...The aim of this essay is to consider the psychological factor of social influence could be contributing to the current situation of an 8 year old girl who is suffering with asthma, she lives with her Mum in the area of Springburn in Glasgow, and after a recent review has presented some issues that have raised concern. Conformity, compliance and adherence are all forms of social influence and these can occur when a person’s behaviour and emotions are being affected by other people, or groups of social classes. In some circumstances social influence can be direct in the shape of advertising and media, which are good examples of channels that can influence attitudes and behaviours. In other situations social influence can be very subtle and indirect, that is of family, partners, friends, classmates, celebrities and so on, and the fashion in which information is presented, can often determine the degree of compliance. Thus the term social influence can refer to the way in which other people’s conduct is influenced by the presence and action of others. When referring to a patient’s compliance the terms ‘adherence’ and ‘compliance’ are used interchangeably (Psychology for Nurses, 2009, p. 432). Compliance was commonly used during early stages of research, and it investigated whether a patient followed their medical regime. Hayes et al. (1979) defined compliance as, ‘The extent to which the patient’s behaviour (in terms of medication, following diets or other lifestyle changes)...
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...Biology is defined as the study of life (from the Greek bios meaning ‘life’ and logos meaning ‘study’). A biological perspective is relevant to the study of Psychology in three ways: 1. Comparative method: different species of animal can be studied and compared. This can help in the search to understand human behaviour. 2. Physiology: how the nervous system and hormones work, how the brain functions, how changes in structure and/or function can affect behaviour. For example, we could ask how prescribed drugs to treat depression affect behaviour through their interaction with the nervous system. 3. Investigation of inheritance: what an animal inherits from its parents, mechanisms of inheritance (genetics). For example, we might want to know whether high intelligence is inherited from one generation to the next. Each of these biological aspects, the comparative, the physiological and the genetic, can help explain human behaviour. The biological approach believes that most behaviour is inherited and has an adaptive (or evolutionary) function. For example, in the weeks immediately after the birth of a child, levels of testosterone in fathers drop by more than 30 per cent. This has an evolutionary function. Testosterone-deprived men are less likely to wander off in search of new mates to inseminate. They are also less aggressive, which is useful when there is a baby around. Biological psychologists explain behaviours in neurological terms, i.e. the physiology and structure...
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...What's the real psychological or aesthetic reason about people perceiving one place visually appealing and the other one repulsive? Why are we attracted to some specific products over other? In our designers' opinion, it's all a color's fault. Color—whether architectural or in the branded packaging—estimates for around 60 percent of our response to any object or any place. This whole thing of assessing the impact of any given color is usually called "color psychology." But the very effect that the color scheme color has at different stages of either design or anything else is significant: its physical and psychological. Color use is not something that brings definitive equality between "color and our moods," as is a currently popular expression....
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...This year in AP Psychology I would like to learn more about mental illnesses along with the causes and effects of them. I would like to learn more about serial killers and the mental illnesses some of the most notorious ones suffered from. I would like to learn how the brain of a serial killer works. I would like to learn also about obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD), since last year in psychology we just learned the basics. I would also like to learn the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist, and what’s needed for each to have a career in either one. I took this class because I love to learn how the human brain works in different types of people. It is very interesting to learn how someone can become a serial killer or become mentally ill. I would love to learn the difference in the thought process of a person with a mental illness and someone without. I also took this class because I am thinking about going to college for psychology and I want to make sure that this is really what I want. Basically, I am taking this class to see if something in the psychology field is something I want to make a career out of. Some traits that I have to make this a better class are that, I’m very open minded, a quick learner, and a hard worker. I am not just taking this class to get it out of the way, I am taking this class because I have developed a strong interest in psychology. My plans for AP psychology are to make sure I’m successful in this class and to do everything...
