Hello! Today I am going to talk about my favourite subject. We have had many interesting subjects this semester. I like all them!! But my favourite subject this semester has been Educational Psychology…it has been taught by the Miss Paulina Castro and the teacher Jesus Redondo. I like them for many reasons. First, I would like to work with children in the future and the Educational Psychology is directly in contact with them. Also, I am very interested in social problems like poverty, children in social risk, delinquency and others, which are in relation with the work of educational psychologist, especially, in the public schools. The education is a very important problem which involves everyone. In general, I have learned very much this semester. All subjects have had a practical orientation that shows us how we can apply our knowledge to the reality. Also, all these subjects are in relation with the specializations that we will have to study the next semester. It is very good!

My future...

Hello, I am going to talk about my future…Uf!! I want to do many things in my future!, but I don’t know if I will achieve to do all these things. In five years from now I hope to be working in my career. I don’t know specifically in what area, because there are many fields that I love. I like the Clinical Psychology (I would like to work doing cognitive behavioral therapies); I like the Legal Psychology (I would like to work with victims) and I like the Social Psychology (I would like to work with poor children). Also, I want to do researches in Experimental Psychology. Then, I would like to study Theatre or a specialization of my career. I hope to work in these two careers at the same time. I want to live some years in Santiago and then I hope go to live to the South of Chile, both things with my boyfriend. Ideally, in ten years from now I would like to travel to many places with my boyfriend. I would like to continue sharing with him and my family. Essentially, I hope to continue being happy everyday… 

Hello!!, who is the best in my field?... To answer this question is not difficult to me. I like the Experimental Psychology very much, for this reason I think that one of the best psychologists in my field is my teacher of Experimental Psychology: Ronald Betancourt. I don’t think that he is the best psychologist of all times or the best psychologist of Chile; however, I believe that he is a very intelligent person, the best psychologist of our University. He is a person with consistent arguments to explain the behavior, he has strong arguments to defend his field. He has done a lot of research about Classical Conditioning and Operant conditioning, especially, about Learned Helplessness and Drugs Tolerance. Actually, he teaches the subject of Experimental Psychology in our University and his students are experimenting in his laboratory. It´s very interesting! Each of his students is working with a mouse, which is learning different behaviors. In general, I think that his contributions to the Psychology are very important because they let us understand very good the human behavior.

My Career: Psychology

Why I am studying this career? Choosing this career wasn’t an easy decision…
When a finished the school I didn’t know what career to choose. I loved the theater but I couldn’t study it. Then, I began to read about Psychology because it was an option of career to study. I liked sharing with people and I felt happy when I could help somebody. I think that the emotional health is very important and I think that we always need someone that listen us. For these reasons, I think that the contribution of psychologists to society is very important because they can help people to improve their quality of life. To accomplish this aim they need to have tools such as empathy, tolerance, commitment with patients, social commitment, be able to listen to others, patience, and others tools.
My favourite subjects are the “Psychology of Learning” and “Experimental Psychology”. These are my favourite subjects because they show us how we do what we do due to our experiences. However, I think that all the Psychology is very interesting... the career is really beautiful!

This photograph was taken by my boyfriend `s classmate. It was taken when I and my boyfriend went to a party that our University organized in March. This party took place in Campus Juan Gomez Millas and all university students went to it. We went with two friends named Leyla and Yisel, both foreigner friends and my boyfriend`s classmates. Also, Leyla went with her boyfriend named Alejandro. Five of us appear in this photograph.
I like this photograph because it shows us very happy and because I am with my boyfriend who is very important to me. Both enjoy so much every moment that we share together. Also, the party was really funny, we danced all night and we sang the songs of “Juana Fe” and “Chico Trujillo”, both are national bands. When the party ended we were dead! I and my boyfriend came back home at 3 o´clock approximately. This photograph really shows a great moment together :) I love you!

A career-related web site...

A career-related web site that I usually visit is http://www.scielo.cl/psykhe.htm. This is a electronic journal that publishes empirical investigations about different fields of psychological science made by national o foreign researchers. This journal have two publications in the year, the first is in May and the second is in November, both publications include works written in spanish and english. Psyke can be consulted through a Scientific Electronic Library Online called Scielo. I found this web site looking for information for a university task and here I discovered how usefull was this site. Here I found interesting investigations about many topics relationed with psychological problems, especially those investigated by clinical and social psychology, for this reason I enjoy visiting this site. I generally visit this site once a moth, but mostly I do that because I have to do university tasks. I really think that it`s a great web site! You should visit it now!

My favourite piece of technology: the notebook

My favourite piece of technology is the notebook.The notebook is a computer smaller than normal computers although it has the same characteristics than normal computer, that is, a keyboard, a screen, and others, even my notebook has webcam. I got my notebook two years ago when I joined to the university. How to use it (the method) is very easy and with a finger I can control it. I use it almost every day, between one and five hours, generally to study. The notebook is my favourite piece of technology because I can carry it anywhere (for example, I can use it when I`m travelling, when I`m in bed or when I`m in class), it is practical and it has the same capacity, quality and performance than a normal computer. If I didn’t have a notebook, probably wouldn’t be so comfortable work or study but anyway I could work and study, because the pieces of technology are luxuries and they give comfort but not the life.