Actually, I have no experience of learning about psychology before, so I even didn't know about the approximate outline of the contents of psychology. However, I'm getting interested in the field of psychology more and more after reading some books whose subject is mainly psychology including the textbook. According to the Lilienfeld textbook, a variety of ways are used to analyze our behavior. On the other hand, all of our behaviors can be seen in the action of human's brain. Also, this book teaches that there are some regular types of human development from children to adult. Like this, there are various chapters in the book. However, I was particularly interested in chapter 12 dealing with our stress and health.
I think my interest is related to my situation that I am a student and living alone. Actually, many students feel stress and the excessive workload can affect the students' health, so we need to know how to deal with it. According to the book, the stress is expressed along with the various categories such as attitudes, beliefs and personality. In this chapter, the ways of protecting with our health are written. I think they will be helpful for us.
Let's protect our health!
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I also agree with keeping up with your health. For if you feel better physically it might help out your school work to.
I’m really interested in psychology for many reasons, it is amazing that we can interpret others’ thinking, it can give us evidence to explain why people behave that way under specific circumstance. However, I though these course just talk about the emotion and behavior that kind of stuff, until now I find that not the case, we learn the scientific method, biology related to psychology, the learning style, development.
As the health you talk about, I think you mean not only the physical health, but also the metal health as well. A student who studies abroad is really hard, because we don’t have a lot of friends here, I cannot eat our traditional food as usually. It is really important to deal with the stress we may face. Hope you handle them well and have a really good final grade!
Oh, yeah! Dealing with stress is a big problem that we need to think about, for usually the one that get the best grades is not the most intelligent but the one knows how to balance his/her life.