Psychology

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  • Intellectual Standards In Critical Thinking

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    states that cognitive psychologists have a tendency to concentrate on how people actually think instead of focusing on how they could or should think under ideal conditions. Further, Lewis and Smith (1993) maintain that those working in cognitive psychology tend to define critical thinking by the types of actions or behaviors critical thinkers can do rather than defining critical thinking by refering to characteristics of the ideal critical thinker or enumerating criteria or standards of “good”

  • Psychological Child Abuse

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    evidence. The message of this topic is that the vital threat posed by child maltreatment is to the growth of survival. (Garbarino 109). Germain, R.B., Brassard, M.R., & Hart, S.N. (1985). Crisis intervention for maltreated children. School Psychology Review; 14(3)

  • Compare And Contrast The Strengths Of The Humanist Approach

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    capabilities. The humanist approach is more deterministic, as it claims that humans have free will that we can use to control our development. Humanist psychologists reject any models that explain behaviour on a general basis, as they believe that psychology should be subjective. This is called the person-centered approach. The past approaches had been too reductionist by trying to compartmentalise behaviour too much, but the humanist approach believes that behaviour and experience are intrinsically

  • Effects Of Social Media On Interpersonal Communication

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    Introduction The author has chosen to talk about Interpersonal Communications, with the potential research question being, “Has Social Media damaged Interpersonal Communications?” What is Interpersonal Communications? Interpersonal Communications is, “the process by which people exchange information, feelings, and meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages: it is face-to-face communication”, (Anon., 2015), this basically means people communicating through talking, listening or exchanging information

  • Need Analysis In Communication

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    Q: Why is it essential to carry out a need analysis? A: English is used for communicating at the workplace with foreigners either they are native speakers or not because English is considered as the international language that can connect all people from all over the world. In the workplace, the act of communication can take place in various situations, and problems of communication in can occur. The miscommunication between native and non-native speakers may be caused by a different interpretation

  • 7.2 Literature Review

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    7.2 Literature review 7.2.1 The way young adults practice emotional intelligence Young adults practice emotional intelligence through a few ways. Empirical literature supports both strong temporal stability of individual differences in basic emotions and close longitudinal links between discrete emotional experiences and personality traits (Benjamin P. Chapman, Bert Hayslip Jr, 2006). In another analysis of differentiation of affect, Terracciano, McCrae, Hagemann, and Costa (2003) found that young

  • Self Leadership: Factors In The Self-Leadership Model

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    1. Factors in the self-leadership model: - • Self-Dialogue = Self-dialogue as the name suggests, refers to the constant interaction between “myself” and helps to build self-consciousness. I do not have the habit of talking out loud but there is some self-generated dialogue-taking place in my mind. I take these dialogues quite seriously as it impacts the way I view myself. There are times when this self-dialogue has a negative effect in a way I do things as I force myself to believe that I am not

  • Thought-Provoking In Heidegger's What Is Called Thinking

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    Nikhil Sharma 13110069 What is “thought-provoking” in Heidegger’s What is called thinking? Why does he argue that we should be attendant to it? Heidegger has asked a very important and very fundamental question throughout the book. He has put the question at the proper place during the journey of the book and has very well justifies his attempt to answer that question

  • The Importance Of Adolescence

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    Introduction Adolescence is the developmental period when youth are most vulnerable to peer opinion (Long & Pellegrini, 2003). According to Lansford (2014), there are positive peer affiliations that was supported by Bernat and Resnick (2009), wherein it was stated that there was a perceived connectedness to peers, family, neighborhood, and school are thought to mitigate some negative outcomes such as deliquency and risk behaviors. Adolescence is a developmental phase which presents with increased

  • Importance Of Mindfulness

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    Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Mindfulness; a capacity we have by virtue of being human, involves taking time to press pause and refresh during the day, revitalising brain functioning. As paradoxical as it may seem, the busy person who takes more time out for mindfulness mediation in the day, is in fact the more productive. Mindfulness is conducive to retaining and recalling information, creativity, insight and importantly, responding to life's challenges from a calmer, clearer perspective