SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT: INDIVIDUAL FACTORS in the LEARNER´S DEVELOPMENT Date: 31st October 2013 Assignment: The following are taken from learner self-reports. Read‚ determine and explain what aspects of their learning the learners attend to and assess. See the example provided. For Example: Now that I ’m in the 1st year of Bachillerato‚ I feel I ’m not making any progress: The student is showing a lack of motivation. It is quite
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Christina Steck Psychology 101 Wednesday‚ November 28‚ 2012 Research Paper Birth Order and Personality: Does a Person’s Birth Order Affect Their Personality? More than half of the United States presidents are the first born child. Television stars and movie stars such as Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt are also first born children. “First born children are known to be natural leaders” (Cane). Birth order could affect the reason this person made it to Hollywood. Birth order does affect a person’s
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Kristi Norgart McBride lived with her husband in Santa Rosa‚ California. Kristi suffered from manic-depressive mental illness (now called bipolar disorder). In this disease‚ a person cycles between manic episodes (ultra-happy‚ expansive‚ and extroverted) and depressive episodes. The disease is often treated with prescription drugs. Kristi attempted suicide. A psychiatrist prescribed an anti-anxiety drug. One year later‚ Kristi attempted suicide again by overdosing on drugs. The doctor prescribed
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Safe guarding Self-esteem is a term used in sociology and psychology to reflect a person’s overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself as well as an attitude toward the self. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs (for example‚ "I am competent‚" "I am worthy") and emotions such as triumph‚ despair‚ pride and shame.[1] Smith and Mackie define it by saying "The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem‚ is the positive or negative evaluations of the
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Introduction For the assignment I chose President John F. Kennedy and his assassination and the choices and risks that he personally made that led to his assassination. I will explore the three common forms of motivation including psychoanalytical‚ humanistic‚ and diversity and how each role played a part in the President’s tragic and untimely death. President John F. Kennedy’s psychoanalytical motivation may have been one of if not the most crucial deciding factors in his fate. President John
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Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers Maslow and Rogers come from a school of thought‚ which is referred to as Humanistic. Such an approach steers away from the idea that man is a robot‚ who is the total product of outside forces‚ as the Behaviorist would maintain; or that man simply results from the interaction of primal drives and the demands of community - a belief held by many Freudians. The Humanistic approach accepts the ’human qualities’ of the individual; that man is born with an inherent potential
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Abraham Maslow ’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory Abraham Maslow ’s Hierarchy of Needs is one of the first theories of motivation and probably the best-known one. It was first presented in 1943. in Dr. Abraham Maslow’s article "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review‚ and was further expanded in his book “Toward a Psychology of Being”. Maslow tried to formulate a needs-based framework of human motivation. His research was based upon his clinical experiences with humans‚ rather than prior
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personality traits‚ derived from his theories on extroversion and introversion (Friedman & Schustack‚ 2012). The extrovert and introvert attitudes‚ as explained by Jung‚ are how people become “energized”‚ and how their personality is expressed. An extroverted individual will become energized from outside stimulus and being with people. The introvert is the polar opposite and will require time to withdraw into themselves in order to feel the same renewal (Dyce‚ 2012). The sub-categories of traits are
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Week 6 Checkpoint: Personality Assessment and Theories There are four main theories of personality as it is studied today. There is Psychodynamic‚ Humanistic‚ Trait‚ and Social Learning. These four represent most all of the assessment tests that we use as well. The first‚ Psychodynamic theory is: a psychological approach to personality assessment. The basis of the psychodynamic theory is measurement of the unconscious thoughts‚ feelings‚ and motives. This theory also measures conflicts and represses
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Milena Nikolovska Nikolovska 1 Summary Erich Fromm is a distinguished German writer‚ who has large interests in psychology‚ philosophy‚ sociology and history. In his essay” Disobedience as a psychological and moral problem”‚ he discusses and compares the different kinds of obedience and disobedience‚ and how they can have a positive or negative impact on the human society. In order to proof
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