...Personal Reflection Paper Christin Ferebee PSY/400 June 9, 2014 Nancy McGraw Personal Reflection Paper “Your self is your ongoing sense of who and what you are your sense f how and why you react to the environment and how you choose to act in the environment” (Myers, 2010). Only the self is able to define who someone is, what they are, and what their role in life is. How an individual feels about themselves defines who they will react to other individuals. This reaction to others will help each individual shape their sense of self. Our own sense of self helps us to organize our individual thoughts, feelings, and actions (Myers, 2010). We as individuals are able to recall our past, present, and even to think about our future by our sense of self. By using self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy, we are able to apply the sense of self to current life. The goal with this paper is to apply my concept of self to my current life, and the social world. Describe the Concept of the Self in the Social world Each individual’s personality will influence their self-concept, but social experiences have even greater influence in the social world. Self-concept is becoming a major social-psychological focus since it helps an individual to organize their thinking as well as being a guide to their social behavior (Myers, 2010). Each individual has a different social role and social identity that defines our sense of self in the social world. A social role refers to titles such as husband...
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...Personal Reflection Paper BSHS 345 August 26, 2014 Personal Reflection Paper Invidious comparison is the act of comparing one person to others according to their class, race, sex, or religion. This act can have a negative effect on people who are aware of it. Growing up in California, where the predominant Hispanic races were of Mexican and Central American origin, I was constantly compared to those Hispanic backgrounds. This was frustrating because I am Colombian and the Colombian Culture is very different from the Central American culture. My mind could not understand why people would compare me to them if I am South American. The traditions, food, music, slang, and even accents were different. American non-Hispanic people would call me, among many other things, a “dirty Mexican” or “wet back.” This was extremely frustrating because neither one of my parents hopped the border nor were they dirty. My young mind did not know how that these people were just ignorant so my frustration turned into anger and total repulsion of races of those other backgrounds and countries. A sense of insecurity and even self-hate would overcome me. I did not want to be Hispanic, I wanted to be white, and I wanted to be accepted. My way of seeing things changed in 2006 when the Immigration Equality Movements became popular. Latino activists would speak at events and in a sense give the people a sense of empowerment and hope. Attending these events made me feel proud of my Hispanic heritage...
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...Personal Reflection on the Self Marshawn Metters PSY400 Monday, October 21st, 2013 Instructor Ami Taharka Personal Reflection The concept of self is a very intriguing subject in which many different psychologists as well as sociologist have spent a great deal of time in an attempt to define what the self means to each individual separately. Each and every individual share different ideas on what they believe about self and how it helps produce their whole being. The concept of self often deals with the past and the future, considering how an individual used to be as well as what an individual would like to be. The study of self often times will shine light upon an individual looking to the world for understanding, hopes, and fears of how to interact, what to expect, as well as what that individual believes the world thinks they should act or be. This paper will allow me to share personal experience that have played a part in my own social development as well as define self concept, self esteem, and self efficacy. The Self The term self-concept is defined as a person’s answer to the question, “Who am I?” (Myers, 2010). The self exposes how an individual may perceive who he or she really is. The concept of self defines the roles and often times the attributes in which an individual see when looking in at oneself. A basic explanation of self derives from social interaction; social interaction guides an individual’s actions and behaviors. My grandmother said to me as...
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...Personal Reflection Paper Nikia Crump BSHS 345 Seanee Alexander July 6, 2015 Introduction This paper will focus on a personal experience with vicarious traumatization as well as invidious comparison. Will focus on how to avoid vicarious traumatization in your personal/ work life and ways to strategize to avoid this. These will also be strategies that I use as a Human Service professional to avoid traumatiztion as well. How to Stop Invidious Comparison We have to realize that we are all different and no two people are the same in any way, but as humans we have a natural tendency to constantly compare ourselves to others that we may see on a daily basis or those that we see on television. It is normal to do this to merely evaluate the similarities and differences between yourself and others. In today’s society we have turned in to comparison junkies and this is something that starts at birth with comparing babies on who’s the cutest and then it just carries over throughout the years into adulthood. * We have to learn that comparing ourselves with others is a bad habit and is a sign of low self esteem. Today’s society does project flawlessness within everyone nowadays and that is an untruth, because no one is perfect. *Understanding that everybody is different because that’s just how we are and how we were meant to be. Everyone is born different even with twins, they may look alike, but they have different mindsets, different experiences, and...
