...people are inclined to find the route to success. Before figuring out how intrapersonal and interpersonal perception (understanding yourself and other people) contribute to individual success both at university and later at work, a detailed research and a sequence of experiments are indispensable. This essay is just gives a comprehensive study on intrapersonal and interpersonal perception. Firstly, the essay will analyze in detail how intrapersonal perception contributes to individual success in academic performance and later at work. Secondly, it will explain explicitly how interpersonal perception funtions in interdependent relationship among people. Main Body a. Self-regulating and self awareness Intrapersonal perception means self-regulating involving self-monitoring on the basis of self awareness. Accurate self-monitoring of one’s mastery of material is a necessary skill for student success. Such skill enables students to have the awareness of when to prolong or terminate their studying for an exam and modify their studying strategies. Students who are aware of their own cognitive state are able to adjust their performance when warranted, (Huff &Nietfeld, 2009) which bases on the principle that awareness of what one knows or doesn’t know falls under the heading of metacognition. Awareness determines the grounds on which students judge whether their engagement in an academic task meets the standards they have set for successful learning (Butler&Winne, 1995) Cognitive strategy...
Words: 1059 - Pages: 5
...Codes (CAP/BCAP Codes) be reformed? “The alcohol industry spends more than £800 million annually in the UK on promotion” (Cabinet Office, 2003). This is one example why the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) codes and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) codes are important in order to protect the vulnerable from this vast industry and maintain the public’s confidence in advertising. Consistent changes to our media and methods of communications has led to a dramatic impact on marketing methods and their extent thus requiring the codes to be consistently updated. It is possible to argue that the UK CAP codes have failed to keep up with these changes and need to be reformed especially when looking at alcohol advertising. The power, speed and volume of marketing communications has significantly increased in recent years and advertising now poses many challenging questions to its own regulations (alcoholconcern, 2011). The CAP codes are a code of practice which govern non-broadcast and broadcast adverts, marketing communications and sales promotions. The aim of the UK CAP codes is to lay down the rules for all advertisers, agencies and media industries (CAP, 2013). The codes simply do not focus just on goods and services, but they also enforce regulations on marketing communications which promote causes and ideas, however the codes do not cover political advertising. The advertising industry has taken the view that a self-regulatory code is required in order...
Words: 3359 - Pages: 14
...How Alcohol Affects the Baby's Brain: The most common effect is permanent brain damage which leads to learning disabilities, behavior problems, memory deficits, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, and/or mental retardation.This is called "static encephalopathy" meaning brain damage that doesn't get any better and doesn't get any worse.There is way to reverse the damage. More subtle damage from occasional binge drinking can cause damage that is like buck shot - scattered holes in the brain that affect whatever area that was developing at the time, causing brain cells death, migration of cells to the wrong place, or tangles in the neurons with inaccurate connections. Regions of the brain most affected: .Corpus Callosum - processes information between right brain and left brain .Cerebellum - motor control .Basal Ganglia - processes memory .Hippocampus - learning and memory .Hypothalamus - controls appetite, emotions, temperature, and pain sensation .Frontal lobes - executive functions, impulse control, judgment The corpus callosum and the frontal lobes are affected by alcohol exposure in ways that are manifested in behavior that is perceived to be inappropriate and immature. The corpus callosum separates the right brain from the left brain and passes information from one brain to the other.The left brain controls rules, consequences, concrete ideas, practical details, and orderly sequences.The right brain controlsabstract thinking, emotions and feelings, creativity, and intuition...
Words: 561 - Pages: 3
...Alcohol regulations. Europe, USA, Russia Introduction. Within my work I am going to review part of the countries’ legislation related to the existing alcohol regulations and existing polices, conventions and its development plans. Analysis will be based on the samples of different countries: Russia, EU (different countries) and United States. There are different areas of the existing alcohol regulations: risky environments, tax and prices, market restrictions and marketing control. All of them are more or less affecting business activities in different aspects. Applicability of this report: There are a lot of different types of businesses strongly dependent on alcohol sales or alcohol production worldwide. Moreover there are a lot of international corporations which has core business linked to operations with alcohol. To be able to operate their business on the different markets they have to consider different alcohol regulation in different countries in their business models before making market enter decision and follow existing rules and respective policies updates in daily operations. The examples of this business could be: 1. Producers or importers of alcohol beverages or cosmetic. Examples of corporations - Heineken, Diageo. Strong dependency of core business on alcohol regulation 2. Distributors of alcohol beverages or cosmetic within the country. Strong dependency of core business on alcohol regulation 3. Café, bars and restaurants...
