After watching all of the personality disorder projects, I decided to go over McKenna, Caitlin, and Julie's presentations. McKenna did her presentation on Dissociative Identity Disorder. I thought it was really interesting about how a lot of people who have this disorder developed it at a younger age as a defense mechanism for abuse. It's almost as if they use this to completely mask or forget about their terrible circumstances. I am wondering if psychologists have given this tendency a name? Also, I wanted to know what program McKenna used to make her brochure. When I looked at Caitlin's project, I thought it was really cool that she made it personal to her own life. I wonder what it would be like to live in a family where your mother has borderline personality disorder. I also wanted to know statistics or the ratio of BPD that is caused from hereditary or environment. How does living in a home where a parent has BPD affect the children as they are growing up? Lastly, I looked at Julie's presentation on Histrionic Personality Disorder. Histrionic Personality Disorder is basically where people are addicted to getting attention from other people. As a high school student, I am around many people who love getting attention from people and almost search for compliments at times. I am wondering where psychologists have drawn the line between histrionic tendencies and histrionic personality disorder. Also, what is the tendency of seeing improvements in behavior after seeking treatment or therapy? I thought that this was a really interesting disorder to learn about because it is an issue that many teenage girls struggle with.
This article was basically all about the different traits and tendencies that creative people have. To be honest, I saw a lot of the things discussed in myself. It's pretty unfortunate that we don't stress creativity at a high school level because I would personally thrive a lot more. As stated in the article, some teachers may want their students to focus on the credibility and validity of their work rather than how personal or unique it is. While I can understand their viewpoint, I wish that more teachers encouraged this. It's really disappointing because for example, I would get marked down for focusing on being creative in my AP Literature essays. Eventually, I started to just focus on answering the prompt, which is something that Mrs. Dolbee drills into our heads from day one. I'm so used to writing and just answering the prompt that things like my personal statement for the UCAS application ends up being dry. I didn't always write like this & its' really disappointing that I'm not as easily able to make the statement more personal. I personally think that creativity is innate just as problem solving. Not every person is able to problem solve as well as others while some may not be able to harness their creativity as easily as others. During the personality unit, I learned a lot about myself and the kinds of things that motivate me. I am able to understand why I am so relentless in my work, but why I struggle internally with some things. It's interesting because some of the very things that I have realized about myself were in this very article. For example, the whole paragraph about being conservative and rebellious at the same time is very relatable to myself. I was able to find some sort of connection to my own personality in almost every numeral listed in the article.
In the motivation article, I read about the "5 Keys To Unlock Your Creative Motivation" and about "The Goals That Guide Us." In the first article, I learned that to unlock my creativity, I need to challenge myself, have a new approach towards it, change my perspective, find your intrinsic motivation, and make it fun. These 5 steps are connected to the motivation unit because we learned about how people find their motivation and what they need to do to reach self-actualization. These steps can be used to take what we have learned in class and actually apply it to our lives. Whether it be in class or out in the world, we can use these 5 steps to find out what things excite us and how we can be efficient while also enjoying ourselves. The second article was about how setting goals for ourselves can give us direction in life to increase our focus and productivity. Some things that we can do when setting these goals are to write them down, acknowledge obstacles, identify benefits, make subgoals, enable ourselves, seek help, visualize your results, be organized, and reward yourself. This article is related to our motivation unit because not only can it help us to successfully achieve self-actualization, but can help us to feel in control of our success. These ideas can not only help us in school but can help us in achieving long term and short term goals in an efficient manner.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creating-in-flow/200907/5-keys-unlock-your-creative-motivation http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200307/the-goals-guide-us |