Psychological Theories and Real Life Situations Psychological theories and perspectives have been around for many years. It is one thing for a person to come up with ideas and thoughts about how people function‚ but it becomes much more interesting when these ideas are related to real life situations. It is much easier to understand how these theories and models were developed when looking at them from a real life standpoint. The first example of a psychological theory in practice is when I
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important things or answer “yes” without even knowing what were answering to. To be honest I probably use all of the negative listening types daily. When I read the first type of listening “selective” I immediately thought of my mom. As wrong as that sounds‚ I definitely use selective listening when she calls. Selective listening is when you respond only to the remarks that interest you‚ rejecting everything else. When my mom usually calls me it is to talk about nonsense and fill me in on little things
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“Which Path Should You Take?” Paul Arden once said‚ “If you always make the right decision‚ the safe decision‚ the one most people make‚ you will be the same as everyone else.” The truth of this quote not only applies to everyday life‚ but also compliments the poem‚ “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. In this particular poem‚ the speaker of the poem must make a decision when he/she is faced with one road that diverges into two separate paths. They can either choose the path that has been heavily
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Listening and Perception 2 We humans are different and unique. We can see these differences in everything we do and create. Interestedly we have a variety of views and concepts in very little or insignificant aspects of our daily living. Members of the same family can have a personal interpretation of what they considered best for society. For this reason we had to find ways to resolve conflict and manage situations‚ in order to live a more productive life with the less conflict possible. For
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VALUE OF LISTENING What is the value of listening? -Did you know that we spend more time in listening than we do reading‚ writing‚ or speaking? 40% of our communication time accounts listening. -Through listening we learn to anticipate the action of others and to gauge their emotions Listening is one of the two important activities in the communication process. Ex: Through classroom lectures‚ conversations‚ group meetings‚ electronic media. If in case you are task
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express myself‚ to spread my wings and to go after my dream only to realize that I didn’t know what it was that I wanted to pursue. The pressure and expectation from everybody did not help the cause either. So I decided that I am going to pursue engineering because it is a profession that I could finish and get a job after 4 years‚ plus I had friends I knew that were also doing engineering. I attended an engineering seminar along with my friends to attain a better understanding of the job and what it
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Types of listening Here are six types of listening‚ starting with basic discrimination of sounds and ending in deepcommunication. Discriminative listening Discriminative listening is the most basic type of listening‚ whereby the difference between difference soundsis identified. If you cannot hear differences‚ then you cannot make sense of the meaning that is expressed bysuch differences. We learn to discriminate between sounds within our own language early‚ and later areunable to discriminate
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Are You Proud of Your Country? I wonder if I could walk up to a person and ask‚ “Are you Proud of Your Country?” and see what they would say. What some people don’t realize is that they are really lucky to live in a country as great as ours. The United States is a free country that is protected by laws and amendments. The laws are to ensure our safety as people‚ and the amendments are to ensure that we are treated as we should be‚ and to provide something that hasn’t been declared in the Constitution
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Listening does not come as natural for me as it does for others. I am always either being distracted or simply just spacing out‚ especially in class. Tuning out the lessons is easy when I am bored and or tired. Yet‚ I try my best when it comes to communicating with friends and family. I have been told that I have selective hearing and it does get me in trouble‚ a lot. There are times when I am in a middle of a conversation‚ where I don’t catch on to what the person is talking about and I end up just
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I have spent the majority of my professional life in the arena of technology. My journey first started with a degree in television production. After working for a local television station for almost 5 years‚ I decided to pursue an educational career. Once I received my educational degree‚ I attended to gravitate towards the technology end of teaching. I spent many years teaching in the Texas prison system using the computer lab to teach Texas offenders to receive their GED. Once I started in the
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