...PSYC 460 Week 1 to 8 Quizzes Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwaid.com/shop/psyc-460-week-1-to-8-quizzes/ Week One Quiz - Psychological make-up Part 1 of 1 - 15.0/ 15.0 Points Question 1 of 15 1.0/ 1.0 Points Trait anxiety refers to _________ anxiety, whereas state anxiety refers to __________ anxiety. A.general; momentary B.momentary; general C.competitive; noncompetitive D.noncompetitive; competitive Question 2 of 15 1.0/ 1.0 Points The phenomenological approach to personality is consistent with the interactional approach except that it focuses on A.the individual's interpretation of the situation and himself or herself B.the traits of an individual C.the situation a person is dealing with at the time D.the behavior of the individual E.the outcome of the behavior Question 3 of 15 1.0/ 1.0 Points Which of the following is not a subscale from the Athletic Coping Skills Inventory? A.concentration B.coachability C.goal setting D.imagery E.freedom from worry Question 4 of 15 1.0/ 1.0 Points Test anxiety is an example of a A.trait measure B.state measure C.situation-specific trait measure D.situation-specific state measure Question 5 of 15 1.0/ 1.0 Points The situational approach to personality assumes that A.individuals behave differently across situations ...
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...PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY: TEAM PERFORMANCE CRITERIA AND THREATS TO PRODUCTIVITY OVERVIEW This chapter is best discussed following a team exercise or case so that students have an opportunity to reflect on the success of the team. One suggestion is to ask each student to write down a method by which to assess team productivity. The students’ different responses can lead to a discussion of performance measures. Then, the instructor can ask what conditions need to be in place for teams to excel on the performance measures identified by the class. Finally, the instructor can move toward a discussion of how to design teamwork so that threats to performance are minimized. To the extent that students and the instructor can link these concepts to real experiences—a class exercise, a case discussion, or individual student analysis— the concepts will become clearer. lecture outline with Accompanying slides integrated model of successful team performance (EXHIBIT 2-1) 1 Model serves two purposes 1 Description—what to expect in terms of team performance 2 Prescription—ways to improve the functioning of teams 2 Model asserts that team context affects team’s ability to do three essential things 1 Perform effectively 2 Build and sustain motivation 3 Coordinate people [pic] [pic] team context 1 It includes the larger organizational setting within which a team does its work, the design of a team in terms of internal functioning...
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...Building a Vision-Guided, Values-Driven Organization By Richard Barrett PART I: WHY VALUES ARE IMPORTANT Organizational values are more important today than at any other time in history because the personal and societal context within which business operates is changing. Who you are as an organization, and what you stand for, are becoming just as important as what you sell. The values that an organization lives by are important to a variety of stakeholders: • Society: Organizational values need to meet society’s expectations with regard to environmental stewardship and social responsibility. Failure to support society’s values can have a very significant impact on financial performance.1 Shareholders: Organizational values need to meet the needs of the new breed of shareholders that are only investing in companies that: (a) meet socially responsible investment criteria; and (b) compete to be the best companies to work for, or other quality awards. Potential employees: To attract the best people, the organizational values need to meet the needs of potential new employees who are choosing to work in organizational cultures that align with their personal values. Existing employees: To retain the best people, the organizational values also need to meet the needs of existing employees and support them in finding personal fulfillment at work. • • • Employee Fulfillment Whilst attention to all stakeholders needs are important, the most critical are: (a) How existing employees...
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...times will be made available for students who are unable to attend during this window. The facilitator and the administrative staff at the Counseling Center will coordinate to create these additional options. Screening and pre-group meetings will be performed by the licensed mental health professional that will facilitate the group intervention. The screening and a brief pre-group meeting will take approximately 15 minutes. In addition to confirming students are undergraduates, identify as male and are at least 18 years old students will need to score below...