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...Personal Reflection Paper Alvena Akins Course/111 March 17, 2013 Alphonso Jefferson What is critical thinking? In this assignment I will discuss what critical thinking is and how I have developed as a person with my critical thinking skills. I will also reevaluate my skills and give a formal and concise reason behind why I decided to change my level of critical thinking. What is critical thinking? Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. What are the three most significant things that you learned about critical thinking during this course? The three most significant things I have learned about critical thinking are as follows: Clarify Your Thinking Be on the look-out for vague, fuzzy, formless, blurred thinking. Try to figure out the real meaning of what people are saying. Look on the surface. Look beneath the surface. Try to figure out the real meaning of important news stories. Explain your understanding of an issue to someone else to help clarify it in your own mind. Practice summarizing in your own words what others say. Then ask them if you understood them correctly. You...
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...Saturday, May 19th 2012 Hum/111 – Instructor K. Moore Week 9 Assignment: Personal Reflection Paper Critical thinking is when you use logical thinking process to evaluate things such as decisions, readings and much more. Critical thinking is developed as a person ages and the brain is introduced to critical thinking skills in order to effectively form the final tool of critical thinking. It may not be used as much if a person doesn’t employ the skills that they have been taught. How critical thinking differs from the usual thinking is the fact that there is depth. The three most significant things that I learned about critical thinking during this class are that it aides’ creative thinking, helps you better analyze things and it impacts the decisions you make. Creative thinking is aided by critical thinking because it assists in the thinking department and helps get the juices flowing when it comes to creating ideas because you have to evaluate them to see if they are worthy. Analyzing a situation wouldn’t be the same if you didn’t have critical thinking to help. When analyzing an idea or decision, critical thinking helps you answer those what, when, why and how questions that require an answer. Critical thinking impacts the decisions you make because if you don’t think critically you may find yourself in a whirlwind of confusion and frustration. When you are using critical thinking you will either get a positive result or a negative result. If you get a positive result...
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...Personal Reflection Paper Critical thinking is the ability to look beyond the first initial thought of something. Thinking is something everyone does every day. Critical thinking is a more advanced way of thinking, using a specific set of skills. Critical thinking is being able to look deeper into the facts to see how they are proven, to see how arguments are formed, and finally, how one reached their conclusion. Critical thinkers question and test their own thought processes which makes them more disciplined in their own research. Critical thinking is much more involved than our normal way of thinking. It is not just asking the six questions of who, what, when, where, why, and how. Critical thinking goes much further into things by observing, remembering, wondering, imagining, inquiring, interpreting, evaluating, and judging. Critical thinking can help with the elimination of negative consequences to ensure for more positive results. Critical thinking is learned and developed through practice. Chapter three of our text was very informative for myself when we discussed the habits that can hinder our thinking. I had not realized that the habits, mine-is-better, face saving, resistance to change, conformity, stereotyping, and self-deception had so much of an impact on my own ability to be a successful critical thinker. Learning about those habits gave me a better understanding of how my own mind works. This class as well as several others have made me realize that...
