Introduction The words Cognitive Dissonance were fascinatingly interesting; therefore more research went into the origin of these two words. Both words are Middle English‚ which was the English in use from 12th to 15th centuries and both used in the 15th century [ (Merriam-Webster‚ 2011) ]. Cognitive is an adjective meaning‚ there is physical activity involving the mind; be it: thinking‚ reasoning or remembering. Dissonance is a noun meaning‚ when there is a tug-of- war between one’s actions and
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Cognitive Dissonance Student Name PSY/400 Instructor Date Situation and Subsequent Behavior Richard is driving along a lonely road late at night after working late that day. He has a 4-year-old daughter who he has not spent much time with the entire week because of the long project that makes him work late. Similarly‚ he has not been having dinner with his family because he always gets home past dinner time. On this particular day‚ Richard leaves work a bit earlier in an attempt to get
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Sciences DISSERTION ABSTRACT TITLE : APPRECIATING POETRY: THE TEACHING – LEARNING ANALYSIS AUTHOR : HAYDEE C. CABASAN DEGREE : DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D.) IN ENGLISH with CONCENTRATION IN LITERATURE SCHOOL : UNIVERSITY OF SAN JOSE RECOLETOS PLACE OF PUBLICATION : CEBU CITY ADVISER : GWEENDOLYN CRESENCIO‚ Ph.D. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This study aimed to analyze the process of teaching and learning of poetry on the basis of the CHED standard competencies in teaching poetry. The
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SYMPTOMS: Depression: a feeling of extreme hopelessness and despair. Cognitive Deficits: Confusion and Impaired Memory: a deficiency of the mental functions needed to produce thought. Activity: Walking a therapy dog. This assumes that the client has chosen the activity because it has personal meaning to them and supports their occupational roles. This is a real occupation that the therapist and client can engage in together which can occur in several settings when appropriate safety measures
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Cognitive Restructuring Cognitive restructuring is a stress management technique that entails evaluating stressors and thought patterns in order to replace negative‚ self-defeating thoughts with positive ones. The general theory is‚ that a proliferation of negativity including thoughts‚ experiences‚ and outside commentary throughout our lifetime‚ tend to reduce self-esteem and acceptance (Koopsen & Young‚ 2009). This pattern of negativity frequently repeats itself and is proven to have a deleterious
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Leon Festinger created the cognitive dissonance theory as an attempt to explain why people desire to have consistency between their behaviors and actions. Cognitive dissonance is the distressing mental state people feel when they find themselves doing things that don’t fit with what they know‚ or having opinions that do not fit with other opinions they hold (Festinger‚ 1957; as cited in Griffin‚ 2009). Thus‚ people are motivated to change either their behavior or their belief when feelings of dissonance
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Excuse making is part of your auto-pilot meta-programming. In fact‚ excuses are red flags‚ revealing what you TRULY believe‚ what your most closely held TRUTHS and beliefs are. The reason we make excuses is called cognitive dissonance in psychology. Cognitive dissonance is when our behavior and actions conflict with our attitudes and beliefs. According to Saul McLeod‚ in Simply Psychology‚ “It is the feeling of discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes‚ beliefs or behaviors to
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Cognitive Processes Paper Maggie Morrison PSY/560 December 3‚ 2013 Isabelle Three types of cognitive processes Subliminal perception is believed to be effected by its based finding of mind control‚ weather it’s one person or group of people. Mind control can be used on a group of people without their awareness. The perception of this idea is to get people to do things that would not normally do. For instance‚ during the 1950s there was a message that says Drink
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Cognitive dissonance can fall into just about any situation involving things from conflicting attitudes to other people’s beliefs and behaviors. What cognitive dissonance involves is the mix emotions and feelings of discomfort that leads to the change in someone’s attitude and behaviors. According to Festinger cognitive dissonance theory‚ Festinger suggest that people have an inner drive to hold all their attitudes and their own beliefs in harmony with out disturbance. Every individual compares themselves
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I think cognitive dissonance is extremely common in our lives‚ whether we realize it or not. Almost every day I can say that I am faced with cognitive dissonance. For example I’m on a diet and I know I should not be eating sweets‚ but when I come by one‚ even though I’m telling myself in the moment I shouldn’t be doing this‚ I eat the sweets anyway. Shortly before or after eating it I will try to justify in my mind why I just did that or why it was ok. Something like “oh it was just one; as long
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