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...failed to display the characteristics that showed they were working as a whole team. Further compounding the problem was an issue with the immediate leadership from the project manager and the team leader. These problems caused the group to lack cohesion and were at the root of the company providing substandard work to the client as well as damaging the company’s reputation. We can look at the four stages of social dynamics that influence virtual teams and see how the break down in the FSI team occurred. The four stages are interaction and inclusion, position status and role definition, allocation of resources and power, and interaction and participation. These will affect the unity of the team. We can see from the start that there is little unity in the team. Before the large group of FIS project members showed up there was little discourse in the operation of the team. However once the full component of team members showed up problems started to emerge among the team. There was little interaction and inclusion from the team members. Cliques started to form among members who had worked together in other organizations. In doing this they failed to interact positively with the other members of the team. This would lead to dissension during meetings. The clique would often make suggestions that they had come up with when other members of the team had not been consulted or briefed. Meetings often ended in members outside the clique showing resentment for the other team members. ...
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...and suffering * Prison fills a particular need for the public * Prison itself still fulfills a particular need that the public has * Punishment and Prison acknowledges the role of symbol, emotion, irrationalism, faith, and beliefs * Punishment has a symbolic and emotional role in society * Popular punitive slogans are effective because they address some of our deeper, emotional, psycho-social drives * We like to think that penal policy is rational and scientific * We like to think that we have come a long way since the death penalty * There are 3 distinct factors of the Penal Policy * (1) Seeks to control crime and seeks to understand crime * We try to control it/ measure it * We can learn how to control crime * How much crime costs * What the social and scientific effects are * (2) Science replaces beliefs * He says that supposedly science replaces beliefs with calculations and knowledge * (3) Provides technical approaches to social problems *...
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...regarded as his best and most mature. Where Suicide focused on a large amount of statistics from varying sources, The Elementary Forms used one case study in depth, the Australian aborigines. Durkheim chose this group because he felt they represented the most basic, elementary forms of religion within a culture. Durkheim set out to do two things, establish the fact that religion was not divinely or supernaturally inspired and was in fact a product of society, and he sought to identify the common things that religion placed an emphasis upon, as well as what effects those religious beliefs (the product of social life) had on the lives of all within a society. Durkheim's finding that religion was social can best be described by this excerpt from The Elementary Forms: "The general conclusion of the book which the reader has before him is that religion is something eminently social. Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities; the rites are a manner of acting which take rise in the midst of assembled groups and which are destined to excite, maintain, or recreate certain mental states...
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...Forced marriage, family cohesion and community engagement: national learning through a case study of Luton Dr Nazia Khanum OBE March 2008 Forced marriage, family cohesion and community engagement: national learning through a case study of Luton Completed by: Dr Nazia Khanum OBE Director Equality in Diversity Commissioned by: MP Margaret Moran’s Office – Ushrat Sultana Metropolitan Police Service – Jim Blair Home Office – Deborah Jamieson Published by: Printed by: Equality in Diversity e-mail: nkhanum@aol.com Bartham Press (Watford) Ltd e-mail: koyes@barthampress.com Phone: 01582 459402 / 573471 Mobile: 07931 973967 © Nazia Khanum 2008 All rights reserved ISBN: 1-904070-02-7 March 2008 Acknowledgements As soon as I started conducting this piece of research in 2006, it became clear to me that I was dealing with one of the most sensitive subjects, the actual scale and complexity of which will probably never be known. The paucity of available data and the inconsistency of recording incidents across agencies were clear from the start. Since the lack of data was anticipated, this research project took a qualitative and not a quantitative approach, and so no attempt has been made to indulge in a number crunching exercise. Full advantage has been taken of the opportunity to delve into the interviewees’ personal views, perceptions and experiences. During the research, I came across all kinds of emotions and value judgments including mistrust, fear, denial,...
