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What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design?
Are all children, who are raised by parents and sitters, acting differently and more difficult when they are with their parents, especially mothers, compared to how they behave with nannies or babysitters. If so, is there a way to find out why this is happening.
What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate?
Are children more easy going and manageable when they are with babysitters or nannies than they are with their parents or with their parents AND the sitter. Does it matter how much time the parents actually spend with the children? Is there a correlation between the parents giving in to their children’s wishes too easily to compensate their bad feeling about leaving them with a sitter and the children’s less independent and nagging behavior when they are with them?
What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, Correlational, etc)
I choose the Experimental Method.
What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.)
Due to the fact that the experiment is conducted with children it seems to be the best to use naturalistic observation. In that case there are no other factors than the care giving grownup that influence the children’s behavior.
If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables?
The independent variables will be the grownups, which will take turns taking care of the children during daily activities. At some point there will be only the mother and/or father, then only the sitter, and at some point both, parent and sitter together.
The dependent variables are the children’s behavior toward the grownups. How are they listening to them, respecting them, interacting with them, etc.
Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find.
I think (and I have noticed this behavior over the past five years many times) that children are behaving much more dependent and nagging when they are with their parents compared to when they are spending time with a sitter. Children are more independent and more easy-going when they are not with their parents.
What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it?
Parents, caregivers, and children could benefit from a study as the one I chose. Understanding that there is different behavior of children depending who they are surrounded with and why this occurs would make childcare much easier for each party involved.
Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How?
The most difficult choice for me was which type of design fits the best for my research. Besides that, I had a hard time formulating what I would like to research and test. The topic is very personal to me, so it is very difficult to stay objective. Other than that, there were no big problems creating the research, since I am very interested in this topic and I would love to know the results.
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Hello, dear classmates!
My name is Hanna Hupfeld, I am 25 years old and I am an international transfer student from Germany. I study accounting and live in Union Square, a wonderful ten minute walk from school away. I moved to New York City exactly five years ago as an au pair, an international nanny. After graduating from high school, I was about to get trained as a chef in a small castle on top of a small hill that you could see from my living room window. Since I love arts and the art of cooking this seemed like a wonderful job for me, but as live goes on one’s plans change. I did not want to work right after school and so I decided to go to the US on my own for a year, maximum two. So I left my family behind and moved from my 1,045 souls town to the city that never sleeps. With my second host family and also met my second family. They offered me to stay with them after my au pair job was finished, if I wanted to study and stay in New York. And so I did!
Sunday, two weeks ago I celebrated my five year anniversary in New York and I am sure that I will be staying here for a little while longer. Not only to finish my school, but also to enjoy this terribly exciting life in Manhattan. My passion is of course still for food and the arts. I am a passionate hobby painter and I enjoy drawing and sculpting. Whenever a friend or family member’s birthday or anniversary is coming up, I am getting busy making a present instead of simply buying one (unless, they told me I should buy them something in specific).
Although, I love living in the city, I am sad that I cannot follow all my hobbies and favorite activities here as I did back home in Germany. I love to drive fast German cars and Italian motorcycles. Here in the city, both is mainly annoying, too dangerous, and of course too expensive. The other main activity that I miss the most is participating in the volunteer fire department. In my home town, I joined the youth fire department with the age of 13 and got my first official rank by the age of 18. I am still a member in my town’s department, but sadly only passive.
I am very sure that giving up being with my family and some of my hobbies will pay off in the future when I have earned my degree and start real life in Manhattan.
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"1. As Elsie states herself, yoga takes a lot of focus, if one is doing it right or tries to take it seriously. It does not allow you to get into thoughts that are "harmful" to you at that time. Get rid of all of your thoughts and focus on the here and now of yourself. Forget the surrounding and concentrate on your breathing and your feeling. Distance yourself from everything.
2. In this meditation, it seems to be more difficult to answer the question which nervous system was effected. In yoga you are not only sitting and relaxing, you must also perform to some people difficult poses to get you in the stage of relaxation and open yourself to the meditation itself. For the part where the instructor asks you to either lie down or sit and start the meditation the parasympathetic nervous system might get effected and so relaxes your body. During your poses, the CNS might be effected due to the movement and muscle activity.
3. Did it take long for you to get into the state of relaxation?
4. Yoga is a great way of getting rid of your stress and focus on something else than your daily worries and hassles. I have taken yoga classes for almost a year, but then had to stop due to a too tight time schedule. But I am practicing it by myself at home and even taught my mother and sister. I did my research on yoga for pregnant women as my sister was pregnant and tried to teach her over the phone and skype how to do it. Yoga is great and it does make a difference in your life if you practice it. I miss it now as soon as I cannot find the time to do it.
I hope you keep going to yoga!"
posted on Nov 30, 2011, on the post Yoga"1. Tanique has experienced a shift of her awareness toward emotions that are present. As soon as she focused on just her feelings, she felt that she was ruled by great sadness. She acknowledged this sadness and let go of other things happening in and around her body. Sometimes, the jaw tension might be a sign of rejection of her discovery and fighting against "bad thoughts". She could have been tense after noticing how sad she felt and tried to work over that.
