‘Professional values of a doctor’ On 25th Feb 2013, we were asked to do a skit about the professional values of a doctor. We were briefed by the speaker about some of the values such as altruism, honor and integrity, empathy, caring and compassion and leadership. Basically, my group was doing a mini talk show, 2 videos were recorded. I was a patient in the first scene. In the skit, I was waiting my friend (who acted as a doctor) for an hour and the doctor came in with his earphone. When the doctor
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Lecture Notes Friendship in the Age of Social Media * 7 out of 10 people use social media (this hasn’t changed in 2 years) * 7 out of 10 facebookers check it every day * Many people say they’re spending less time on FB than we used to (but FB says we aren’t) * So do we have a disconnection between perception and reality? * Is FB so habitual that we go on every day for like 20 minutes but we think it’s 5? * Study from Social Bakers says the top reasons for not Facebooking
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Part 1 By looking at the psychosocial theory of identity and social identity theory we realize that there is many similarities and differences in how they conceptualise identity. Both theories agree that identity has personal and social aspects. The most noticeable difference is that the psychosocial theory looks at how we achieve our individual identities, whereas Tajfel focuses on how we develop group identities (as cited in Phoenix, 2007, p. 62). Looking at each of the theorists’ biographies
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drama film, “Crash”, which is co-written, produced and directed by Paul Haggis, highlights many social psychology concepts. One of such concepts is stereotypes. Stereotypes as term by Baron, Branscombe and Bryne (2006), refer to the beliefs about social groups in terms of the traits or characteristics that they are deemed to share. Stereotypes are cognitive frameworks that influence the processing of social information (p.571). In the movie, stereotypes which are distinctively directed towards race
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Personal Responsibility Gen 200 September 18th, 2013 Evelyn Aiken Abstract It is easy to point the finger and become the victim when things go wrong in your life. When you can take personal responsibility for your actions, not only are you showing signs of growth and maturity, you are also showing that you are reliable and trust worthy in the work place. The world we live in today, it is easy to become the victim. We have radio lawyers who will be happy to help you sue even if the accident
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When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God." When you love you should believe that you are in his/her heart. For me these quotations teach us to have trust in our love once just like when giving trust in God. Trust is the very thing that everybody in this world desires, or at least should desire from one another. Who wants to have a friendship or relationship without trust? Nobody does. Without trust, there is no friendship, and without friendship
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SUGENTHEERAN KOMANNAYAR (28380) GAYTHRI KUPUSAMY (26347) SELF PERCEPTION THEORY Self-perception theory is an account of attitude change developed by psychologist Daryl Bem. It asserts that people develop their attitudes by observing their behaviour and concluding what attitudes must have caused them. The theory is counterintuitive in nature, as the conventional wisdom is that attitudes come prior to behaviours. Furthermore, the theory suggests that a person induces attitudes without accessing
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Loss of Face Among Chinese Businesspeople in Intracultural and Intercultural Business Interactions Peter W. Cardon and James Calvert Scott Abstract Problem: No systematic research has been conducted about loss of face in Chinese business culture. General research questions: What causes Chinese businesspeople to lose face when conducting business intraculturally and interculturally? Setting: People’s Republic of China. Participants: 34 Chinese businesspeople from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong
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6.1 Study the “A Day in the Life of Yolanda Valdez” case (p. 542), and answer the three accompanying questions. 1. Team competency was one that was illustrated. Team competency includes the knowledge, skills, and ability to develop, support, and lead groups to achieve goals. Clearly, Yolanda Valdez and her team where ultimately working as a team and had goals in mind to accomplish. From the everyday operations to plans on expanding the company. I felt that the organization worked together with
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in the Middle East, Africa and intergroup conflict related to “ race debates “ in Europe, The U.S.A and Australia. Psychology is the only discipline, which over the past century has consistently and systematically investigated the issue of prejudice and race. Social psychology has a long tradition of empirical and theoretical research in this field and currently there are many social psychologists in Australia engaged in significant and timely research. This is no accident given the regions long and
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