Psychology is the science of the behavior and the mind. That was the only term I knew about before starting this course. I never fully knew anything else about psychology, although I always wanted to learn more about it. Now after taking a whole semester of psychology I learned so much more about the course, the whole science that surrounds the term. This course really helped me learn just why psychological disorders happen, to just how emotion and motivation drives your body. Before starting this course, I wanted to learn how the memory functions. The definition of memory is as follows – Memory is the set of processes used to encode, sore, and retrieve information over different periods of time. (page 254). At first, all I knew about memory was that it is used to store information but now after reading more into that chapter, I learned that memory serves much more than that. There are three functions of the memory – encoding, storage, and retrieval. Also, another part about the memory that I did not know prior to this course is that the whole brain is not used when it comes to using your memory. The amygdala, the hippocampus, the cerebellum, and the prefrontal cortex are the main parts that your brain uses to retrieve and store memories. …show more content…
(Page 540). I wanted to learn much more about this term, since I have friends as well as family that suffer from psychological disorders, so I wanted to dig deeper and find out just why they are caused, and the behaviors associated with them. One fact that I learned about anxiety disorders is that about thirty percent on Americans have at least one anxiety disorder during their lifetime. I also learned in this course, that few disorders are typical, are far from atypical and that the rates that they appear are pretty