...Self-awareness is the awareness that one exists as an individual being. Without self-awareness the self perceives and accepts the thoughts that are occurring to be who the self is. Self-awareness gives one the option or choice to choose thoughts being thought rather than simply thinking the thoughts that are stimulated from the accumulative events leading up to the circumstances of the moment. Self-Awareness Theory states that when we focus our attention on ourselves, we evaluate and compare our current behavior to our internal standards and values. We become self-conscious as objective evaluators of ourselves. Various emotional states are intensified by self-awareness, and people sometimes try to reduce or escape it through things like television, video games, drugs, etc. However, some people may seek to increase their self-awareness through these outlets. People are more likely to align their behavior with their standards when made self-aware. People will be negatively affected if they don't live up to their personal standards. Various environmental cues and situations induce awareness of the self, such as mirrors, an audience, or being videotaped or recorded. These cues also increase accuracy of personal memory Self-awareness will provide an internal picture of how you perceive yourself. Your self-image is responsible for your everyday relations to your family, friends and day-by-day acquaintances. A good self-image will make your life and the people around you happy...
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...start with some definition of terms to set the scope of my discussion. I will mention four ideas however I shall be focusing more on self-awareness because I believe that this is the fundamental concept upon which the rest of the ideas stem. Firstly, let me begin with self awareness which is defined as the capacity to perceive one’s strength, capabilities and limitations; in other words: insight. Secondly, we have self concept which involves multi-dimensional facets of oneself. One’s past, present and foreseeable future as well as how a person interacts with the people around him/her shapes one’s self concept. Next, we have self-esteem which is roughly the amount of pride one invests in oneself. Lastly we have self-disclosure which is both the conscious and subconscious act of revealing oneself to others. This may include but not limited to thoughts, feelings, aspirations, goals, fears and dreams as well as one’s personal preferences. I believe that self awareness, self concept, self-esteem and disclosure are easily defined concepts. All of these boil down to knowing, understanding and accepting oneself. And when we talk about these things, the questions “why” and “how” often comes to mind. First, why do we need to know ourselves? The answer is pretty obvious. As you develop self awareness, establish self-concept, grow self-esteem and begin self-disclosure you are able to make changes in the thoughts and interpretations you make in your mind. Changing the interpretations in your...
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...Benefits and Obstacles of Self Awareness: 1. Benefits: Self-awareness is proven to drive success of leaders in what they accomplish and how they are perceived by others. 2. Obstacles: In spite of many benefits that self awareness bring to a leader’s success, many people still ignore to understanding themselves and deny negative feedbacks. They may see themselves as better as or worse than they really are. Inaccurate understanding of self may lead to arrogance or self-diminishment of leaders; therefore it affects the organizational effectiveness. This can occur due to several factors: a. Incompetence: The lesser the competence of individual to assess self, the worse would be the accuracy of self-assessment. Because we may assess ourselves inaccurately, self-assessment is not always treated as a reliable criterion to evaluate self-awareness. It requires individuals the ability to be free from prejudice and biased. b. Motives: It occurs when an individual is inability to accept the truth about self or fail to be dispassionate during self-assessment. The cause of this problem is that individuals are guided by several important motives that push them in one direction or another and the psychological safety prevents leaders to accept objective feedback (Sedikides and Strube 1997). c. Self-Presentation: Self Presentation is the ability to affect public perceptions and persuade followers to believe we are who we show to the outsiders. Leaders often do that...
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...Self-Awareness In Dementia Pablo Gonzalez Estrella Mountian Community College: PSY 101 April 7, 2015 Self-Awareness In Dementia The purpose of this study is to analyze the differences in self-awareness between ten patients who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and twelve patients that suffer from frontotemporal dementia. However, in the study they also include a group of eleven normal adults to compare the results with. The method used in this study was to have the subjects describe their current personality and their personality before the disease. The first hypothesis was that patients with FTD would be the most inaccurate when describing their current personality. The second hypothesis was that patients who suffered from FTD would not only describe their current personality incorrectly, but they would also fail to acknowledge a change in personality before the disease. The subjects involved in the study were recruited from a dementia clinic in San Francisco. The researchers gathered a broad group of subjects that varied in race, sex and financial status. The subjects then went through a verification process in order for them to qualify for this study. The group of normal adults were recruited through a local newspaper ad and the rest volunteered. All of the subjects needed an informant for them to describe their personality. Therefore, the results would be more accurate and unbiased. The procedure for the study involved a questionnaire called the Interpersonal...
