A Research Study On The Cocktail Party Syndrome ( Cherry, 1953 )

Many children await the day when they can be considered grown up. For them it represents a time where they possess more rights and privileges. However, for middle children which are between the ages of 7 through12 this time may seem more like a nightmare because it marks the time when they undergo physical and mental changes. These physical and mental changes have a major impact on their development. The subject in this scenario is a little boy named Mark who is being bullied at school by a group of older boys to the point that he has received bruises from the encounters. As a result, Mark dislikes going to school for the fear of being embarrassed or hurt and the looming threat of recurring bodily harm if he asks for help from the teachers. This situation has become so serious that Mark is barely eating and has withdrawn himself from his peers in efforts to avoid the boys who are bulling him. After examining the above scenario, this paper will explain Mark’s different issues based on signs of biosocial, cognitive and psychosocial development and discuss what should be done to help Mark succeed in his current situation based on research.

The cocktail-party effect was investigated in early studies of selective attention. It was first described by Cherry (1953). It’s the observation that even in a noisy environment people are able to focus their attention on who is talking to them. Cherry (1953) investigated this phenomenon by conducting a series of dichotic listening and

Bullying is a form of repetitive proactive aggression in which the bullying is unprovoked and the bully initiates the bullying behaviour. (Dodge and Cole – 1987)

Bullying is an aggressive behavior where someone is repeatedly and purposely causing someone else injury making them feel uncomfortable. It can be physical, hurtful words, or just certain actions. According the article “Bullying and Suicide,” it states that nearly 30 percent of students are bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of bullying (Word Press, Par. 1). In this essay I will

Bullying is a problem that is on the rise in society; however, many individuals have a distorted view of what bullying entails. Usually when someone thinks of bullying, they assume that it is a standard part of a child’s life. This view, on the contrary, is erroneous. Bullying is actually abnormal behavior, many times, leaving victims with a dismantled self identity. Since some people do not understand the consequences of bullying, the actions of the bully often go unnoticed and are perceived as “kids being kids”. The issue of bullying goes deeper than that nevertheless. Despite the erroneous views that many individuals hold towards bullying, it is still a distortion of normal behavior in children.

If bullying was truly a problem for the student’s environment, then there should be a strong negative correlation between the amount of bullying reported in section one, and the psychological behavior responses indicated in section two. Therefore, as bullying witnessed or experienced increases, the mental stability of the student decreases. It is then expected that if bullying is causing psychological damage to students, then a strong negative correlation between bullying and academic performance should also appear. As the number of bullying instances increase, the student’s ability to focus and perform well in school decreases. By not being able to function properly within the school setting and being unable to perform well academically, it can be inferred that individuals who are struggling the most with bullying will find it harder to study, which would make it more difficult for them to perform well on their final

of bullying is another important element underlying development of children at this stage. In the

Violence has increasingly grown in our nation in the last 5 years. It has entered every facet of the lives of youth, from social media, television, and especially in the school system. One of the biggest problem that exist in the school system today is bullying. This type of misbehavior can cause the school climate to be unconducive to learning. Bullying can also have a negative effect on not just the regular student, but the exceptional education student as well. Because of the growing epidemic (trend) of bullying, it is a need to further research the effects that bullying has on the special education student. These facts lead to the proposed research topic, “Bullying Interventions that support exceptional education students”. The following literature review will attempt to support the proposed topic.

The research question for this paper is “How and why does bullying in primary school affect a child’s academic achievement/performance”……um………….???..................

Along with the sociocultural perspective, the behavioral perspective also attempts to explain why a person behaves the way he/she does. However, the behaviorist view states that behavior is shaped and controlled by a person’s environment. This perspective emphasizes a person’s need to sustain a level of homeostasis—an equilibrium in which all of a person’s needs are met in order to survive. However, if a person’s need for love and belongingness is interrupted or is not fulfilled, then the person may begin to act out in order to receive the attention he/she needs. It is not uncommon for psychologists to observe students acting out in school through bullying because of not getting the attention they need at home. These two perspectives contrast one another in the way they address why bullying occurs; however, they both give a viable reason as to why bullying may

As a child, I never realize the impact of having a moderate high frequency bilateral sensorineural hearing loss until I reached elementary school. It was then when I truly started to notice the impact my hearing loss had. In noisy situations, my ability to hear seemed to disappear and the clarity of words started to become blurred. When my peers spoke quietly, I found myself focusing on the facial movements intently. Throughout my childhood, I had a difficult time coming to terms with my hearing loss and denied the fact that I could not always hear what was being said. However, by going to and audiologist who used hearing aid herself, I started to understand that a hearing loss does not define who you are.

Broadbent’s model of selective attention was designed into a “filter model of attention” flow diagram in order to explain the process behind peoples’ attention. In the model, it shows the process of a specific stimuli being selected and focused on. It begins with the message entering the sensory memory, then it gets filtered

Research carried out on attention has mainly been associated with the selective processing of incoming sensory information. It proposes, to some degree, our awareness of the world depends on what we choose to focus on and not simply the stimulation received by our senses. Attention is often linked to a filter that screens out most potential stimuli whilst allowing a select few to pass through into our conscious awareness, however, a great deal of debate has been devoted to where the filter is situated in the information processing chain (Martindale, 1991). Psychologists have made extensive contributions to this subject matter in the past century. Notable examples include Donald Broadbent's filter theory of attention (1958), which set the

Throughout everyday life we are bombarded by an overwhelming amount of perceptual information; the cocktail party effect is an example of what’s going about a phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli (000).

Bullying has the obscured need of an individual to feel like they have the power as compared to others in a social setting. When the bully carries an ego at school, the victim of the bullying may suffer both physical and emotional abuse. Bullying can also extend to sexual and verbal abuse. In some schools, a majority of the popular students tend to pick on the less popular students for the sake of fun and attention from other school mates. The main structural causes of bullying are mostly psychosomatic problems. In most of the times, a bully can also get rid of their own problems by passing it on to others person. In rare cases of young people, teenagers often release their anger out because of their violent backgrounds or negative influences that they come across as they grew up in life. As an outcome, they end up exhibiting these feelings through