Just another person on earth. So far have been on this planet for 19 Yrs! Landed on 19 July 1990. Think i'm task to preserve life on earth... That why i'm studying NURSING and used to be in STJOHNAMBULANCEBRIGADE and REDCROSS!!! Want know more about me add me on MSN!!! johnsonkow@hotmail.com :) Life great for me! So i'm gonna live it once! Live it great!!

Smile and the world will smile with you! :)

Sexy Old Babe
TEO =0
Wong POOI POOI =X
Retarded Lam x)
Nanny Han! ^_^
Ting Ting!
Vnez
MOON!
Udrena!
SUSU:)
SOCKIE;0
MINLI @_@
Sean LAI =P
Jason NEO =]
Damien LEE! =D
Clement LOW!!!
Gerald LIM!!!!
Hao Hao
DAVID
CHRIS

Studying alone in a quiet room, might not seem to be so bad after all! You get to study the way that you could remember best! Woolala! But it's also pain to study for long hours! Just hope this will end fast! JiaYou!!!

But having a friend to study with will be even better, but the tendency to side track will increase too! Haha!

Hey my dear mate! Dun over stress! Just pick up on what we learn, recap and do well for our exam! Dun disappoint ourselves! JiaYOU!!!

To DAMIEN LEE!
If you happen to come across my Blog, this is for you!

Chill man, pure memorising do help at times, but like what all teacher say, the trick for behaviour science is to know the key concept of what we are learning and how to apply into clinical situation create your own example!! I know you got your way of mugging and getting everything stuck in your brain! But you are lacking rest and now is in a stead of over stress!

What's worrying is , you might over doze yourself with Paracetamol! As a nurse you should know the importance of looking after your own health correct?! So try use more physical and psychological method, we studied how to relieve and manage stress! Hmm... Try using them!

Overall! Dun give yourself more unneeded stress! Do it for yourself not for anyone else! It's your future! I believe no one could feel how u feel, so speak to someone is you really handle okie! CHEER! 3 More days to the end of this bad bad exam! Sure can one!

Once it's over let's go play till no one business! REMEMBER! Do your very best and leave the rest to GOD!!!
Feel free to buzz me UP!!!

Yay!
Ended my term 1.2, now preparing for my final exam on Tuesday, 2nd Dec, Behaviour Science and Wednesday, 3rd Dec, Clinical Nursing. Then I would end my year 1 with my final attachment! Woolala!

This group of friends I will never forget them! With them I always had fun! Hopefully the 4 of us will be as close even after our graduation! Be good Paramedic and Nurses! JiaYou!!!

Got to mug hard for my final exam for Yr 1! Okie... Post more picture later in the nite or tomorrow la!

Hello!
Wow! First time blogging using my school computer!
Oh My!
It's like a SLOW!

Yay!
Meeting Hui Shan and gang tonight for DINNER!
Yay!
Looking forward! =]

Hey!
It's another wonderful weekend! Woolala!
Hmm.. Later going out with my parents! Hopefully I could get what I want! haha.

One more week, then it's my exam! JiaYou!!!! haha

CHeer!
Reply tags once i'm back...

Hey!
This blog entry is for my very lovely friend! A little summary of our friendship!
Do text me if you think you are the one i'm refering too...

Remember the first time we met, we totally do not know each other, but i'm just so glad you sat beside me. Hmm.... Your first impression for me, cool... really very cool. After you sat beside me, I did not know how to start off making friend with you, so thought of just observing you. A few acts that I till now still could remember! When I took out my phone to reply a sms, you would just take and check your own phone. It's really all the time you are doing it when I received a sms, your action are really funny! Haha. So wanted to start off knowing you by offering you sweet, but you reject! So Pei Seh for me! haha. Hmm, then we had our first meal together, both had Western food! Then head for class, the sat together again. Another habit, keep shaking your leg, like earth quake! Oh My! Shocking! Wanted to smack your leg but cannot! haha. Then we was like together for the next few days! Exchange number, then text each other first thing when we reach school, then meet and then head for class together! This was real sweet, having someone to be with me all the time. But after spending a week with you, i drifted away... You were then left alone... I'm really SORRY, I was just not used to be with someone all the time, but that week was not very good for me too... Frankly speaking, seeing you not smile foe that week do really make me reflect on how could I did such a thing to you. Done some self reflection, and thought I still better with you around by my side. So joined
Some key highlights, first person I invited to my house to stay over with me to study! Haha.
That period of studying with you at my house makes me wan to know you better! The way you patiently seat down and study, teach and make me memeorise those facts is just simply cool! No one have ever done that before to me! THANKS YOU! It really touches my heart!

Then it came a new term, I was like a bad to you again! Totally leaving you aside! But you still stayed with me by my side! Hopeing I will turn back to the past! I'm really very sorry, I know I made you feel like a pesh! But I reliase I was wrong, that wasn't what I want! A big group is a want but you is a NEED! I feel safe with you around, if i were to doze to sleep, or just stupidly leave something behind, I;m sure you are there to pick and take for me! THANKS!

You are really very nice to me! So nice. Like a brother! We shall endure through all hardship together ok! Lets just be there for each other! You really touch my heart when my mood can affect your! I'm real shock! Thansk for being understanding!

