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Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.

Though it is easy to think that everyday situations have commonsense answers, scientific studies have found that people are not always as good at predicting outcomes as they think they are.

The hindsight bias leads us to think that we could have predicted events that we actually could not have predicted.

People are frequently unaware of the causes of their own behaviors.

Psychologists use the scientific method to collect, analyze, and interpret evidence.

Employing the scientific method allows the scientist to collect empirical data objectively, which adds to the accumulation of scientific knowledge.

Psychological phenomena are complex, and making predictions about them is difficult because of individual differences and because they are multiply determined at different levels of explanation.

Development of psychology.

The first psychologists were philosophers, but the field became more empirical and objective as more sophisticated scientific approaches were developed and employed.

Some basic questions asked by psychologists include those about nature versus nurture, free will versus determinism, accuracy versus inaccuracy, and conscious versus unconscious processing.

The structuralists attempted to analyze the nature of consciousness using introspection.

The functionalists based their ideas on the work of Darwin, and their approaches led to the field of evolutionary psychology.

The behaviorists explained behavior in terms of stimulus, response, and reinforcement, while denying the presence of free will.

Cognitive psychologists study how people perceive, process, and remember information.

Psychodynamic psychology focuses on unconscious drives and the potential to improve lives through psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

The social-cultural approach focuses on the social situation, including how cultures and social norms influence our behavior.

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A college education provides many intangible benefits as well as much better prospects for a career you will enjoy.

Thinking about your personal values and how they relate to your education can help you stay motivated to succeed in college.

Personality and skill inventories can help you discover the right career for your future and the best major in college.

Because college is a new and different life experience for most students, taking responsibility for new freedoms and managing time well are critical.

College students vary widely in terms of age, work experience before college, cultural background, family, and other factors that may affect how they learn.

Traditional, young students just out of high school face a transition involving new freedoms and new situations they may need to master in order to succeed academically.

Returning students who work and may also have family responsibilities often have time issues and may feel out of place in the college environment.

Other student groups include commuters, first-generation students, immigrant and international students, students with disabilities, and others, each of whom may need to face additional issues to be successful.

Regardless of individual differences, all successful students share a number of traits, including a good attitude, effective time management strategies, good studying and test-taking skills, and more.

People learn through a four-step process, and you can maximize your learning by conscientiously applying all steps throughout college.

The first step of the learning cycle is to prepare in advance for classes, reading, tests, and other learning.
The second step is to absorb information and ideas effectively during classes, reading, and other learning experiences.

The third step, capturing, typically involves taking notes on the learning experience to increase understanding and retention.

The fourth step is to review your notes, to help solidify the learning and to prepare for repeating the cycle in the next class or reading assignment.

People have natural learning preferences, affecting how they learn best, such as learning by reading, by listening, by seeing, by doing, and by feeling.

Students should learn how to use their own learning style to their best advantage while also becoming flexible and working to develop other learning styles.

Because your learning style may not match your instructor’s teaching style, you need to be flexible and work to develop new learning strategies essential for college success.

Even in large lecture classes, attendance is important, along with forming a good impression and paying attention.

Study the college catalog and talk with your advisor to ensure you understand the role of core classes, electives, and major courses in your program or degree requirements.

Online courses offer another option in many colleges but require a certain preparedness and a heightened sense of responsibility.

To avoid inadvertently finding yourself in trouble, know your college’s policies for academic issues and campus behavior.

Taking advantage of the many resources your college offers to help you with a wide range of academic and personal matters is essential for success in college.

While success in college involves many benefits and experiences, grades remain one important measure of success.

Acceptable grades are important for continuing your college program and financial aid, for graduate school or other future educational opportunities, and for obtaining a good job in most careers.

Succeeding is especially important in one’s first year of college because this is the most critical period to avoid the factors that lead to many students dropping out.

You can launch yourself on a path of success immediately by taking the first steps for help with studies, developing a positive attitude, taking advantage of your personal learning style, starting to practice time management, meeting your instructors and other students, participating actively in your classes, and taking control of your personal health and finances.

The first year of college is the most critical. Make the commitment to overcome any obstacles to a successful transition and stay committed and motivated to succeed.

Although college students differ in many ways, all successful students share certain common traits, including a positive attitude, effective critical thinking skills, good time management skills, effective study skills, interactions with instructors and other students, and good habits for personal health and financial stability.

