...Social Psychology Dawn S. Peck PSY 400 12/22/2014 David Brueshoff Social Psychology What is Social Psychology all about? Why is the study of it so important? Is there truly a purpose and benefit from the findings of the studies? Let’s look at each of these questions, break them down, and try to make sense of it all. Simply defined, Social Psychology is the scientific study of individual attitude and how it effects or influences others in a social context. It is helpful to understand the why, what, or could be, behind a behavior or reaction. Those that research this field, can provide credible insight to assist with understanding and ultimately contribute to the success of peace-keeping within society. There are many meanings behind Social Psychology, and it should be noted this branch of psychology is unique from other disciplines in the same field. Social Psychology Basics To be considered a “scientific study” there must be a theory, followed by a hypothesis and tested to support or reject the original theory. Methods of research include public surveys where both targeted and random speculation occurs. Work can be done in a laboratory with a controlled subject or in the field where everyday life happens. Social Psychology researchers pay particular attention not only to the cause and effect of behavior but they look deeper into the relationship we have with ourselves in effort to explain the overall difference of opinion and responses amongst...
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...Social Psychology Social psychology is the division of psychology that studies the social structure that surrounds an individual and his interactions as a social being. At times social psychology is confused with other disciplines closely related. Sometimes overlapping does occur into other disciplines but social psychology keeps focus on social environment and how it affects one another. Social psychology is reinforced with scientific methods and research that helps to differ from other divisions of psychology and keeps its own focus on structure, terminology, methods, and goals. Social psychology is about understanding individual behavior in a social environment and how it affects one another. It deals with how and why individuals feel, think, and do the things they do depending upon the social context (Myers, 2010). Social psychologist study, love and hate, conformity and independence, attitudes and beliefs. Understanding social psychology is very important because it gives a clear perception of how stereotyping takes formation in certain situations such as why racism and sexism subsist, how individuals fall in love, and how an individual can change into an entirely different person in a particular situation (Myers, 2010) . Social psychology is different in comparison to other disciplines such as clinical psychology, general psychology, and sociology because it focuses on an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior affected by the existence of others. Its concern is...
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...I had the opportunity to be involved in a work meeting recently. Our meeting consisted of five woman and three men. We were seated in a circle within a small break room with the manager standing in the middle of the group. The purpose of this meeting was to remind workers to do the task assigned to them each day and went over the proper way of doing it. This is a task that is ongoing. The meetings themselves will be ongoing due to new information coming in from corporate office. Also new staff starting to work needs informed of the operations. This group consisted of people ranged from 18 to 60 years of age. All members are of a white ethnicity. The manager began the meeting following notes from a tablet she had written in. Some of the notes were from the corporate office meeting that needed to be heard by all employees. Other notes were from her inspection of the store and things that needed attention. The group listened to each comment made by the manager, spoke up with his or her own ideas, and needs to make the store run more effectively. The manager was the main facilitator of the group. The main topic of the group was to put merchandise away correctly and to rotate stock as to closest outage dates being closest to the front. Also pulling any out of date or damaged merchandise and where to put it when it was pulled. It was also discussed about doing proper paperwork for the job. Each member of the group had a chance to speak out on the discussion and some changes were made...
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...University of Phoenix Material Group Influence This required Portfolio assignment due in Week Four will give you experience observing and interacting with people outside of the classroom. It has been designed to provide you with the opportunity to develop skills, synthesize knowledge, and integrate learning in a real world setting. This assignment accomplishes that goal by challenging you to: • Observe a group discussing a topic of interest such as a focus group, a community public assembly, a department meeting at your workplace, or local support group • Study how the group members interact and impact one another • Analyze how the group behaviors and communication patterns influence social facilitation • Integrate your findings with evidence-based literature from journal articles, textbook, and additional scholarly sources Purpose: To provide you with an opportunity to experience a group setting and analyze how the presence of others substantially influences the behaviors of its members through social facilitation. Process: You will participate as a guest at an interest group meeting in your community to gather data for a qualitative research paper. Once you have located an interest group, contact stakeholders and explain the purpose of your inquiry. After you receive permission to participate, you will schedule a date to attend the meeting; at which time you will observe the members and document the following for your analysis: Part I • How were...
