...Significant Events Intro to Psychology 8/25/2012 One significant event that changed my life before I reached adulthood was my grandmother passing away. My grandmothers passing definitely played a life-shaping effect on my life. My grandmother passing was something that was very unexpected and shocking. This was something that no one in the family expected and left a lasting impression on me and my siblings. The reason my grandmothers passing was so significant event was that before her passing I was heading down a bad path in life and associating with negative factors. While in last days before her passing speaking with her and promising to change my life was something that has molded me into the person I am today. Now as I think back on the event, I believe this event to be the most accurate memory that I have from my past. But the more I think about it and try to relive the memory the more I find myself questioning the details of the event. When I first thought about the memory years later I recalled the conversation that we have happening in the evening, when in actuality our conversation took place in the morning during visitation hours. I also believed that I was the only person in the room during our conversation when truth is that my two cousins were also there. Even though these details I believed to be true were false, the actual conversation between my grandmother and I, I remember clear. I actually can recall the conversation word for word with tone...
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...Significant Events Lauren Smith 4 March 2012 Significant Events The social, economic and political events in the United States throughout the years have shaped the way we live today. After World War II and up until the 1990’s, the United States has gone through major tragedies, schools and jobs have integrated, and President’s have been assassinated. 1950’s Central High School in Little Rock, AK, forced to integrate became known as the little rock 9. September 20, 1957, Judge Ronald N. Davies granted the NAACP lawyers, Thurgood Marshall and Wiley Branton the right to stop governor Faubus from using the National Guard to stop the nine black students from entering the high school. After finally agreeing to not use the National Guard, he wished the students would stay away until integration could occur without violence. He knew there would be violence African Americans in their school. September 23, 1957 the nine black students were off to school. Being smart, they went in through the rear so they could avoid as many conflicts as possible. White mobs joined together to protest the new students while reporters met to support the black students. All of the white mobs went crazy when they finally heard that the new students were in their high school. The nine black students actually exited out the rear of the building the minute the mobs came so they would not get hurt. The following day President Eisenhower actually sent the 101st Airborne Division so the...
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...Jayquan S. Salmond Significant Event Final Paper 28 November 2014 Psychology 105 The purpose of this paper is to share a significant event I've had in my childhood. The event I would like to share is when I was in the fifth grade. This event in my life became very world-shattering when I was eighteen years old in Navy boot camp. When I was in the fifth grade I have had the most undesirable opportunity of seeing a little boy drown in our city pool. Actually, I was taught how to swim when I was in the third grade. After that fifth grade summer, I was afraid of the deep end of the pool. Seeing the little boy drown at the age of ten did not give me the desire to swim in any depth pass my waist line. As stated in the textbook Introduction to Psychology, “Cognitive behavior focuses on the processes such as memory, thought or reasoning” (Page 10). As I stood on the diving platform at the pool in Navy boot camp, my mind went back eight years to where I saw the little boy drown in the city pool. Deep inside my mind I knew I was trained well and I knew without a doubt that the instructors were highly trained in not letting me drown in that pool. However, I was still in fear that I would drown like the little boy did eight years ago in the city pool. I approached this situation with what psychology calls cognitive perspective. The memory of the kid drowning in the pool had my focused on only one thing, I may drown rather then I can swim and I will make it. How did...
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...CANCER Ralph Molina Introduction to Psychology May 26th, 2013 Abstract Developing and overcoming cancer was a major event that affected my personality, and how I dealt with my relatives and therapist and the outcomes from its treatment. CANCER Many of those moments or psychological moments were significantly affecting: * Memory * Tension * Anxiety * Depression * Sleep disturbance * Emotional disturbance It did not affect my memory completely as I was able to retain all images of my cancer treatment, but not in detail as well as the way family and friends treated me, and retrieving all this information made me feel completely depressed, nervous and full of anxiety. Even though the representations of those moments are not accurate, they are veridical. These emotional memories were coming back to me repeatedly ( Janoff-Bulman 1992), constantly recurring, and psychologically disturbing, full of negative events like death association. These memories were constantly telling me what happened. These same memories represented visual forms of sensory images that were not accurate as I could not and still can’t remember fully in detail step by step each occurrence. They are only visual images that are fading away and are not so accurate anymore as those sensory images are not coming back as constantly as before. They are not as accurate as memory is an active, reconstructive process rather than a passive...