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...facilitator. The team leader usually has a very strong influence on the team as he/she is tasked with the role of shaping the outcomes of the group. The influence that such a team leader has on the team will be determined by numerous factors namely; the leader’s personality, relative age, sex appearance, income, race and also the organizational structure in the given organization. With respect to these factors, this section discusses the competencies, personal style, theory or model of leadership that is most effective for Henry Tam in leading the MGI team. Primary challenges in the Henry Tam case and recommendations Team communication. 1 / 5 Henry Tam and the MGI team The issue of team communication was first studied by Robert Bales, a social psychologist. This...
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...extreme elevated negative group cohesion. It will outline the behaviour of groupthink dynamics (such as self-importance, over commitment, and excessive devotion to the group) and how groupthink dynamics contributes to unethical behaviour. Next, the essay will identify how groupthink has contributed to the unethical behaviour in the highest levels of decision making. The second part of this essay will identify the role and definition of the devil’s advocate, and how the devil advocate promotes positive communication. Finally, the essay will discuss the importance and the effectiveness of utilizing the devil’s advocate within group decisions for changing unethical behaviour within groupthink. Belonging to a group can promote negative cohesion as it promotes the probabilities of low quality decision making resulting in unethical behaviour among group members. The Oxford University Press (2015) defines unethical behaviour as “lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct”. Decision making in groups can be hindered by elevated cohesiveness and conformity resulting in the phenomenon called “Groupthink” it can transpire in the highest levels of decision making to the basic levels of social association (McCauley, 1989). Groupthink is the effects of ‘compliance pressure’ arising from numerous causes from weak leadership and/or limited avenues for alternative voices to be heard to member’s neediness to satisfy the group for social approval or self- preservation...
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...The theory of individualism/collectivism developed by Harry Triandis (1990, 1995) emphasizes individual differences and cross-cultural differences in many of the same tendencies discussed by social identity theory. The theory of individualism/collectivism describes cross-cultural differences in the extent to which emphasis is placed on the goals and needs of the in group rather than on individual rights and interests. For individuals highly predisposed to collectivism, ingroup norms and the duty to cooperate and subordinate individual goals to the needs of the group are paramount. Collectivist cultures are characterized by social embeddedness in a network of extended kinship relationships. Such cultures develop an “unquestioned attachment” to the ingroup, including “the perception that ingroup norms are universally valid (a form of ethnocentrism), automatic obedience to ingroup authorities [i.e., authoritarianism], and willingness to fight and die for the ingroup. These characteristics are usually associated with distrust of and unwillingness to cooperate with outgroups” (Triandis, 1990:55); collectivist cultures are more prone to ingroup bias (Heine and Lehman, 1997; Triandis and Trafimow, 2001). Like social identity processes, tendencies toward collectivism are exacerbated in times of external threat, again suggesting that the tendency toward collectivism is a facultative response that evolved as a mechanism of between-group conflict. Groups: Process & Practice was...
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...600-BNCOC/05-002 THE ARMY TRAINING SYSTEM (TATS) COURSEWARE BNCOC SOLUTION TO PRACTICAL EXERCISES BASIC NONCOMMSSIONED COURSE PHASE I PREPARED BY UNITED STATES ARMY SERGEANTS MAJOR ACADEMY FORT BLISS, TEXAS 79918-8002 FOR THE ARMYY SCHOOL SYSTEM (TASS) INSTITUTIONS FIELDING DATE: OCT 04 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK BNCOC SOLUTION TO PRACTICAL EXERCISES PFN T321 T342 L327 L326 L330 L335 L328 L333 L336 L324 L338 L340 T323 W326 W332 T341 W323 W325 W321 W322 Table of Contents The Risk Management Process Cultural Awareness Considerations Enforce the Equal Opportunity Program Communicate Effectively in a Given Situation The Army Writing Style Develop Subordinate Leaders in a Unit Counsel Subordinates The Noncommissioned Officer Evaluation Reporting System Motivate Subordinates to Accomplish Unit Mission Ethical Behavior Apply the Ethical Decision-Making Method at Small Unit Level Develop a Cohesive Team Training Management at the Squad Level Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IEW) Operations Establishment of a Check Point Casualty Evacuation Troop Leading Procedures Squad Tactical Operations Graphics and Overlays Plans, Orders, and Annexes THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK U.S. ARMY SERGEANTS MAJOR ACADEMY (BNCOC) OCT 04 BNCOC SOLUTION TO PRACTICAL EXERCISES BNCOC BNCOC Stand Alone Common Core THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK T321 PRACTICAL EXERCISE SHEET T321 Title Lesson Number/Title Introduction OCT 04 THE RISK MANAGEMENT...
