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  1. DxD=D^2

    DxD=D^2 Member

    I'm wondering if anyone else can relate to my scenario, and if so could you provide any guidance or advice that helped you? Scenario below:

    I had an assignment this week which required a 3 page summary of 3 scholarly psychology journal articles. I thought to myself, this should be simple... it's only three pages in APA format and they I'm covering simple articles. Boy was I wrong.

    Each time I attempted to read these articles, I felt so frustrated and hopeless. :rant: To provide you with an understanding, I am barely entering my major coursework in psych and haven't taken research methods yet (which could help explain all the terminology and verbiage that I haven't see before). I have come to the senses that psychology has a language all in itself. In my whole life, I have never used the dictionary so many times as I have in this one psych class. Man oh man, was this a difficult and frustrating assignment. (I'm sure I'll get better and understanding the verbiage in later time).

    I will say, to all the skeptics who criticize online learning... it can be a difficult task to be an autodidact (Look, I'm learning to be a scholar now). :biglaugh:
     
    DxD=D^2, Jun 5, 2012
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  2. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

    You're getting there, frustration and hopeless are part of psychological reasons. :biglaugh:

    Well, have you looked into online Database? Is there a specific topic in Psychology for your articles? Or it can be anything relate Psychology?
     
    TEKMAN, Jun 5, 2012
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  3. DxD=D^2

    DxD=D^2 Member

    I'm doing my research on Carl Roger's and his Person-Centered Theory. I'm finding this class to be very challenging but rewarding too. I'm learning a lot and feel I could learn a lot more if I had more time to really dig, dig, dig deep in research and studying. 8 weeks for this class is really quick (and as it is, I am actually falling behind :eek:uch:)
     
    DxD=D^2, Jun 5, 2012
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  4. lawrenceq

    lawrenceq Member

    I know how you feel.

    Imagine taking upper-level business classes with zero knowledge of business basics. A lot of the management material I could relate to work, but a lot of the theories went over my head. Reading scholarly journals only added to my pain. I had to do twice the work to get by.
     
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  5. Randell1234

    Randell1234 Moderator

    Just think how much better you will feel when you are done :ponder:
     
    Randell1234, Jun 5, 2012
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  6. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    The good news is that what you describe (unfamiliarity with the terminology of psychology) isn't uncommon at all for new students. The bad news is that Person-Centered Therapy is one of the easiest to understand, so it's only going to get worse.

    I've found that it helps to see a form of psychotherapy in action to truly understand it; here's a link to Carl Roger's famous "Gloria" sessions, where Rogers' Person-Centered Therapy, Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Therapy (now called Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) and Fritz Perls' Gestalt Therapy are demonstrated;

    CARL ROGERS & GLORIA COUNSELLING - Part 1 - YouTube
     
    Bruce, Jun 6, 2012
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