Showing posts with label Behavior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Behavior. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 February 2014

Nonverbal Communication descriptive essay

Task: observe nonverbal communication between two or more individuals. Focus on ONE individual and identify and analyze specific nonverbal behaviors.

Requirements: You must incorporate terminology and ideology discused in class.

section 1- Introduction: presents a breif overview that includes how the paper is organized. Following this, present and define nonverbal communication and discuss why this concept is useful.

section 2- Body Language & Self-Presentation:
-Select and discuss 5 nonverbal behaviors observed. They must include: Eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture and space.
-For each behavior selected, you must do the following: 1-State the specific behavior being discussed as a heading, 2-describe and summarize in detail, using CONCRETE language, how the individual used the behavior(i should be able to visualize exactly what you describe.) 3-Analyze WHY the individual acted that particular way for each behavior. What did it mean? What message were they trying to convey? Why did they use that behavior?

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Section 3-Conclution: Create and overall anaysis about nonverbal behavior of the individual(s), what did you learn about nonverbal? In what ways did this assignment help you with analyzing messages conveyed through nonverbal behavior.

focus on one male and female having an argument and don't just say he looked down, you must describe how he used his eyes. must be as descriptive as possible.
example:Her gaze direction clearly showed her intentions. As she confronted him, her eyes were piercing through him as if she was a lioness going in for the kill. She glared at him intensely, as her eyes widened. Her eyes were so wide that you could see her pupils enlarging. She leaned her head slighting towards him and her eyes darted outward. The emotion in her eyes showed she was brimming with revenge. Her muscles around her eyes hardened, and you could see the disproval within. She continued to maintain this intense hostile stare, until he began to respond. As he began to speak, her eyes narrowed. Her eyelids covered her eyes, almost in a defensive and dissatisfied way. Her eyes appeared much smaller, and you could barely see the white in her eyes. Her eyes than began to open and blink rapidly in a very sarcastic way. They appeared to be blinking with surprise and disapproval. As she proceeded to interrupt him, the muscles around her eyes hardened once again. Her eyes appeared very rocklike, almost as if she could have turned him to stone. She maintained this very bold gaze at him, which portrayed the power she held in this situation. The animosity she was feeling successfully illuminated from her stormy eyes.

Sunday, 19 January 2014

Understanding and supporting behavior

Case Study 2

Emma is in Year 5 and is nine years old. She attends a mainstream primary school.
Since starting year 5 her teacher has noted that Emma has become increasingly disruptive in class by calling out, swearing, and refusing to work with pupils who are not in her friendship group. She becomes argumentative and confrontational when the teacher or learning support assistant tries to intervene to sort out the problem and get her back on task. She is often sent to see the headteacher where she seems happy to sit and chat with the school secretary. Emma is working slightly below her age appropriate National Curriculum levels. Emma says she hates school but likes play and lunchtimes. She states that lessons are ‘boring’ except for PE and drawing cartoon faces. She often refuses to take her book bag or homework tasks home. There are no reported incidences of bad behaviour at playtime or lunchtime.
Home life seems settled but on speaking to Emma’s mother the teacher gained the impression that things were strained since Emma’s grandma had moved in. Emma’s mother was very defensive of her daughter and was irritated by the school constantly ‘moaning’ about Emma’s behaviour.


Part one essay

Evaluate the case study above using the behaviourist approach. Provide the strategies for prevention using this theory only.



The new question below.

Part two: this is the new question part one has been done by one of your writer which you may need to identify.


Using the same case study above, choose a DIFFERENT theory related to behaviour and provide strategies for intervention based on this theory.  Analyse the strength and limitations of using the behaviourist theory and the new theory chosen for the second assignment.