In my ‘Life Values Assessment’ blog post my number one value turned out to be family because I’m very family oriented, of course.
This is my family. They are all in Hawaii & I miss them everyday. I talk to my mom almost everyday, my sister and dad I only speak to about once a week.
Objective: The topic of unit one was ‘Values’ and there were three goals that were set in hopes of reaching for this unit. The three goals are:
- Become familiar with the basic relationship of human values to psychological and philosophical endeavors.
- Understand that values are formed from external and internal drives of an individual.
- Explore one’s own value system
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2) ‘Life Values Assessment’ blog post
Reflection: When looking back and reviewing all my ‘Values’ posts, blog and responses, for unit one I would say that I was able to meet the first two goals for this unit in my ‘Values’ blog post. As for the third goal, I was able to meet this through my ‘Life Values Assessment’ blog post.
In my ‘Values’ blog post, I stated that “I believe that this is a good way to think about what values are, since simply values are based on what an individual beliefs and follows which influence how a person behaves or how they see themselves” – this a good example of the first goal listed above because I was able to relate human values to psychological and philosophical ideas. You could refer to philosophical ideas as “individual beliefs” because they are both some type of theory or belief that a person holds and causes them to react or have a certain attitude toward certain things. Psychological ideas could also be seen as “how a person behaves or how they see themselves” because these are internal mental functions that lead to a certain behavior – which is what psychology is. I go on to to explain that the relationship between these ideas are because they are some what dependent on one another.
I believe the second goal was met because in my ‘Values’ blog post I talked about a variety of external and internal ordeals that could help form an individual’s values. For example, I stated that “Some of these factors may include parental upbringing, religion, school, family, and culture” to list as examples of external ordeals that may influence a person’s values, especially as they grow up. As far as examples of internal ordeals, in my post I go on to talk about the “four basic mental modes and two synthetic mental modes” that were introduced by Lewis in the unit one reading (1990). I also make the connection and give example situations to show that everyone will have different values due to the external and internal ordeals they encounter through out their lifetime.
Lastly, I was able to meet the last goal in my ‘Life Values Assessment’ blog post because I was able to explore and explain my own values and how they came about. For example, I stated that “A lot of my belief patterns were inherited from my family” to help explain how most of my values were formed. I also went on to list some of my own values that I live by, which shows that I explored my own value system.
Future goals: In the future, I honestly don’t think that I would change anything that I wrote because I was able to meet all three goals for unit one, values. The only other thing that I could’ve done differently is probably try to meet all three of the goals within one post. When it comes to the goals of this unit, I would keep the three that are already set but maybe include another goal that requires students to understand why everyone may have different values. Also, I would like people to think about situations where people’s values may intertwine or clash and what this may lead too.
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