Words: 4207 - Pages: 17
...Bold’’: Alcohol Use and Sexual Exploration among Black and Latino Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (YMSM) Matt G. Mutchler Department of Sociology and Urban Community Research Center, California State University–Dominguez Hills; and Community-Based Research in Education Unit, AIDS Project Los Angeles Bryce McDavitt Department of Sociology and Urban Community Research Center, California State University–Dominguez Hills; Community-Based Research in Education Unit, AIDS Project Los Angeles; and Clinical Psychology Division, Pacifica Graduate Institute Kristie K. Gordon Department of Sociology and Urban Community Research Center, California State University–Dominguez Hills; Community-Based Research in Education Unit, AIDS Project Los Angeles; and Department of Criminal Justice, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Alcohol use is correlated with unprotected sex, which may place young men who have sex with men (YMSM) who use alcohol with sex at increased risk for contracting HIV. However, little is known about how this link develops. This study used qualitative interviews to explore how alcohol became associated with sex and sexual risk among YMSM. We purposively sampled 20 Black and 20 Latino YMSM (N ¼ 40), ages 21 to 24, who used substances (alcohol, marijuana, and crystal methamphetamine) with sex. Interviews focused on participants’ personal histories to trace how these associations developed for each individual. Drawing on sexual script, emotion regulation, and alcohol expectancy...
Words: 13572 - Pages: 55
...music events, are all advertising. Alcohol advertising and the impact it has, has been debated across many sectors. Some sectors are calling for it to be banned completely. It is the intention to discuss some of the arguments, for and against, a complete ban of alcohol advertising. The alcohol industry rely heavily on advertising to sell their products. It is estimated that £800 million is spent on advertising in the UK alone on a yearly basis (Alcohol Concern, 2013). The revenue that this advertising generates is vast, not only for the companies whose products are being advertised but also for the advertising companies, sporting events and the Government, to name but a few. If a complete ban on alcohol advertising was implemented this revenue would be lost. In contrast, the Northern Ireland Health Minister, has been reported to have said that the burden of cost due to alcohol misuse amounts to “…up to £900 million every year…” (Northern Ireland Executive, 2012), with 30% of this amount being endured by the Health and Social Care Trust. These figures are for Northern Ireland alone. The cost to the NHS nationwide is approximately £612.9 million (IAS, 2013). The Government believe that prevention and early intervention will help to reduce this cost. Sir Ian Gilmore, chairman of the Alcohol Health Alliance, has said that young people, in particular children, are easily susceptible to adverts and therefore will take up drinking alcohol at an early age (Gilmore, 2012)....
Words: 1188 - Pages: 5
...and health promotion as ways of prolonging life. In that regard, health needs assessments are important when tackling public health issues for communities. The assessments help to identify new health priorities to reflect changing social circumstances, and results from previous public health approaches. In addition, assessments help to realign health interventions with changes in demographics, given that individuals may not belong to only one community; they can join different communities at separate times of their lives (Hien, et al., 2010). Alcohol misuse as a contemporary health issue Alcohol misuse is a serious health problem in the United Kingdom (UK). The worsening problem occurs mainly as binge drinking or moderate drinking in the wrong circumstances. The potential addictiveness of alcohol arises from its psychoactive properties. Immediately after consumption, alcohol moves to the bloodstream and the victim quickly feels the alcohol effects on brain function. The...