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...Written Paper on the Use of Self-Awareness in Social Work Practice |# of pages |Point Value | |double-spaced | | |6-9 |2 points | |10+ |3 points | The importance of self-awareness in social work practice is emphasized in Standard 2. Self-Awareness of the NASW Standards for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice “Social workers shall develop an understanding of their own personal and cultural values and beliefs as a first step in appreciating the importance of multicultural identities in the lives of people….Cultural competence includes knowing and acknowledging how fears, ignorance, and the “isms” (racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, ageism, classism) have influenced their attitudes, beliefs, and feelings.” The skill of self-awareness refers to the ability to recognize our own thoughts, beliefs, emotions, personality traits, personal values, habits, biases, strengths, weaknesses, and the psychological needs that drive our behaviors. It includes the ability to recognize how we react to cues in the environment and how our emotions affect our way of relating to others. Social work is a profession that is founded on the ability to cultivate...
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...Michele Smith 3/6/13 Professor: Guilfoyle NUR301 Self-Awareness Self-Awareness is having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self-Awareness allows you to understand other people, how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them in the moment. As one develops self-awareness you are able to make changes in the thoughts and interpretations you make in your mind. Changing the interpretations in your mind allows you to change your emotions. Self-awareness is one of the elements of Emotional Intelligence and an important factor in achieving success. After taking this class I was able to truly understand self-awareness and how it can affect my life. Depending on where you focus your attention, your emotions, reactions, personality and behavior determine where you go in life. This class taught me many interesting things I never knew about self-awareness. Having self- awareness allows you to see where your thoughts and emotions are taking you. It also allows you to see the controls of your emotions, behavior, and personality so you can make changes you want. Until you are aware in the moment of the controls to your thoughts, emotions, words, and behavior, you will have difficulty making changes in the direction of your life. The two self-awareness’s that affect me and that I learned a lot from in this class were stress and personality. I tend to let the littlest things stress...
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...occasion, while in a meeting with friends, the question of the "limits of human understanding" arose. He spent almost twenty years of his life on the subject until the publication of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, a great chapter in the History of Philosophy.[3] John Locke's chapter XXVII "On Identity and Diversity" in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) has been said to be one of the first modern conceptualizations of consciousness as the repeated self-identification of oneself, through which moral responsibility could be attributed to the subject—and therefore punishment and guiltiness justified, as critics such as Nietzschewould point out, affirming "...the psychology of conscience is not 'the voice of God in man'; it is the instinct of cruelty ... expressed, for the first time, as one of the oldest and most indispensable elements in the foundation of culture."[4][5][6] John Locke does not use the terms self-awareness or self-consciousness though.[7] According to Locke, personal identity (the self) "depends on consciousness, not on substance" nor on the soul. We are the same person to the extent that we are conscious of our past and future thoughts and actions in the same...
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...Introduction to Counseling Written Assignment # 1 I. What is professional counseling? Discuss the most recent trends in counseling. Professional counseling is a service provided voluntary and confidential with the focus on the developmental, situational problems of individuals of all ages and culture. Professional counselors help individuals to make decisions and resolve conflicts. Counselors provide service on different settings like the workplace, schools, colleges and other places as well. They also provide this service to families, groups or individuals. The most recent trends in counseling are through the internet and counseling in the community. These trends cover different parts of the community like business, career centers, religious organizations, and local neighborhood comprehensive health care centers. For instance, many organization provide counseling assistance through an employee assistance programs (EAP), employment enhancement programs (EEPs), career development counseling within the companies and outplacement counseling (EAPs). Employee assistance program were created with the purpose of helping employees who have alcohol problems. However, the service of these programs has been expanded to provide counseling to employees in regards interpersonal and personal family problems that may affect their job performance. Career counseling centers were created during the 1990s to help individuals to explore career opportunities and receive basic...
