...Full Bright Scholars • This poem is about when he first saw Plath • Use of first person, draws us in. painstaking his own memory • "Where was it, in the strand? A display"- Questioning his memory. • "A picture of that year’s intake....."- Follows up with a series of statements. • "You" become the addressee • Very tightly Structured • Veronica Lake- actor • "Your Veronica Lake bang. Not what it hid"- Plath had a scar on her face • "It was the first fresh peach.....- returns to his own memory for the day. remembers an image • "It would appear blond. And your grin........"- change of tone • Events, feelings of memory are filtered by perspectives • "Was it then I bought a peach?"- England was coming out of the war, fruit was imported. • 1955- Plath arrived in England with a scholarship to Cambridge • She wanted everything to be perfect= writing. *Last four lines are structured around Powerful, alliterative, central imagery. The poem moves from uncertainly to certainly. • This poem is a formal address to Plath. eg Letter, Journal • Plath is the all American girl, capable, confident • Memory forms our perspective. memory is a partial truth • We only remember what is important. Therefore what memory we find is a partial truth • Photographs are also a perspective. They are often limited and distort. • In a photograph, it presents a mask, distorting the truth, perpetuating a perspective (happy and untroubled) • An essence, we don't really know what is hidden...
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...the employee could improve for the benefit of the business. Even so, performance appraisals have a major flaw in that they are not completely objective. Six major factors cause distortions in performance appraisals. 1. Stereotyping * People usually can fall into at least one general category based on physical or behavioral traits, and performance evaluators sometimes let stereotypes associated with those categories sway their employee appraisals. For example, a boss might assume that because many Asians excel, an Asian worker who doesn't meet a performance objective simply isn't working hard enough, even if the worker tried his best. Similarity * Often, people tend to seek out and rate more positively those who are similar to themselves. This tendency to approve of similarity may cause evaluators to give better ratings to employees who exhibit the same interests, work methods, points of view or standards. A major problem with this cause of distortion is that it can stifle innovation in a company, as "different" people must struggle to rise in the ranks. Leniency * Leniency, sometimes referred to as inflation, is the tendency of evaluators to give employees higher marks than deserved across the board, usually because of the desire to avoid conflicts. The issue with this distortion cause is that a person's qualifications and successes are misrepresented, with sometimes undeserving individuals getting pay raises and other perks. Related to this concept is...
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...Paul Tillich addresses faith on what is and what it isn’t. One way for me to really understand a concept is to fathom what the concept is not. Combing through the course reading I was able to accumulate what faith is not from 3 key distortions Tillich brings out about faith. In the Intellectualistic Distortion of faith he says, “The most ordinary misinterpretation of faith is to consider it an act of knowledge that has a low degree of evidence”. From this concept I gather that many deduce faith down to merely having a cerebral belief or knowledge, rather than faith itself. Trust in an authority is one way a person can gain knowledge of faith. Many will accept a proposition as faith given by an authority such as a minister or pastor with little to no evidence. Oftentimes our trust in an authority would be just enough to believe. Without this trust we hold for good authorities, our awareness and perception would be significantly smaller. With that said, acceptance of a proposition validated from an authority is not faith. Tillich barrows from Thomas Aquinas who states “the lack of evidence which faith has must be complemented by an act of will. This describes the sentiment of the second distortion called the Voluntaristic Distortion. This speaks of one having the will to believe as the basis and only that. I think that many people hinge their faith on moral interpretations of religion by creeds and commands. Commanding...
