Reflection: Exploring Personal Experiences, Psychology, and Academic Writing in Understanding Behavior

Running head: REFLECTION
Reflection
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1REFLECTION
Few experiences in life are worth noticing as they are the building blocks of our life.
These experiences help to realise the multiplicity of ideas and their practical applicability in life.
These experiences help us shape our decision and make us realise our choice of actions. Such
incidents and experiences in life are essential to look back to find out the validation for certain
decisions taken. Hence, one such experience among many made a crucial impact in my life.
These experiences have shaped my perception of many things in life. It is time to look back to
why I wanted to opt for psychology as my major and what were the issues that bothered me.
During my school days, I experienced one such incident where I started questioning the
psychology and behavioural pattern of people. Near to my locality, there is a slum area where the
children reside in an extremely filthy condition and suffer from multiple health-related issues.
What I noticed among these children was that their extreme childhood was a result of their
parental attitude of frustration towards them. Parents of these children force them to take up jobs
in deplorable condition. This made realise there are more to this type of behaviour among the
parents of these slum children. I wondered all my childhood why people behave a certain way
and whether these issues are only economic or social. I believe there is much more to learn about
this sort of behaviour and this is only possible by understanding the nuances and notions of the
behaviour of individuals. I started questioning the behavioural pattern of people, and this grew
my interest in opting psychology as my major because I believed that this field of study could
help me find my answers to the long-standing questions. Through this course, I hoped to learn
the multiple incidents and behaviour of people. I decided to take up this course because it will
help me to have a holistic understanding of the behaviour of the issue of behaviours of the
individual and how the context influences such behaviour. This course will also help me to
understand the issues that I have largely ignored in my childhood.