You can learn to maximize your learning by attending to each step of the learning process: preparing, absorbing, capturing, and reviewing.

It is important to understand your personal learning style and use it well in classes, while also making the effort to learn in new ways and work with other students for a more effective overall learning experience.

Working with your academic advisor and taking advantage of the many resources available at your college are key actions to ensure success.

Understanding the larger characteristics of college success leads to a richer college experience, supplementing the value of good grades.

While it may take a few weeks to develop all the skills needed for success in college, there are many steps you can begin taking today to get moving in the right direction.

“A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.” -Robert J. McKain.

Remember, this is about how to manage your time and life. Think about the way you are using your time. Do you use your time well? Do you focus on things which matter most? Do you spend significant amount of time on things which can make a big difference in your life? If you don’t put first then you cannot be successful, you simply cannot achieve your biggest goal. You must understand what the most important things to do in your life. You must apply resourcefulness to ensure massive progress.

Think! Think about the way to make a big difference in your life. Think about the way to ensure massive progress. Think about the way to do the best with all of the available resources. What are your ultimate missions? It is about doing the best with all of the available resources. It is about using the power of focus to ensure great progress. It is about making the most of your time to get the most important things done.

Putting First Things First is the way to achieve big goals in this life. If you know how to achieve big goals, then you know how to succeed in life. It is about doing the very best, using the power of concentration. Concentrate on the most important, then you can make a big difference in your life.

Now is the best time to begin the journey toward the greatest success on earth. Now is the best time to make the most of every opportunity. Now is your chance to make tremendous progress by PUTTING FIRST THINGS FIRST. You can make a big difference! You can achieve the big goals! You can achieve significant success on earth. You can enjoy a lifelong progress. It is about the tremendous amount of opportunity that must be seized to ensure massive progress in your life.

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Love is power.
Love can make you smile.
Love can inspire you.
Love can move you to the stratosphere.
Love can empower you.
Love can change your life.
Love can even transform your life.
Love is strange.
You never know what it will be like.
There are amazing surprises for those who believe in love.
Start to think about love.
Start to feel the live inside.
Use the power of love inside.
Do not hide it.
Reveal your love inside.
Make it known to the world.
Express it clearly.
See what real love can do.
See what your life will be like.
See what you can do.
Now that you know it already.
The power of love inside.
Will you do nothing about it?
Or will you use it to transform your life?
Don’t just stay where you are.
Begin to transform your life.
With the power of love.

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Formal Greetings

Hello!
Hello !
How are you?
I’m fine thank you. And you?
I’m very well thank you. And you?
How are you doing?
I’m fine. Thank you. And you?
I’m doing fine. Thanks a lot. And you?
How is everything?
Everything is fine. Thank’s a lot.
Everything is okay. Thank you.
How’s everything going?
Everything is fine. Thank you.
Everything is okay. Thanks a lot.
How have you been keeping?
I have been doing well. Thank you.
I have been doing fine. Thanks a lot.
I trust that everything is well.
Yes. Everything is fine. Thank’s a lot.

Informal Greetings

Hi.
What’s up?
How’s life?
How’s everything?
Good to see you.
Good to see you again.
Good to see again in this place.
Great to see you again.
Great to see you again in this town.
Great to see you again in this occasion.
What a coincidence. I’m happy to see you again.
How are things (with you)?
How’s it going?

How’s life been treating you?

Formal Greeting to a person you haven’t seen for a long time.

It has been a long time.
It’s been too long.
What have you been up to all these years?
It’s always a pleasure to see you.
How long has it been?
I’m so happy to see you again.

Informal Greeting to a person you haven’t seen for a long time.

How come I never see you?
I haven’t seen you for ages. Where have you been?
It’s been such a long time.
Long time no see.
Where have you been hiding?
It’s been ages since we last met.

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Evaluation is the process of goal achievement assessment and disclosure of the issue of performance programs / projects to provide feedback for improving the quality of the performance of programs / projects.

Monitoring of key questions

1. What are the arising problems?
2. Do the projects on schedule?
3. Do the project generate output based on plan?
4. Do budget in accordance with the plan?
5. Do the strategy executed according to plan?
6. Do the target group involved in project activities?

