This semester I had a course of Psychological English for special Purposes. When I saw that big and heavy Feldmans book , I was afraid, that it will be very hard to study. But I was wrong ! Well, I had to prepare a little bit more for this subject than others, but it is always a double work for me when I have to think in English. I would like to go through tasks, which had to be done to get greater evaluation in exam.
First thing which I did, was to create short talks. It was not a hard task to for for me and I am glad that we had a chance to choose from few topics about what to talk. I think that my short talks were not perfect, especially grammar of them, I I tried to speak interesting, give examples and also not to read them. I made all three short talks, not every of them were on time when I planned , but because maybe half of the group were not talking at all, I think it is not very bad and I hope that I haven't made any problems. I don;t know why other students were not so active in asking questions - maybe they were too shy, but as they were silent to everyone, I think it is not my fault.
Usually, I was going to seminars on Thursdays, because I was working on Tuesdays, and almost every time we were doing online listening practice and exercises from Psychology Review and Feldman's course book. I was always good at listening, and usually I was succesful at this task. Maybe that is because I was learning is music school or my knowledge of English, I am glad that usually I can concentrate and do this task well. Talking about exercises online, it was very hard for me, because the dictionary was new and I need some time to learn it , it was easyer when we made exercises with topics from past seminars, because at home I tried to learn new words and definitions , and when we just read vocabulary and tried to do the task it was funny, because we scored not so much, the results were really bad as for me then. For doing online exercises I got grades 6 and 5 for active participation, but I am not glad of them at all, even if somebody has a zero from active participation.
When I started to do tests in moodle, I thought that it will last forever. But it lasted maybe a week, I made them all and I hope that I will get extra mark or something for it, because I really spent a lot of time while doing those tests with a book. As for me, it is much easyer to do such tests at home and not in the seminar.
I am most worried about ESP definitions tests. I was learning words, but I didn't succed a lot while writing a test. And unfortunately, I will have to pass one test because I am going to a project about volunteering in the world to Serbia and I will be back just at 27th of May.
One more thing which had to be done was PowerPoint presentation. I understood the task wrong and I made three PPP's , but I presented just one about adapting surroundings of blind and partially sighted people. As I understood, it was interesting to other students, there were some small mistakes, but I know that sometimes my grammar is not clear and I hope that even I made a few mistakes everybody understood what I am talking about.
Speaking about all course, I am glad that we had Psychological English, not English of social work or other. I was wery dissapointed when I saw that mahority of my coursemates have some problems with speaking and understanding English, but I understand that it may be not their fault and in their gymnasiums the English language was not so important as in mine. As for me, English is very important, because I often visit seminars, camps in this language, in this scool-year I went to Youth in Action programme project to Romania, I am leaving to next project to Serbia day after tommorow and this language is the only effective tool to communicate and create connections, understand other cultures , explore the world for me. I hope that I will get a chance to go to Erasmus student exchange someday, so every knowledge of English is important for me. I am grateful for my University workers and teacher G.Kavaliauskienė for a chance to learn more about psychology in English.
2013 m. gegužės 15 d., trečiadienis
2013 m. gegužės 14 d., antradienis
Psychology of laughter
There is a saying – tell me
from what You are laughing, I will tell You who are You. Laugh is not just a
simple expression of what we are feeling – it is very related with
communication, health and social behavior. There is a science about laughter –
it is called gelotonology, which started from 20th century.
Laughter as a form of
communication. Babies start to laugh out loud whe being 3-4 months old – much earlyer
than saying the first word. In childhood, laughter may promote things, which
are related to social status – in a group of teen boys, a person, who is using
a lot of humour and laugh will be cooler than others, that one who will be able
to laugh from himself will be stronger emotionaly. One lithuanian politician
Leonidas Donskis said that that one who is able to laugh from himself, will disarm those, who are planning to laugh
from him.
Laughter in psichoterapy. When a consultation with a psychiatrist is made, there is a lot of attention for things, from which a client is laughing. Scientists show, that laughter in therapy is connected with emotions, not with a wish to make jokes. Laughter is a social glue, which fills pauses between words, it gives a colour to conversation. All forms of laugh – from giggling to laughing out loud is a form of communication, which is very hardly controlled. The more person is laughing with You, the more comfortable and close he feels while being together.
We can find some place to talk about laughter even in topic of gender differences. Wimen laugh 126percent more than men, and men are more making jokes than laughing. One psychologist G.Miller frm Mexico is saying that in case to make a good joke You need to be very creative, intelectual and trust Yourself, these are the features of men, who atrracts wimen the most. And if the wimen are making jokes, what means that they have such features of trust and intelect, they usually are understood as dominant person.
