Personal Reflections Amanda F. PSY/400 January 20‚ 2014 Nicoletta Nance Personal Reflections The concept of self in the social world has been the subject of psychology studies for decades. Self-concept is defined as “a person’s answers to the question‚ “Who am I?” (Myers‚ 2010). Several factors‚ both internal and external‚ create each individual’s sense of self. Self-concept‚ self-esteem‚ self-knowledge‚ and social self all help create the sense of self. Self-schemas are an important
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is a fundamental for learning being surprised or having contradictions can arouse your curiosity. While students learn‚ they can be in a state of discomfort in which your thoughts‚ beliefs‚ and attitude clash with the decisions you make. Usually when someone’s beliefs or actions conflict with their beliefs cause the dissonance. Leon Festinger became aware of cognitive dissonance and made a theory to demonstrate it. He also hypothesized two ways to reduce cognitive dissonance‚ and for some people
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Chandler PSY/410 March 18‚ 2012 Melda Jones Defining Abnormality Psychologist‚ for years have given their theory on normal and abnormal behavior‚ but all the studies they have done seems to give more evidence to prove what make each individual do what they do and why. In the normal and abnormal behavior we use all research and take all of its studies into consideration and apply it to why such behaviors have occurred. Reading this paper you can see that there
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This archive file of PSY 303 Week 3 Discussion Question 1 includes: There are four dissociative disorders: Dissociative Amnesia‚ Dissociative Fugue‚ Depersonalization Disorder and the Dissociative Identity Disorder. These disturbances are characterized by profound alterations of consciousness and memory. A person Suicide Risks Depression is a major risk factor for suicide. The deep despair and hopelessness that is associated with depression often makes suicide seem like the only way to escape
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Learning Team IRAC Brief LAW/531 Learning Team B was tasked to study the IRAC method of case study analysis‚ and select one legal case from a current event that has taken place within the past two years relevant to this week’s objectives. After selecting a current case‚ Learning Team B prepared a case brief using the IRAC method. Learning Team B selected the United States v. Jones case‚ which was decided January 23‚ 2012. Learning Team B was also tasked to provide an explanation of how
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Cognitive Dissonance Theory was proposed by psychologist Leon Festinger to reason as to why humans change their behavior. According to Festinger‚ an individual has their beliefs (their perception of something) and these beliefs need to mirror their actions/behaviors in order for them to be at an equilibrium. If these two things are not aligned then this creates cognitive dissonance. It was proposed that‚ because humans do not like to be out of alignment‚ they will be motivated to either change their
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Goal Selection Carol L. Martin PSY 220 11/04/2012 Dr. Enabulele Goal Selection The Matching Hypothesis Personal Goals as Windows to Well-Being matching hypothesis suggests that the degree of person-goal fit determines the effect of goal progress and goal achievement on well-being. Pursuit of goals that express or fulfill (i.e.‚ “match”) an individual’s needs‚ values‚ motives‚ or self-conception is more likely to increase well-being than pursuit of goals that do not fit or match with the
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Dq 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5 Dq 1 The 3 stages of memory are Sensory Memory‚ Short-Term Memory‚ and Long-Term Memory. Sensory Memory is the earliest stage of memory. Information from our surroundings is stored for a short period of time for auditory information. Short-Term Memory is information that we are aware of or information that we think about. Most of the information that is stored in our short-term memory for a longer period of time than the Sensory Memory. Long-Term Memory has information
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marriage was happy. Cognitive Dissonance is a feeling of discomfort caused by performing an action that is inconsistent with one’s belief (Franzoi‚ 2009‚ p.162). Basically it is a disagreement between one ’s personal beliefs and one ’s actions. It is the difference between how they would like to be and how they are. Cognitive dissonance is an aversive drive that causes people to (1) avoid opposing viewpoints‚ (2) seek reassurance after making a tough decision‚ and (3) change private beliefs
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Cognitive Dissonance is the state of having inconsistent thoughts‚ beliefs‚ or attitudes‚ especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change. The Cognitive dissonance in “Quieting the Mind” would be based on somebody’s religious beliefs. Somebody can have a different belief on the effect of believing a person could heal you or not. An example can be if you were a child and a parent told you to do something you probably would. If a child did not they would probably change their attitude
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