Individual Journal Reflection 1 Situation During our first lecture today we were shown a video about a system in crisis concerning the materials’ economy. This video explains the life cycle of our consumption: extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption and disposal. It explains the effects these have on the people and also the hierarchy associated with each group of people namely but not respectively: government and corporations (of the people‚ by the people‚ for the people). The
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Emily Nichols Psych 220‚ Dr. Bikmen 4/28/2016 Lives in Social Psychology: Leon Festinger Leon Festinger was an extremely influential social psychologist‚ known for his studies about cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory. Festinger was born May 8th‚ 1919 in Brooklyn‚ New York‚ to parents Sara and Alex Festinger. His father was an embroidery manufacturer. Festinger attended Boys High School‚ a public school in Brooklyn. After graduating‚ he moved on to City College of New York for undergraduate
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Part I: Think about the new student we read about in the Introduction for this week. Use what you have read about the Learning Systems theory to explain what he is experiencing on his first day of school. Be sure to address each individual system and provide examples from the scenario. The scenario that was used is an example of Social Learning Systems theory. Due to the new environment the student was experiencing not fitting in or maybe not belonging to the environment because of the language barrier
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Social Learning Theory: An Attempt To Explain Crime Katie Brown Criminology Dr. Tamborra 12/04/12 Many theories exist that try to explain why people commit crimes. One theory in particular pertains to the associations people have and how they influence the individual’s behavior. After looking at the data from the Uniform Crime Report of robbery‚ one of the four violent crimes‚ this theory will be expanded upon. In addition‚ a study of the theory will be summarized along with its findings and
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attempt to regulate her emotions. Family Conflicted relationship with mother. Foster care from age 12 to 18. Uncle that is 12 years older than Violet‚ whom began sexually abusing her at age 12. Substance Abuse Unknown at this time Developmental and Social Violet was raised by her mother‚ whom she had a conflicted relationship with‚ until she was 12 years old. She entered foster care from age 12 to 18 years old. During her time in foster care her Uncle (12 years her senior) would take her out to eat
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Jean Piaget: The second theory I am going to investigate is Jean Piaget’s cognitive theory. Jean Piaget (1896 -1980) was the first psychologist to make a systematic of cognitive development‚ his theory of cognitive child development assistance “us” in understanding children of cognitive development. Piaget believed that babies are born with reflexes (innate schemas). For example‚ when the babies are born‚ they have a sucking reflex‚ they will suck a nipple‚ dummy or a finger. Similarly the grasping
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Reflective Learning Journal Working as part of the HR team in ----------------- was a big learning curve for myself. Initially I was given the more technological based tasks such as working on Microsoft excel‚ dealing with team leaders through our outlook based email and taking phone calls on a daily basis. Another important task was carrying out administrative tasks on our eTraining website‚ --------------- which was used for the majority of ------------------ training matrix with the exception
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I truly enjoyed exploring the continence of your informative post. It is true as you stated that “Cognitive dissonance is the inability to maintain cognitive consistency because of two thoughts.” When an individual is squeezed in the middle of two different thoughts opposing each other‚ he then becomes confused‚ and may undertake a state of discomfort. At that point his internal and external body factors become most important to control his personality. Most of the time individuals are pretty consistent
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Cognitive Dissonance is a psychological discomfort caused by inconsistency among a person’s belief‚ attitudes‚ and or actions. There are three hypotheses that explain the theory. The first hypothesis is selective exposure which is the tendency to avoid information inconsistent with one’s belief and attitudes. One only accepts information that is consistent with their own thoughts. Hypothesis two is post-decision dissonance; which are close call decisions and can affect a decision one makes. And
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“Outline and evaluate social learning theory. In your answer‚ make comparisons with at least one other approach in psychology.” – 12 marks Social learning theory states that behaviour is acquired through the observational learning from role models where a person identifies with that person and imitates their behaviour. This means that the behaviour of a model can influence the behaviour of all those that model the person and is particularly common with childhood celebrity role models. When a person
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