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...Significant Event- Draft Week 4 – Assignment 1.1 PSY 105 My most significant event would have to be the passing of my Uncle. He was 40 years old and died 2 months before my 20th birthday. It was early morning and he had seizures. He was rushed to the hospital and he was on life support for 8 years. His heart was beating for a full 24 hours after his brain had stopped working. The man was a fighter. He was a Software Engineer. He loved what he did and passed that love on to me. He taught me a lot of life lessons and how to be a good women to not only my family but others around me. I would have to say that this event is completely accurate due to me being at the funeral. I was there to help with the funeral and do the setup. It is possible that due to my age that some of the details were left out or even exaggerated more than what happen. It also could be due to the frantic stat that everyone was in I also could have left out some details or exaggerated some of the details. Due to my knowledge of the situation I am pretty accurate. I can tell you everything about the flowers that were on the grave and the color of the tombstone. So to my knowledge and memory I have a pretty accurate encounter with this situation and memory of what happened. Well going from the definition out of the book. “Subjective well-being means the individuals’ global judgments of their own life...
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...Assignment 2: Significant Events Daniel Porter Intro to Psychology Professor Sheila Skeans May 27th, 2012 Everyone experiences a significant event in their lifetime. For some the event can be negative while others may have a positive outcome. My event happened when I was 12 years old and my family moved from Ceresco, NE to Maryville, TN. It was an event I thought was negative at first but was a very positive event indeed. Moving to Tennessee provided me with a plethora of opportunities I never would have had in Nebraska. My memory of this event is very clear and very accurate. I will never forget the dinner at which my parents told me and my sister about the up and coming move. Mom cooked dinner that night and she made our favorite; enchiladas. I guess she wanted to try and make it as pleasurable an experience as possible. I was very excited at first. I wanted to live in a bigger city and that opportunity was soon coming to fruition. Eventually I began to realize all I would be leaving behind in my friends and family and ended up not wanting to go. I still today can make those same enchiladas in my own home and the smell and taste brings the memory of that dinner right back to me. That memory is forever etched into my long-term memory, a memory system for the retention of large amounts of information over long periods of time (Baron & Kalsher, 2008). I moved at an awkward stage in life. I was 12 years old closing in on becoming a teenager. I was terrified when...
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...Significant Event Sakeria Evans Dr. Jacquot PSY 105 November 1,2014 Everyday a child is born to a different woman. Women have babies every hour, minute, ans second of a day. Some are old, young, first time mothers, and even single mothers. Becoming pregnant with my first child was a significant event. I was still a baby trying to prepare for a new baby. Now I would be responsible for another human being. There are many types of psychological perspectives but the two that applies to me becoming pregnant was cognitive and developmental perspectives. First I would like to discuss how cognitive perspective applied with my accepting the fact that I was pregnant. Adapting to the changes in my body and the overall preparation of my new baby being born. How will my baby respond to me? Can I handle this new responsibility? * My second perspective which is developmental applies to my behavior changing, habits, and interest. Now I had to develop parenting skills this meant I would need to change everything I did as a teen girl to become a mature adult. My pregnancy made me realize that the future of my child’s well being was top priority. I had to rethink my goals and prioritize for the sake of my son’s future. I had to finish school, get a job, and give up my social life to focus on my child. Through observational learning I discovered so much helping things. Being pregnant for the first time was like pregnancy for dummies. Observing other mothers ,watching...
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...Most Significant Events By Bryon W. Neubauer Jr. University of Phoenix - Axia College Introduction The purpose of this paper is to inform you of the different events over the past five decades that changed the world that we live in today. Some of the events were good and some were bad. The people of the United States have seen and been through numerous of changes and wars. The U.S. has seen presidents come and go that has either helped us or have hurt us in some way or another. In this paper I will try to explain some of those events. People wonder why historical things happen and why it is important to learn about them. Although we do not have an exact answer down to an exact science, we have come to notice that past events have or may have happened has an impact on future events. Ever since the 1950’s all the way through 1990’s, numerous events have happened. Many of those events were social, economic and political related. Almost of all of these events throughout the 1950’s through the 1990’s have impacted how our world is today. Throughout the past five decades and all the historical events that have taken place has had some kind of effect on the way our world is today and future events that has yet to happen. The Korean War – 1950’s During the 1950’s significant social, economic and political events had occurred. The biggest events that happen...