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...Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization are two things that most people will experience in their lifetime. I know for I personally have experienced both during my 28 years of life. Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization can both be damaging to yourself and other people involved. That is why I'd like to take the time to explain a few important topics on invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization, such as; how to stop invidious comparison, identify strategies that I currently use to avoid vicarious traumatization in my personal life, how those strategies will help me avoid vicarious traumatization as a human service worker and what strategies I could develop to avoid it as well. I myself have compared myself to others at such a level that it did damage to my own self-esteem. I had a baby at a young age, I gained a lot of weight and my self-esteem instantly dropped. Always comparing myself to other moms who had babies. I would be so hard on myself about why I didn't look like them and why it was taking me so long to drop the baby weight. It even got to the point where I stopped eating because I thought that was the answer to losing weight and looking like these other moms that had babies just like I did. I was so busy focusing on my weakness and faults that I didn't stop to embrace my strengths and to embrace the difference of those other moms. Instead of allowing those other moms to inspire me, it brought me down because of envy and jealousy. ...
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...situation where a person is involved in a serious injury or threat to their lives. Every person suffers at some point in their life through problems, injuries, or deaths of loved ones or suffer through traumatic events. We as human services providers will listen to many traumatic events, problems, and suffering stories of the clients that help. Some stories may be worse than others and harder to listen too. Vicarious trauma is the process in which the professional has gone through a shift on the way they see themselves, others and the world do to listening too or getting attached to the client traumatic experience (Kress, 2004). Vicarious Trauma causes changes in the person’s identity, memory, and belief system, which causes change in their personal life, relationships, and the way they view the world and others. When a person listens to the details of the client’s traumatic experience, they become witnesses to the traumatic realities, they picture and they play out the events in their mind, which leads to a transformation within the psychological functioning of counselors (Kress, 2004). Even those that work in other careers, like police officers, emergency medical workers, and firefighters go through vicarious traumas. I as a human being has not gone through a vicarious trauma, and I don’t know of many people that have gone through it. Even though I have not gone through it or I don’t know any person, it doesn’t mean that I will never go through it and more when I start working...
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...Personal Reflection on the Self Paper 1 Personal Reflection on the Self Paper By Joe Everett April 21, 2014 University of Phoenix Personal Reflection on the Self Paper 2 The study of one’s self is a part of social psychology. A person to person in social psychology is not the same as self, now if you asked someone to identify what is self their response will be different all the time because every person will tell you a different response. However, even with all the different responses it does not make any of the answer wrong, it has to do with the person’s perspective that determines what they feel is self, it is because of this we have to wonder how many self’s are we dealing with. If we asked a person that question, they might answer that more than one exists. With this kind of response it is correct because we have to see the inner self, interpersonal self, body self, and the social self. What is considered us or yourself is self-recognized and self identifies; however, what all of this means is that other peoples are not going to see you the same way. There are a couple different theories that deals with such effect and the illusion of transparency. There is what is called a spotlight effect, and this is when a person believes that everyone is looking at them, they think that everyone’s focusing all their attention on how one’s they look or even behavior like, but in reality not one is really paying attention...
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...Week 5 Individual Personal Reflection Paper March 11, 2013 HUM114 Critical thinking is when you stop to analyze any problem or situations and come up with ideas on how you can solve them critically; it is also the ability to use reasoning and logic to unfamiliar ideas and situations. Critical thinking is a form of behavior we can enforce in every moment we need to analyze a certain perspective, situation, problems, and issues. The three most significant things that I have learned about critical thinking during this course are how to identify if it is a problem or an issue, the steps to critically analyze a situation, and finally I learned how to listen, read, and view critically. Learning to identify if a situation is a problem or an issue is imperative. The reason is because they have different approaches to each one. If a situation is a problem, people can all agree that is a problem but may have different ways of mindset when it comes to finding the solution. There may be ideas for solutions that not everybody agrees with, but everybody will agree there is a problem. If the situation is an issue, people will not all agree there may be an issue. Everyone will have their own opinion on the situation to where some may think there is an issue, others may think there is no issue and also others may not agree on how to solve the issue. When you are able to identify if it is an issue or a problem, you can start thinking critically on how to come up with ideas and solutions...
