Finding Fish Reflection

Reflect on what you learned about “real life” in doing this project. How has doing this assignment changed the way you think, feel or behave in your own life or career?

This was easily one of the best assignments I have had the pleasure of doing this semester, in any class. The entire Lifespan course has caused me to realize so many things about why my life has gone the way that it has gone. It has made me have a better understanding of my parents and of my siblings, and it has caused me to be a more careful and empathetic person. This book report brought up a lot of things for me and I feel I’m better for having done it.

How has doing this project enhanced or your understanding of developmental psychology? How will you use this information in the future?

Well, it was a good project to finish this class with. In some part of this book, every single stage of the lifespan is covered. It’s a memoir with representations of everything from pre-birth to very old age. You could see a lot of the consequences of actions that were laid out in our textbook put to work in Finding Fish and it was interesting to see all of the theory tied together. It’s funny, I’ve been reading stories my whole life and I’m sure I’ve come across many that had such representations in them, but this was the first time I took a good, hard look at the why of what characters in a story do, and it made the reading a much richer experience. I feel like I will use everything that I learned in this class every day for the rest of my life.