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...The video, "Travis Bradberry - Jim Canfield: Social-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence" explains that Social-Awareness is very important, yet difficult skills to achieve because it requires understanding of the others: what they feel, what they go through, how they understand, and how they react. In order to increase Self-Awareness, we need to pay more attention to the others than pay attention to ourselves. Self-Awareness requires observation skills in many areas, such as non-verbal behaviors, tone of the voices, perceptions, and perspectives of the others, tone (nuances) of the atmosphere, and requires compassion and empathy. In the video, Bradberry also explains that Social-Awareness is probably the area that many people score the lowest...
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...Summary Deindividuation account is the earliest major social psychological theories of aggression. Le Bon (1895), a French social psychologist and sociologist was the first to recognise how an individual’s behaviour changes when s/he is part of a crowd. The most important factor is anonymity. The more anonymous the crowd, the greater the threat of extreme action. A ‘collective mindset’ takes over and the crowd acts as one unit. The individual becomes part of the crowd and loses self control. ‘Deindividuation’ was defined by Festinger et al. (1952) as a state of affairs in a group where members don’t pay attention to other individuals as individuals and, correspondingly, the members don’t feel they’re being singled out by others. According to Festinger et al., individuals merge to the group, forego individuality and become anonymous when belonging to a group. Anonymity is the start of the process that leads to uncharacteristic behaviour in the individual. Being in a group causes the individual to be less bothered about the consequences of their actions. Zimbardo (1969) argued that there is more to deindividuation than just anonymity in a group or crowd. Diener et al. (1976) conducted an experiment involving over 700 Halloween trick-or-treaters visiting local houses in their Halloween costumes. Friends of the researchers put out bowls of sweets or coins that were labelled “TAKE ONE”. There were two conditions, the non-anonymous condition and the anonymous condition. While...
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...Che Hung Su Mrs. Noll IAH206-Sec 735 June 30 2015 Reflection Paper The story that I had chosen in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction is Eileen Gunn’s Computer Friendly. The objective of the story is taking about the virtual reality and it has been put the category of “Computer and Virtual Reality” in the book. In my perspective, the story is not just about the computer and virtual reality, it is talking about the utopias and dystopias. I know my opinions might not be right since I am not some professor or expert in the philosophy, but here is my thought. In the story, Elizabeth has been taken to a place to do an adaption test by her dad. Luckily, Elizabeth scores high point in the test so that she does not have to go to the “Asia Center,” where is a trash can to down all the children who have low score. And the story revealed at the end that Elizabeth’s brother, Bobby, who had better score than her has been put down, too. Only his brain has survived and it has been used as the hardware of a computer to maintain the system and so as her dog, Brownie, his brain has to put into the system for traffic regulation. To me, this is a horrify story because if this is our future, it is a dystopias. We are not living in a free will and even our lives’ purpose is serving as the hardware component of a computer. If we are not suitable for the computer, we will be trashed. Gunn does not give much about the background, but she has stated that the building that Elizabeth took...
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...Individual Self-Development Plan Based on the Results of the Emotional and Social Competence Inventory-University Edition Self-Assessment Questionnaire This paper should be considered a Individual Self- Development plan based on personal results from the “Emotional and Social Competence Inventory-University Edition Self-Assessment Questionnaire.” Having completed the inventory very carefully, giving honest and thoughtful answers I believe that I have and will continue to greatly benefit from this exercise. This assignment has given me reason to look thoroughly at many of my personal challenges that if not improved upon could affect the level of my future successes personally, academically, and professionally. • Working with, understanding, and influencing others • Stress management and self control After completing the questionnaire and reviewing the workbook, I noted that in all except three of my competencies I scored higher than twenty. It is interesting that according to the self assessment profile it could be concluded that I overcompensate in some areas to offset the challenges I have in other competency areas. On the other hand these competencies may not be applicable for the role that I currently hold as an independent Branch Manager. I have considered that with regard to Relationship Management: Inspirational Leadership I scored 24. Yet Influence and Teamwork were two of my lowest scores. I know that it good leaders...
