Essays on Cognitions

Introduction

Who wins and who loses? The one who wins has reflected his or her ability to influence the behavior of others. This is power. As defined by Robert Dahl, a leading political theorist, power is the ability of one to get another to do something he or she would not otherwise do as a result of the will imposed by the other, where adherence is driven by obligation rather than force. Power is dynamic, relative, situational and multidimensional. According to Steve Lukes, there are three dimensions of power. The first dimension of power is intentional and active, and involves ...

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Introduction 4 Theoretical Background 4 Brand Love Scales 4 Definition of Love 5 Personality of Brand 5 Image of the Brand 5 Brand Love’s Elements 6 Brand Romance 7 Brand Attitude 7 Brand Loyalty 7 Fashion Brands Love 8 Brand Love in Cell Phone Industry 8 Brand Love Creation by the Companies 8 Apple/Samsung/Huawei 8 PepsiCo 9 Benetton 9 Conclusion 9

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Executive Summary Brand love is a relatively new phenomenon actively discussed by the scholars and marketing professionals. Brand love is necessary for the modern companies to successfully attract and retain their customers. Moreover, it helps to convince ...

There are many ways of understanding the reasons for one’s motivations. Throughout the centuries, philosophers have attempted to explain this through different ways. Even though through reflection one can attempt to reach some degree of freedom by using one’s pre-frontal cortex, these internal impulses are still there. Two of the most important of these theories are the will and Sigmund Freud’s drives. I have seen the importance of self-regulation throughout my life, and how important rationality may be in stopping the influence of that which one takes for granted as motivation.

Key Points in Bandura's Article

Albert Bandura was one of ...

People used to behave foolishly and make a lot of mistakes during their life. For the most part, three years of Middle school is considered to be exactly such period of time. Middle school is also believed to be a quite dangerous territory. Children unnoticeably transformed into “teenagers”, a new title they are not fully aware of. Some misunderstand this title as the right to admit themselves better than the rest and even humiliate or offend weaker people. On the one hand, due to the maturity, many pupils began to notice considerable differences between people. On the other hand, ...

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Health Promotion Proposal: Elementary School Age Obesity The goal of this project is to establish the major factors contributing to the increasing numbers of school-aged children been diagnosed with childhood obesity and its co-morbidities and recommend meaningful ways to stave off this alarming health problem in the present and future generations.

Interventions to Address the Goal

The role of the healthcare sector is to ensure the quality of health and wellbeing of every person in the society (Rice et al., 2013). Increasing numbers of obese children in the U.S. raise a health risk that requires quick intervention from health care stakeholders such as the ...

Health promotion Goal

The goal of the project is to establish major factors contributing to increasing numbers of obese school-going children and recommend effective plans to prevent the health problem in the future.

Interventions to address the goal

The role of the healthcare sector is to ensure the quality of health and wellbeing of every person in the society. The increasing number of obese children in the United States raises a health risk that requires quick intervention from health care stakeholders. Weight-related conditions traditionally associated with adults are currently more common among the young generation, especially school-aged children compared to the past. Addressing the project goal demands ...

Introduction

Learning is perhaps the most important goal for every student. However, few students can be termed as strategic learners. Most of us do not know how to maximise what we learn so that in the end we find ourselves wallowing in shallowness, never actually learning what we purport to have learned. There is need, therefore to understand what constitutes strategic learning, the kind of learning that is not easily forgotten and the role of reflective practice in strategic learning. This paper, therefore, seeks to explain how a learner can employ reflective practice as an aspect to strategic learning. In ...

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO), 2010 noted that recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD). Early recognition is one of the major challenges with this overwhelming mood disorder. The main focus of this project is to provide easy access to educational materials to aid in the screening, assessment, and treatment of women who experience depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PPD was amended by The American Psychiatric Association, in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), to peripartum depression and specifies that the onset of mood disturbance can ...

Negotiation is an extremely critical element to determine once ability to communicate accordingly. It is a form of dialogue between people with an intention to reach an understanding over an issue. At most instances, individuals may not understand the negotiation skills they got until they engage in a form of dialogue where a conclusion is needed. However, people may have some idea of their negotiation skills which they may show through filling a questionnaire. This has been a platform through which I unveiled my negotiation skills. One of the major elements that sustain healthy negotiations is sincerity and trustworthiness of the parties involved ...

