The goal of writing a
journal is to record, over the course, your experiences both in and out
of class that have been meaningful to you in regard to your learning about
culture and I/O psychology. The journal becomes a motion picture
capturing passing time in words for you to replay as you wish to give you
perspective, objectivity, and integration in your present. The journal
is meant to increase your awareness of how you experience some of the concepts
that we will be learning about in class and how you demonstrate some of
those concepts in action. Because the principles we discuss can generalize
to almost all human interactions, you can begin to recognize them in your
everyday experience as well as in more focused "psychologically oriented"
relationships. Most entries should incorporate a) a class concept
we discussed or you read about, b) a cultural awareness, and c) your personal
reactions. Please use the journal as an opportunity to expand your
awareness of ideas and ways of relating that you judge to be important
to you. Ideally, at the end of the term you will be able to look
back over your journals and discover that your ways of thinking, perceiving,
and behaving have changed significantly in a positive direction.
In the future, you may take for granted abilities and knowledge that you
now may not even know that you need to learn about. Keeping track
of your development in the field of psychology is a life-long process that
you can use in a more systematic way by using the journal as one method.
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