...Personal Construct Terrance J. Banks COM321 – Communication Theory (BHE 1349A) Instructor Donald Olsen December 16, 2013 Personal construct perceive of someone view and build their relationship on it. One may set their personal standards world which leads to one history and one predisposition on life. A personal construct identify the opposite extremes and similar of people behavior and style. We place ourselves along lifestyles standards on our family, friends and colleagues. It is also define people by the way they act in the company and decide that some people are extravert and others are introvert. Kelly (2009) stated, “A person is motivated to predict or anticipate what will happen to him or her. What moves people to act George A. Kelly (1905-1966) developed a highly influential theory of personality that described human beings as lay scientist who seek to organize or predict, and control their world”. Kelly says, people believe that a prediction is the drivers of our mind (Kelly, 2009). A construct has two extreme points; “happy-sad”, and we place people; at either one at some point in between (Kelly, 2009). A personal construct is the way we as people look at life, people, and our surroundings. Kelly (2009) stated, “A personal construct according to Kelly classifies his or her own world by developing personal constructs, which are characteristic ways of how some things are alike, and some things are different from one another”. Kelly says all constructs are bipolar...
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...integration is firmly entrenched in the minds of the GenerationY/Millennial generations in the workplace. Yet, in updating the literature and rethinking the impact on Chalofsky’s (2003) construct for meaningful work, the question arose as to whether meaningful work can and should exist in a vacuum or should it be viewed as part of a meaningful life. If so, what are the implications for the construct and for human resource development (HRD). How far can and should HRD go to help ensure a meaningful and purposeful life for present and future generations in the workplace? The Solution. This article provides a sketch of the current research and thinking about meaningful work and a basis for the rest of the articles in this issue. The tightness of the “fit” between self and work can determine how meaningful one’s work is perceived. How work fits within a meaningful life, and how one’s life fits within the context of the organization, the community, the society, and the planet can shape a meaningful existence. The Stakeholders. The intended audience for this article includes HRD scholars, scholar-practitioners, consultants, and students interested in the construct of meaningful work, and the implications of reframing HRD around meaning and purpose. Keywords meaningful life, meaningful work, evolving construct Introduction Meaning and purpose, in relation to work, is a topic that has gained increasing attention in the media as well as in the professional and scholarly literature. This...
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...differently mentally. Consequently, each individual has a different drive, motivation and mindset which draws them to believe exercise is needed in there life. Exercise can be defined as any physical activity that has the capability of enhancing or maintaining an individual’s overall health and well-being. Therefore, understanding the way we feel about our bodies, health and well-being has a huge output on the way we live. The way people carry themselves and function mentally highly determines the decisions they make in life. Unlike many things in life this is not one concept that is easy to comprehend because the details of motivation vary for each individual. In this study, we deeply untangle the reason behind why people exercise. We conducted a survey of 105 participants whom took a 4 point scale survey. From strongly agree to strongly disagree we then had many limitations that occurred in our study. From our findings we can predict that health and exercise are predictors of image. In conclusion, we believe the people whom took this survey need a sense of reality. We have many recommendations that sum up our conclusions in accordance to our own self interpretation of this topic. Table of Contents Executive.........................................................................................................................................2 Table of Contents.....................................................................................................
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...desire to eradicate the disputes, the struggles and the torment associated with racism. As of now, I may stand before you as an individual identified to be of Asian ethnicity, but I hope to leave you as an individual of the human race. When we are born, we are born into a racist society. People generate implicit assumptions of other people based on outer appearance. People discriminate against people and you can't deny that race ultimately plays a role in that process of discrimination. White people can't dance. All Asians are geniuses and know kungfu. All African Americans are good at basketball. All Indians eat is curry. The racial judgments are endless and the world is full of it. Some people live in fear, knowing that their every move is being observed and judged. Some people live in fear, knowing that they'll be mocked and ostracised. Some people live in fear...and others provoke this fear. But the basis of this fear is non-existent. It is flimsy, hypothetical, whimsical and groundless. Let me tell you why. In 1950, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation released a document which recognises that mankind is one and also that all humans belong to the same race and species. No matter what 'race' we come from, we are not different to each other. I believe...
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...entered human lives? Anyone, by the perceived notion of institutions might start listing education, family, marriage, state, religion etc. But, if we think once, all these institutions have something in common. They are all time - framed, time – bound, and submit us to conformity, which is again fitting itself into the framework of larger time that is life time. So, I would say, it is time that is the major institution that changed the face of our lives. Not only ours, but of course of the whole human society, be it in any part of the world. If you are someone like Plato, you would say, there is no such thing like time that is making life hard for us. Instead, it is the idea of time that is responsible for all the commotion. Well, I do agree with such people and say, “The Clock is the culprit”, and enquire how this dire consequence happened to us. Unfortunately, to track how this at all happened, we should still rely on time, gazing back at the past, so that our arguments would make some sense. By this, we could say that, time is eternal to our lives. It neither has a beginning nor ending. The entire creation moves on according to a time pattern. Time is one of those many necessary evils that happened to us. Tracing back to history, we don’t have any evidence to suggest when the word ‘time’ derived or established semantically, but the word ‘clock’ is derived from the Latin word ‘clocca’ which means ‘bell’ or French word ‘cloche’, which again means the same. We were introduced...
