Annagrace Presley's Psych Blog

 1. My top 3 interests are Investigative, realistic, and social.  2. Some career examples are computer programmer, lab technician, civil engineer, surgeon, medical assistant, and therapist. I have interest in many of these careers. I have been aiming for a career in a STEM field, which many of these examples are, and I am currently an engineering major, which is similar to some of these.  3. My highest values are achievement, relationships, and working conditions. Some of my lowest are independence and support. I think I would mostly agree with these results, definitely the highest ones. I think it is very important to have achievement, relationships, and good working conditions in a job.  4. My top 3 traits are honesty/humility, openness to experience, and agreeableness.  5. I would say that the test did a pretty good job of capturing traits that reflect who I am. While it is not perfectly accurate, I was impressed by how spot on the results were. I was a littl...

1. Taking a look back at my first post, I remember not knowing what to write because I knew little about psychology at that point. Now, I am happy to say that I know much more. In my first blog post I write about how I had heard that psychology could be hard because it required a lot of memorization. I found in our course that this was true, but it was not a huge issue for me personally. I found that I was highly interested in many of the topics we learned about, which made it much easier for me to remember the information. Another thing that I know now compared to the time of my first blog post is how often concepts of psychology come up in my every day life. I have found that as we learn about new concepts, I would continuously see those concepts appear in my everyday life. 2. The fact that I am able to see how psychology appears in my everyday life, has helped me to realize how it can be relevant to my life, school, and future career. I have seen that learning about attachment style...