My name is Jessie Pinkstaff! I am a senior at UW-Whitewater, and when I'm not doing things involved with school, I work at Starbucks as a shift manager and enjoy longboarding, reading, rollerblading, and spending time with my friends (of course. What a standard fact). I am enjoying my time within the PR-realm, and the things that I'm learning from the classes I'm taking.
Public relations has shown itself to be a topic of study intertwined with my major. As you can tell from the title of my blog, I am a psychology major, but I am also a PR minor. I decided on PR as my minor initially because I wanted to learn more about how to relate to people and share messages with them. The farther I get into the class requirements for this minor, however, the more I see that psychology and PR are very closely related. For example, perception is a very important field in psychology. In PR-Tactics II we will be covering perception as well, with a bit of a different focus. However, both versions of perception are linked. Both PR and psych study Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as well, and focus on the needs of people as a way to best reach them.
I am a psychology major because I want to help and understand people. I plan to continue on to graduate school for community counseling, and eventually specialize in children's counseling as well as OCD and anxiety disorder therapy. I can't wait to look into this class and the materials and relate them to psychology, and to learn more about the finesse behind public relations. It requires a specific touch to be successful in this area, and while it may not be the life-long answer for me, I love learning the inner workings of PR.
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