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...Models of reflection Gibbs Model of Reflection Stage 1: Description of the event Describe in detail the event you are reflecting on. Include e.g. where were you; who else was there; why were you there; what were you doing; what were other people doing; what was the context of the event; what happened; what was your part in this; what parts did the other people play; what was the result. Stage 2: Feelings and Thoughts (Self-awareness) At this stage, try to recall and explore those things that were going on inside your head. Include: • How you were feeling when the event started? • What you were thinking about at the time? • How did it make you feel? • How did other people make you feel? • How did you feel about the outcome of the event? • What do you think about it now? Stage 3: Evaluation Try to evaluate or make a judgement about what has happened. Consider what was good about the experience and what was bad about the experience or what did or didn’t go so well Stage 4: Analysis Break the event down into its component parts so they can be explored separately. You may need to ask more detailed questions about the answers to the last stage. Include: • What went well? • What did you do well? • What did others do well? • What went wrong or did not turn out how it should have done? • In what way did you or others contribute to this? Stage 5: Conclusion (Synthesis) This differs from the evaluation stage in that now...
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...measured utility in providing someone with pleasure or happiness. Utility is described in the text as property in any object that tends to produce advantage, pleasure, good or happiness is to prevent mischief or evil doing to the individual or community. Kantianism is Kant’s view that that moral value was based on an individual using his or her own rational faculties as described in the text chapter nine. Faculties are reference to our intellectual minds. Kant believed a person needed to develop a clear understanding of the universal morals that are shared by all people with in all circumstances. His argument for defense is good will is irreducible source of moral value as stated in the text. Virtue ethics give emphasis to one’s disposition of self morals. The text describes a “virtuous character” to state that people achieve their moral base through making moral choices in time as our daily lives advance. The text refers that acting natural expressing moral principles is virtue ethics or a virtuous character. Utilitarianism vs. Kantianism is complete opposites. Kant is more believe that if a person practices good will and follows certain standards or moral laws they will have done well. He believed that good will is good due to its intentions not necessarily its outcome. A person who tries to follow the Ten Commandments and fails occasionally in Kant’s view has not failed to do good will. The persons inclinations may have misguide them though their objective was to achieve good moral...
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...Jake- Take a look at this poor young manager. His awareness his emotions as well as the emotions of others doesn’t exist. He’s grumpy and incapable of generating enthusiasm or interest in his co-workers. He doesn’t understand why his employees always get mad at him. He over reacts all the time, and says things that hurt people’s feelings. Although none of this is done on purpose, it has become a huge problem within the company. It is because his emotional intelligence is very low. Emotional intelligence is the ability to be self aware (recognizing emotions), detect emotions in others and manage emotional que’s. Andrew just got in a huge fight with his employee and co-worker Susan. Andrew- Why is she so mad at me!!? Jake- Susan came to Andrew this morning to tell him a very important piece of information. Susan’s mom just passed away and she came to ask Andrew for the rest of the day off. All Andrew could think to say was, “As long as you finish all of your work, I could care less… Let’s see what ensued. Andrew- Why did Susan just quit? It’s not my fault her mommy just died. I swear she liked working here. What happened? Could it have been something I said?..... Nooooo…. Hmmm….. How can I figure out what would have been the best thing to say? I wonder what Steve Jobs would do. I wonder if there’s an app for that? INSERT AUDIO RECORDING Andrew- Sweet, Steve Jobs App!!!! So I see here that Steve Jobs had high self-awareness with regards to his strengths but not as much...
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