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...Self-concept refers to the perception an individual has about him or herself, their character, whether it is their identity or their weaknesses or strengths. Myer (2010) defines self-concept as a person who is able to answer the question of “I am___”, such answers derived from the question explain the individual’s self-concept. Self-schemas, which are the individual ideas and beliefs, allow individuals to perceive others in their same categories (Myers, 2010). For instance, if an individual regards themselves as trendsetters, the main characteristics he or she will pick up from others is their sense of style. Self-concept impacts on the person one is, perception of others, and the possible person one can become or avoid (Myers, 2010). Cultural beliefs, on the other hand, differ among nations, while in some countries people tend to think of themselves collectively, others think of themselves more as an individual, and less as a part of a whole (Myers, 2010). Individual cultures affect the person one is, in some cultures people are thought to be less centered on the self, but more on the environment, or those around the individual. Cultures teach acceptable values, behaviors, and beliefs, influencing how individuals perceive others outside their own culture, based on what they know to accept. The knowledge of self, though erroneous at times, can affect the way individuals predict emotions and the behavior over emotional events (Myers, 2010). Though nobody should know...
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...Matthew Santarsiero Film 101 3/8/12 The 400 Blows by François Truffaut The movie 400 Blows, a film that was created over 50 years ago is as modern and extraordinary as any film presently released today. It was made during the French New Wave timeframe which was a completely different style compared to many other films during that period of time and honestly was similar to most of the “Hollywood” movies that I am used to in this country. This new wave of films fundamentally surrounded itself by creating a feel of real life and personality on the screen that would captivate its viewers, and the movie 400 Blows did everything and more than I expected. This movie exclusively left out a realizable plot, but there is one thing that it did not do. It kept the life that Francois Truffaut was telling as real and as close to authentic as he possibly could. It was shot in first person singular which allows the viewer to imagine exactly what is going on inside the head of the protagonist, in this case Antoine Doinel. We as viewers, are able to follow the childhood of young Antoine as he constantly gets into trouble and ultimately how he deals with living with an uncaring and very difficult family in Paris during his adolescent years. It’s very easy to become captivated with the dialogue and acting within this picture because at certain points you feel the characters emotions and daily struggles as if they were your own. During the time of watching this movie I immediately felt...
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...10/21/2014 Greg Garland - Forbes 2 FREE issues of Forbes Log in | Sign up | Help The World's Billionaires Forbes 400 Richest Americans The Celebrity 100 World's Most Powerful People World's Most Powerful Women +more Greg Garland New Posts Follow (0) Forbes Video Lists Video Top-Earning Dead Celebs Most Popular America's Youngest Billionaires Forbes 400 The At a Glance CEO/Chairman of the Board/Director, Phillips 66 Partners LP CEO/Chairman of the Board/Director/President, Phillips 66 Director, Amgen Inc Age: 56 Profile Greg C. Garland became Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of Phillips 66 on April 30, 2012. Mr. Garland was appointed Senior Vice President, Exploration and Production-Americas for ConocoPhillips in October 2010, having previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem) since 2008. Prior to that, he served [...] more Phillips 66 Compensation for 2013 Salary Restricted stock awards All other compensation Option awards Non-equity incentive plan compensation Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings Total Compensation $1,441,667 $7,276,484 $311,413 $2,658,045 $4,108,750 $4,045,846 $19,842,205 Options Exercised for 2013 Number of securities underlying options exercisable Number of securities underlying options unexercisable 66,077 53,912 Stock Ownership for 2014 Number of shares...
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...The 400 Blows 1) Truffaut included the puppet show to show how Antoine and his friend are developing mentally. Their mind state is becoming more advanced and “mature” when it comes to stealing. They start to think things through instead of just going at it. The striking thing about that scene is that it shows the children enjoying the scene and having fun, while Antoine and his friend are in the corner plotting with evil thoughts, not enjoying the show. 2) One street scene that I found that interested me was at 24 minutes into the movie, after Antoine had left the carnival. While walking with his friend through the streets, he saw the once beautiful place of what was known as Paris (it’s still beautiful, just not as much as before), as well as his mother, while she was making out with a man who wasn’t her husband. Just this scene alone portrays that in the 1950s, Paris wasn’t the best place to be. Although it was pretty, it was also very busy and crowded on the streets. Anything could happen. 3) One scene I found visually stunning was the carnival scene where he was in the spinning ride. Although I may be wrong, but I feel as if the director included that scene to give an insight of how Antoine’s mind is and he's foreshadowing the rest of the film. The spinning of the ride refers to how Antoine is a confused kid just trying to get through. At one point of the ride, he is completely upside down. That is when his life turns for the worse when he’s sent off to boot camp/military...