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...Assignment 1.1 Chart one Who was the sender? Friend | | Who was the receiver? Myself | | What was the message? To meet up at southland mall at 7pm in the parking lot. | | What channel was used to send the message? Verbal channel was used | | What was the misunderstanding that occurred? The miss understanding happened during the decoding process | | How could the misunderstanding have been avoided? The miss understanding could have been avoided if I would have paid more attention to the end portion of the message. | | 1. What did you learn about the communication process from this activity? What I learned about the communication process in this exercise is the complexity of the communication process steps. Every step is important to the complete success of the message leaving the sender and arriving to the receiver. In this example the message was distorted by distractions or noise that cause me to miscode the message during the decoding process. 2. What seemed to be the main causes of the misunderstandings? The main causes of the misunderstanding was the fact that I was excited and in a hurry to meet up with my friend that I didn’t pay enough attention to the details of the message and missed understood. Chart Two Who was the sender? Myself | | Who was the receiver? Coworkers | | What was the message? Grab large packages off the belt before they jam in curb. | | What channel was used to send the message? Verbal channel...
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...Defensive behavior, in short, engenders defensive listening, and this in turn produces postural, facial and verbal cues which raise the defense level of the original communicator. Defense arousal prevents the listener from concentrating upon the message. Not only do defensive communicators send off multiple value, motive and affect cues, but also defensive recipients distort what they receive. As a person becomes more and more defensive, he or she becomes less and less able to perceive accurately the motives, the values and the emotions of the sender. The writer's analysis of tape recorded discussions revealed that increases in defensive behavior were correlated positively with losses in efficiency in communication.(1) Specifically, distortions become greater when...
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...Distortion Master A Hungarian born photographer, Andre Kertesz, is known for his innovative collection of photojournalism that first began to fully develop in Paris. His collection named Distortion came to be discovered and developed when Kertesz photographed a man swimming underwater. This photo named Underwater Swimmer taken in 1917, more than slightly distinguishes what his distortion collection consists of. As seen in the photo the water morphs the body; some parts are enlarged, for example the swimmers shoulders and others are not as seen from the waist down. This un-proportional effect caused by the water developed his ideas of what and how he came to create his series of distorted photographs. In 1933, Kertesz began to work for a magazine called Le Sourire. Le Sourire was a “magazine known for its piquant illustrations of undressed girls” (Andre 18). That today would be considered a playboy type of magazine. Kertesz approached this task by photographing nude women but transformed the photos into distorted photos. He did this by using fun house mirrors to provide him the effect he wanted to convey though his photos. The fun house mirrors shifted the body, stretched, squeezed, and of course distorted it. The photograph that best exemplifies his distortion collection is Distortion #70. As mentioned before these photos were taken for a nude magazine. So, here all you see is a woman’s breast and much of her torso when you first look at it. The model’s face is morphed out...
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...Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Modern trends and the local traditions What is the thesis statement of the essay? The arrival of the modern attitudes and the movement is characterized by the gradual shift in the subject matter, application of the new styles and most importantly the change in the outlook of the artists in looking onto the arts. The visible signs of the modification are depicted by the tastes of the artists to distort, exaggerate, or eliminate selectively specific parts for the common or normal existing forms or to deviate from the established style in the work based on the realism. However, the school of realism unlike elsewhere has had a relatively short history and remains impressive and powerful (Nepali Art 147). This has taken roots especially with the arrival of the two pioneers Tej Bahadur Chitrakar and C.M Mackey with the art education of the western in Calcutta. How the thesis statement is supported by the arguments and major points In the context of the Nepali art, since the ancient times to present, Kathmandu Valley has in many cases remained a hub and the center of all the creative exercise of the entire country. With the emergence of the modern western education on art, Lainsigh Bandel, who is a domicile Nepali from the Darjeeling hills in India having no roots in the valley of Kathmandu when he appeared when he make an appearance with the distorted forms of humans described as the inspired form the past impressionistic influences...
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...portraiture. His base layer of paint consists of more typically know skin colours (e.g. brown and cream tones). However, colours such as green, yellow, pink, orange and hints of blue overlap this layer using more vigorous strokes. While exploring this technique, I also came to realise that Paul Wright also uses a range of tones for example very light green in some areas compared to very dark green in others. His brushstrokes are dynamic and rich in energy that generally imitate the outline of features of the face. The size of his strokes vary, with smaller ones near delicate features such as the eyes compared to large, less restricted strokes for the hair. These were the first steps I took in exploring the relationship between portraiture and distortion. At this stage I am mainly looking at the technique used to create a distorted image, rather than the photograph itself. Born in 1971 in Devon, Russ Mills graduated from Leeds Met University in 1995 after completing BA in Graphic Art and Design, specialising in Experimental Film and Animation. His current work is a clash of styles from pop sureealism to focusing on the human form and elements of nature....
