During this unit I assessed my internal locus of control, and according to the results I border between having a moderate and strong internal locus of control. I have done these tests previously and it does improve with time… I believe as a result of a combination of maturity and life experience. This topic has been paradoxical to me on three major fronts, which I will unpack here: Firstly, academically speaking if I answer the questions as we are taught, the correct answers are apparent and selecting them would result in a strong internal locus of control, but skewed from reality. The reality however is that life is based on circumstance, others, and whether we like it or not, corruption, nepotism and favouritism do exists and do influence outcomes. I for one don’t believe that if my house is burgled, that I can be held accountable.
I am always a few tasks ahead of myself in my mind and very often don’t take the time to ask for clarification, or feedback from others to make sure they understand where I am coming from. In the two examples I provided, lack of feedback was definitely a major cause of the misunderstandings. Just a sentence or two in each case from the receiver quantifying the message could have prevented the misunderstandings from occurring. Instead, I was in a hurry to get that easy task off my to-do list and the customer service rep was probably also in a hurry to get on to her next call and her next order. That is the way life seems to be these days in business.
Why does it seem like some things are so difficult to remember, and other things so easy? What's the difference? Information that you have to consciously work to remember is known as explicit memory, while information that you remember unconsciously and effortlessly is known as implicit memory. While most of the information you find tends to focus specifically on explicit memory, researchers are becoming increasingly interested in how implicit memory works and how it influences our knowledge and behavior. Explicit Memory When you are trying to intentionally remember something (like a formula for your statistics class or a list of dates for your history class), this information is stored in your explicit memory.
Stroop (1935) thought that using incongruent stimuli would cause interference and a delay in response time because of automaticity. He also thought that if he used congruent stimuli that facilitation would occur. Stroop saw that the condition that elicited the longest response time was the condition where the participant had to state the ink color rather than the written word. Thus, he saw that participants showed faster response times in the condition where they were to state the written color word and not its ink color. This faster response time appeared because the individual automatically processed and read the word before cognitively processing its ink color.
I then realized that the wall I had constructed to keep what I felt was wrong about my new environment away was simultaneously preventing the positive aspects from effecting me as well. At this point is when I regained my briefly lost self-assurance and knew that I was never any less competent than the best and the brightest at Jordan, but that I needed to study and apply myself (methods I had not always practiced so vigorously in the past). I opened my mind, and a true understanding for diversity found it’s way in. I understand now that regardless of the differences and even the similarities of a group of people should not justify the intolerance for one another. I also believe my experiences have enhanced my communication with those whose backgrounds, opinions, and/or lifestyles contrast with mine.
This could be extremely important. The long pathway lets for a more methodical evaluation of circumstances, which can help people avoid unfortunate replies to situations. As though in cognitive factors, according to Lazarus (1975), considerations are estimated and related to how the situation will collide on a personal healthy being. Positive emotions come out if the consideration reviews potential benefits, negative
However, I am also a person who likes directions and rules to make logical sense. If I am skeptical or unsure as to its logic, I will question and present alternate ideas which is uncharacteristic of a conventional thinking style. The dependent thinking style, for which I also scored in the 97th percentile, is characterized by indecisiveness, feelings of helplessness, preoccupation with pleasing people and passivity. I agree that I am a dependent thinker. I often look to other people’s opinions when trying to make decisions and I often feel that things that happen in my life are beyond my control which leads to feelings of helplessness.
When you think about your own memories, do you think that some of your memories are distorted or inaccurate? I feel when I begin to start telling a story I Start to change things around and when I say them it doesn’t feel correct so I believe I have inaccurate memories. 4. What do you do to improve your memory? What do I do to improve my memory is to use vivid, colorful, sense of images because these are easier to remember than plain images.
Talking is possibly the smallest piece of the communication puzzle. It’s important to choose words carefully and wisely, to listen to yourself, to be clear and concise, to be aware of what you say, and to show respect for the listener. Non verbal messages are more powerful than the actual words we speak. We’ve all heard, “It’s not so much what is said, but how you say it.” Ask yourself if your body language matches the message you want to share. Pay attention to facial expression, hand gestures, and eye contact.
While the paper should be argument driven, I am not grading this based on where the arguments are located in the paper (so long as your arrangement is logical and gets the point across to the reader; saving your argument for the very end would not be the best idea). For Act I, I am giving you a seemingly plot-level prompt. Do not be fooled into thinking that I am asking for a simple summary of the events of the play. Your job is to analyze the given scene carefully in order to construct meaningful insights. Go beyond your initial findings.