Group Influence

Lisa Gaston, a 27 year old female is the subject of this research design. Lisa is employed with the Dallas Police Department as a police officer. She is also an enlisted member of the Air Force reserve. She is a Louisiana native and obtained her bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Southern A&M University in Baton Rouge, LA. She spends her free time serving her community with her sorority sisters of Delta Sigma Theta and empowering young African American women in underserved communities by hosting free events within their neighborhoods. Over the years she has developed a habit of smoking to manage stress and she would like to reduce her smoking so that she can live a healthier life style. This single subject research design will use meditation as an intervention to help her to reduce her smoking habits.

In social psychology, social influence is a process where someone’s beliefs, thoughts and behaviour change by being exposed to beliefs, thoughts and opinions of others. It manifests in several forms, such as obedience, compliance and conformity. All these types of social influence have been studied by numerous researchers who investigated the reasons why people conform to social norms and obey to authorities, such as Milgram’s classic studies on obedience. His experiments support the popular idea of ‘banality of evil’ –Hannah Arendt (1963)’s famous phrase referring to the capability to accomplish dreadful things out of banal reasons–, revealing that people conform submissively and thoughtlessly to the orders that authorities deliver, no

Discussing how it would affect your mind and physical health. Knowing there are many influence factors that has a big role in many people starting to smoke. The first would be family history/background. This is most common factor because most people start when they was a child/ teenager. This would be coming from homes where family members smoke around the children’s, and the children tend to follow the parents. Children sometimes love to imitate their parents and any older sibling they think is acceptable to do (Wiley, 2011). Another great factor would be peer pressure; it is so similar to family history as well. Young teen’s younger children see their friend doing it and they get so much help and encouragement to try and do it. Some feel as though they may lose their friendship or “cool points” with their friends, which is so much more important to them. Not knowing the more you hang with the friends that smoke, the more you’re going to smoke until your now become addicted on your own. Now you can no longer quit, it becomes hard and uncontrollably hard to quit. Once again smoking doesn’t just affect the smoker it also affect the co-workers at the workplace, but for the smoker you would start needing unscheduled smoke breaks. Why? Because

When people are part of a group, they often start to deviate from their personalities, and tend to focus on the opinions and actions of the group. Groups can generate a sense of engaging energy, which can lead to behaviors that a person would not typically engage in if they were alone. People seem to believe that certain behaviors are acceptable when they are in groups that would otherwise not be acceptable if they were alone. Many people believe they cannot be held responsible for their actions when they are with a group because they see the

Many smokers, like Sload, take their first puffs in college. Other students experiment with cigarettes in high school but start smoking heavily in college. Everyone I surveyed and interviewed is aware that smoking was responsible for the deaths of many people every year. They know it increased the risk of heart attack and stroke and adversely affects breathing and the lungs. And like smokers of any age, many college students are actively trying to quit. Mandie Sload knows that for or five cigarettes a day were four or five too many. She plans to quit someday. She understands that if she quits her breath will smell better;

A group is a set of people or things that are considered and classified together who frequently interact and mutually influence each other. Whereas each individual of a group differs greatly from one another, each member shares a common goal or expectations. Universities, for example, are groups of students who are seeking a higher education in a specific area of study. Government parties are groups of people who share certain political beliefs and seek to attain and maintain government power. Wall Street firms are comprised of highly motivated bankers who graduated from the most prestigious universities. Despite the individual differences of every member, the common goal remolds their individualism by inputting its own expectations and goals

They describe the individual as part of a group or indirectly influenced by a group. Based on these three independent variables we based our hypotheses as such:

The article, it states that Jackie’s children and a husband who was a dentist convinced her to quit. After numerous attempts to quit smoking, Jackie decided to research ways that would crush her urge to smoke. After exploiting a series of techniques, Jackie used a psychological approach to kick the habit that she inevitably marketed to consumer's hosting 1,500 seminars a week. After some intensive reflection, Jackie argued that there were 138 elements that stemmed from psychological, physical, nutritional, and cultural factors that made smoking difficult to quit. By designing an elaborate program (Smokedeners) to tackle these issues, Rogers insisted on getting to the root of the problem to aid people in quitting. Additionally, the article states that Jackie Rogers reports 70% percent success after a year that her students attended her seminars. What’s important to note is that People Magazine is marketed a testament to popular themes, and relevant news deemed worthy by the general public. When Patricia Burstein wrote this article, it's reasonable that she wrote a piece on a popular, yet adverse habit afflicting the general public. The headline focused on Jackie Roberts, who was a personable figure; Patricia was able to construct an article that may have increased health awareness amongst those who partake in

Betty, a 54-year-old woman who has been smoking two and a half packs a day since age thirteen, is admitted to the hospital for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Betty has been admitted seven times in the past three years that she has been affiliated with the hospital. Dr. Smith completes a full pulmonary work-up, and diagnoses her with end stage COPD, but the real reason for her admission is her deadly smoking habit. According to the Surgeon General’s 31st Tobacco Related Report, “Everyday, more than 1,000 people in this country die due to smoking. For each of those deaths, at least two youth or young adults become regular smokers each day. Almost 90% of those replacement smokers smoke that first cigarette by age 18” (Benjamin,

Thank you so much for confirming the critical thinking used to complete this assignment. I will use the prescription format to include dispensing instructions. To improve the education section, I have included the education for 2nd and 3rd hand smoke exposure for both Mary and Marykate. According to Zhang et al. (2014), household rules should be made to include smoking cessation programs, eliminating indoor smoking, avoiding contact with others while smoking, cleaning residual smoke from material, and using air conditioning, filter products, and open windows to create a smoke free environment. The education plan for smoking is a key component for both Mary and MaryKate. The point about routine follow up and catching missing elements is well

Group activities included completing the handout to identify problems/negative consequences of substance use. Discussion was focused

There are environmental and personal variables that affect readiness to change and can lead to progress or relapse. These variables include smoking history, demographic variables and alcohol use, reasons for quitting, and psychosocial variables pertaining to peers, adults, coping, rebelliousness, and antismoking attitudes. For a smoker to progress from stage to stage, the appropriate process variables must be applied to that stage. This model was applied to young smokers, and it revealed that there were percentages of smokers in all stages. The researchers conducted a survey of 698 local high-school students that measured behaviors and attitudes concerning tobacco and alcohol use and created a study that focused on nonpunitive treatment and a caring group leader. The school resource officer and school administrators took on the authoritarian role. Treatment A involved three group sessions that educated participants about the problems associated with tobacco use through lectures, videos, demonstrations, and cooperative learning. Treatment B involved three interactive learning sessions that included participation in a small group activity, visiting a pulmonary rehabilitation facility, and a one-to-one

Nowadays students are not only being pressured to smoke by their peers and by their surrounding, but they are also watching their parents smoke. Many teens have been influenced by

There are people who say exactly what’s on their mind, ignoring other’s thoughts, then there are those who feel they have to change what they want to say. This is called social influence, there are many layers to what this means. According to these authors social influence is everywhere and people are affected by it in many different ways.

According to Cartwright & Zander (1968), a group may be defined as a “collection of individuals who have relations to one another that make them interdependent to some significant degree”. Other definitions state that a group is “two or more persons who are interacting with one another in such a manner that each person influences and is influenced by each other person (Shaw, 1981). Turner (1987) goes further to say that “a psychological group is one that is psychologically significant for the members, to which they relate themselves subjectively for social comparison and the acquisitions of norms and values…that they privately accept membership in and which influence their attitudes and behaviour”. Clark & Pataki reserve the term “group”