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...family together”. There are phrases, which are cognitive distortions in client’s speech. They are: “My daughter never comes to visit me”, “I am totally on my own”, “I will never get over it”, I have failed in all aspects”, “Everyone at the streets…”. These phrases have many sings of distortions, such as magnifications (I am totally on my own, I will never get over, Everybody at the streets seems to know that I have failed as a mother, my daughter never comes to me); generalizations (never, totally); all or nothing thinking (I will never get over it if…); emotional reasoning (I feel so out of place, I’m beginning to think they are avoiding me, Don’t you think that a mother deserves more than this?); labeling and jumping to conclusions (my daughter probably think I don’t care); and making an accent on negative. These cognitive distortions are not based on real facts. They exaggerate negative sides of the problem and speak nothing about the good points. At the same time it is necessary to remember that these distortions make the part of core cognitions of the client and make a part of her picture of the world. She does not realize negative effect of these cognitions and the task of the councilor in this case is to help the women to recognize these ruining cognitions. In our case we must acquire our client with cognitive distortions, which are presented in her way of thinking. In the most of the cases these distortions are not recognized by the client and we should put effort...
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...situation. As stated in the Corey (2009) text, I believe that people with emotional difficulties often times tend to “commit characteristic logical errors that tilt objective reality in the direction of self-deprecation” (p. 288). Through my own therapy experience I came to understand the connection between my thinking, my feelings and my actions. I learned to identify distorted thinking, engage in realistic thinking, and to employ problem-solving and coping skills. This method helped me through my own difficult times and therefore I know it works and would like to help others through its use. View of Human Nature People possess faulty beliefs and maladaptive information processing (automatic thoughts) which can lead to cognitive distortions and depression (Chadwick, 1994). In cognitive therapy clients learn to identify these distorted cognitions through evaluation. Corey states (2009) that once clients gain insight into how these unrealistically negative thoughts affect them, their feelings, and behaviors; they can begin to “use their automatic thoughts to reach the core schemata and then begin to introduce the idea of schema restructuring” thus easing the depression (p. 288). Key Tenets Cognitive therapy is based on three tenets: (1) you feel the way you think, (2) thoughts are dominated by a pervasive negativity, and (3) negative thoughts related to depression are almost always irrational and distorted. Therapy includes the recognition and...
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...Witnesses rely on their memories to testify as to what they believe is a true account of the event. However, memories have been found to be fallible with no guarantee of corresponding with objective reality (Johnson, 2001). Research has found that false memories (FM), where a person recalls an event that did not occur and mistakes it to be a true representation of that event (Gleaves & Smith, 2004; Johnson, 2001) exists within the realm of eyewitness testimony (ET) (Loftus, Miller & Burns, 1978). This raises the issue of how well does ET reflect reality. Some theories that explain FM include the source monitoring failure theory (Johnson, Hastroudi & Lindsay, 1993), activation monitoring theory (Roediger, Balota &Watson, 2001) and fuzzy trace theory (Brianerd & Reyna, 1998; Reyna & Brainerd, 1995). Due to word count limitations, this paper will explore the concept of FM using fuzzy trace theory, source monitoring errors and the misinformation effect to explain how FM occurs in the context of ET and why ET can never the representation of the complete truth. The FTT proposes that there are two parallel memory traces, the verbatim trace and the gist trace (Brianerd & Reyna, 1998; Reyna & Brainerd, 1995). The verbatim trace stores information item-by-item and is a verdicial representation of an event. The gist trace stores a generalised meaning based representation of an event. The FTT proposes that verbatim trace decays quickly whereas the gist trace lingers in memory longer resulting...
