Thank you, Psychology
My journey with Social Sciences 11 has come to an end...
or has it really?
No. It does not end. It goes on throughout my entire life, in every blink, in every step, in every thought, in every word and in every action.
Because of this, I would like to say,
Thank you, Bronfenbrenner, for making me realize the complexity of each person’s life and how I must understand people deeply and fully to know who they are.
Thank you, Hermans, for teaching me about influences that exist in this world as well as various identities and how each person interacts and learns differently in this diverse world with diverse people.
Thank you, Alejo, for talking about the beauty of the core of a person, especially of the “loob” of a Filipino, and how people become strengthened and motivated to live. How beautiful it is that people have the freedom to make choices influenced by their thoughts, feelings, experiences and the world around them.
Thank you, Kahneman, for teaching me how thoughts are processed and turned into action as well as how to control cognitive biases which can help me be more mindful and careful.
Thank you, Ekman, Williams and more, for teaching me about the complexity of emotions, how I feel them, how others feel them, and that maybe we are not so alone at all when we feel certain emotions.
Thank you, Gross, for showing me how people regulate their emotions, and this in turn, helps me in regulating my own and understanding how others do so as well.
Thank you, Fredrickson, for teaching me how I can simply be positive in my own life and how I can help spread this to others to make this world a bit more happier and lighter.
Thank you, Freud, for opening up a new perspective on how I can understand the development of a person, how each and every action will most likely work in each stage of development, and why this may lead people to do such actions. I was also able to understand the way people make decisions and how morals and criteria develop in a person’s mind.
Thank you, Fraiberg, Adelson, and Shapiro, for showing a side of the relationship of a mother to her infant, how the dynamics throughout the growth of an infant affects the growth into stages of development. I use the learnings from her for understanding my own situation as well as others.
Thank you, Erikson, for teaching me how people face and deal with challenges as well as how learnings come about throughout the various stages of development of a person. This helps me understand my own growth and the way others have developed throughout their lives as well.
Thank you, Gecas and Schwalbe, for teaching me about perceptions of the self and perceptions of others towards the self. I have learned to further practice my agency in order to higher my self-esteem and how I can also be a good friend to others and boost themselves as well.
Thank you, Goffman, for making me understand the complexity of the world that is a stage, especially with the characters or the people that perform in it. I see how people perform in various contexts and why they choose to do so. I, myself, can also see how I choose what “fronts” I put up on different occasions.
Thank you, Smollar and Younis, for opening my eyes to how the dynamics of a parent-child relationship work and how our perceptions of each other change as we grow. I am now more aware of my own relationships and perceptions of my parents and how I can treat them better but also know where I stand as an individual.
Thank you, Grotevant and Cooper, for widening my perspective with the interactions of adolescents and parents. I see how I am now shaped by my parents and also by my own self as I grow in this moving and changing world. I now understand myself and my parents a bit better.
Thank you, Brown, for making me understand where I am amongst my peers but also how adolescent crowds work and came to be. I see now how I can better my relationships with others and not be bounded by stereotypes.
Thank you, Manago, Guan, and Greenfield, for showing the influence of media in our lives and how it has affected cultures, communication, relationships and the identities of people. I now am aware of how I can roam around this digital age and remember to also have real-life contact with the people around me.
Thank you, Moore, Rosenthal, Killerman, and Tan, for helping me understand my relationships further, my own gender and sexual identity, and how I can understand others with respect. I am also now aware of Filipino perceptions on love, gender, sex, and relationships so as to understand my own beliefs, my family’s beliefs, and the beliefs of other Filipinos.
Thank you, Swartz, for helping me understand why I do the things I do and why people do the things they do. We all come from different backgrounds, have different resources, and different personalities which creates billions of amazing, unique, and complex stories.
Thank you, Dorling, for opening my eyes to a perspective of inequality and injustice. I am motivated to further help make equality happen and justice served.
Finally, thank you Ma’am Alyda Keh, for helping me and the class learn more about ourselves, the society that surrounds us, and the various perspectives and dynamics that are within our world. I can further understand myself and others and live my life to the fullest. I may act as a bridge for others to understand themselves as well. Now, I can move onto the next chapter of my life with high hopes that I can grow in the best way possible and affect good change for others.
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“Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better, but because I knew you, I have been changed for good.” - from the song, For Good from “Wicked” the musical