Through pursuing a Master of Arts in Psychology from Rutgers University, I want to be challenged. I would like to focus my core courses towards the field of language and neuropsychology through Developmental, Abnormal, Cognitive, and Physiological Psychology courses. I hope to gain classroom experience when taking Teaching in Psychology and through pursuing the thesis track, I hope to work with Dr. Bill Whitlow. I would be interested in working with Dr. Whitlow for his background in psychobiology of learning. Along with this, Dr. Whitlow’s interest in topics such as the evolution of cognition and metacognition are things I find interesting. I would like to learn from Dr. Whitlow’s knowledge on these topics and establish a more thorough understanding of them. This would be a fundamental resource to my education and my potential thesis. …show more content…
This interests me in part because when I was 9-years old, I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia has presented many obstacles to me and I have been able to overcome those challenges. By learning how to overcome these challenges, I have become adaptive and resilient both as a person and student. These are some of the qualities that I believe I could positively contribute to research projects. Knowing that being dyslexia makes my brain function differently from others, it has give me a curiosity of studying how the brain functions and in what ways my brain, and those of others with different learning disabilities, work differently from the average