Monday, September 13, 2010

pointers pre-final psych

What can a person do to prevent drug abuse?
1. Use drug properly. Most drugs are beneficial when used under medical advice.
2. Understand your own self. Accept and respect yourself for what you are.
3. Develop your potentials. Engage in wholesome, productive and satisfying
activities.
4. Learn to relate effectively with others. Have a confident to whom you can
communicate your problems fully.
5. Learn to cope with your problems and other stresses without the use of drugs.
6. If you have problems you feel you cannot cope with it, seek professional help.
7. Develop strong moral and spiritual values.

What parents do to prevent drug abuse?
1. Create a warm and friendly atmosphere in the home.
2. Develop effective means of communications with your children. Be open and honest
with them.
3. Understand and accept your children for what they are and not for what you want
them to be.
4. Listen to your children. Respect their opinion. Guide them in making wise
decisions.
5. Praise your children for whatever positive achievement they have accomplished,
no matter how trivial they may seem to you.
6. Take time to be with your children no matter how busy you are.
7. Learn to give your children responsibility to which is commensurate to their age.
8. Strengthen their moral and spiritual values.

AIDS way of transmission
1. having sex with an infected person;
2. sharing needle (shooting drugs) with someone who’s infected;
3. Being born when their mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected woman.

Pillars of drug prevention
1. drug supply reduction
# Law enforcement
# Regulatory compliance
# Judicial & legislative measures
2. drug demand reduction
# Policy formulation
# Preventive education programs: Barkada Kontra Droga
# Capability building program
3. alternative development
4. civic awareness and response
5. regional/international cooperation

What can community leaders do to prevent drug abuse.
. Plan and implement social action programs involving young people, civic groups,
and religious organizations and other professionals to improve community life
• Characteristics of Emotions
• Maslow’s Hierarchical Theory of Motivation.
• Control of Emotions.
• Rules on Developing an Emotionally Healthy Personality
• Synthesis of the Different Theories of Emotions
• Physiological Basis of Emotion
• Motivation has been referred to as the “why” of behavior.
• Biological source of motivation pertain to those physical needs of an individual
like food, rest, drink, etc.
• Extrinsic incentive that are not found within but out of the activity.
• Sex drive is more need-related than incentive related.
• Psychological motive are also called universal motive.
• Conscious motives that refers to feelings and thoughts within the awareness of
the individual.
• Ethnology perspective of Motivation also termed as “fixed action” pattern.
• n Ach means striving for a standard excellence.
• Motives can change.
• n Pow need finds its way everywhere in everyday life whenever there two or more
people.
• Incentive is an object that will lessen the drive by satisfying the need, induces
action or motive effects.
• Social frustration resulted from social conditions or those that have to do with
people.
• Belongingness need refers to the need to be with someone, going with and accepted
by others
• Behavioral theory of emotion is also known as “facial-feedback theory” where
facial expression precedes an emotion.
• Personal emotional experience aspect of emotion is associated with the term
feeling.
• Emotion literally means “stirred – up” or “excited”, a concept that is associated
with motivation.
• Internal conflict is a frustration that occurs in the mind of the person.
• Approach-avoidance conflict in which the person is both attracted and repelled by
the same goal.
• Hypothalamus is the seat of emotion.
• Avoidance – avoidance conflict in which a person is attracted to two goals at the
same time, which are in – compatible to each other.
• Drug is a chemical substance that affects the functions of the body or mind when
taken in to the body or applied through the skin.
• Alcohol/liquor is a classification of drug refers to the alcoholic beverages
whose effects are related to their alcoholic content and to the level of alcohol
in the blood from their misuse.
• Depressants are a classification of drug are usually known as “downers” which are
drugs that act on the nervous system promoting relaxation and sleep.
• Hallucinogens are drugs that can produce changes in mood and behavior. They can
produce delusions and hallucinations.
• Narcotics are medicines that refer to opium and its derivatives (synthetic
substitute) such as cocaine, ecgorine and coca leaves.
• RA 9165 is also known as “Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002“.
• A virus that causes AIDS is the HIV.
• He was a champion of AIDS prevention education was Luc Mortagnier.
• The main drug abuse is “shabu”.
• Inhalants volatile substances derived from either or chloroform.

