Reflection Essay

Course Reflection Reflection Writing: Reflective writing is similar to writing a journal. It’s the process of looking back over your experience and noting what was important, inspiring, helpful, or applicable to you as a learner, a future employee or in other personal ways. Did the course help you learn more about the diverse nature of the human experience? Did the course help you gain new insights concerning yourself and others? Did the course help you to become a deeper thinker/learner overall? Explain with examples. Think about this quote: What does it mean to you? How does reflection help us learn? “A man may hear a thousand lectures, and read a thousand volumes, and be at the end of the process very much where he was, as regards knowledge.  Something more than merely memorizing it into the mind is necessary if it is to be understood and useful.  It must not be passively received, but actively entered into, embraced, mastered.  The mind must go half-way to meet what comes to it from without.” John Henry Newman Overall Directions:  (MLA or APA style – double space; 12 pt. font) (1.5 to 3 pages) Select three theories/concepts/or ideas that you learned in this course that you found interesting, memorable, and applicable to the “real world” (or to your own development/life in some way). *one theory or one concept or one idea for each paragraph below. Try to mix it up some…so that it’s not all topics from the same chapter; include something from the virtual child as well. Explain the theory/concept/idea in your own words and explain why it was interesting/memorable for you; then, describe how the theory is relevant to today’s world and/or to your own life and development. Paragraph One: Introduction on personality in general. Provide an introduction to your paper that gives an overview of your experience learning about psychological principles of personality. Paragraph Two: Theory/Concept/Idea #1 using the stated format above. Paragraph Three: Theory/Concept/Idea #2 using the stated format above. Paragraph Four: Theory/Concept/Idea #3 using the stated format above. Paragraph Five: Conclusion Think of a creative way to end the essay that would briefly summarize your main points and experiences of learning about psychology of human development.