Shauna Kimberley's BAPP Blog

There is no textbook way in which a person receives and interprets feedback, its interpretation will vary depending on the way the recipient views their own practice, the giver of the feedback and their own ability (Eva et al, 2011).  During my first year of professional training I found it difficult to have an effective response to a particular teachers feedback. His feedback during class was predominantly  based around criticism and it would usually put me in a negative mindset for the lesson meaning that I didn't improve. Previously I had put my lack of progress in this class down to the ineffectiveness of the delivery of the feedback however as an area of learning it is important for me to consider the reasons why I was unable receive feedback effectively so that I can understand how to get the feedback that I need in order to progress in the future.  Barriers to receiving feedback effectively My cognitive capacity was overwhelmed with the frequency of feedback g...

Comparison- ' When you make a  comparison , you  consider  two or more things and  discover  the  differences  between them.' (Collins Dictionary) The act of comparison is something that comes into most of our lives every day. We compare anything and everything, from places and objects to food, but most of the time we use it to compare ourselves with someone else. Whether that is comparing our productivity with someone else's, comparing our image with someone else's, or even comparing the choices we make. How does this make us feel?  Insecure, Intimidated, Behind, Negative, Not doing enough, Not good enough. This may not be universal but these are the words that spring to mind for me. FOMO- Fear of Missing Out.  This is something that is becoming more and more common, and it stems from comparison. W hen comparing ourselves  and our achievements to someone else's it is usually because they have something in their life that we feel like we...

 Affiliation Crisp and tuner(2007) talk about affiliation and the reasons why humans form close relationships. The need to affiliate is inherited from a young age and phycologists have said that It helps us to survive and reproduce.  O’connor and Rosenblood's (1996) social affiliation model suggests that the amount we affiliate each day depends on a homeostatic principle. “ we propose that the process underlying everyday affiliation operates according to a homeostatic principle. This process, in many respects, is analogous to caloric intake. In general, we suggest that individuals seek to maintain an optimal range of social contact.” (O'connor and Rosenblood 1996) This means that we try to keep our levels of social interaction balanced according to our own preference. If we have reached our preferred level of affiliation we will look to seek out solitude, and on the other hand if we have too much solitude this motivates us to seek out affiliation. These levels will differ depe...