1. Outline and describe the peak organisations‚ and community and government stakeholders that have critical interest in your chosen area of concern. Because issue of gay/lesbian people is so huge and already has big support is society‚ it is nearly impossible to outline all stakeholders in Australia and internationally. Some larges and most famous ones are: Peak organisations: The Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby (GLRL) advocates on behalf of the lesbians and gay men. They also represent the gay
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Dividing Attention Facilitates or Impedes Learning Dividing attention can impede learning when trying to retain new facts. This can actually impair ability to retain information or to properly interact with others. When receiving information from many different sources or interfacing with different people at the same time it is difficult to concentrate and succeed at dealing with at least one of the issues at hand. If dividing your attention among a group of activities impedes your progress
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Perception and Attention Sensation and Perception Senses effect a person’s brain information reflecting on the way a person perceives information. The five major senses are vision‚ audition‚ touch‚ taste‚ and smell. If one or more of a person’s senses is not working properly then it can affect their perception. According to Robinson-Reigler and Robinson-Reigler (2008)‚ "early selection theories propose that the processes whereby we designate information for further processing
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advancing of technology and easy access of the internet. In the following essay the merits and pitfalls of being able to access large amounts of information from the internet will be discussed as well as trying to avoid the downside of operating in an “attention economy”. The internet has many advantages. Firstly on a social level‚ websites such as facebook‚ Twitter and MySpace‚ have allowed for people all over the world to be connected. It is a cheap‚ fast and easy way of communicating. More and more
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Peaks and Valleys depicts the life of a young man who lived in a valley‚ and was somewhat dissatisfied with the way his life was going. He would ask his parents about the peak‚ but he still wanted to experience the peak for himself. The author lets us all know that everyone no matter where they are in life has valleys. He tells us this by explaining to us that ‘every peak is between a valley.” This basically means that when someone is in a valley‚ they came from a peak and are on their way to another
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University of Phoenix Material Arousal‚ Behavior‚ Stress‚ and Affect Worksheet Using the text for this course‚ the University Library‚ the Internet‚ and/or other resources answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be at least 250 words in length. 1. What are the differences between physiological and psychological needs? Provide examples of each in your response. Physiological needs affect the body. Physiological needs are in the brain and body. Psychological
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Generally‚ assessments and instruments are designed for younger people and then used on older people as a comparison in performance. Methods suited and tailored towards the older adult population would produce differing results and assist in revealing more about the aging process (Stuart-Hamilton‚ 2012). 3. A core foundational competency of the Pikes Peak model is respect for older adults and awareness of one’s own ageist biases. It is important for geropsychologist to be aware of their
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currently incarcerated for criminal activity. On some occasions the hybristophilic individual may urge their partner to commit a crime and be convicted. Hybristophilia is classified as a form of paraphilia; which is known as an intense sexual arousal to atypical objects‚ situations‚ or individuals. Hybristophilia itself may have been acceptable and perhaps even encouraged in some of the more brutal societies in history. Research into hybristophilia is still at quite an early stage. There is
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point in time. This focus requires a lot of mental effort or concentration and this is what cognitive psychologist term attention. Attention refers to the concentration and focusing of mental effort (Best‚ 1995). Focus is selective‚ divisible and shiftable. Focus is selective when we pay attention to some things and not others. It is shifable when we are able to move our attention from one thing to another and focus is divisible when we can attend to two or more activities
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-t Theories of arousal as they relate to human motivation An arousal approaches to motivation is one that appears to be unlearned but causes an increase in stimulation‚ a stimulus motive a need for stimulation. Some people are said to have an ideal level of tension for task performance‚ if it is too high or event it is too low can cause problem for the test takers or people who are bored‚ for example if a student is having severe anxiety before taking a test‚ this can cause them to fell their
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