules in this course are: 

1) History and Methodology of Psychology 

2) The Brain and Behavior

3)Developmental Theory

4) Sensation and Perception

5) Conditioning and Learning

6) Memory and Cognition

7) Motivation and Emotion; Social Behavior

8) Personality, Psychological Disorders and Treatment

ASSIGNMENT:

Making Connections

Over the eight modules of the course, you have had the chance to explore aspects of psychology individually. The Portfolio Project will ask you to reflect on your learning and synthesize those individual topics into a larger whole.

You completed milestone assignments in the following modules:

• Module 3: Developmental Theory
• Module 5: Modifying Behavior
• Module 7: Emotions and the Physical Body

For your final submission, write a reflection (approximately 5-6 pages) on what you learned in the course and/or what you believe will  be most useful or helpful as you move forward in your career and/or personal life. 

In your reflection, provide 3-4 scenarios or examples of how this information explains or informed your experience this term. Each of these situations/examples should include application of the information presented in two or more modules. 

For example: “When watching my child throw a toy out of frustration, I attempted to reinforce sharing with words instead of throwing/damaging the toy.” would be an example of using information from both Module 5 and Module 7). Explain the psychological concepts that pertain to your example. You may link together information from more than two modules, but each examples should reference at least two modules.