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...Supporting significant life events Introduction The social change such as passing away of a loved one makes a lot of impact on the behavior and the individuals, especially when they are aged or disabled. The case study points out to an elderly lady, who is mentally disadvantaged and the impact of the passing away of her spouse of 40 years. In this short reflection, we are going to assess the Physical, Psychological and Social Impact of Bereavement on Individuals, look at the different group responses to the bereavement of individuals and the impact and implication of the people in health and social care when an individual is bereaved. 1.1 Explain the impact of significant life events on individuals. Bereavement is the condition of having being deprived of something or someone valued, especially through death. The individual feels yearning, pining and longing for the one who has died. The bereaved feels empty inside. It can greatly impact the way in which a person deals with events in later stages of life. We also call it grief. One of the biggest reasons of grief in humans is the loss of loved ones. The grief can have multifaceted effects on physical, psychological and social behavior of the people. When grief overpowers an individual, he can be adversely affected in various ways. If an individual hears the news of loss of loved ones, this shock causes the adrenal system to release adrenaline steroids in body causing a variety of physical reactions. It can cause...
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...The Most Significant Events Mary Wright University of Phoenix The American Experience Since 1945 HIS/135 Gladys Vint 11/20/2011 Following World War II there have been many social, economic, and political events that have taken place during this decade. Different people may have various opinions of what event had the most impact or effect on the American people than other events within the same decade. I will attempt to explain the events that I believe are the most significant events of this era. 1950’s Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement began in the late 1940’s and extended throughout the late 60’s. Many people can recall some of the key events that took place during this time. For example, we all remember reading about Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X, and many others that played an important role in the Civil Rights movement. However, Ruby Bridges is the small 6 year old little girl that comes to mind when I think of the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. This young brave little girl was escorted on her first day to school by U.S. Marshalls, as her parents stood close by. She endured being called names and threatened and feared being poisoned if she ate anything besides a packaged bag of potato chips (Davidson, Gienapp, Heymann, Lytle & Stoff, 2006). Ruby was the only students for several weeks until white students finally began coming back to school during the first year since the segregation of the...
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...Marital Strength It all started at 7am on Saturday September 27th 2014. My groom and I awoke to a grey cloudy sky. I had been checking the average rainfall dates and watching the weather for months. The chance of rain skyrocketed from 20% to 90% overnight. There was no way to post-pone the wedding, it was happening if it rained or not. I had planned my whole wedding by myself and asked my parents one favor. I asked them to book a church in case of rain but they shrugged it off and said not to worry about it raining, that it wouldn’t happen. But it was happening. I had to keep telling myself it would all work out, I had to stay positive for our big day. I checked my cellphone to see if my best friend had texted me the time she would be coming over to help me setup. There was a text from her saying “Sorry, I’m celebrating my nephew’s birthday with him this afternoon, I can’t come help setup. See you tonight.” I brushed it off and headed outside to start setting up. I had already strung the fence line and every tree with lights weeks prior. The property was dazzling and magical, it looked as if it could be a scene in a movie. My parents yard had been groomed by my husband and I a few days before and it looked immaculate. I had planned the ceremony to be in the front yard so that is where I began to setup and decorate. Pulling chairs off the trailer, I felt rain drops brisk my nose. I pushed the worries out of my mind and kept working. When the ceremony was set up I headed to...
