Counterfactual thinking and experiences of regret Introduction Counterfactual thinking is the cognitive process in which individuals can simulate alternative realities‚ to think about how things could have turned out differently‚ with statements such as ‘what if’ and ‘if only’. Counterfactuals can be either upward‚ in which alternative realities are improved‚ or downward‚ in which alternative realities are worsened. Reflecting on previous outcomes can make individuals experience regret and this
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ASSIGNMENTS PROGRAM:MBA 2yrs SEMESTER-I Subject Name : Management Functions & Behavior Batch : Permanent Enrollment Number (PEN) : Roll Number : Student Name : INSTRUCTIONS a) Students are required to submit all three assignment sets. ASSIGNMENT Assignment A Assignment B Assignment C DETAILS Five Subjective Questions Three Subjective Questions + Case Study 40 Objective Questions MARKS 10 10 10 b) c) d) e) Total weightage given to these assignments is 30%. OR 30 Marks All assignments are to be
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Intro/Chap 1 Hegemony- ideological domination. Basic premises of Cultural Studies Basic premise semiotics (the study of how things are made to mean) For human beings‚ there are no necessary or inherent meaning in anything . Things have to be made to mean. Basic premises of semiotics Making things mean is a social and political process‚ practice‚ and struggle. Therefore‚ our sense of reality is socially and politically constructed. Basic premises of cultural studies In societies marked by institutionalized
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Communication Climate: The Key To Positive Relationships Why is Communication Difficult? When two people talk‚ six possible messages get through What you mean to say What you actually say What the other person hears What the other person thinks he hears What the other person says about what you said What you think the other person said about what you said. Definition: Communication climate refers to the emotional tone of the relationship. Communication is the lifeblood of every
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Effective Use of Pathos in Lies My Teacher Told Me James W. Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me is a critically acclaimed work pertaining to the inaccuracies found in many history textbooks. Lies My Teacher Told Me notes that history is a school subject often disliked by students. Loewen contends that history is not appreciated because it may be considered intrinsically unappealing‚ but rather because history is taught in a poor manner. Although Loewen uses all three modes of persuasion in his book
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person who holds such denial. In Jon Elster’s analysis of "The Fox and the Grapes"‚ he says "Aesop focuses on what he calls the mechanism of sour grapes‚ where people become content with what they can get‚ which he sees as one way of reducing cognitive dissonance" (Elster 53). In this story‚ the idiom is applied to the fox that loses and fails to do so gracefully and denies the intention to win altogether. When preferences
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Cognitive Functioning PSY/475 April 22‚ 2013 Cognitive Functioning Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory *Componential *Metacomponents *Performance *Knowledge-acquisition Speaker Notes: Sternberg’s Triarchic theory was first introduced around 1985 and has been widely used since. Sternberg believed that that intelligence has three facets to help understand the human mind (Hogan‚ 2007). There are many different sub-divisions and then some of those have subparts to them as well. The first is componential
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Vocabulary Terms Communicative competence- The ability to communicate in a personally effective and socially appropriate manner. Message competence- The ability to make message choices that others can comprehend as well as to respond to the message choice of others. Intrapersonal comm.- Communication that a person has with him or herself. This is often regarded as "self communication" Interpersonal comm.- Communication between two people‚ generally on face-to face interaction. Relational
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our features and roles we see when viewing our self. A better definition of oneself is how we interrelate; the interactions influence and lead our behavior. The self concept correlates to three theories: self perception‚ self presentation‚ and dissonance theory (Myers‚ 2011). Self perception is how one determines their actions of other situations environmentally‚ persona‚ and approach. Our self perception allows us to witness an individual’s poor attitude; the individual can see how his or her
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There are two major theories that made Festinger not only a world-wide known name‚ but also the first name to come to any professionals mind when it comes to social psychology. * These are the Social Comparison Theory and the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. * I will be primarily discussing the Social Comparison theory during this presentation‚ however Leon’s approach to experiments created a unique design of research and theory that is now common in the field of social psychology. * Leon
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