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...visit www.tutorialrank.com EED 435 Week 1 Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario EED 435 Week 1 Arts Standards Scavenger Hunt EED 435 Week 2 Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario Paper EED 435 Week 2 Visual Art Lesson Plan Template EED 435 Week 2 Visual Arts Integration Strategies Template EED 435 Week 3 Drama Lesson Plan Template EED 435 Week 4 Classroom Observation Reflection Paper EED 435 Week 4 Assignment Dance, Movement, and Music Integration Strategies Template EED 435 Week 5 Arts Personal Philosophy Paper EED 435 Week 5 Multicultural Unit EED 435 Week 5 Arts Integration Strategies Presentation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EED 435 Week 1 Arts Standards Scavenger Hunt (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Complete the University of Phoenix Material: Arts Standards Scavenger Hunt located on your student website ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EED 435 Week 2 Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario Paper (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper based on the scenario you chose from the Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario in Week One. Include the following in your paper: A description of the development stage and critical thinking skills of the children in the scenario you chose An explanation of how the developmental stage and critical thinking skills...
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...This paper will explore the importance of personal reflection in nursing practice and how it is a fundamental skill in the field. It also looks into how personal reflection moulds a nurse though reflection on experience and development in the preforming of tasks and skills that provide the best possible patient care. The next section analyses and explains the skill of taking a blood glucose level reading; known as a BGL that was preformed during an intensive workshop. It further looks into a personal reflection of how I felt I preformed the skill. The following paragraph identifies how I know that I preformed the skill well during the intensive workshop with rationales to support my performance. The paper then goes to conclude how I know that...
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...Self Reflection Report to Improve Leadership Skills Free Essay, Term Paper and Book Report Self-Reflection Essay What better way exists to examine key concepts of organizational behaviour than to reflect on one's own experiences and beliefs as they apply to workplace successes and failures? In this report, I intend to review a variety of theories relative to organizational behaviour by considering each in relation to my own experiences as a mid-level manager. This reflection will focus primarily on three themes including personality, working in groups, and leadership. Throughout this report, I will consider my own personal strengths and weaknesses, attempting to determine how each affected situational outcomes. Many of these strengths and weaknesses were highlighted through a series of self-assessment exercises completed as part of the "Prentice Hall Self-Assessment Library" (Robbins and Judge, 2007), the results of which will be regularly referred to in this report. In closing, I will summarize areas requiring continued personal effort in order to ensure ongoing development and both personal and professional growth. Personality Personality seems a logical start...... Word Count: 3238 Page Count: 12.9 (250 words a page / double spaced) What is Your Time Worth? Get INSTANT UNLIMITED ACCESS to this Essay and 15,000 other Essays & Term Papers . Only $12.99! View This Essay Now Get instant access to this essay paper and 15,000 term papers, essays, and book...
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...EDU 390 Entire Course (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com EDU 390 Program Progression Requirement Personal Assessment Interview EDU 390 Professional Growth Plan EDU 390 Professional Organizations Chart EDU 390 Reflection Paper on Becoming a Teacher EDU 390 Section Summary EDU 390 Work Sample Reflection Paper EDU 390 Parent and Community Involvement Product and Presentation EDU 390 Teaching Portfolio Chart ------------------------------------------------------- EDU 390 Parent and Community Involvement Product and Presentation (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Learning Team: Parent and Community Involvement Product and Presentation Read the 4A Parent and Community Involvement proficiencies from Domain Four, The Professional Educator, of the University of Phoenix Teacher Education Program Standards located on your student website. Brainstorm two to three activities to address each of the five proficiencies listed. Select one activity and develop a product, such as a flyer, brochure, poster, handout, or newsletter, as an example of how you might facilitate parent and community involvement. Present your product in a 5- to 10-minute presentation. -------------------------------------------------------- EDU 390 Professional Growth Plan (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Individual: Professional Growth Plan I Complete the University of Phoenix Material: Professional Growth Plan...
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