Monitoring Objectives.

1. Assessment of activities.
2. Has the projects been implemented according to plan.
2. Identify the problems that arise so that it can be overcome.
3. To assess whether the patterns of work and management that are used are appropriate to achieve the project objectives.
4. Know the connection between events in order to obtain a measure of progress,
5. Tailor activities to the changing environment, without deviating from the objectives.

Benefits of monitoring

Responsible for the Program:

One of the functions of management control or supervision.
As a form of accountability (accountability) performance
To convince the parties concerned
Help determine the steps that related to future projects.
As a basis for subsequent monitoring and evaluation.

For the Project Manager, namely:

Helping to prepare a report within a short time
Knowing the shortcomings that need to be improved and sustained performance is already good.
As a basic (information) is important to evaluate the project.

Type and Type of Monitoring

Aspects of the input (input) projects include: manpower, funds, materials, equipment, hours of work, data, policy, management and so on. required to carry out project activities.
Aspects of the process / activity which aspects of a project that reflects a process of activities, such as research, training, production process, providing assistance and so on.
Aspects of the output (output), ie aspects of the project which includes the results of the process that is primarily concerned with the quantity (amount).

Importance of Evaluation

-Show success or failure of the project
-Shows where and how the necessary changes
-Determine how the strength or potency can be improved.
-Provide information for planning and decision making.
-Helps to be able to see the wider context and its implications for performance development.

The purpose of evaluation

To obtain information and draw lessons from the experience of project management, outputs, benefits, and impacts of new development projects has been completed, and already serves as a feedback for decision making in the context of planning, implementation, monitoring and control of future projects.

Types of evaluation

1. Initial evaluations of activities, namely the assessment of readiness to detect the feasibility of the project or projects.
2. Formative evaluation, is assessment of the results that have been achieved during the process of project activities implemented. The timing of the carried out regularly (monthly, quarterly, semester or yearly) according to the information needs assessment results.
3. Summative evaluation, ie assessment of the results has been achieved entirely independent of the activities until the end of the activity. Execution time at the end of the project in accordance with the duration of the project implemented. For projects that have a period of six months, the summative evaluation carried out by the end of the sixth month. For the evaluation that assesses the impact of the project, can be implemented after the project ends and calculated their impact has been noticeable.

Indicators of community-based programs

1. Goals
Quality of life.
Empowerment (self-actualization and community existence koaktualisasi).
Community independence.
Community resilience.

2. Outcomes
- Appreciation (awareness, responsibility & an active role).
- Sustainable Utilization of social resources.
- Treatment & prevention mechanism by the community.

3. Outputs
- Control (weight and growth) of social problems.
- Increased service coverage (coverage rate).
- The degree of community use of the potentials and resources.
- The role of active community.

Format Design

Background (explain the situation analysis, Things are, the purpose and project activities).
Objectives (general and specific).
Usability (substance and which is intended for users).
Coverage (aspects on the monitor / evaluation).

Method

- Technical monitoring and evaluation.
- Indicators and measuring instruments.
- Data Source.
- Data collection techniques.
- Data processing techniques.

Location

Implementing and organizational structure
Reporting and dissemination
Time and stages of evaluation
Attachment:
– Instruments
– Relevant Documents Project.

Customers are value-maximizers. They form an expectation of value and act on it. Buyers will buy from the firm that they perceive to offer the highest customer-delivered value, defined as the difference between total customer value and total customer cost.

A buyer’s satisfaction is a function of the product’s perceived performance and the buyer’s expectations. Recognizing that high satisfaction leads to high customer loyalty, many companies today are aiming for TCS – total customer satisfaction. For such companies, customer satisfaction is both a goal and marketing tool.

Strong companies develop superior capabilities in managing core business processes such as a new product realization, inventory management, and customer acquisition and retention.

Managing these core processes effectively means creating a marketing network in which the company works closely with all parties in the production and distribution chain, from suppliers of raw materials to retail distributors. Companies no longer compete – marketing networks do.

Losing profitable customers can dramatically affect a firm’s profits. The cost of attracting a new customer is estimated to be five times the cost of keeping a current customer happy.

The key to retaining customers is relationship marketing. To keep customers happy, marketers can add financial or social benefits to products, or create structural ties between the company and its customers.