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...Significant Health Care Event Eugene Whitehead HCS/531 February 18, 2013 Ann Gantzer Science and technology have always been joined at the hip. The evolution of health care services in the United States (U. S.) undoubtedly has been shaped at least in part by advancements in scientific research and knowledge, and technological innovation (Shi & Singh, 2012). The following exploration focuses on ways a specific scientific or technological event or innovation affected health care provision in the U. S. to date. Health care is dynamic. Science and technology continue to prove themselves as important facilitators of the change processes that occur in health care. The scientific method and nursing process are just a few examples that demonstrate the significant contribution scientific research and technology provided to the historic development of the health care delivery system in America. This report cannot realistically address the exhaustive list of scientific and technological advancements that have benefitted the practice of medicine. However, I intend to satisfy the question of just how much influence the chosen event exerted on the course of health care evolution. The Significant Event Birth control or contraception, endearingly dubbed “the pill” by the American public made medical and scientific history in 1960. Since its inception the pill has been surrounded by controversy running the gamut from health concerns and moral choice to religious opposition and political-legal...
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...Significant Health Care Event University of Phoenix HCS/531 Martha Owen 1/28/13 Significant Health Care Event Health care has been influenced by numerous significant events throughout history. These events have helped change and shape health care in efforts to improve it, and to fit in with the current needs of the population. Some of the influences include society, culture, finance, religion, politics, technology, health trends, the environment, and population (Shi & Singh, 2012, p. 9). This paper will discuss a significant event that has changed or affected health care today, explain how the historical evolution of health care was impacted, and assess the significant event based on personal values and beliefs. Significant Event’s Relation to Health Care Excessive litigation is one of the significant events affecting health care today. Litigation has become so popular that it has become specialized. Advertisements for litigations against health care facilities and professionals are placed on television, radios, Internet, and other information outlets, at frequent intervals. It is not unexpected to see or hear several of them throughout the day. Law firms have become specialized in trying health care related cases and focus on specific conditions. The result is that health care facilities close because of the financial burden of payments resulting from litigations, the amount paid for malpractice insurance rises, insurance premiums rise, and costs of health care...
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...My Significant Life Event Oneekah Henderson Mr. Clinton Gortney Lithonia Campus Introduction to Psychology October 28, 2014 Strayer University My Significant Life Event My life has been filled with lots of memories, not many from my childhood, some good some bad. I feel that these compilations of events have molded me into who I am and how I react to different situations. According to Settersten and Mayer (1997) (via psyplexus.com/mhr/life_events_psychiatry.html) “A life event is a significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious and long lasting effects.” For me that event was the day a man invaded my home and shot/paralyzed my husband in front of my 2yr pol son, while I was in the adjacent room. My Biological Perspective As I was in the living room I heard people talking in the kitchen, which wasn’t a surprise, I was watching a movie after getting the older children off to school. The sound of calm voices turned into tussling followed by a loud bang and my son screaming. As I jumped up, my son ran into the room and jumped into my arms crying. I immediately ran and jumped behind the sofa, pulling it back on us to hide. My hands were shaking as I tried to dial for help, only to get put on hold and sent to voicemail. As the man entered the room looking for my son, not knowing I was in the house as well, I began to shake profusely. I put my hand over his mouth whispering to be quiet, and he did. Unable to answer to 911 callback...
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...Significant Event Final Paper Intro to Psychology Strayer University Professor Donna Joy A childhood event I went through that I vividly remember happened during the year between the age of 15 and 16. During this event, I went through what I call a self-implosion. (Luce, 2013) My cognitive perspective was being challenged, and I lost the ability to cope with events I was going thru. (Lopez, 2010) Communication these events sometimes became very difficult. How I handled most of the events during this time frame was mostly shaped by how I was brought and the beliefs that were instilled in me as a very young child. I was raised in a family six, three older sisters and two younger brothers. My parents nurtured us in loving Christian manner, always teaching us to turn the other cheek. Abide by the rules set before us not to make too many waves, and trust that things will work out eventually. If you work hard enough, you can rise above whatever obstacles are before you. Many of my mannerism was influenced by my parents as I observed them in their daily activity and interaction with others and also how they treated my siblings and me. As an adolescent I was short, larger in stature, and did not always have the latest to wear in the fashion department. All of these things along with a slightly gifted mind and a thirst for knowledge led me to be ridiculed by peers. There was many time when I was picked on by people who I thought were my friends until I displayed I was slightly...
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