psychological aspects

WHAT I CAN REFLECT ABOUT PSYCOLOGICAL ASPECT IF THE STUDENT IS CONFRONRTED WITH THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

The purposes of psychology are to predict, to explain, and to control. According to the definition of psychology as the systematic study of behavior and mental processes, we can investigate or observe the psychological aspect if someone confronted by some problems. Different person may give different responses although they confronted by the same problem. For example, I will reflect about psychological aspects if the student is confronted by the following questions:

1. Find the formula of function g:x→x²-1 and find the value if x=-4 and x=3

2. Find h(-5) if h:x→-3x+4 and find the value of c if h(c)=-8.

The psychological aspect that shown by students are curious, confused, understand, serious, annoyed, happy, and maybe proud. I have ask some first grade students of junior highschool to solve the questions above. First, they feel curious, then after they read the questions they feel confused because they never get the lesson about that before. Some of them ask me to explain about the questions. So, they understand and then they try to solve the questions. They look so serious when they did it. They also feel annoyed when they failed, but they feel happy when they succeed. Of course they also conceited.

So, we can make a conclusion that there are some psychological respons that shown by students when they confronted by a problem. Their respons may influenced by some factors, such IQ, experiences, and knowledge. That factors can support or even pursue. For example, when students have no knowledge about the questions they can not solve them. But, after they get understand they can solve them correctly.