Also You may have hurd, that laughter can be as a cure. Despite the fact that it is not creating vitamin C in our body, while laughing a lot of muscles are moving – face, abs, diafragma. Heart is beating more, breathing is deeper. Also in the brains endorfins are made, they are natural opioids, which reduce stress and pain. In one hospital, doctors said to patients after operations to watch comedies. Those, who watched them, needed not so much medicine from pain as for those, who were healing naturally.
Humour in the right place and time reduces stress, pain, raises self asteem, makes communication stronger and warmer and is good for our health, so we should laugh as much as we can – not from each other, but from life and ourselves. Then the life and others will be not able to laugh from us..
Laughter in psichoterapy. When a consultation with a psychiatrist is made, there is a lot of attention for things, from which a client is laughing. Scientists show, that laughter in therapy is connected with emotions, not with a wish to make jokes. Laughter is a social glue, which fills pauses between words, it gives a colour to conversation. All forms of laugh – from giggling to laughing out loud is a form of communication, which is very hardly controlled. The more person is laughing with You, the more comfortable and close he feels while being together.
We can find some place to talk about laughter even in topic of gender differences. Wimen laugh 126percent more than men, and men are more making jokes than laughing. One psychologist G.Miller frm Mexico is saying that in case to make a good joke You need to be very creative, intelectual and trust Yourself, these are the features of men, who atrracts wimen the most. And if the wimen are making jokes, what means that they have such features of trust and intelect, they usually are understood as dominant person.
Also You may have hurd, that laughter can be as a cure. Despite the fact that it is not creating vitamin C in our body, while laughing a lot of muscles are moving – face, abs, diafragma. Heart is beating more, breathing is deeper. Also in the brains endorfins are made, they are natural opioids, which reduce stress and pain. In one hospital, doctors said to patients after operations to watch comedies. Those, who watched them, needed not so much medicine from pain as for those, who were healing naturally.
Humour in the right place and time reduces stress, pain, raises self asteem, makes communication stronger and warmer and is good for our health, so we should laugh as much as we can – not from each other, but from life and ourselves. Then the life and others will be not able to laugh from us..
References - http://www.sveikaszmogus.lt/Psichologija-2206-Ar_tikrai_juokas_ilgina_gyvenima
http://www.asirpsichologija.lt/index.php?id=391&category=7 , both watched at 2013.05.14, 19.00
http://www.asirpsichologija.lt/index.php?id=391&category=7 , both watched at 2013.05.14, 19.00
The Big Five personality test
Today I took the big five personality test.
You can take it too (http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/)
if You want to know something about Yourself what is proved by science. My
results were straight, but I haven’t found anything new about myself. I
recommend this test for people, who think that they want to know more or think
that they do not know something about themselves.
What will the scores tell You?
In order to provide you with a meaningful comparison, the scores you received will be converted to "percentile scores." This means that your personality score can be directly compared to another group of people who have also taken this personality test.
The percentile scores show you where you score on the five personality dimensions relative to the comparison sample of other people who have taken this test on-line. In other words, your percentile scores indicate the percentage of people who score less than you on each dimension. For example, your Extraversion percentile score is 89, which means that about 89 percent of the people in our comparison sample are less extraverted than you -- in other words, you are rather extroverted. Keep in mind that these percentile scores are relative to our particular sample of people. Thus, your percentile scores may differ if you were compared to another sample (e.g., elderly British people).Here has been much research on how people describe others, and five major dimensions of human personality have been found. They are often referred to as the OCEAN model of personality, because of the acronym from the names of the five dimensions.
I will show how the results
are presented here too with a my personal comment an evaluation .What will the scores tell You?
In order to provide you with a meaningful comparison, the scores you received will be converted to "percentile scores." This means that your personality score can be directly compared to another group of people who have also taken this personality test.
The percentile scores show you where you score on the five personality dimensions relative to the comparison sample of other people who have taken this test on-line. In other words, your percentile scores indicate the percentage of people who score less than you on each dimension. For example, your Extraversion percentile score is 89, which means that about 89 percent of the people in our comparison sample are less extraverted than you -- in other words, you are rather extroverted. Keep in mind that these percentile scores are relative to our particular sample of people. Thus, your percentile scores may differ if you were compared to another sample (e.g., elderly British people).Here has been much research on how people describe others, and five major dimensions of human personality have been found. They are often referred to as the OCEAN model of personality, because of the acronym from the names of the five dimensions.
