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I have a creative project and 1,500 word paper due on Thursday (two days) in Psych and I need …?
… Ideas for something quickly, I must choose a theme that relates to psychology and to me personally then write 1500 words about it and be creative (Ie painting, dance, write poetry, compose music, make a chart or graph, etc..) So I went to a sleep study short by my insomnia (more than a few weeks) to keep a diary while adding my manual sleep aids suggested for insomnia, then write a paper experience. For the creative part I would have made a graph showing the improvement in my sleep. Now it is too late to do because I never started and the project is expected in two days. Help! I need fresh ideas for something good and fast!
Given your story, you might want to do a study on procrastination and take matters in your life when you have had consequences and repercussions. Consider Does your "gain" is to delay doing things …. What do you 'get' when you put off? Observe what deserves the most questions procrastination. I think you have a gold mine of material in your life here – we know how it happened. Maybe this will give you a ahead. Procrastination: Why we do it and how to stop Find more articles on "procrastination and why we do it" is a new year and many of us have started to explore different resolutions: the update that resume, clean the attic, starting the exercise routine. But the sad reality is that most of us will not act on these commitments, not because we are sincere, but because tomorrow is always a better time to go. Procrastination is a curse, and an expensive one. Putting things off leads not just to loss of productivity, but also all kinds of shaking of hands and regret and damaged self-esteem. For all these reasons, psychologists like to understand what happens in the mind that makes it so difficult to actually do what we have decided to do. Are we programmed to carry and delay? Directed by Sean McCrea of the University of Konstanz in Germany, an international team of psychologists wanted to see if there may be a link between way we think of a task and our tendency to postpone it. In other words, are we more likely to get certain tasks as psychologically "Distance" – and thus make us put them aside rather than them now? The psychologists administered questionnaires to a group of students and asked them to reply by e-mail within three weeks. All questions had to do with the rather mundane tasks, like opening a bank account and keep a diary, but students were given different instructions for different answer questions. Some thought and wrote this implied that each activity on the personal characteristics: what kind of person has a bank account, for example. Others have written simply nuts and bolts of how each activity: talk a bank officer, filling out forms, make an initial deposit, and so on. The idea was to bring some students abstract thinking and other practical. Second, psychologists expected. And in some cases, waited and waited. They recorded All response times to see if there was a difference between the two groups, and indeed there was a significant difference. The results, reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, were very clear. Even if all students were paid to the end, those who thought about abstract issues were much more likely to procrastinate – and indeed, some never had the time of the assignment at all. In contrast, those who have focused on how, when and where the task of e-mail their responses much earlier, suggesting that they jumped right on sale rather than delay it. The authors note that "merely thinking about the task more concrete, specific terms felt like it should be completed sooner and thus reduce procrastination. "They conclude that these results have important implications for teachers and managers who want their students and employees can leave early on projects. In addition, these results are also relevant for those of us resolve to have better time management of the new year!
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