In my SLS class we are working on a project right now dealing with career opportunities within the field of Psychology. As a part of project we are required to interview a psychologist on campus and ask them questions on their field became a psychologist, etc.
Me and Victoria are partners for this project, and let me tell you!
Her and I got to interview a professor and Doctor in Developmental Psychology, the study of human growth and development through out the life span. David Lewkowicz is a great man, we talked about everything relevant to his career. One of the things I loved the most was that he was so happy. He said he woke up every morning and he didn't think of it as going to work but doing what he really loved. He said that for most people to be able to get through a PhD it really had to be a passion of theirs. Right now he finished some research that he was working on related to the language of babies and how they developed those skills. They placed a small camera on the child's eyes to follow their eye movements and really focus on what parts of the human face they look at when other people are speaking to them. They discovered a great amount of information. The infants would focus more on the mouth than the eyes and children who are autistic focused more on the eyes. Of course it's not like that from birth. Children do focus on the eyes as well when they are developing but once they've reached the 18 month point they focus more on the mouth, and they discovered that Autistic children don't make that same change as to where they focus on with regular children.All of things he spoke about not one of them did grasp my attention. He truly inspired me. I've always wanted to study psychology. Since the time I started growing up, when people did certain things and I didn't know exactly why they did them. I wanted to understand their behavior. Why do certain people act the way they do? Whether they are a regular healthy person or a person with as psychological disorder. I want to learn the ways of the human mind. I want to discover something no one's ever discovered before. I want to become a research scientist within the field of Psychology.