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...This essay starts with defining normalisation ref? and deviationsref? and conditions leading to thesethe latter. It will highlight the importance of ‘favourable environment’ ref? as a prerequisite for normalisation and its effect if it is inappropriate. The maturational nature of normalisation, the teacher’s role as a facilitator of favourable environment, the teacher’s approach to new children in nursery and how his/her role changes as the children begin to concentrate will be explained. I will also discuss the child’s need of a cohesive society and finally will discuss reasons of regressionref? in children. Montessori defined normalisation (Montessori, 2007a) as “The transition from one stage to another always follows a piece of work done by the hands with real things, work accompanied by mental concentration” (Montessori, 2007a, p186). These transitions are a psychic cure explain to return to normal. “Actually the normal child is one who is precociously intelligent, who has learned to overcome himself and live in peace, who prefers a disciplined task to futile idleness” (Montessori, 1966, p148).To normalize a childprefer: to help a child become normalised, concentration on an activity is the key to bring him/her in contact with realityyes but I still do not know what you understood by normalisation. The characteristics of a normalised child are: concentration, love of work, discipline, sociability and being super socialwhat is this? (Montessori, 2007a). Therefore, motives...
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...disrupts or interferes with the accomplishment of a unit’s mission. Any uncontrolled combat stress can impair mission performance and may bring disgrace, disaster, and defeat. The art of war aims to impose so much stress on enemy soldiers that they lose their will to fight. Both sides try to do this and at times accept severe stress themselves in order to inflict greater stress on the enemy. To win, you must control combat stress. The word “control” is better than the word “manage” to emphasize the active steps that leaders, supporting personnel, and individual Soldiers must take to keep stress within an acceptable range. This does not mean that control and management are mutually exclusive terms. Management is, by definition, the exercise of control. Within common usage, however, and especially within Army usage, management has the connotation of being a somewhat detached, number–driven, higher echelon process rather than a direct, inspirational, leadership process. Stress is the body’s and mind’s process for dealing with uncertain change and danger. Elimination of stress is both impossible and undesirable in either the Army’s combat or peacetime missions Combat and Operational Stressors Combat and operational stress will affect you and your Soldiers throughout your military careers. But, as a leader you must learn and teach your Soldiers to recognize the symptoms, and take steps to prevent or reduce the disruptive...
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...that is used to recreate the effects of the sun. This is used to lessen effects of a condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) which causes a depressed mood in some people during the months when the sun shines less (Seasonal Affective Disorder, 2016). Being around trees and other greenery has been said to lower stress levels and ease anxiety (Mitchell & Popham, 2008). It is common knowledge that diabetes can be managed through exercise as it lowers sugar levels within the body. But a study in Japan shows that it is not only the exercise that lowers these levels, but also the environment in which the exercise is done. People who took walks through the forest were said to have had a hormone secretion and autonomic nervous system functions which led to even lower levels (Professional Practice, 2017). Combining these natural health benefits with challenging experiences can serve to facilitate personal growth, self-discovery, and treatment for several ailments in a safe environment under the supervision of a qualified therapist. Adventure therapy is a useful treatment for just about everyone. It is great for individuals suffering from social anxiety, depression, trauma, low self-esteem, and addiction. Groups can also utilize the therapy though efforts targeted to team building, family cohesion, trust building, and blended families. Another population that often thrives within adventure therapy is underprivileged youth. These young people live mainly in urban areas. Sometimes...
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