Understanding Personality, Disorders, and Social Influence
Personality: An Overview
Personality refers to an individual’s characteristic emotional responses, thoughts, and behaviors that are relatively stable over time.
Psychodynamic Theory
Psychodynamic theory posits that behavior is motivated by inner, unconscious forces over which a person has little control. All psychological events have a cause; we are at the mercy of forces outside our awareness. No action is meaningless. The unconscious is considered more important than the conscious.
Sigmund Freud developed
Read MoreCognitive Function and Memory in Aging: Strategies and Techniques
Assessment of Cognitive Functions
Old age often brings a decline in cognitive abilities such as memory, attention, perception, and language. Biological aging affects not only the physical functioning of the body but also the mental, such as in Alzheimer’s disease. These deficiencies can be managed by delaying their onset through techniques, strategies, and exercises that stimulate cognitive abilities. The role of a coach is essential to implement these strategies and techniques.
Cognitive Functions
Elderly
From
Read MoreQualitative Data Collection and Analysis Methods
Qualitative Information Gathering
The main tools for qualitative data collection in research are observation and focus group interviews. These methods delve into social situations while maintaining an active role and permanent reflection.
Mertens’ Three Approaches to Qualitative Research
According to Mertens, there are three ways in which a qualitative researcher can approach an environment:
- Supervisor: Reviews what happens in connections, is authoritarian, limits observation, and has a high potential
Educational Psychology: Learning Strategies and Cognitive Development
Features and Functions of Learning Strategies
Strategies are procedures aimed, in part, at trainable skills. They are a set of operations and procedures that the student can use to acquire, retain, and evoke different kinds of knowledge.
The Functions:
- Condition the individual, improving their performance.
- Promote the development of autonomous learning by providing students with a fundamental role in the statement.
- Improve students’ ability to learn how to learn.
- Enable easier, faster, and better quality
Understanding Human Motivation: Needs, Drives, and Behaviors
Motivation is always related to the question “why?” There are hundreds of different definitions of motivation. Friedrich said that motivation is the psychological background, the driver, who holds the power to force action and said his leadership. It should be noted that:
- Behavior is multi-determined.
- Reasons energize behavior.
- Reasons route behavior.
- Reasons may change depending on maturational reasons, conflict, environmental factors, etc.
- Motives can be disguised.
McDougal’s Identified Propensities
- Propensity
Key Sociological Concepts and Social Structures
Culture
- Linton states that a society’s culture is the lifestyle of its members, the collection of ideas and customs that are learned, shared, and transmitted from generation to generation.
- Taylor defines it as that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and all abilities and habits acquired by man as a member of a society.
Standards of Living
How norms and values that seem inconsistent or contradictory require different types of behavior in the same situation.
Values
Principles
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