After a simple rebirth

Sophomore year was a new academic year, and Fu Ying also formally applied to study both psychology and English. With her good performance in her freshman year, this time went more smoothly.

Fu Ying did not make the choice randomly. She was torn between education and English for her second major.

Education is her ultimate path, and it complements the application of psychology.

However, many professional vocabulary in psychology are related to English. She can improve her English better in her studies. If she is good at English, she will be able to learn psychology more efficiently.

She spent two days in the library looking up information and finally decided on English.

As for the path of education, if possible, she would like to teach English, just like the English class she taught when she was a volunteer teacher, which was also her subconscious choice.

Moreover, after studying English for so many years, it is no longer just about memorizing words and doing exercises. In fact, English is almost becoming her second mother tongue.

She can think in Chinese, chat with people about any topic in Cantonese, and communicate with international friends in English without any obstacles.

The only thing that is not so good about her English is some slang and archaic usages, which she may not be able to understand very well.

So she wanted to learn English to the extreme. Now that she had learned it, she shouldn't do it in a haphazard way.

And only by learning to the utmost can we provide better education, and the final effect will only be better.

So Fu Ying officially started taking two courses.

New students are enrolled, clubs are recruiting new members, and volunteer teachers are also welcoming a change of leadership.

Tuzi, a senior, is preparing for an internship and will be stepping down from her position as minister. Lingling will take over as minister and they will have to choose one of their sophomore senior secretaries to take over as deputy minister, who will also be the next minister by default.

Rabbit found Fu Ying and told her that he hoped she would become the deputy minister.

Fu Ying still refused. As an ordinary clerk, she would have plenty of time to do other things. If she became a deputy minister, she would have to attend meetings frequently. If she encountered other departments that did not do practical work and only put on airs, she would have to quarrel with them.

She made it clear that she did not want to be deputy minister, but would still do a good job in assisting others.

Rabbit didn't force it, and at the department meeting, it was announced that Ling Ling was the official minister, Jin Yiyi took over the position of deputy minister, and the other senior staff members assisted.

Fu Ying continued to stay in the Youth Association, but she quit the badminton club. She did not choose a sports club as a new club, but chose the psychology club after comprehensive considerations.

With the foundation she had gained in her freshman year, Fu Ying wanted to put it into practice. The classmate who introduced her to the psychology club said that the club would have more diverse activities, including attending psychology lectures and participating in competitions.

There are some people like Fu Ying who change clubs in their sophomore year, but most of them choose to quit and not join other ones, so the new members are mainly freshmen.

The Psychology Club is more free. Except for a few activities that require participation, everything else is free choice.

Fu Ying didn't attend any weekend activities because she had a part-time job at the amusement park. She also attended some other lectures when she was notified. She listened to the interesting ones and studied on her own if they were boring.

It's funny to say that she needs a while to get into an efficient learning state in the study room, but when she is attending a lecture, as long as she doesn't want to listen, she can immediately enter the learning state.

In her sophomore year, she was finally able to take the CET-4 and CET-6. She could finish two CET-4 papers in one lecture.

After the National Day, the Psychology Society organized a psychology knowledge competition. Fu Ying thought it was a very professional competition, but after signing up, she found out that it was just an event.

The quiz competition actually gave people a question bank to memorize in advance. Fu Ying was stunned when she got the question bank. Is this possible?

I heard that all the participants in the competition had received a question bank. Fu Ying took a look at it helplessly. In fact, it was just the application of some psychology knowledge, but the scope was limited.

The first round of the competition is a written test. A group of people sit in a lecture hall and each person is given a test paper to answer questions. The questions include single choice, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer.

The question bank is full of knowledge points, with no mention of question types. If you are not familiar with it, you may not be able to react in time and easily make the wrong choice. This can be considered an invisible layer of screening.

Fu Ying was very familiar with this knowledge. She controlled her pace and finished answering the questions, and felt that she was not far from getting full marks.

Sure enough, 98 points for first place.

The top fifteen candidates in the written test will enter the finals.

The final is more formal, with questions also selected from a question bank, but divided into question banks with different numbers. The finalists are required to answer the questions on the stage within a time limit, which tests their on-the-spot reaction.

The top fifteen did not compete on their own, but were drawn into four groups of five people each to compete in three rounds.

In the first round, there are multiple-choice questions. Student No. 5 chooses a number from the question bank, which contains 8 single-choice questions and multiple-choice questions. One point is awarded for each correct answer and no point is deducted for incorrect answers. The full score is points.

In the second round, there are questions about explaining the ranking. Student No. 3 also chooses a number from the question bank and explains the ranking in psychology. The teacher is responsible for marking the questions. Each question is worth 15 points, and there are five questions in total, with a full score of points.

In the third round, the application of theory, student No. 3 infers which psychology knowledge the story in the question refers to, and then uses the psychology knowledge to further elaborate on it in combination with life, which is also scored by the teacher.