Video Game Violence and its effects on children

Abstract This was a single subject case study to evaluate the effects of video games on children. In this study, a case of 14- year- old boy was evaluated to check whether the problems he faced were the result of long- term exposure to video games. The 14- year- old boy was administered with sedatives and anticoagulants to treat deep vein thrombosis. He underwent FMRI scans, cognitive inhibition- counting test and emotional interference tests designed to see his brain activity and response to different stimulus. The FMRI scans and the results of the tests were recorded and compared with the ...

Article Summary: Rorschach Measures of Cognition

A group of researchers, Raeanne C. Moore, Donald J. Viglione, Irwin S. Rosenfarb, Thomas L. Patterson, & Brent T. Mausbach, conducted a study on measures of cognition associated with functional disability of the schizophrenics. American Psychological Association published in their journal “Psychological Assessment, (Vol. 25, No. 1, 253–263)” in the year 2013, this study (Rorschach Measures of Cognition Relate to Everyday and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia) with conceptual framework, the rationale, the research, the results and conclusions. The study is a scholarly work with plausible, useful and applicable findings that can help the practitioners and researchers in the management of Schizophrenics.

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Physical abuse is an important issue related to the human development. It affects the growth and development of an individual. Physical abuse is a common phenomenon that is probably found in every society. There are different factors for physical abuse that affects the human development. Children in their childhood experience the physical abuse from their parents, for example, there are possibilities that their father or may be their mother abuse them physically. In addition, there are equal chances that a husband physically abuses her wife front of his parents that affects the children’s cognitions, emotions and behaviors. Physical abuse or ...

Introduction

The book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is about how we think without thinking. This can be further explained by illustrating that the choices made instantly in the blink of an eye without actually thinking why they are made. The world around us requires that decisions should be footnoted. This means that if we say how we feel about something we must be ready to elaborate about why we feel a certain way. Blink discloses that a quality of good decision maker is not who can spend time providing deliberate answers or process the information effectively but the one who has perfected ...

Introduction

Depression is a mental state, better considered as a psychotic disorder that is characterized by the presence of pessimistic feelings about the future (Davis, 2011), and a despondent lack of activity. In this state, the person is unable to think and concentrate properly. There could be an increase or decrease in appetite. He or she may also feel dejected and hopeless that may result in suicidal tendencies. Depression is one of the most common and serious types of psychiatric disorder. Major depressive disorder (described below) is among the most frequently occurring mental disorders in the United States. There are approximately 6.7% ...

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Low mood disorder, otherwise known as depression, is the product of distorted judgments and beliefs. As such, it can produce cognitive dysfunctions that indicate the impairment in attention, concentration, memory, and other aspects. The opening chapters of the project induct into the rationales behind depression and its phenomenon. Further sections analyze depression and cognitive outcomes, the negative cognitive triad, faulty information processing, the ways depression produces cognitive deficits, functional and structural abnormalities of the human brain caused by depression and associated with cognitive deficits, depression cognitive symptoms and cognitive abilities affected by depression. The opinions of prominent psychology and ...

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Cognitive-Behavior Theory

Introduction to Cognitive-Behavior Theory (CBT) Cognitive-behavior theory deals with micro practice or social work. Micro practice is one of the most common kinds of social work in which people interact with individuals or families to solve their problems. Cognitive structures are designed to work on the reaction and work of individuals in their personal lives as everyone has a unique cognitive structure that is based on individual experiences of life and biological predispositions. The hyphenated term “cognitive-behavioral” shows the significance of both cognitive aspects as well as behavioral approaches to understand and help human beings. Both of them ...

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This paper is on the topic of Data, Information and Knowledge and how knowledge management relates to the theory of cognitive dissonance in an organization. The first next section will discuss the meaning of data, information and knowledge. The following section will discuss the important aspects of knowledge within an organization and the relevant perspectives. The next section will discuss the benefits of knowledge management and some challenges which an organization faces while implementing and routine application. The final section will relate to the application of knowledge management to cognitive dissonance theory on the basis of a example.

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Knowledge comprises ...

Introduction

As a revered author, Elliot Aronson provides a very gripping preamble to the intricacies of modern psychology. By use of lively presentations, vivid narratives, intriguing examples and facts from pertinent research, the author delves into motives and patterns of human behavior. The author covers diverse topics like conformity, terrorism, advertising, power of religious cults, obedience, interpersonal attraction, politics, war, relations regarding race. Chapter five of the book particularly deals with self-justification. The author explored different concepts in this chapter relating to the above mentioned issue. This paper explores these concepts within the context of the real world.

