Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Previous Experience with Psychology and what I want to explore now

I have always been fascinated by the human mind and how it causes different behaviors. As a result, I enjoy studying psychology, especially how it relates to interpersonal relationships and personalities. I have taken a wide variety of interesting psycholical courses such as developmental psycholgoy, behavioral neuroscience, and psychology statistics. Recently, I have become interested in how psychology may be related to the field of kinesiology, which studies movement and includes sports and exercise science. These two fields have integrated numerous times in studies of sports psychology and how psychological techniques may help increase sports performance. For example, there is evidence that positive self talk and imagery relate to higher athletic performance and even professional athletes like NBA all star point guard Gilbert Arenas have employed these strategies. In addition, exercise and psychology are often intertwined and the question being raised is whether exercise increases or has a positive effect on psychological well being, which refers to mood, amount of sleep, stress level, and more. This is the question I would like to explore because that would give even more reason for inactive people to exercise, for it would be increasing not only physical but also mental health. If positive effects of exercise are found it is important that people know about it so that psychological problems might diminish along with physical problems, helping people become more all around healthy beings.

Monday, October 22, 2007

first post ever

this is my first post. i saw into the wild last night.