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This topic concerned to the first-class week, in which we talked about what is the meaning of psychology, that it is the science of mental processes and human and animal behavior. We also discuss some different psychology’ branches, such as cognitive psychology, health psychology, developmental psychology, forensic psychology, among others.

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The second week of classes treated with the History of Psychology’ subject, highlighting events that marked it, such as the founding of the first experimental laboratory of psychology in Leipzig, Germany, the emergence of psychological currents such as William James' functionalism, John Watson's behaviorism, etc. The different perspectives that encompass psychology were also discussed.

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In the third week of class, we learned what a phycologist is, who is the professional who studies and treats human behavior and mental processes, what is the difference with a psychiatrist, which is mainly the different education they both receive and the work they do to help the user, and what psychologists do and where they work.

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The fourth week corresponds to the topic of motivation and emotion. in this week, we discussed in class what emotion is, some types of emotions that most people experience, and the typical behaviors of how these are expressed. As for the topic of motivation, in addition to knowing its meaning, we explored the theory of the psychologist Maslow about the reason and hierarchy of emotions.

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The brain, specifically, brain’ parts and system nervous were the topics addressed in the fifth class week. We learned about some brain’ parts and their functions, such as the cerebellum (responsible for coordinating muscle movements, like the body balance and posture.), thalamus (receiving messages from sensory receptors and transmits them to the appropriate brain’s region), hippocampus (Plays an important role in memory and learning, as well as, the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory), 4 lobes (parietal, occipital, frontal and temporal), etc.

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For 7th week, during the class we discussed the topics of sensation and perception, we learned the difference between both terms by knowing their respective meanings, being sensation the process or experience of perceiving through the senses the process or experience of perceiving through the senses and perception is the information received by the senses and already organized in interpreted. Within the topic of sensation, terms such as absolute threshold and sensory adaptation were explained, as well as, through team exercises, we shared what is the difference between sensory adaptation and habituation, and some real-life examples of the 2 mentioned concepts.

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For this week, we were assigned to watch the movie "The Gifted" starring Chris Evans and McKenna Grace, with the purpose of doing a movie report, through which we were able to practice writing English texts and at the same time have a good time watching the movie.

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In week 9, we covered the subject of personality from the perspective of Carl Jung's theory of personality types, which classifies people into two large groups, extroverts, and introverts, and according to the proportion in which they use their functions to interpret reality, these functions are: feeling, intuition, thinking and feeling. Based on this theory, the MBTI personality test was created, which identifies 16 personality types according to the proportion of the faculties of extroversion, introversion, intuition, thinking, feeling, and later added, judging and perceiving. We also took a test that supposedly indicates what our personality type is, and we shared the results in class.

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The topic of the stages of memory corresponds to week 11 of classes. derived from this topic we were able to learn about the different stages that memory uses to acquire information, which is: encoding  (the conversion of sensory input into a form capable of being processed and deposited in memory), storage ( the acquired information is solidified and conserved) and retrieval (the way people access the information stored in their memory.). Also, we learned that this information can be stored in the short-term memory or in the long-term memory, which will depend on how long the information is kept in our brain.

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Specialties and Areas of Concentration in Psychology 

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Specialties and Areas of Concentration in Psychology 

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After the 2nd partial, in week 12, we learned about the different areas of specialties of our career, psychology, as well as, what is its function and possible fields of action. Some of the areas and specialties that were mentioned were: industrial psychology, school psychology, forensic psychology, neuropsychology, etc.

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This particular topic, which corresponds to week 13, was a very interesting topic to deal with because we were able to learn about what phobias are, that phobias are different from fear since it is an irrational fear towards some situation, type of people, animals or objects, we also shared some types of really strange but real phobias, such as: arithmophobia, xanthophobia, brontophobia, pogonophobia, etc. Likewise, some common phobias such as arachnophobia, social phobia, agoraphobia, claustrophobia, etc. were also mentioned.

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The content of the article was informative and reflective about the impact of social networks, specifically likes, on adolescents. Thanks to the proposed exercises that required reading the article, I learned how adolescents react neuronally to the likes they receive on social networks, the incidence that the psychological phenomenon known as the "conformity effect" has on decision-making, and how all this could affect the lives, and therefore, the mental health of adolescents.