Actually, there are four rounds. The fourth round is for the participating teams to refute the topics and quotations of other teams. The audience votes to select the best team and the best player. The best player gets +3 points and the best team gets +5 points.

In other words, every aspect of the entire competition is actually very important. If the difference is not too big, the final vote can turn defeat into victory.

Those who are interested in psychology competitions are either from this major or from this club. In any case, they know each other and have a better understanding of each other's strengths.

As the winner of the first prize scholarship, Fu Ying was considered a strong rival.

Fu Ying was focused on as a target opponent, and of course there were people who wanted to team up with her.

A freshman girl came up to her before the preliminary round and asked if she could form a team with her to compete. Fu Ying smiled and said she didn't know, and that the next step would be after passing the preliminary round, but the final would be by draw, which was very difficult.

Sure enough, the junior school girl made it to the finals, but was not drawn to be in the same group with her.

The finals require formal attire, a white shirt with a red tie, trousers and leather shoes. Girls can wear high heels, but lower heels are ok.

Fu Ying had both a white shirt and trousers, but she had no leather shoes, let alone high heels.

As a student, she did not buy high heels. The more practical problem was that her feet could not wear high heels.

A normal person's toes are evenly slanted, but Fu Ying's are not. Her toes are almost in a horizontal line. She also has wide feet and high insteps, so she can't wear ordinary shoes.

She can't wear high heels, boots, or narrow sneakers. She always wears dad shoes and loose sneakers because they are loose and comfortable if they can be squeezed.

When Fu's mother took her to buy shoes, she kept scolding her for having ugly feet and said buying shoes was very troublesome.

Fu Ying also tried to buy high heels, but she couldn't wear them at all. Most of them couldn't fit her into the shoes, and those that could fit in would hurt after a while.

Fu Ying had no choice but to talk to the president, who agreed that she shouldn't wear high heels, but they had to be similar in material and color to leather shoes, so that they couldn't be seen without being noticed.

Fu Ying could only drag her roommates to go shopping. Only Rong Xianjun was free. Fu Ying visited three or four stores and chose suitable boots in a chain shoe store. The boots had a little heel and a zipper on the side. The sole was relatively wide, which did not restrict the instep so much and was easy to put on and take off.

Fu Ying took advantage of the 88% discount and bought it for 135 yuan, in black, size 37.

The final was held in the lecture hall, and there were banners to promote the competition. Even the teachers talked about the competition in class and asked those who were free to go and watch.

Fu Ying didn't expect this competition to be so big, and she had to go on stage no matter how embarrassing it was.

The finals started at 7pm. Three tables were placed on the stage in advance, and groups went on stage in groups.

Fu Ying's group consists of one person from each of the freshman, sophomore and junior years. The junior is a senior schoolmate. She is not confident and doesn't dare to speak too much in front of others.

So the final assignment was senior number one, junior number two, and Fu Ying number three.

They were drawn to the fourth group before they went up.

While Fu Ying was in the audience, she watched the third round of other groups, took notes, and prepared for the final melee.

When Fu Ying and her group went on stage, after making sure that they did not bring cheat sheets, they sat at the table.

Standing on the high platform, illuminated by the strong and dazzling lights, it seems a bit dim and blurry below, which is also a very special feeling.

At the beginning of the competition, senior number one answered all the questions correctly and they accumulated 8 points. Junior number two answered one question incorrectly. That question was about some unpopular knowledge, and the junior had never learned it, and she was not sure even if she memorized it. Because she exceeded the time limit, she was judged to have answered the question incorrectly, so she accumulated 12 points.

The question bank number three that Fu Ying drew was the Rosenthal effect.

The question gives an example of a teacher who, due to an unexpected situation, thought a student was a genius and began to place high hopes on him. As a result, the student really became smarter and his grades improved. What is this psychological phenomenon? Explain your own views.

Fu Ying was really impressed by this. She even wrote an essay about this psychological phenomenon in high school.

Fu Ying replied:

From the key words of this story, teachers, students, expectations, and progress, we can deduce that this is the Rosenthal effect, also known as the Pygmalion effect.

Fu Ying introduced the significance and timing of these two effects, and then elaborated on her own views.

She extended her discussion from the educational influence of teachers to the concern of parents for their children, then talked about self-awareness, and finally concluded her explanation.

In the fourth round, all groups came on stage, formed a semicircle, and began to debate in order.

Fu Ying chose the group that explained Parkinson's Law and then debated based on some of the words of that group.

Debate is an advanced version of quarrel. Fu Ying kept a calm face, seized upon a statement made by the other party that was not quite right, and asked in-depth questions, forcing the other party to lose his composure.

Whoever is less chaotic appears to be more capable, so Fu Ying successfully won the vote for the best player, and the best team was won by a team of juniors and seniors.

With the scores already very close, this extra point successfully allowed Fu Ying's group to take second place, while the first place went to the seniors who won the best team award.

So Fu Ying once again took a photo of herself with her award certificate on the stage.