Openness to Experience/Intellect . High scorers tend to be original, creative, curious, complex; Low scorers tend to be conventional, down to earth, narrow interests, uncreative. My percentage was 80 , what means that I enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways. This evaluation is true and not new information for me, because I often find myself searching for new experiences and my voluntary work refers a lot of creativity.
Conscientiousness. High scorers tend to be reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful; Low scorers tend to be disorganized, undependable, negligent. I got 79 percent , what shows that I am reliable and well-organized. Well, I am studying leissure-time management, I have to be well-organized J
Extraversion. High scorers tend to be sociable, friendly, fun loving, talkative; Low scorers tend to be introverted, reserved, inhibited, quiet.I got 89 percent in this one, wha shows that I am extremely outgoing, social, and energetic. Personally, I think this is the view how new people or my clients see me. In my most close surroundings I may be even lazy or rude and sarcastic. But probably Imay act like this because sometimes I am really very tired of being with a lot of people and whole energy sometimes is sucked from me.
Agreeableness. High scorers tend to be good natured, sympathetic, forgiving, courteous; Low scorers tend to be critical, rude, harsh, callous. I got 50 percent in here, what means that I am neither extremely forgiving nor irritable. It is true. I am not angry about a lot things, but I hate when people do not respect me and do not evalute my effort. That is my scorpio part, I may be not angry, but cold for a lot of time when somebody have hurted me.
Neuroticism. High scorers tend to be nervous, high-strung, insecure, worrying; Low scorers tend to be calm, relaxed, secure, hardy. I got 60 percent of this , what shows that I tend to become anxious or nervous. And sadly it is true. Well, at least I try not to show it to others.
References - http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/, looked at 2013.05.14 , 17.00 .
Non-verbal communication. Body language
Today I would like to talk about non-verbal
communication and present a thing called body language. I am interested in body
language for a couple of years and I had participated in a few seminars about
it, later I was a facilitator of such seminars.
Body language is non-verbal language of our movements and mymics. They seak us from the birth – a baby can easily communicate with parents without words. In childhod, we do not need to learn what does the head nod or thumbs up mean, it is clear uncounsiously.
Body language is clearest in the childhood – parents easily catch when their child is lieing or how does their baby feel. While growing, we are changing our body language – we are not covering our mouth while lieing, what a young child would do, we just touch our chin or nose uncounsiously, we understand, that eyes are important and we cant turn them to the left when lieing . But it is not hard to catch a liar if he is not very interested in body language, because expressions are understood not just from one eye or finger sign, but from whole group of signs – how the person is standing, gesticulating, breathing, looking, even how does his lips move. Places which are the most hard to control in our body are lips,nares, eyebrows and eyeballs. Signs in different cultures can be understood differently – for example nodding from up to down in Europe mean „yes, I agree“ , and in Bulgaria it means „no“.
Gestures depend not just from our knowledge of body language and emotions. It is very important if a speaker knows the topic well or is creating his own interpretations at the moment, which can be true, but he is not sure that it is true, also body language depends from surroundings – do I speak in front of people I know or not, who I am speaking to – my boss or my child and etc. Physical possibilities are important too – am I holding something in my hands, am I cold, how I am dressed...
Body language is used widely in whole world and proffesions – from mom who is raising a baby to politicians, actors, lawyers, teachers and more. When you personally know a little bit about body language it is easyer to understand others, control yourself, speak in fron of auditory, communicate. It is a very good thing to know which I suggest everyone to be interested in.
References – Alan Pease „Body language. How to read others thoughts by their gestures“ , Published by Sheldon Press (first published January 1st 1985)
Body language is non-verbal language of our movements and mymics. They seak us from the birth – a baby can easily communicate with parents without words. In childhod, we do not need to learn what does the head nod or thumbs up mean, it is clear uncounsiously.
Body language is clearest in the childhood – parents easily catch when their child is lieing or how does their baby feel. While growing, we are changing our body language – we are not covering our mouth while lieing, what a young child would do, we just touch our chin or nose uncounsiously, we understand, that eyes are important and we cant turn them to the left when lieing . But it is not hard to catch a liar if he is not very interested in body language, because expressions are understood not just from one eye or finger sign, but from whole group of signs – how the person is standing, gesticulating, breathing, looking, even how does his lips move. Places which are the most hard to control in our body are lips,nares, eyebrows and eyeballs. Signs in different cultures can be understood differently – for example nodding from up to down in Europe mean „yes, I agree“ , and in Bulgaria it means „no“.