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...AP Psychology Essay Prompts and Scoring Rubrics The enclosed document includes an essay prompt for each unit in AP Psychology and a corresponding scoring rubric. The purpose of this activity is to increase the students’ awareness of how AP exam readers grade from a rubric. Emphasis is placed on the definition of terms and the application of those terms. Units include: Introduction to Psychology Psychobiology Sensation and Perception Memory Learning Nature and Nurture of Behavior Developing Person Thinking, Language, and Intelligence States of Consciousness Motivation and Emotion Personality Stress and Health Psychological Disorders Therapy Social Psychology Unit: Introduction to Psychology Describe the different perspectives from which psychologists examine behavior and mental processes, and explain their complementarity. Your answer should include: ➢ Neuroscience ➢ Evolutionary ➢ Behavior Genetics ➢ Psychodynamic ➢ Behavioral ➢ Cognitive ➢ Social-cultural Rubrics Note: The application portion on the rubrics may include a variety of answers. This is simply an example of possible answers. The perspectives have more than one complement. |Term |Definition |Application ...
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...The essay was primarily about mom, with a few additional experiences of friends, acquaintances, and family members sprinkled throughout. During my research, I discovered that, in cases of mental illness and/or extreme emotional discord, it is common for the connection between the mother and the infant to be weak or even non-existent. I now realize this too likely played a part in why I felt so unstable; why I was always in survival mode and felt so uncomfortable. It was certainly a light-bulb experience for me when I came across it by accident. It spoke to...
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...215 Careers in Psychology I want to be a psychologist. I would love to learn all about the way people act, think and feel and at the same time try to help them. I have a very easygoing personality and I love to have fun and laugh. I ask a lot of questions, and I think I am very easy to get along with. Some career goals I have is to finish college, I would like to find a job I want to keep that I could make a career out of, and just take it one day at a time because I have desire to make the right decisions and live a pleasant life. I first became interested in psychology a couple years ago. I feel like I need to try and help make a difference, and that's what I would like to spend the rest of my life doing. The field of psychology is divided into subfields each of which deal with a different area, and since working with and helping people is a good feeling for me, community and social services is an excellent job group. When going into the field of psychology, one is able to explore many different careers. I’m also interested in forensics. The field of forensic psychology has grown in the 21st century because courtrooms recognize the value of psychologist’s testimonies to help juries reach a clearer verdict. Like all fields in psychology, forensics has many perspectives, they can focus on law enforcement psychology, the psychology of litigation, correctional psychology, and forensic psychology (Nietzel, Bernstein, & Milich, 1998). The field of psychology is becoming more...
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...Career goals in Psychology Lynda Reyes PSY 215 Careers in Psychology I want to be a psychologist. I would love to learn all about the way people act, think and feel and at the same time try to help them. I have a very easygoing personality and I love to have fun and laugh. I ask a lot of questions, and I think I am very easy to get along with. Some career goals I have is to finish college, I would like to find a job I want to keep that I could make a career out of, and just take it one day at a time because I have desire to make the right decisions and live a pleasant life. I first became interested in psychology a couple years ago. I feel like I need to try and help make a difference, and that's what I would like to spend the rest of my life doing. The field of psychology is divided into subfields each of which deal with a different area, and since working with and helping people is a good feeling for me, community and social services is an excellent job group. When going into the field of psychology, one is able to explore many different careers. I’m also interested in forensics. The field of forensic psychology has grown in the 21st century because courtrooms recognize the value of psychologist’s testimonies to help juries reach a clearer verdict. Like all fields in psychology, forensics has many perspectives, they can focus on law enforcement psychology, the psychology of litigation, correctional psychology, and forensic psychology (Nietzel, Bernstein, & Milich...
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...Psychology is a thought provoking subject that has made me rethink if we really know the truth behind how our conscious being operate. We know even less about our unconscious side, where there have been many curious incidents such as in 1987 a man killed two of his relatives while sleepwalking. This was explained by [talk about moral debate, importance of sleep research]There was much I was especially looking forward to studying different approaches to psychopathology. Such case studies made me even more curious about human nature and resulted in comprehension in various ways of interpreting behaviour. To gather more expertise on mental health I attended a lecture that explored the environmental influences on anxiety and depression which piqued a further interest in me and also assisted my studies on abnormality. I then pursued with the reading of recent news developments in the world of psychology, where I found articles concerning...
