MacKenna Riggs

PSY-105 

Reflection Essay #2

In class, our lessons on infancy and childhood, adolescent, and adulthood development were super interesting for me. Growing up, I have always been interested in working with children. When I was in middle school I really wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. Once I started to get interested in nursing I was immediately interested in being a pediatric nurse, and now my dream specialty in nursing is labor and delivery. I think the development of humans as we get older, especially from childhood into adolescents and then into adulthood is super cool. How our brain changes, we grow physically and mentally, I think that’s all super cool and interesting. It makes it even more interesting because looking back I can now see some of the growth I’ve made since entering into my adolescent years, at least maturity.

I have lots of younger cousins because I come from a really big family, and I always loved to go see my baby cousins because I just loved being around kids and watching them grow. I think it’s so interesting how our body and minds change over the years and we don’t even really realize it until we’re old enough to see how much we’ve actually grown and changed over the years. 

Everything we’ve learned about development is definitely important to my future career, and I can take everything we’ve learned about children into consideration when I have my own children, and when taking care of my younger cousins because we all know it can be concerning taking care of young children, and sometimes frustrating because they don’t always listen, but having this lesson to reflect on when a child is misbehaving is super helpful.

I chose this as my sample piece for PSY-105 because we had to write two reflections about anything we learned in class. These reflections were good ways for me to reflect about what we learned and how I could apply this to my future. I chose my reflection on infancy and childhood, adolescents, and adulthood development because those are just good things to have an understanding of, especially when going into healthcare. He didn’t give a rubric for this reflection because he wanted us to be able to write about what we learned in class to understand it more. Since we didn’t have a rubric for this, I felt that I was able to make more sense of it because I was able to put more meaning into it and why it is important for my future career, and just overall knowledge about how we all develop. This reflects what we did in PSY-105. We learned a lot about pretty much everything, and it’s all important for my future, but this is super important because I can apply it to everyday situations like when I’m spending time with my younger cousins, or around my friends and family. I’ve learned a lot in PSY-105 that will all be important for me someday. These reflections were also a good way for me to practice my writing by just reflecting on what we learned.