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Essay / Psychology Experience - 660
I signed up to take psychology classes for a different reason, but I never thought it could help me improve some of my skills until I am asked to apply what I have learned to my lifestyle. After discovering that I needed to apply a learning principle from psychology to my life, I wasn't sure what aspect I could apply it to and greatly benefit from. I thought a lot about various aspects involving sports, fitness, eating habits, socializing and finally study habits. It was then that I realized that comparing my study habits when I was in Ghana with my current state, it had become extremely horrible. I realized that I was distracted by my computer, eating, socializing, and going to the gym every time I'm supposed to be studying or doing very important homework. Because of these bad habits, my academic grades were getting lower and lower than what I am capable of. I then realized that this aspect of mine would be the right choice to carry out an experiment, based on one of the learning principles I learned in psychology class. In the psychology learning module, I got to know the principle...