Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and problems for Psychology and Sociology

Major Depression in a Teenager

I will use psychotherapy which is frequently used in the treatment for childhood and adolescent depression. It helps people by helping them to understand the behavior and emotions that contribute to their issues and how to benefit from them, helping them to come out of the stress and mental blocks caused by traumatic events. The most important part is helping them to learn coping techniques and problem-solving skills. The advantages of this treatment are that there are fewer side effects, it develops skills to improve relationships, and it helps the patient to understand himself and his personal goals better. The most important disadvantages of this therapy are that it takes longer than drug therapy to produce... Continue reading "Effective Therapies for Teenage Mental Health Issues" »

Interaction Strategies:

• Taking the Floor: Can ask for attention.
• Co-operating: Can indicate when they are following.
• Asking for Clarification: Can say “Repeat, please”, can say “Sorry, I don’t understand”, and can ask for clarification about key words or phrases.

Example: Talk about your favorite animal with your partner (spoken interaction).

Reception Strategies:

• Grasp the overall meaning (gist).
• Extract specific information.
• Predict.
• Guess the meaning of unknown words.

Example: (CD) Listen and tick the four animals.

Production Strategies:

• Planning: Can rehearse what’s going to be said.
• Can plan silently what’s going to be written.
• Compensating:
  • Can identify what he/she means by pointing.
  • Can use gestures to clarify what he/she wants to say.

Ethical Principles in Research

The Belmont Report

The Belmont Report summarizes ethical principles and guidelines for research involving human subjects. Three core principles are identified: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice. Three primary areas of application are also stated: informed consent, assessment of risks and benefits, and selection of subjects.

Animal Welfare Act

The Animal Welfare Act requires that minimum standards of care and treatment be provided for certain animals bred for commercial sale, used in research, transported commercially, or exhibited to the public.

Respect for Persons

Respect for persons involves protecting the autonomy of all people, treating them with courtesy and respect, and allowing for informed consent.... Continue reading "Ethical Research: Principles, Practices, and Measurement" »

Chapter 20: Evaluation

Critical Thinking and Evaluation

Critical thinking is how a nurse gathers patient data from nursing diagnoses to develop a plan of care and implement interventions. Evaluation, the final step of the nursing process, determines whether the patient's condition or well-being improves after applying the nursing process. Nurses apply their knowledge and previous experiences to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care.

Evaluative Measures vs. Assessment

Assessment identifies existing problems, while evaluation determines if those problems have remained the same, worsened, or changed.

Importance of Evaluative Measures

Using the right evaluative measures increases the likelihood of accurately identifying changes in the patient's... Continue reading "Effective Nursing Evaluation: Critical Thinking & Patient Outcomes" »

WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT DEFINE US AS HUMAN BEINGS?

COMPARE WITH OTHER LOOK BACKWARD LOOK AT THE

CREATURES, THEIR SENSES, AT THE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT

ABILITIES AND MANIFESTATIONS OF SPECIFIC HUMAN TRAITS OF ARTIFICIAL

OF ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. IN OUT DISTANT ANCESTRAL INTELLIGENCE.

PAST

ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. IS THE COMPUTER THINKING?

TURING TEST CAN THE COMPUTER FOOL SOMEONE INTO

WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?

WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE US HUMAN? ARE WE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ANIMALS? HOW DIFFERENT? IN WHAT WAYS?

TO HAVE THE CAPACITY TO COMMUNICATE, INTERACT, EXCHANGE THOUGHTS OR DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEWS.

TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO SUBSIST BY WORKING AND CREATING NEW LINKS WITH PEOPLE.

WE ARE DIFFERENT BUT AT THE SAME TIME KIND THE... Continue reading "Human performance " »

What is Communication?

Communication involves exchanging messages to generate meanings.

Key Communication Concepts

Nonverbal Communication

• Body Orientation: How your body is positioned during nonverbal communication.
• Proxemics: The study of how space and distance impact communication (studied in 1969).
• Paralanguage: The way a message is spoken, including tone, pitch, and volume.
• Haptics: The study of touch as a form of communication.
• Emojis: Graphic icons that can illustrate emotions in digital communication.

Listening Skills

• Advising: Offering guidance or solutions, often considered the opposite of active listening.
• Paraphrasing: Restating a message in your own words to ensure understanding.
• Silent Listening: Paying attention and demonstrating engagement

Social Skills

A social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning such skills is called socialization. The rationale for this type of treatment is that people meet a variety of social problems and can reduce stress and punishment from encounters, as well as increase reinforcement by having the correct skills.^[1]

Contents

• 1 In Behavior Therapy
• 2 Business Social Skills
• 3 Controversies
  • 3.1 Organizations
• 4 See Also
• 5 References
• 6 External Links

In Behavior Therapy

To behaviorists, social skills are learned behaviors that allow people to achieve social reinforcement. According to Schneider & Bryne (1985)... Continue reading "Mastering Social Skills: Behavior and Business" »