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...Neglect and Abandonment: Les 400 Coups Les 400 Coups, is a 1959 French film directed by François Truffaut is highly impactful first-person narrative. The protagonist Antoine Doniel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), is a young Parisian boy who struggles with life. The theme rejection is supported in the film, Les 400 Coups through demonstrations of abandonment, neglect and unhappiness, conveyed through robust cinematography. Abandonment is dramatically demonstrated in the opening sequence. Anotine Doniel, is first introduced to us in the classroom setting. The camera zooms in on him drawing on a pinup poster. Immediately Anotine gets in trouble and is segregated from everyone by being directed behind a large black board. He is being denounced from the...
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...The 400 Blows directed by François Truffaut changed many cinematic rules and planted the seed for new ones that are still being used today. This semi-autobiographical film played a large role in the beginning of the French New Wave. The most famous and still well used shot that came out of The 400 Blows was not used until the very end of the picture – the freeze-frame. This stylistic device was not used often at that time and it stuck in audience’s minds. The film itself follows the everyday life of a boy named Antoine. It’s not a particularly interesting life, but has its moments. He lives with his parents in a tiny apartment dealing with their oddities. His hurtful mom seems to only care about herself and his father appears to be a total fool. At school he is unfulfilled and everyone can tell. He can’t get away with anything in his attempts to make life a little less dull. For the majority of the film Antoine just plods along form one silly event to the next with his pal René. They skip school, go to see movies, and smoke. None of this is exception to watch or overly memorable. What is exceptional and memorable is how you viewed all this. Antoine travels throughout Paris, walking and sometimes almost jogging or running as if someone was pursuing him. His movement didn’t matter to me at the time until the end of the film when this now familiar trot is highlighted in his escape from reform school on route to the ocean. Even more memorable is how it appears on film. The camera...
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...Reaction Paper Portfolio Course: World Film History Ma Vie en Rose (France, 1997, directed by Alain Berliner): Living Under Social Pressure The movie Ma Vie en Rose was directed by a Belgian director, Alain Berliner, in 1997. A seven-year old boy named Ludovic (Georges du Fresne) is the main character of the movie. He is a boy who wants to be a girl. Moreover, he is totally sure that he is a girl and that it was just a simple God’s mistake that can be righted. However, he finds it extremely hard to live under social pressure that he faces at home and at school. Ludovic’s family tries to ignore his female-oriented games at first. As Ludovic’s mother Hanna (Michele Laroque) says that at the age of seven he was like any other child searching for his identity and individuality. But what happens in reality is that every member of his family shares opinion that he was born a boy and should stay a male until he dies. In fact, he is not given freedom of choice by his family. Ludo adores his mother Hanna and grandmother (Helene Vincent) and admires their beauty and femininity. These two women can make him happy, but he wants them to love him as he is. However, Ludo cannot find enough respect and tolerance for his female identity even from them. Little Ludo learns that expressing his female orientation publicly evokes a negative reaction from both adults and his peers at school. His classmates accept it as a rule that girls...
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...François Truffaut’s film The 400 Blows (or Les Quatre Cents Coups) falls under the category of art cinema; its style and form can be understood by way of an understanding of the conventions or anti-conventions of the art film model. Truffaut’s treatment of story, character, image, and space conform to the generally recognized set of characteristics that typify the genre. In the film the life of the protagonist, Antoine Doinel, accords with the filmmaker’s conscious attempt at creating a film that challenges commonly held notions of narrative, character, and style. As such, Les Quatre Cents Coups is a film in which the central character’s motives are ambiguous, narrative events are loosely connected, and degrees of closure are limited. These characteristics will later form the basic structure of the art film model and can be used to understand the film and art films, in general. An understanding of Les Quatre Cents Coups proves a difficult task without some understanding of the French New Wave, an influential film movement falling roughly between 1959 and 1964. During this era, directors such as: Godard, Chabrol, Truffaut, sought to produce films with a casual style and ambiguous but psychologically developed characters; these directors were opposed to studio filmmaking and the norms of “classical style” and story, which promoted narrative clarity and unity. According to James Monaco, the “aesthetic of the New Wave cinema was improvisational and its photography and editing were...
