Favorite Thing

My favorite thing about this class was that it was completely online.  I really enjoyed that I was able to work at my own pace and that I had a week to post to my blog and do the quizzes.  My least favorite thing about the class were the essays.  Writing for me is very hard and it doesn’t come easy so when it comes to writing it takes me a very long time to compile my thoughts.  I think an improvement that can be made to the class is the quizzes.  When it comes to the quizzes I found that even if I did read the chapter and understand the material the questions were very specific.  I got some answers wrong because I was not able to remember every little part of the chapters.  So I think if the quizzes are that specific I think each chapter should have a quiz and not make a quiz 3 chapters like it was in this class. 

Perception and Communication

I think the perception and communication section was interesting but some concepts I would like some more explanation.  When it came to the interpretation section I became a little confused.  Attributions have 4 different parts there is locus, internal and external.  I understood the fact that we can understand why something happens either internally or externally but I didn’t understand what the locus part was.  The next part is stability which explains actions as the result of stable and unstable factors.  Specificity explains the behavior in terms of specific or global implications.  This part confused me a bit because to me it seemed like stability and specificity were the same.  The last concept is responsibility in which if we think the person can control the behavior they are considered responsible.  However, if it is beyond their control they may not be responsible.  Some of these concepts were hard to understand when it comes to the specific examples.     

Most important thing I learned

I think this class has been really important in the way I look at my relationships with others.  The most important thing I have learned in this class was in the listening section.  I thought this section was the most important to me because I find it to be really important in my marriage.  In order for my marriage to work I think listening is really important.  In the listening section the concept about pseudolistening I thought was really interesting.  I have found that by being more attentive and trying to find something in the conversation interesting to me has made the conversation between and my husband more intimate.  Before our conversations were very bland because I never really listened to him.  However, now I engage with him and really interact in the conversations.  I feel that by learning about this in class it has really helped my relationships especially my marriage.