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...Memories are what make us human, being able to recall an event and being able to remember precise details. However, how many details do we actually remember? When remembering certain information we can alter what occurred based on what we thought should have happened, and what the event actually pertains to. Researchers have concluded that we tend to add misinformation because it’s what we hoped would occur; and when recalling a traumatic experience we tend to exaggerate what actually happened. The purpose of this study was to identify how many details participants could remember after watching a video. Two groups will be exposed to a video; one group will watch a car accident and the other will watch a music video. However, both groups will be responsible for recalling everything they have witnessed. I plan to use students that attend Mount Saint Mary College. I am going to pick a sample of people from each year and class to total a number of 100 students. After this I will separate all the people into random groups, having 50 placed in the experimental group and 50 placed in the control group. After they have finished viewing the videos, I will measure how much of the videos they can remember. I argue that our memories for events are often different than what actually happened based on what scenario we are exposed to. Introduction...
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...Chapter 6: Analyzing Consumer Markets GENERAL CONCEPT QUESTIONS Multiple Choice 1. ________ is the study of how individuals, groups, and organizations select, buy, use, and dispose of goods, services, ideas, or experiences to satisfy their needs and wants. 1. Target marketing 2. Psychographic segmentation 3. Psychology 4. Consumer behavior 5. Product differentiation Answer: d Page: 150 Difficulty: Easy AACSB: Analytic Skills 2. The fundamental determinant of a person’s wants and behavior is the person’s ________. 1. psyche 2. national origin 3. culture 4. peer group 5. family tree Answer: c Page: 150 Difficulty: Medium AACSB: Analytic Skills 3. A child growing up in the United States is exposed to all of the following values EXCEPT ________. 1. achievement and success 2. activity 3. efficiency and practicality 4. the importance of the group in daily life 5. freedom Answer: d Page: 150 Difficulty: Medium AACSB: Reflective Thinking 4. Which of the following would be the best illustration of a subculture? 1. A religion 2. A group of close friends 3. Your university 4. A fraternity or sorority 5. Your occupation Answer: a Page: 150 Difficulty: Hard 5. Based on information provided in the text, which of the following trends has lead to increased household consumption? 1. Growing female economic power ...
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...Research Common sense is defined as sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. In layman’s terms, common sense is the knowledge and experience which most people already have, or which the person using the term believes that they do or should have. The limitations of this approach can be grouped into three categories: extrinsic limitations (the result of factors extraneous to experience), limitations of common sense as a social practice (ensuing from the way knowledge is shared and communicated) and intrinsic limitations (limited viewpoint). Extrinsic limitations Extrinsic limitations can be bias or dogmatic. Bias limitations is insights based on personal experiences are difficult to distinguish from one's preferences, desires or fears. Dogmatism limitation is when beliefs based on common sense become embedded in a particular cultural framework, they are very difficult to change and often become dogmatic. Limitations of common sense as a social practice Limitations can be intangible or elusiveness in nature. According to this limitation, common sense is based on clues often too complex and subtle to be rationally explained and systematically described. Intrinsic limitations Intrinsic limitations are limited in scope and inaccurate in nature. Limited scope means that common sense is limited one’s own experiences which is not taking into account all aspects of reality. Imprecision limitations mean that common sense relies on ‘rule...
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...First, Scott Fraser recounts the case of 17-year-old Francisco Carrillo, who was wrongfully convicted of a crime he never committed. Carrillo was convicted of the murder of Donald Sarpy and sentenced to two life sentences after being identified by six teenagers, one the son of the victim, as the culprit. Fraser is a forensic neurophysiologist who has experience in eyewitness memory identification testimonies and the nature of night vision. He was perfectly tailored to explain why it was impossible for the teens to have clearly seen who was driving the car that shot the father mostly due to the lighting outside and inside the criminals' vehicle. Moreover, in class we discussed the fallibility and malleability of memory. At any given moment, we only pick up bits and pieces of what's going on around us. These pieces of information from our senses goes into our short-term then long-term memory if properly encoded. Based off the evidence Fraser...
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