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...Film 101 Mansour Week 4 – The Foreign Film (400 Blows, 1959) French New Wave (1959-1964) BREAKDOWN FROM CH 10 READING Origins Early French Cinema of 1930’s A period of Poetic realism which meant treating everyday life with emotional sensitivity, showing us how the hardships or highs/lows are supposed to FEEL Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher with existentialist philosophies: Artists should rebel against societal constraints Responsibility for their own actions Create their own world Alexander Astruc French film critic who said filmmaker needs to use all aspects of camera as a pen Compares it to a novelist and his novel French documentary filmmaking, called “cinema verite” of the 1960’s featuring: Portable camera equipment to make films mobile and flexible Rough, intimate look Informal framing, unsettled camera work British Free Cinema/Italian Neorealism Influence of surrounding film movements in Europe which used Advanced narrative structure Focus on real stories about real people New Wave Tenets Developed by Film theorist Andre Bazin Realism Realistic depiction of everyday life as opposed to exaggerated Hollywood style Mise-en-scene Meaning focusing the elements within the frame Characters, background, ANYTHING in the frame Authorship Director’s style – his vision/perspective Soon-to-be called “Auteur Thoery” New Wave Film Traits (moves away from traditional film making) Unsettled camera movement Unusual angles Addressing the camera Improvisational Rejecting traditional linear...
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...Business and CPA Management Case Healthy Steps Charity (HSC) was founded 30 years ago by Vlad Sabakin, a business entrepreneur who has a passion for health and fitness. HSC is a private-sector not-for-profit organization that provides free fitness classes, use of exercise equipment, and nutritional advice to mature low-income residents. With humble beginnings, HSC now has drop-in fitness centers in all the major Canadian cities. HSC’s head office, which is attached to its first fitness centre, is located in Canada’s fastest growing city, Barrie, Ontario, where HSC was founded and where Vlad still lives. Over the past year HSC has experienced substantial turnover at its head office. With the local economy struggling, many families have left the city of Barrie, resulting in vacancies at HSC’s head office. Even though HSC has managed to fill these vacancies quickly, due to the high rate of local unemployment, the new hires often do not have the ideal qualifications. In particular, the accounting department has been in disarray, resulting in questionable accounting information being produced. HSC is one of the largest employers in Barrie. HSC is a registered charity with the CRA and issues official receipts to its donors. HSC has been fortunate enough to receive government support, as well as corporate and individual donations from across Canada to achieve all its initiatives. Since day one, the Barrie Healthcare community continues to be a big supporter of HSC. HSC has received...
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...Air-freight Industry Activity A British Airways PLC Activities The Company is engaged in the operation of international and domestic scheduled and charter air services for passengers , cargo and mail. Structure of the company: British Airways is one of the top ten airlines in the world and serves 200 destinations in more than 80 countries. The airline also operates a freight handling centre, Ascentis, which is considered as one of the most advanced freight-handling facilities in the world. Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd Activities Virgin Atlantic Airways is engaged in the operation of scheduled air services for the carriage of passengers and freight. Structure of the company: Virgin Atlantic was founded in 1984, and is one of UK’s second-largest long-haul carrier airlines serving the world’s major cities. The company’s schedule includes twenty one (21) destinations from its operational centres at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Global Supply Systems Ltd Activities Global Supply Systems Ltd is a dedicated operation company using only freight aircraft to carry goods without having any dedicated scheduled flights. Structure of the company: The Company is a subsidiary of River Don ltd. Global Supply Systems ltd is majority owned by a British entrepreneur, while Atlas Air inc has a minority shareholding in the company. Channel Express(Air Services ) Ltd Activities The Company operates cargo aircraft on charter contracts in Europe. Structure of the company: The...
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