pointer pre-final philoman

In Taoism, it is the male inactive element.
In Hinduism, this means that man is affected by his previous existence. He suffers from the bad deeds in his past life, but is rewarded for his goodness then.
Man suffers from impermanence and temporality and goes through many reincarnations and can find relief in moksha which is really death.
In Buddhism, this is the end of all rebirths and suffering.
It is the sheath in Hinduism which is dependent on food or the material layer/physical or corporeal self.
This sheath consisting of will or the psychological layer.
This sheath is the intellectual layer.
This is the final essence of the self as pure bliss.
It is the way to pass into the transcendental consciousness and bliss of the purest spiritual self – Brahman.
In Hinduism, it is the ground of all things and is unchangeable itself that turns into and animates everything in the universe.
It is a system of rigid social stratification practiced in Hindu society based on the belief that every man is born to his own place in the world.
The five sheaths of man in Hinduism are considered as dark coverings of ignorance and the only way to
destroy ignorance is by knowledge which can be acquired through the practice of yoga.
It is the soul, the principle of life, the inmost essence in man.
This eightfold path is to understand wholesome deeds, unwholesome deeds and comprehend the law of Karma.
This eightfold path is concern with the intention of non-greed, non-hatred and non-delusion.
This eightfold path is all about abstaining from false speech, malicious speech, harsh speech and idle chatter.
This eightfold path is about abstaining from killing, stealing and sexual misconduct.
. It is one of the of the ideal life course in Hinduism where all ties with the world have been completely cut off.
This stage of Hindu life where one retires to the seclusion to the forest to enter upon the path of the quest of
the Atman – Brahman.
This stage of Hindu life where one where the young man is married and takes over the paternal craft and
enjoys the ends of Hindu life.
This stage of Hindu life where one goes to the spiritual teacher to receive divine knowledge and magic craft
of his vocation. This is the period when the mere natural man is sacrificed.
This means “knowledge”
This word means “submission” to the will of God.
Siddhartha Gautama sat under a tree called ______ tree, and after 45 days of meditation, he achieved enlightenment.
The concept of no – soul in Buddhism.
This term is literally means “name”, used as collective name to refer to the psychological and mental aspects of the human being.
The fountainhead of all Indian thought.
The sacred scripture of Islam.
Known as "eternal religion".
Known as "religion of the Vedas”.
It is known as the eternal order, righteousness, religion, law and duty.
The Creator who is continuing to create new realities in Hinduism religion.
The Preserver, who preserves these new creations in Hinduism religion.
The Destroyer, is at times compassionate, erotic and destructive
Means “The Enlightened One”.
The Arabic word for God.
This term can be roughly translated into English as path, or the way.
This eightfold path is all about abandoning of five hindrances namely lust, ill-will sloth-torpor, worry-agitation
and doubt through jhanas.
This eightfold path includes namely contemplation on body, contemplation on feelings, and contemplation on
mind and contemplation on mind-objects.
This eightfold path is all about Awakening zeal for abandoning of unwholesome states and arising & sustaining of
wholesome states.
This eightfold path is all about abstaining from wrong and corrupt means of livelihood.
The Holy City of Liberation where Hindu take a bath in the river Ganges to free them from sins.
The old name of the birth place of Confucius in which modern day Shantung Province.
End of Hindu life characterized by success in their economic life; material prosperity.
End of Hindu life characterized by gratification of the senses; pleasure; sensual, sexual, and mental enjoyment.
Literally means “wind – water” as used for instance in determining the placing and building of a house.
Confucian ethical teachings include ritual, propriety, etiquette, etc.
Confucian ethical teachings which is all about love within the family: love of parents for their children and
of children for their parents
Confucian ethical teaching which is all about honesty and trustworthiness.
Confucian ethical teaching which is all about benevolence, humaneness towards others; the highest Confucian virtue.
Confucian ethical teaching which is about loyalty to the state, etc.
The founder of Taoism.
The founder of Islam.
The founder of Confucianism.
The founder of Buddhism.
The founder of Hinduism.
He was the angel who commanded Mohammad to recite.
The greatest of Confucian writers.
Represents oneness of Heaven and Earth, an emotional oneness.
A collective name to describe the physical aspect of being.
Five Pillars of Islam
The Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truth of Buddhism
Confucian Virtues
Taoism teachings
Hiduism teachings

Points for Reflection

* After a careful evaluation on the following philosophy/religion, what is the common way for them to achieve holiness?

* If you are to do a comparison between Western and Eastern philosophies, what philosophy would you favor most?
Why?