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...Communication Theory (BCB 1238A) Nichole Vasser 10/22/12 The cornerstone of any relationship is the ability to communicate well. Communication is so important in any relationship, whether it be professional, personal, or intimate. It allows us to share our thoughts, interests, and concerns among each other. Strong communication is based on the way we listen and talk. We can all learn how to improve the way we communicate but it takes more than words to form a strong relationship. So many times the signals we are sending are not those that are intended. When this happens we can lose the trust of others and sometimes we can lose those relationships altogether. When we communicate with those around us most of what we say is without speaking. Whether it be our hand gestures, our tone of voice, or our facial motions, they are all means of communication. More times than not when we cannot put our feelings into words it comes out as body language and can easily be misconstrued. Understanding and realizing that we may be sending these non-verbal signals is the beginning to better communication. It is important that we take into consideration the effects that they may have on the people around us and our relationships that we have with them. Self-awareness and an understanding of the cues you may be sending are paired with the cues others send and receive. There are all different types of communication that people will use throughout their life. The most important type of communication...
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...interpretations and models that guide us through our world. It has been studied over the centuries by historians, and rhetoricians, from Aristotle, Plato, and Dance. They have studied and taught communication theory and correct speaking techniques from Ancient Greece to Modern colleges today. Communication theories seek to inform us of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, but it also studies and examines why we have certain thoughts about objects in our environment, why we feel a certain way about people in our interpersonal relationships, groups or organizational structures. Communication teaches us how to use our social and cultural perspectives, such as psychological, social constructionist, and the pragmatic, all of which are a coherent set of assumptions about the way a process operates. (Trenholm, 2011) The psychological, gives us an insight as to what the sender or receiver of the communication process is thinking. The social constructionist model, allows one to adjust their cultural or learned behaviors to any given situation. The pragmatic, can be like a game, if one gets stuck in a game of chess do they just quit the game or continue on? Communication can help us deal with other people individually and in groups, it can also help us to identify if our behavior remains the same or changes once we find our “self”,i.e., being judgmental, are we easily persuaded, when do we think that it is appropriate to submit, and do we want to belong or left alone? As I have researched...
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...only in our country but also our world resulting in prejudice and discrimination. There have been multiple events throughout history in which discrimination lead to widespread death. Prominent examples include the genocides of the Armenians, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and most recently, the Darfur genocide. While it may be hard to imagine that one group of people could find themselves so...
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...and potential to contribute to society. One of the most important things to understand about communication is understanding ourselves. The reason for that is because it helps us understand who we are and why we are this way and once we understand ourselves we can interact with others in a more competent way. Understanding self has three constructs: Self- Concept, Self- Esteem, and Self- Regulation; all three of these help with both verbal and non- verbal communication. To understand ones self you must understand the three constructs of Self. The first one is Self- Concept. Self- Concept is what we think we know about ourselves. We posses to selves: our public and our inner self. Our public self is the self that we show to others during social interaction; which is our actual self- concept. Our inner self is the self we keep private and reflects how we actually feel about ourselves and this is known as our true self. As a whole it has influences how we view and interpret social interaction and our involvement in interaction. The second construct is Self- Esteem; which is the subjective perception of ones self worth or the value one places on self. A higher self- esteem can lead to higher tenaciousness, increased feelings of happiness, and lower incidence of depression. The final construct is Self- Regulation; which is self- determination, independence and self- control. Its also what gives us the capacity to exercise choice and initiation and allows us to pursue and engage in goal-...
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...This essay will examine Plato’s Meno. In particular, I will examine the passage from 77c to 78b, in which Socrates persuades Meno that no one desires bad things. Ultimately, this essay concerns the construction of virtue under the Socratic Method. The structure of this essay is as follows: First, I will briefly provide an outline of Socrates’ argument against Meno’s idea of virtue. After which, I will provide a counter to Socrates’ argument, in short being – virtue (again, good) does not exist as entity beyond our imagination {therefore, subjective (that being dependent upon one’s perception)}, thus, as we construct our imagination, we construct virtue, thus, obviously, virtue is necessarily an illusion (a false idea/perception); after that, I will play the role of Socrates and give a hypothetical response, to suggest that even...