Gestures depend not just from our knowledge of body language and emotions. It is very important if a speaker knows the topic well or is creating his own interpretations at the moment, which can be true, but he is not sure that it is true, also body language depends from surroundings – do I speak in front of people I know or not, who I am speaking to – my boss or my child and etc. Physical possibilities are important too – am I holding something in my hands, am I cold, how I am dressed...
Body language is used widely in whole world and proffesions – from mom who is raising a baby to politicians, actors, lawyers, teachers and more. When you personally know a little bit about body language it is easyer to understand others, control yourself, speak in fron of auditory, communicate. It is a very good thing to know which I suggest everyone to be interested in.
References – Alan Pease „Body language. How to read others thoughts by their gestures“ , Published by Sheldon Press (first published January 1st 1985)
Children's games
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind. - Robert Brault
I chose this theme
because I think the information which will be told may help us while raising a
child or communicating with him, also , if we will have oppoturnity, while
teaching.
There are a lot of children's games and they are improving every year. When I was a child, I had no plastic robots or 3D lego constructors, neither a Barbie doll house with 10 rooms and wardrobe full of sparkling Barbie clothes. Me and my sister were pleased with paper dolls which were made by my aunt, and we didnt care that the leg or hand was broken for few times and it was fixed with yellow sticky tape. We made very fashonable (thats what we thought) clothes from magazines colourful pages.
Despite the fact that there is a large variety of toys, which really can improve childrens skills, the simulation games are still popular among the children. What is a simulation game?Have you ever played a game called „shop“ or „hospital“? Maybe you have tried to play a family with your friends? I did. I also have played a hairdresser, that cost me a bunch of my front hair. I am always suprised when I get a chance to see how these games are played by children. Why?
There was one expirement made by Albert Bandura, a famous psychologist. He picked three groups of children of the same age and for the first one showed a movie with a woman which was beating the clown doll named Bobo, the second group saw a movie with no bullying and terror, and the third group saw nothing. The group who saw the worst movie, acted the most cruel when they had a chance to meet the doll Bobo. What I want to say is that kids often act like their surrounding people or they base the storylines by the information which they have hurd, even if its wrong. That may be the reason why nowadays children are so cruel or the reason why they want to play alone – because there is too much bad influence from media, TV, and there is a lack of education from parents, lack of good examples.
Anyway, my main point is that I suggest You to watch some children playing. Its not so adorable, when they start boxing while playing a family. But Its always a pleasure when You spend some time with them and when they start to play cafe with You, they remember to say „would you like to drink some warm milk before going to sleep?“. Then You may realise how You are acting too.
The imagination and creativity of children is a wonderful gift that we all have had. But the question remains – will we manage to think out of the box and be smart when we will raise our own children as long as we can, or will we just simulate the others?
References - D.G.Myers "Psichologija" , 2000 , published by Poligrafija ir informatika .
There are a lot of children's games and they are improving every year. When I was a child, I had no plastic robots or 3D lego constructors, neither a Barbie doll house with 10 rooms and wardrobe full of sparkling Barbie clothes. Me and my sister were pleased with paper dolls which were made by my aunt, and we didnt care that the leg or hand was broken for few times and it was fixed with yellow sticky tape. We made very fashonable (thats what we thought) clothes from magazines colourful pages.
Despite the fact that there is a large variety of toys, which really can improve childrens skills, the simulation games are still popular among the children. What is a simulation game?Have you ever played a game called „shop“ or „hospital“? Maybe you have tried to play a family with your friends? I did. I also have played a hairdresser, that cost me a bunch of my front hair. I am always suprised when I get a chance to see how these games are played by children. Why?
There was one expirement made by Albert Bandura, a famous psychologist. He picked three groups of children of the same age and for the first one showed a movie with a woman which was beating the clown doll named Bobo, the second group saw a movie with no bullying and terror, and the third group saw nothing. The group who saw the worst movie, acted the most cruel when they had a chance to meet the doll Bobo. What I want to say is that kids often act like their surrounding people or they base the storylines by the information which they have hurd, even if its wrong. That may be the reason why nowadays children are so cruel or the reason why they want to play alone – because there is too much bad influence from media, TV, and there is a lack of education from parents, lack of good examples.
Anyway, my main point is that I suggest You to watch some children playing. Its not so adorable, when they start boxing while playing a family. But Its always a pleasure when You spend some time with them and when they start to play cafe with You, they remember to say „would you like to drink some warm milk before going to sleep?“. Then You may realise how You are acting too.
The imagination and creativity of children is a wonderful gift that we all have had. But the question remains – will we manage to think out of the box and be smart when we will raise our own children as long as we can, or will we just simulate the others?
References - D.G.Myers "Psichologija" , 2000 , published by Poligrafija ir informatika .
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