Sunday 31 May 2009

Jean Piaget


One of the best persons in the field of Psychology is Jean Piaget. He talks about the evolution of the human being through stages what correlated with age. This stages are four: sensorimotor period (years 0 to 2); preoperational period (years 2 to 7); concrete operational period (years 7 to 12) and
formal operational period (years 12 and up).
This important author talks about the personality as a construction where the biological and the enviromental factors are mixed to become in a didtintive way that defined the development of the life. The human being is in permanent evolution and transformation. In those constant changes there are two important process that the individuals experiments: assimilation and to fit. The first process consist of the absorption of the external stimules at the internal structures of the human; the second process has the opossite direction, and it consists of the modification of individual structures to the external stimulus. In those two process is the adaptation of the human being and their more or less grade of integration at the world. I like his theory of cognitive development, because it proposes that there are distinct and increasingly stages of mental representation that children pass through on their way to an adult level of intelligence.

Friday 15 May 2009

My loved career


I am studying this career, because I love the complexity of the human being. I think that in the world there is a lot of pain and sometimes the people don`t know how to improve their life.
That’s the way I want to help them to finish with their suffering and to lead them to a healthy life. I love the human being and I believe that like a psychologist I can help people make their life more pacefull and even happier.
For many years, I was searching for a career which could help others. Psychology can help the individual life of the people and also their collective life. It's has a lot of applications like clinical psychology, social psychology, educational psychology, organizational psychology or forensic psychology. This area has captivated me these days, because in the legal enviroment there are complex behaviors to understand and to study and a lot of people that suffer, like children abused, woman beatten or raped and other kind of victims.
In my opinion to be a good psychologist you need a lot of important qualities like emphaty, listening aptitude, humility, service -oriented and to be a good observer among other. You must know evaluation techniques, therapy techniques- if it is your interest-different types of test and social dynamics among others.
I have studied other careers (and I finished a pair of them...lol), but this is the first time that I feel fulfilled and permanently stimulated...I love my career.