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...Postmodernism is one of the three theories that offer an explanation to the changes from traditional society to the society we live in today. It has been influential in many areas, including Sociology. They argue that we are now living in an unstable, fragmented, media-saturated global village, where image and reality are indistinguishable. For postmodernists, this new kind of society requires a new kind of theory – modernist theories no longer apply. Many sociologists argue that we are now increasingly affected by globalisation which have been brought about through technological, economic, political and cultural changes. Postmodernists argue that there are no true foundations to knowledge which is known as ‘anti-foundationalism’. This view has two consequences. Firstly, although the Enlightenment project of achieving progress is true, the absence of scientific knowledge restricts them from guaranteeing their knowledge is correct, therefore they cannot use it to improve society. Sociologists would disagree and argue that knowledge can be used to solve human problems. The second consequence of their anti-foundationalism view is that postmodernists take a relativist position and reject all-embracing theories such as Marxism, and refers to them as meta-narratives that claim absolute truth. They believe that it is just someone’s version of reality, not the truth. Therefore there is no reason to accept the claims that the theory makes. Postmodernist Baudrillard argues that society...
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...PREFACE Adam Jefferson, a divine manifest of Adam Smith's materialism and Thomas Jefferson's idealism, is our troubled modern day hero. He awoke in the middle of his life - broke and lost. A serial entrepreneur, his life was a never-ending quest for material success. At age 38, as Joseph Campbell forewarned humanity, Adam had "climbed the ladder of success, only to realize it was propped up against the wrong wall." Alone, with nothing else to lose, Adam Jefferson climbed down off of the ladder and searched for the wall of his future. This led him on a 100-day odyssey to start the ascent of his new life, an epic journey which called him across the world discussing today's challenges and opportunities with the great minds of our past - Carl Jung, Mary Parker-Follett, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, and many others. An act of their collective genius and magical combustion, a psychological and sociological theory for sustainability and success was formed. Like all heroic quests, Adam ended where he had begun. Prior to his expedition, Adam had an unforgettable encounter with one of the great minds of the 20th century. One freezing, early morning on January 17, 2009, Adam Jefferson met the famed Harvard psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They walked the beach in Winthrop for hours, discussing morality and the questions one ponders in the solitude of despair. They exchange woes - "You tell me yours, and I will tell you mine."...
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...experience * Conscientiousness = Mostly dependable, organized, goals, and self-discipline * Extraversion = Positive energy, assertive, positive emotions, seeks stimulation from others * Agreeableness = Cooperative, trusting, compassionate, competitive * Neuroticism = unpleasant emotions, anger, anxiety, low stability Remember OCEAN To me people are all different. Might have the same hair color, like the same kind of tv shows, even the same first name. Personality comes from traits that you are born with and traits that are learned. If two people go through the exact same thing that does not mean that, they will react or feel the same way. Everyone in this world is unique in his or her own way. Personality is what we have in order to live life on life’s terms. . Every person on this earth thinks of things differently. Personality is an individual’s thoughts, feelings, behaviors and how the individual sees and acts with each altogether. To understand different parts of personality you must recognize the two major parts and they are one. Understanding individual personality differences in characteristics, also understanding how an individual person becomes a whole. I want to go over the differences in personality and character. Both of these two words are related to a person’s behaviors. The things going on in one’s environment mold a person’s...
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...Aimee Arcoraci-Davies HISC 114: Theology and Politics Final Paper: Prompt 4/5 9 December 2013 How does the self simultaneously live within a virtual world and a physical analog world? When has being bound to religious doctrines and societal dogmas become the factor that constricts one’s potential to freedom from the binary of existing inside or outside the realms of tolerance? Through setting temporal boundaries, one establishes from the allegorical world of the kingdom of God and the rational/visible world of Man. Or are we all ultimately influenced by our digital reflection as exposed through the virtual networks of the Internet and our computer-generated selves? Where is the line between what is real and what is fantasy? As humans, we naturally experience the world analogically by recognizing infinite patterns of data throughout our mundane lives, while digitally we must submit to a finite code or password to identify ourselves to the digital community. In turn, by manipulating and possibly falsifying virtual identities, one can live an alternate, and sometimes dangerous, life through creation of an artificial self, through prosthetic vision and creation of the cyborg. The modernity of humans communicating through machines and developing a highly complex reflective system of digital information that relies on the analog world to input material knowledge suggests that seeking and attaining justice in the analog world is a virtualization exercise. This essay will discuss...
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...that have happened over time has defined us as a nation. We have a history of having a multi diverse population. We are now called a “melting pot.” Each different race or religion in our society today has its own unique history. And it all started with the early colonists because of sailor named Christopher Columbus. It started when Christopher Columbus sailed over in search of a quicker route to India in search for gold and spices. Instead he ended up in North America. He was not aware that he was not in India, and called the natives “Indians.” He sailed for gold and spices, but found neither when he landed in the North American area. So instead of admitting to his failed trip he told King Ferdinand II that there was gold growing on trees. This lie ended up costing the natives there land and a lot of their lives due to the disease and famine that the Europeans brought over with them. Not long after that European countries started sending people to colonize the new found land. Fast forwarding to the late 1700’s, is when the conflict between the American colonies and Great Britain started to heat up. The colonists were already annoyed by the way that the British Parliament was running and controlling what happened in the colonies without even being there, there was no balance between the colonies and the government running them. Eventually the continued frustration of the American colonies reached a boiling point and we went to war in 1775. It really started in 1776 after the...
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