2. From my point of view the peripheral nervous system is affected in meditation, to be precise, the parasympathetic nervous system, which serves as a calming and relaxing function.
3. Do you usually meditate or was this one of your fist tries? Did you experience it as helpful tool to use from now on against stress or rather as a nice distraction for once?
4. The kind of meditation Tanique chose seems very appealing and helpful.
Since I have been a teenager I have fought against "tension headaches" almost every other day and for three years I have practiced meditation, of the simplest form, to get rid of the pain. It has worked once in a while, but my real break through was this semester as I meditated in the subway. The pain was so intense that I could barely keep my eyes open. then and there in the N train Uptown, came the break through. From that moment it has really helped me with my problem. I can only recommend it!"
posted on Nov 30, 2011, on the post Meditation “Worlds of Thoughts”"1. Taklim, your post has really impressed me. I am astonished that you have written everything in your diary since age 10. This is real devotion. (I have tried it many times, but usually forgot or just wrote down important events.) The point you are raising about getting back most importantly you bad and painful memories spoke to me as well. It seems like we are driven by our mistakes and form us into we are more than the happy memory of getting a new toy for example. But as you mentioned we should leave out the good memories either. Everything that we have experienced has shaped our character. It does seem to be an incredibly horrible and difficult situation. Losing one's memory is losing oneself.
To comment questions 2,3, and 4 I cannot say anything else as I did on my previous comment.
2. In such a situation it is most important to put your own feelings of frustration or sadness hat your friend "forgot" you aside. You are here to help your friend in a horrible situation. Your friend did not choose to lose his memory, it happened and you are one chance to help him. I would try to be strong for him and myself. This is not about me, this is solely about my friend needing my help and support.
3. As mentioned, I would try to be there for my friend no matter what happens. I would take him to places we usually visit, show him his home, work place, maybe school (if he is still a student), restaurants, theatres, etc. I would arrange meetings with more of his friends and most important of all with his family, where they will tell him about his past, showing photos, videos, and old, precious, important objects (like his teddy bear, trophies he has won, etc.). I would prepare or get his favorite foods and drinks, read to him or let him read his favorite books and stories, show him movies and shows he loved to watch. While showing him all those things I would tell him stories what happened when for example he ate his first time sushi with me or how terrible he thought a certain book was and later on started liking it etc.
4.Encoding: showing places, pictures, familiar people and objects
Consolidation: repetition of all shown things and people while explaining them or letting the people talk to him about how they met or how they are related and what they shared in life.
Retrieval: This part could be very easy for implicit memories, but could take a lot of hard work and effort of the patient for explicit memories."
posted on Nov 3, 2011, on the post Precious Memory"1. John makes some really good points in this fairly short post. Firstly, I do agree that checking one's facebook (since it is on almost everybody's phone and so easy to access and help oneself in this difficult situation) might be a good idea to find out, who one usually hangs out with, what activities one likes or which places one likes to go. However, most facebook users add friends and "like" sites and posts as if it was a competition or collection. This might lead to more confusion or to wrong information. Secondly, I really liked the aspect of believing either everything or nothing those (to the patient) strangers might tell him. This must be the most difficult part, accepting the given information and trusting the people that are here to help to regain one's memory.
2. In such a situation it is most important to put your own feelings of frustration or sadness hat your friend "forgot" you aside. You are here to help your friend in a horrible situation. Your friend did not choose to lose his memory, it happened and you are one chance to help him. I would try to be strong for him and myself. This is not about me, this is solely about my friend needing my help and support.
3. As mentioned, I would try to be there for my friend no matter what happens. I would take him to places we usually visit, show him his home, work place, maybe school (if he is still a student), restaurants, theatres, etc. I would arrange meetings with more of his friends and most important of all with his family, where they will tell him about his past, showing photos, videos, and old, precious, important objects (like his teddy bear, trophies he has won, etc.). I would prepare or get his favorite foods and drinks, read to him or let him read his favorite books and stories, show him movies and shows he loved to watch. While showing him all those things I would tell him stories what happened when for example he ate his first time sushi with me or how terrible he thought a certain book was and later on started liking it etc.
4.Encoding: showing places, pictures, familiar people and objects
Consolidation: repetition of all shown things and people while explaining them or letting the people talk to him about how they met or how they are related and what they shared in life.
Retrieval: This part could be very easy for implicit memories, but could take a lot of hard work and effort of the patient for explicit memories."
posted on Nov 3, 2011, on the post Memory Yeah!"Hello Gong Qi!
How are you?
I had to laugh when I read the part about your retirement plans! That is a fantastic idea and a great plan!
I am an accounting major as well, but I have to say that I am already struggling in my first course. The Waren Case creeps me out.
Traveling and drawing are another two interests we share. Since I grew up in Germany, I have traveled around Europe a lot and as of now, I have seen a lot of places. The only four places left that I really want to visit are China, Colombia, India, and Australia.
Where have you traveled to so far?
Could you explain why Freud is your favorite psychiatrist?
Hope to hear from you,
your classmate
Hanna"
posted on Sep 23, 2011, on the post Hello