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...Intro Psych Personal Development Assignment: 18 years old 12 years old 1. I am shy. 1. I am loud 2. I am independent and dependent. 2. I am the class clown 3. I am open-minded and strong minded. 3. I am uncertain 4. I am a hardworking student. 4. I am generous 5. I am outspoken. 5. I am dependent 6. I am focused. 6. I am gullible 7. I am opinionated. 8. I am not that trusting of people. 9. I am outgoing and funny. 10. I am obedient. As I compare my twelve year old self to the person I am now, I have grown physically which is already a given but I have also grown mentally. I am independent and dependent. A contradiction. As a college student this “freedom” is new to me. I get to stay up late without my parents nagging me for staying up, I get to go out without permission and I get to make my own schedule when it comes to college classes and time management but I am dependent because I am not working so my mother pays for tuition. I say I am shy yet I’m outgoing. I’m still outgoing when I meet new people and try new things and I’m still shy when it comes to certain situations for example being the first to raise my hand and fearing I’m wrong...
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...Psychology in Occupational Therapy Sara Bailey University of Arkansas Fort Smith Psychology in Occupational Therapy Psychology is used every day in everything we do. We use our brains to do all functions and all jobs. Psychology is all about our brain and how the amazing part of us works and keeps us alive and well. Psychology has always been amazing and has been studied for many years. Occupational therapy uses psychology in many ways. Occupational therapy requires understanding others thoughts and reactions, helping them learn, and explaining new skills and how they work. Occupational therapy is educating people of all ages, young and old, to preform basic everyday activities needed to ensure survival and also to carry out everyday activities. Experiments done at the University...
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...My love of psychology did not begin with my first psychology class, advanced placement general psychology, it started with my second. Enrolling in a dual-enrollment social psychology class at the community college in my neighborhood is what sparked my interest in psychology. I became fascinated with the subject and knew from that moment that I wanted to pursue a degree in this field. Working with children is what I always pictured myself doing. My first job was at Quality Swimming, where I taught children (and adults) swimming lessons, and helped many of them get over their phobias of the water. To help the children overcome their phobia, we were trained to use systematic desensitization. We would begin with gradually exposing the children to the pool: starting with the children sitting on the top step, and slowly moving into deeper and deeper depths of the pool. The ultimate goal was to “teach water safety and instill in all students a love for the water.” While at Quality Swimming, I was able to apply knowledge from the classroom into my teaching. For instance, because of differences in the development of age groups, and individual differences I was able to create specific lesson plans to meet...
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...I am currently an upcoming senior at Milpitas High School doing a dual enrollment at San Jose City College (SJCC) in English. Taking this class would help me gain experience in the work environment of a college class and hopefully prepare me for what is coming in a university. My current educational aspirations would be graduating high school and attending a four-year university so I can acquire a degree in psychology and have a career in Human Resources Management. I decided to choose to learn in the field of psychology ever since I took an AP Psychology course at my high school and I know this is something I would want to learn about and get a degree in. I found it fascinating to study how the human behave and what goes in the mind. Everything...
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...1. A case study focuses on one or more person and when scientists put all their attention to a small group they can get tremendous feedback for those cases. There is no other research method where so much information can be collected. This allows a deep understanding of the people being studied. Although being so beneficial it also has weaknesses. This approach is only used when people are interesting to scientists because they have a rare characteristic. That means the people that are the focus of the study are not like other people. Since scientists want to explain all behavior focusing on a special group of people make it hard to generalize the observations to a larger group. Generalizing is the ability to apply findings of a certain project to a large portion of society. 2. Naturalistic observation is observing behavior in natural context or setting. People might change their behavior they are being observed that is called reactivity. A person will react one way if they don’t know they are being watched and another way if they don’t. The key to this observation is to be unobtrusive and inconspicuous as possible. If people know they are being watched they are less likely to behave naturally. This type of research isn’t just for humans. It is used to observe a lot of animals in their own environment. Scientists use this to study social hierarchies with animals. This type of observation does have its downfall. They are hard to set up and control. It costs time money and some...
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...Career Path Informative Essay According to my Holland Code numbers, psychology would be an ideal career. After some extensive research, I have found the correct path to becoming a clinical psychologist. Clinical psychologists aid people who have emotional and mental health problems. They also provide therapy to couples, divorcees, and those who are grieving. To work as one, I would have to get a Ph.D. in social psychology by enrolling in the graduate program at University of California: Santa Cruz. However, I would have to earn a MS in general psychology from University of California: Riverside. To do so, I would need to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Subject Test of Psychology. Before taking the GRE, I would need to earn a BS...
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