Role Playing Paradigm

In the chapter “It’s Better to Receive than to Give” Matthews covers that by receiving gifts or favors people are making a figurative investment in you. If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor. Ross Perot told the country he would run if regular people would buck the two-party establishment, cut through the red tape and get his name put on the ballot of all fifty states. It was a good plan because people felt energized and excited; they wanted to change things and make Ross Perot president. By recruiting these people who otherwise may have not joined politics he created a massive political movement that rivaled the two major parties. Then, Matthews used the example of Jimmy Carter, who hired people who worked on failed campaigns

Everyone in the U.K, including children and young people, have rights that are recognised and protected. These rights are granted by legislation, for example, Human right legislation, The Children Act, etc, which have evolved from a variety of sources. One of these sources is The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child. Before this was adopted any laws relating to the care and protection of children and young people gave all rights to the child’s parents to do as they felt fit.

This book has proven to be an enlightening read. It both teaches and inspires. Howard Zinn has offered us a perspective of the real story of American history heretofore unavailable to us – history from the perspective of real people – immigrant laborers, American women, the working poor, factory workers, African and Native Americans.

Video games have been unloved or hated ever since they have came out. Video games are excellent for kids because they will improve their work with others, help them think more faster, and will help kids become more intelligent.

The study included a ball-toss game called Cyberball and a brief questionnaire. In the Cyberball game, “participants play with two other players who either pass them the ball (inclusion condition) or do not (exclusion condition). The game models a real life ball-tossing game and participants are told that they are playing on-line with other players” (Bastian and Haslam). The participants were told they were playing against students from another lab on campus and were randomly assigned to one of two forms of the game, the inclusion version or the exclusion version with both games lasting for 50 throws. Then on the questionnaire, the participants rated themselves, the other players in the game, and the others’ view of themselves on the character traits from the first study, the four fundamental needs and twelve new character traits based on human nature and human uniqueness. The results of the experiment unveiled that the participants who had been excluded in the Cyberball game rated lower on the questionnaire for the perception of themself as also seen relatably in the first study and again all four of the fundamental needs strongly correlated. The results of study two replicated the results of study one; participants viewed themselves as less human when socially excluded compared to when they are socially included. The results of study two also showed that participants felt their excluder saw them as being less human as well. Study two gave more support to the notion that human nature is a factor related to the perception of one’s self, the perception of others and

Aggressive Actor: No. ah go on, if you were my friend, you’d send me a pic.

Because friendship is a matter of morality, the Seinfeld episode example shows that the end result of a person’s lack of concern for his friend is simply that it will “reveal the person’s concerns, values, and motivations” (225). This is

This ultimately enhances your life outcomes and your ability to participate in social activism. This would be considered a positive effect weak ties. However, this is not the only function that weak ties serve as member of an individual's social world.

The principal assumption of the theory regarding to Hogg and Vaughan (2011, p.214) “is that cognitive dissonance is an unpleasant state of psychological tension generated when a person has two or more cognitions (bits of information) that are inconsistent or do not fit together. So if people at the same time hold those two cognitions (thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, states of awareness of behaviour), which are psychologically inconsistent, then we experience dissonance. The theory also accounts for discrepancies between behaviour and attitudes. For instance, when people act in a manner that is inconsistent with their attitudes, then they experience tension. And how people can reduce this tension? Festinger (1957) suggested people have to do it by changing their attitudes so that they are in line with their behavior. The main way of reducing dissonance is attitude change. The theory propose that when we are dealing with two conflicting beliefs then we experience tension or an aversive state and a good example is military training. The military teaches and telling soldiers that when they kill the enemy its nothing wrong and killing them is a good thing but those same soldiers have a deeply natural and inborn belief that “thou shalt not kill”(Sturman, 2012) . Another example is about person who smokes cigarettes. Regarding to Stone and Cooper (2001) most people

This research was supported by National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (Lick, Hunger) as well as a Clara Mayo Grant from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Lick). Correspondence should be addressed to David Lick, UCLA Department of Psychology, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563 or via email to david.lick@ucla.edu.

want to guess and not do their best so they can get it over with. Another common problem with

After doing the role-play video, I realized that this assignment a great learning opportunity for me as a learning professional to utilize and display all the information I have learned from the beginning of the Social Service Worker (SSW) program and at my practicum, up till this moment into practice. I chose to use the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in my role-play video, as this is the therapy that will help the client to make a positive change and help dispute his negative distortions – Scenario #1. This scenario clearly states the client’s presenting concern with having an anxiety around having fears of talking to others or being in public. In order to support the client, first, the counsellor must ensure to use appropriate skills and counselling techniques that will meet the client’s needs during the helping process, most importantly, to develop a therapeutic alliance with the client in order for change to happen. Secondly, it is important for the counsellor to be aware of the client factors and to take it into consideration when working with the client, as the client is the expert in his life. Thirdly, it is important for the counsellor to build a working relationship with the client, in order to gain the client’s trust, respect and to increase his commitment towards the helping process. Finally, the counsellor must have an understanding of the placebo effect and its important because it significantly impacts the client

The difference between condition one and three is that condition three allowed the participants to self-affirm after finding out their verdict was in disagreement with the other group members. Festinger argues that the lack of choice adds consonant cognitions which reduce the overall amount of dissonance that otherwise would be experienced (Festinger, 1957, 1958; as cited in Matz & Woods, 2005). Additionally, the opportunity to self-affirm strengthens self-worth and thereby reduces the dissonance created when people’s actions threaten their personal integrity (Simon, Greenberg, & Brehm, 1995; as cited in Matz & Woods, 2005). Thus, Matz and Woods hypothesize that dissonance will be reduced by the lack of choice and the opportunity to self-affirm. The results show low levels of discomfort in the lack of choice and self-affirmation conditions, providing an explanation of the kinds of strategies people use to reduce dissonance.

Depending on their nature, social relationships can influence behavioral health, psychological health, physical health, and mortality in a myriad of ways (Umberson and Montez, 2010). In general, healthy and high-quality social relationships are those characterized by support and mutual respect; whereas unhealthy and low-quality social relationships are those deemed toxic through stress and disrespect.

People tend to think that play and game is considered as similar types of leisure. Gaming is sometimes expensive and resources are required; there are rules, structures and even involvement relies on the selected strategy. However playing is free to practice, safe, without any rules of commitment and no equipment needed. According to some Educational theorist, gaming is behaviorist, whereas playing is constructivist. But what is the relationship between play and game? This essay’s aim is to clarify the understanding of this relationship, by basing some example on the angry birds game. At first a definition of play will be discussed, secondly a definition of game will be analyzed, thirdly the concept of immersion and interactivity will be pointed out and finally the relationship between play and game will be identify.