Reflection:
Week 2 - Introduction to Social Psychology
This was the first multimedia presentation that was assigned to me by any class, which
made me nervous and overwhelmed. However, after reading Chapter 1 of the textbook and
completing the assignment and assessment that went along with it. I realized I knew more than I
would have given myself credit for. This project specifically was not my best work, but it was
the project that challenged me to go beyond what I was used. I learned how to interview my
friends and get their perspective about social psychology. The responses were diverse which
showed how differently people think.
My opinion-editorial was interesting to research about because I was the one who picked
the article that was significant to me. Instead of just reading about research and what social
psychologist did, I participated in research and shared my findings with supporting evidence with
my friends and the rest of the class. This type of project made a 2-dimensional type of
information turn into a 3-dimensional type of learning. It was incorporated into my long-term
memory because of the amount of time I spent on it. It’s the end of the semester now, but I can
still recall a lot of information from this project.
In the beginning, I thought that 15 minutes was a long time for a presentation, but I went
over that time when I first recorded my presentation. In my second attempt, I had to talk
abnormally fast for a PowerPoint presentation. It was my fault because I did not plan it well. In
my feedback by Dr. Stansbury, I was told not to read from the slides and to provide only
highlights of information. I was also told to slow down when I talked and to fix some minor
errors in APA citation. Also, there were positive feedbacks as well which told me I was doing
things right. The visuals and the transitions from slides were great. I took the positive and need
for improvement feedbacks seriously and applied to the rest of projects.
This feedback made me realize that I needed to plan for each week. Since I was reading
from the slides, the presentation took longer than 15 minutes so that’s why I talked fast to get in
all the information. For the rest of my project, I was conscious of how fast I was talking and I
avoided reading from the slides. I condensed the amount of words on each slide so that I was not
tempted to read from it.
I am a very visual learner. My learning improves when I am more involved with a class.
Even though, this was online. I felt that I was gaining a lot of information because I was given
the right guidelines but I was also not limited by them. This project helped me take the chapter
concepts and apply them to real-life. This was better processed in my mind. This type of project
can be used in a lot of my courses; it gave me a lot of room to be creative and demonstrate my
knowledge to others. I can take concepts from other textbooks and visualize it into my own
understanding. I discovered things that I did not know about PowerPoint which I will be using in
other courses.
