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Psychology Application Essay

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My fascination with the discipline of psychology began in grade eleven when learning about Sigmund Freud’s theory of the unconscious mind, Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Stanley Milgram’s study on obedience etc. There were two reasons why I found Psychology so captivating, one was that I was able to apply it to my own personal life. This was something completely new since, subjects such as physics, chemistry, and math are sometimes hard to “see”, relate to, or apply to one’s life. The second reason was that whenever I had homework or assignments due for that class I never felt like I was actually “doing homework”, meaning, I was actually motivated to study and learn. Due to this unique feature that psychology had, I decided to study psychology for my bachelor’s degree. Unlike me, my twin sister decided to pursue civil engineering instead. I remember the first day of my Introduction to Psychology class and noticing …show more content…

Though this is only an explicit stereotype they can be strengthened and become implicit, meaning, if there is a stereotype that women have low mathematical capabilities it might be strengthened by the fact that there are fewer women in STEM fields (Gilbert, 2015). Therefore, to weaken women’s explicit as well as implicit stereotypes regarding STEM it has been found that having female STEM role models would allow women to have a more positive outlook on STEM fields (Gilbert, 2015). By having women STEM role models, young girls are more likely to connect and be motivated by her accomplishments, allowing girls to understand that they too can reach their goals and become successful despite the belief of others (Gilbert,

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