Curricular Response

I believe my biggest strength in my show and tell presentation was explaining the psychology of nightmares. I have a good understanding of the different sleep stages, when nightmares or sleep walking occurs, and the different theories behind the meaning of our dreams. I enjoyed the show and tell presentation as we could choose any topic we wanted, but something I would do differently next time would be the meanings behind specific dreams. I would like to have had more information about the “most common nightmares” and be able to explain the exact meaning of them, even though its difficult because all dreams/nightmares are different.

Core Competency Self- Assessment

I chose the topic of psychology because i am very interested in it, and i was also learning about the sleep cycle and nightmares around the time of the presentation. I am in AP psychology because for post-secondary that’s what I’m going to study. The reason i chose to do my presentation on nightmares is i knew i wanted to connect the show and tell to psychology, and i decided that researching nightmares would reach the criteria of this fear class.

I had mostly used the notes that i have from my AP psychology class which was really helpful because i knew it was accurate information. I had also researched using different psychology websites for the meaning behind specific nightmares. However, i didnt have to research too much because most of the information I had already known due to studying for psychology exams.