Understanding Emotions, Moods, and Feelings: Psychological Insights
Properties of Emotion:
- Emotion: immediate, relatively brief, response to env or thoughts
- Involves conscious feelings, physiological response, changes in behavior
VS Mood:
- Slow, long lasting, general state
- No identifiable triggering events
Feeling:
- Subjective sense of an emotion
- One part of an emotional response
Components:
- Subjective feeling
- Physiological reaction
- Behavioral responses (cognitive process)
Common Sense:
- Events cause fear
- Fear → physiological response and changes in overt behavior
- Subjective experience
The Social Work Interview: A Comprehensive Guide
Information Gathering and Hypothesis Formulation
The social work interview is a crucial tool for gathering information and understanding the needs of service users. During the interview, the social worker carefully selects, synthesizes, and interprets data obtained through verbal and nonverbal communication. This process leads to the formulation of hypotheses—assumptions or explanations about the user’s situation—which are then tested and refined as more information becomes available. These hypotheses
Read MoreMessage Processing, Attention, and Emotion in Marketing Communications
Message Processing
Message processing refers to the short-term attention paid to marketing communication and the subsequent cognitive processes that occur in the brain. It occurs with each exposure to a message from a brand.
Attention
Attention can be either unconscious or conscious:
- Unconscious processing is automatic and deals with signals from our senses without conscious awareness. Most unconscious attention will not lead to full processing of a message.
- Conscious processing draws upon associations
A Guide to Sophisticated Thinking and Creative Living
What is a Concept?
“Concepts” are general ideas you use to organize your experience. In doing so, they bring order and intelligibility to your life. They are the vocabulary of thought.
Examples of concepts:
- Changes from being biased to being more open
- Marriage
- Education
- Success
- Communication
Concepts are continually being defined and redefined. Derived from the Latin “boundary,” you use concepts to classify an object, idea, or experience.
What is a Sophisticated Thinker?
A sophisticated thinker goes
Read MoreThe Sex-Gender Distinction in Feminist Thought
1. The Sex-Gender Distinction and Feminist Consciousness
The distinction between sex and gender is key to the advancement of feminist consciousness. Several feminist authors have elaborated on this distinction, while others have questioned its importance.
Authors Who Emphasize the Distinction
Mary Wollstonecraft, in her seminal work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, argued that women should be treated as human beings first and foremost. She suggested that gendered behavior was learned through education
Read MoreSocial Interaction and Group Dynamics in a Risk Society
Sociological Theories and Group Social Work
Mid-Level Theory
Facing Parsons’ grand theory, Merton calls for a mid-level theory. This approach focuses on analyzing a defined area of social phenomena, favoring the establishment of proper connections between theoretical and empirical research.
Conflict Theory
Its main proponent is Ralf Dahrendorf. He believed society always has two aspects: conflict and consensus. These processes are interrelated. Dahrendorf devoted his efforts to developing a theory of
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