Words: 4896 - Pages: 20
...Heavy drinking young adults are more frequent and widely reported to experience multiple blackouts. There are two types of amnestic experience due to misuse of alcohol: en bloc (EB) and fragmentary blackouts (FB) (Wetherill, & Fromme, 2011). EBs may start and end at definitive points with long lasting amnesia for interim events, the requirement is high blood alcohol content that disturb limbic areas to avoid consolidation of encoded stimuli in to lasting memory traces. The EBs effect is the loss of ability to put most observation occurring in a specific interval in to long term memory (Wetherill, & Fromme, 2011). FBs involve temporary, perhaps forgetful, memory loss for which aspects of experience are recalled via provision of pertinent cues. As a result, memory traces form but require facilitation to be accessed. Current research suggests that FBs is not the result of acute limbic system damage, but from retrieval based...
Words: 2003 - Pages: 9
...ADVERTISING POLICY REGULATION AMENDMENT: THE CODE OF ETHICS, ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6, LETTER C Sionna Rose C. Avellaneda COM31 Mr. Juan Luis Z. Perlas July 26, 2014 I. INTRODUCTION If we are to think about it, advertising has been going on for a very long time. Even if there weren’t any technology used for printing and recording or shooting advertisements we usually see today, during the olden times, isn’t a merchant standing beside his cart beckoning the passersby to buy his goods or traders hanging pictures of their wares considered as “advertising”? Looking at the dictionary definition of the term, advertising is the action of calling something to the public especially by paid announcements. Yes, it has to be paid to be technically considered as advertising, but what’s important is calling the attention of the public to purchase a certain product. What advertisements present to the public is what the company/product can offer to the consumers. So if an advertisement has to show something, it has to show it completely. This is why if I were to change an advertising regulation, I would choose the third provision of Section 6 under Article VII of the Advertising Board Code of Ethics which states that, “Advertisements for alcoholic beverages should not depict the act of drinking such as the liquid entering the mouth and/or being swallowed.” This term paper aims to inform the reader about why I think this regulation should be amended; it aims to present an idea that these...
Words: 1276 - Pages: 6
...Alcohol Advertising and Youth: A Measured Approach August 13, 2012 The Center on Alcohol Marketing also known as “CAMY” has conducted research on alcohol advertising and our youth. CAMY was created to monitor alcohol company marketing practices in the U.S. The exposure to our youth is through television, radio, magazines and on the internet. The research shows that alcohol companies have deliberately placed advertising where our youth is exposed instead of gearing their advertising towards legal drinking adults. Alcohol consumption among our youth is an international public health crisis. Hastings has analyzed the exposure of alcohol advertising and predicts awareness of the advertising; this leads to positive beliefs about alcohol, increased intentions among our youth to drink and higher tendencies of our youth consuming alcohol. While alcohol advertising is a risk factor for our young people, there have been few regulations implemented to keep the alcohol companies from advertising to our youth. World Health Organizations report that between 13 and 16% of countries rely on some form of self-regulation in this area. Between 2.8% and 57% have no restrictions on alcohol advertising. CAMY has completed multiple research studies by using commercial data bases, surveys, independent research and has even went as far as conducting brain imaging. CAMY’S latest work has broken down his findings by Hispanic and...
Words: 643 - Pages: 3
...Applied Economic Analysis of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption.” In this paper I will offer a detailed analysis of the dependent and independent variables used in the study and I will offer an objective viewpoint on the effectiveness of the sampling methods used and the reliability of the study. The author begins his article by describing and defining his purpose for the research project. As a college student he moved from the Netherlands to the United States to study at the University of New Hampshire. The differences in tobacco and alcohol use from Europe to America surprised Rolfe. In beginning his research he found a statistic indicating that “Europe is the heaviest alcohol consumer region worldwide, with alcohol consumption per person over twice the average” (Alcohol Statistics in Europe, 2007 para 6). Europe ranks number one with the amount of alcohol consumed (Alcohol Statistics in Europe, 2007 para 6). The author decided to design a study to investigate the factors that influence alcohol and tobacco consumption across many countries. For the experiment, he used data from 63 different countries. To have accurate results the researcher should have separated the countries and compared them. The author began by conducting base research in academic journals. He learned that, “a country’s unemployment rate, average years of schooling, labor participation rate, unhealthy life expectancy, prevalence of health insurance, strict government regulation, and a country’s economic...
