My Goals and Reflections Psychology 2013-2014

A. Goal Setting Questions September What are your study habits? What are your time management skills? What are your academic strengths and weaknesses? What do you wish you could improve about yourself ? What are your biggest fears/concerns about taking this Psychology course? Explain what success means to you.

B. Obstacles and Resources September 1. List the obstacles that may jeopardize your success in this course. 2. List the resources and things that will help you to become successful in this course.

C. Goal Sheet September My goal for this course is to… I will accomplish this goal by doing the following: I will know I have met this goal if…

Test Reflection #1 October How do you think you did on this first test? Why do you feel this way? What is your goal for this course? Do you think you accomplished your goal on this first test? Would you have done anything differently to prepare for the test? Did you make a concept map? If yes, did it help you? If no, why didn’t you make one? Do you think this was a fair test?

Project Reflection #1 October Personality Project Reflect on the personality project you did. (Myers/Big 5) What did you learn from this project? What did you like or dislike about this project?

Quiz Reflection #1 October How do you think you did on the biological bases of behaviour quiz? Explain 2. Do you think it was a fair quiz? Explain 3. Do you think you were prepared for the quiz? Explain

Goal Reflections #1 October Comment on how successful you have been in achieving your goal at this point. How effective have your strategies been in helping you to meet your goal? Do you need to adjust your strategies? Why? What changes can you make to become more successful in achieving your goal for this course? (If you feel that you have achieved your goal so far, then comment on how you can continue to be successful.) If you need to make changes to your original goal and strategies, go back to those sheets and make changes with a different colour. Date your changes.

Test Reflection #2 How do you think you did on this test? Why do you feel this way? Would you have done anything differently to prepare for the test? Do you think this was a fair test?

Journal Entries Entry #1: Introduction Reflect on the first week of Psychology. What have you learned? What do you like or dislike about Psychology?

Journal Entries Entry #2: Research/Social Psych/Personality/Brain Reflect on the past month. What has been the most valuable thing you have learned and why? What is something that you have learned that has helped you to understand either your behaviour and thinking or someone else’s behaviour and thinking?

Journal Entries Entry #3: Memory What has been the most valuable thing you have learned and why?

Journal Entries Entry #4: Sleep What have you learned about sleep? What do you want to learn more about?

Journal Entries Entry #5: Development What did you like best about this unit? Explain.

Journal Entries Entry #6: Motivation Use your knowledge of motivation and appropriate psychological terminology to answer the following questions: What motivates people? Give two example of times when you were motivated to do something…what motivated you to do it in each and why?

Journal Entries Entry #7: Learning Explain how you have learned something through Classical conditioning Operant conditioning Observational learning

Journal Entries Entry #8: Sensation Perception Reflect on something you didn’t know and have learned about Sensation and Perception

Journal Entries Entry #9: Psychological Disorders Reflect on what you have learned about Psychological Disorders and something you are still wondering about.

Journal Entries Entry #10: Psychology Reflect on the semester. What did you like best about this course? What did you like least about this course? What is the most valuable thing you learned in psychology and why?

Final Course Reflection To be completed in January 2014 Comment on how successful you were in achieving your goal for this course. If you were to take this course again for the first time, what would you do differently? What advice would you give to students who will take this course next semester? What have you learned from this process of goal setting, developing and monitoring strategies and reflecting on your academic performance?