Shyness refers to the anxiety due to the novelty and is characterized by avoidance conflict in such situations (Coplan& Weeks, 2009). Shyness is something that all people experience in different situations. In many Asian, German, and Finnish cultures, silence is golden and is viewed as a good personality trait because people believe in speaking less and thinking more. In some societies, shyness might be regarded as a different quality of personality trait in different genders. A woman’s shyness might be regarded as an attractive quality along with gentle, modest, or perhaps flirtatious, whereas it might be seen in a man as a sign of weakness or a lack of appropriate assertiveness (Crozier, 2001). 2. Research Question Most of the previously …show more content…
All items in the questionnaires were based on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from never or almost never to always or almost always. Oxford (1990) developed a scale which reflects the level of strategy use: 1) high usage (3.5 – 5.0), 2) medium usage (2.5 – 3.4), and 3) low usage (1.0 – 2.4). Items such as "I think of relationships between what I already know and new things I learn in the SL", " I say or write new SL words several times to understand unfamiliar SL words", "I make guesses", "I try to find as many ways as I can to use my SL", "I think about my progress in learning SL", "I ask questions in SL" and so on are sample statements used in the questionnaire.The internal consistency reliabilityof the Farsi written questionnaire was …show more content…
It has 12 items with a 5-point Likert scale from 'Strongly Disagree' to 'Strongly Agree'. The items available are meant to measure students’ agreement level with statements depicting intolerance of ambiguity in given situations; for example, "When I’m reading something in English, I feel impatient when I do not totally understand the meaning" and "It bothers me that I don’t understand everything the teacher says in English". Values above the mean of 3 indicate the least ambiguity tolerant learners, those equal 3 are mid ambiguity tolerant, and those below 3 are the most ambiguity tolerant learners. The internal consistency reliability for SLTAS was
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Word Identification The QRI-4 guideline suggested Tessa begin reading the word lists at the upper middle grade level, two levels below her current grade level. However, it was necessary to test back to the fifth grade level due to Tessa’s performance on the suggested starting point. Tessa completed the fifth grade word list automatically with 90% accuracy, in the allotted time, signifying she read the words at the independent level. When analyzing the sixth grade word list, Tessa automatically identified 70% of the words, indicating she was identifying words at the instructional level.
6. Analyze the authors on both sides. Are they liberal or more conservative? Who do they represent as in their organization? What does that say about their organization?
“Seemed like forever ago that the bus dropped him off for that first voyage-though it had only been eleven days”. In the novel The Living by Matt de La Pena Shy is the main character. Shy’s role in the novel was a young teen spending the summer working on a cruise ship. Shy went from being a negative person to a positive person.
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Five hundred and seventy eight of the students were from a Mexican background, while one hundred and seventy two were Chinese, and one hundred and seventy one were European. Fifty two percent of the students were girls, while forty-eight percent were boys. DESCRIBE THE METHOD/S USED TO EXAMINE THE HYPOTHESIS The researchers chose to use an initial background questionnaire that was given to each of the schools and then the students were asked to use a daily diary checklist that was to be used at the end of each day over a fourteen day period. The students were asked to report their emotions and keep a record of any events had occurred that day with either parents or family members, friends, or significant others.
In Guyland by michael kimmel one big topic that comes up is how men are constantly afraid to express how they feel because they don't want to be rejected . One of the main reason that people are scared of rejection is because they feel as though there idea will either be shut down. Or they feel as though they will be judged hardly for it. Young men also are afraid to be criticized and laughed at that's another reason why it's hard for them to express themselves. When a man in guy word has an opinion about something or an idea, they sometimes don't express it because they don't want to get rejected.
She did include studies from a journal and universities. 6. A) The research the article used came from humans because the Freshman 15 studies cannot be done on animals. B)
Knowing how to interact with people of other cultures has become an increasingly important issue as international communication and travel becomes more common. With more interactions between cultures, cultural misunderstandings become more common. The satirical book Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb attempts to address this issue, pointing out what people often do wrong. Fear and Trembling is a story which follows Amélie, a young Belgian woman who goes to work for a Japanese company and struggles to fit in, committing many cultural faux pas along the way. Nothomb uses contrasting sentence structure between Amélie 's thoughts and her dialogue and actions to demonstrate the way that Westerners often ignore other cultures despite knowing better because they view themselves as more important.
Extroverts can be some of the best people you meet. They have plenty to offer and thrive at the attention of others. However, being introverted can be just as great. In a society where being extroverted is the ideal, it can be very difficult to be an introvert. Susan Cain argues in her Ted Talk, “The Power of Introverts”, that introverts can share many brilliant ideas with the world and should be encouraged and celebrated for who they are.
c. What is the research question or hypothesis? a. My hypothesis is that children who are exposed or given the opportunity to use these devices or are exposed to these devices at a young age will have or obtain more knowledge than a child who are not. d. What sort of research design are you proposing? (e.g. correlational, descriptive observational, experimental, etc.)
• Since the course is designated as a doing social sciences course students will gain an understanding of how to conduct social experiments through participation in the course. • Due to the large number of quizzes in the course, it would be vital that individuals stay up to date on the material if they expect to receive a good grade. 5. Find 5 facts about the professor that are of a professional nature. How confident are you that these facts are true?
The study does not show if females act in the same way and conform hence or if this dispositional factor to behavior only applies to men. A limitation with both studies is also that situational and dispositional factors often go hand in hand as factors of why people behave as they do and neither of these researches take this into account. In conclusion, situational and dispositional factors explain behavior through the impact of the environment, situation, social surroundings and mood, personal traits and opinions, respectively.
The journal states that people that tend not to express themselves is because they have a fear of rejection. Ussually when people have the fear of rejection, they have most likely been hurt someway when they opened up before. Which then creates fear for the person who got a negative response. By not expressing themselves could be a hinder in any type of relationship. They won’t be able to feel comfortable self-disclosing any formation with the person they are in a relationship
If men are bothered they always try to get isolated. In the other hand women have tendency to discuss their problems and issues they face. A woman normally ask question when the men starts behaving differently where as the man usually will get irritated by the woman 's inquiries when he tries to get alone and face with his stress by himself. In addition the book extends with how to inspire the opposite sex.