Discussion

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This paper is will discuss the case of Adam Strong. The first section of this paper will explain the offender category that concurs with the scenario client and discern the treatment considerations inherent in this category. The second section of this paper will describe the multicultural factors evident in the scenario and explain how these factors affect treatment and treatment approach. The third section of this paper will describe the treatment approach and/or programs you would use with the offender and explain why. The next section of this paper will describe the ethical and legal issues that might be ...

Within the field of psychology, there are numerous schools of thought that attempt to explain and understand the complex mechanisms that take place within the human mind. From exploring childhood events and dream analysis, to specialized flooding techniques and examining how individuals within a family operate, there are a variety of different theories and approaches that assist mental health professionals in helping clients to overcome the challenges that occur in one’s life. However, not all theories view the human condition the same, and as such, the various theories, each have unique approaches and interpretations of life’s events, which influence ...

A child can be abused in a wide array of different ways. One of the most serious ones that brings devastating effects to a child’s mental and emotional development is a child’s sexual abuse. People are struggling to put children’s rights in every government’s agenda. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children should be protected “from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation” (Art.19). The term ‘child abuse’ refers to physical, emotional or sexual acts committed against a child by parent or ...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): An Introduction

PTSD is a well-known acute anxiety syndrome that is created after an experience to any incident which is considered as threatening and causes psychological distress. Normally, the PTSD is created following the exposure to a horrifying incident or trauma in which grave bodily harm has taken place or was endangered. The distressing incidents that can activate PTSD consist of violent personal physical attacks such as rape or robbery, natural as well human-created calamities, mishaps in military warfare. PTSD can be at times turns to be an extremely disabling condition. These traumatic events may invoke the risks of death to oneself ...

Psychology: Case Study

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Initial interview 4 Assessment formulation methods utilized 4 Assessment of John presenting problems and goals 5 Analysis and critique of MMT approach 6 Agreed goals 6 Treatment plan 6 CBT interventions 7 Intervention for cognitions-thoughts records 7 Benefits of the approach 7 Interventions for behavior- activity scheduling/diversion techniques 8 Benefits of the approach/ interaction 8 Interventions for imagery/interpersonal- imagery based exposure 8 Benefit of approach 9 Intervention for sensation- relaxation/ visualization 10 Conclusion 11

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- Attitudes are defined as “evaluations of a particular person, behavior, belief, or concept” (Feldman, p. 519). It is said that our behavior is highly influenced by our attitudes toward things; we are often persuaded to think or do certain things based on what influences these attitudes. Feldman (2012) notes that there are many factors that can change our attitudes: first, there is the message source – we put greater stock in things said by people we admire, like role models or celebrities. Secondly, there are the characteristics of the message – the message itself must be of sufficient quality and tone ...

Anxiety in Infants

Anxiety is one of the most common mental disorders among the infants. Anxiety is expressed in various ways among the infants. Excessive crying and baby tantrums are some of the ways infants express their anxiety. However, the greatest concern is the source of their anxiety at this young age. Parents are the infants’ first interactions circle and therefore affect the infant’s social, cognitive, and mental growth. The parents therefore are responsible for the child’s reactions to the world in its first years. How does parenting affect the anxiety levels among infants? Does anxiety in the parents affect ...

Introduction

Every problem operates at two levels; peripheral level - it’s visible outward appearance and root level - its clandestine originating point, which usually is hidden from one’s normal vision. Successful solution lies in attacking the root-cause to shut down the oxygen supply, rather than the periphery, since the latter is often a catastrophic off-shoot of the former, if left unattended. That’s why as children, beyond a point, our parents often stop always surrendering to our demands for expensive toys, as a solution to our post-rejection tantrums that annoy them, and instead personally counsel us to instill reasoning about the ...

Introduction

Attachment theory is founded on basic but critical principles which claim that that the differences in attachment between individuals can be traced back to early Care Giving; that early differences have multiple implications for patterns of adaptation in later development and that the patterns provide the basis for the differences in the emerging self during developmental stages, (Berghaus, 2011). The theory has multiple implications and applications since its proposition that cognitive schemas which are based on earlier repeated experiences with caregivers directly influence how people perceive and act while in interpersonal relationships is both simplistic and practical, (Mikulincer, Gillath, ...

1a.DSM-IV refers to the 4th edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental Disorders. It is authored by the American Psychological Association and provides several psychiatric diagnoses for mental disorders. It shows all the medical disorders encountered by children and adults and gives relevant statistics in terms of gender and age. DSM-IV also provides details of various studies conducted on providing optimal treatment to patients. The manual includes 297 disorders, grouped into 15 categories. DSM-IV uses multiaxial approach to provide an assessment. There are five axes with each providing a different angle regarding mental disorders. This is designed to give a ...