Words: 1076 - Pages: 5
...advertising agencies exert over the general public is not being used responsibly. Essentially, advertising is trying to accomplish four objectives: first, advertisements are meant to create awareness, second they strive to establish a brand’s name and identity, third advertisements seek to provide information to the public in a way that is memorable and lastly, and controversially, advertisements are used to convince the consumer that he or she will be better off with their product. (Business Ethics: Truth in Advertising, film) Some advertisements have been accused of more egregious violations of ethical behavior, in particular advertisements for alcohol and tobacco. While the use of most products will not directly kill you, if alcohol and tobacco are used as instructed they will lead to death; these products have no redeeming value. Alcohol related...
Words: 6149 - Pages: 25
...school seniors smoke marijuana on a daily basis or near daily basis, and close to three quarters have consumed alcohol by the end of their high school years (Feldman, 2013, p. 371)? The adolescence years can be characterized by irresponsible behavior and risky choices for some, causing the prevalence of substance abuse and addiction to be on the rise during these years. Substance abuse can be defined as the over indulgence of a substance that can lead to harmful effects for the individual and or others. Adolescents turn to substance abuse for various reasons. According to Feldman (2013, p.371) many use because they want that free spirit feeling that the loss of inhibitions and tension might provide, others are thrill seeking, and some use them as means to escape from daily stressors. Research states there is a link between adolescent’s substance addiction and changes in brain structure, function, and neurocognition that are characterized by this stage of development (Squeglia, L. M., Jacobus, J., & Tapert, S. F.,2009). Substance Abuse/Addiction on Brain Development From 12 to 18 years of age the use of alcohol and drugs rises tremendously. This rise in substance use correlates with the fact that in 2009 23% of adolescents met the diagnostic criteria for substance use disorder by the age of 20 (Squeglia, L. M., Jacobus, J., & Tapert, S. F.,2009). The usage of alcohol and drugs during the adolescences years could possibly lead to the brain deviating from its normal route of maturation...
Words: 831 - Pages: 4
...things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta. All during the fiesta you had the feeling, even when it was quiet, that you had to shout any remark to make it heard. It was the same feeling about any action.”(158). This shows that the characters lost their sense of right and wrong when they drink. In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses drinking as a symbol to present the struggle to address inner psychological issues through Jake’s use of drinking to prove manliness and Mike’s continuous abuse of alcohol despite his awareness of it. Add The effects of war had can be very damaging to one’s self esteem and manhood. Due to that, a person will do anything to get acceptance and to prove one’s manliness. The war can leave painful traces to a person who suffered through it when Jake states (insert adj._____) “It was in reality a calamity for civilization and perhaps would have better avoided” (25). The physical injuries that he went through left him impotent. In order to escape from the feeling that life is meaningless, people drink and party. Often Jake meets up with friends to drink and at the end of the night, he ends up alone. In his apartment, he contemplates...
Words: 848 - Pages: 4
...singles out for social problems that are much wider in scope, in particular, alcohol abuse by young people? These caffeinated beverages evidently have dangerous effects on individuals when consumed in large consumptions. The reason it is so dangerous is due to the high caffeine levels in the alcoholic drink, which can have adverse effects on those that consume the drink, as it prevents them from becoming tired, and stopping drinking as a natural reaction. The fact that the drink is so cheap, and is marketed in a colourful way does attract younger drinkers, which was the major reason that Four Loko was looked down upon. However I do not believe that these companies should be singled out and suffer due to the social problems of underage drinking, and young people abusing alcohol. I believe these issues are a much larger scope and will not be solved by banning these products. 2. Is Peter Mercer correct that caffeinated alcoholic beverages serve no ‘socially redeeming purpose’? Is that the proper test for determining whether society should permit a product to be sold? What about the fact that there is a market demand for these products? Peter Mercer is correct that these caffeinated alcoholic beverages do not serve a purpose to society and therefore are not socially redeeming. However this is not a legitimate test for determining whether the products should be kept on the market, because alcohol in general is not socially redeeming. I think the fact that there is a high...
Words: 671 - Pages: 3