Overall!
THANKS BEST BEST BEST BEST Friend!
No matter what happen in the future, I'm sure we will still be as close, we have been throught alot! The time might seems so short when we first know each other but, the feeling is just like we know each other since we were born!
Able to roughly read each other mind and heart! Oh My!
Just simply too shocking!

Sometimes I just wonder, has I made the wrong move in life!
Maybe not those that will affect my life but just some wrong steps?
Maybe just that few steps i will be able to get what I want?
Or just with a little more effort?
Or just even with a clear mind?
Sometimes i'm just not sure of what I want for the stuff i'm doing! I treasure it lots but i just let it go so easily.... WHY?
How i wish time could just go back!
But too bad!
What i can do now?
Learn and move on!

Believe in what I believe! Nothing should go wrong!

Let's do some recap! :]
Before is my recap! Yay! i'm done with my revising!
May god bless me for my A tomorrow!
JiaYou!!!

Approaches to Psychology
· Neurobiological Approach
· Cognitive Approach
· Behavioural Approach
· Humanistic Approach
· Psychoanalytic Approach

Factors influencing Growth and Development
· Genetic Factors
· Physical characteristic
· Psychological make-up
· Environmental Factors
· Attachment (Bonding)
· Early Stimulation
· Peer and Family
· Socioeconomic factors.
· Experiences

Definition of growth:
Growth is defined as the physical changes that occur in a steady and orderly manner.

Definition of Development:
Development relates to changes in psychological and social functioning.

Stages of Development:
· Prenatal
· Infancy
· Early childhood
· Late childhood
· Adolescence
· Early adulthood
· Middle adulthood
· Late adulthood

Definition of ‘Needs’:
A ’need’ is a requirement that is necessary or desirable for maintaining physical or psychosocial well being.

Maslow Hierarchy of Needs:
· Self-actualization needs
· Esteem needs
· Love & Belonging needs
· Safety & Security needs
· Bio-physiological needs

Definition of Personality:
Personality maybe defined as the behaviour and characteristic that distinguishes one individual from another.

What factors influence personality?
Personality is shaped by inborn potential (Nature) and by the unique experiences (Nurture) that affect the person as an individual.

What is Trait?
An inherited characteristic that distinguish one person from another in a rather permanent and consistent way

Trait Theory (Hans Eysenck)
2 Major dimensions of personality:
* Introversion
* Extroversion
* Stability
* Instability

Psychoanalytic Theory (Sigmund Freud)
* Unconscious repression of instinctual drives and sexual desires.
* Sex and Aggression
* Composed of Id, Ego, Superego

Definition of Intelligence:
Intelligence is defined broadly as a general ability to learn, to reason, to grasp concepts, and to deal with abstractions. Intelligence is nature or nurture.

Definition of aptitude:
Is define as the specific abilities or capacities of an individual to learn or perform adequately a skill or a job and is a mixture of particular abilities call aptitudes.

Edward L. Thorndike suggests that intelligent behaviour may be classified into 3 kinds:
* Mechanical Intelligence
* Social Intelligence
* Abstract Intelligence

Alfed Binet:
* He has developed a test he called “aptitude for academic achievement”
* This test was designed to be relevant in academic settings
* He believed in the older the wiser.

Lewis Madison Terman:
* Revised Binet’s work and introduced the Stanford-Binet intelligence test.
* He used the formula IQ= (mental age) MA / (chronological age) CA x100%

David Wechsler:
* Developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale(WAIS)
* Designed for use with adult
* Test contain, Verbal & Performance Subtest
* Average score (normal): 100
* Superior: > 130
* Retard: <70

Intelligence Test measure:
Ø Convergent thinking, solve a problem that has a well defined correct answer. E.G. Test made specially for, test like, Binet, IQ, WAIS
Ø Divergent thinking, arriving at many possible solutions to a problem. E.G. Aptitude and achievement test.

Aptitude Test:
Measure the capacity to learn, and predict what an individual can accomplish with training.

Achievement Test:
Measure accomplished skills, and indicate what an individual can do at present.

Howard Garnder: Multiple Intelligence:
1. Linguistic Intelligence
2. Logical Intelligence
3. Spatial Intelligence
4. Bodily-Kinaesthetic intelligence.
5. Musical Intelligence
6. Interpersonal Intelligence
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence

Adolescence, Personality development:
· Identity Crisis
· Roles Conflict
· Group identify Conflict
· Sex-Role Conflict

Jean Piaget (interested in intellectual development) cognitive Developmet:
· Sensorimotor, (birth – 2yrs)
· This stage. It is governed by sensation in which simple learning takes place.
· Problem solving is primarily trial and error, as child progress from reflex activity, through repetitive behaviour , to imitative behaviour
· Preoperational, (2-7yrs)
· Child starts to considers their own view point as the only possible one.
· Thinking is concrete and tangible and the child lacks the ability to make deductions or generalisation, problem solving does not usually follow logical thought processes.
· Concrete Operational,( 7-11yrs)
· Child becoming increasingly logical and problems are solved in a systemic fashion.
· Child is able to consider points of view other than their own.
· Towards each stage, child demonstrates a greater reasoning ability.
· Formal Operational, ( >11yrs)
· Thinking is characterised by logical reasoning.
· Adolescent is able to think in abstract terms, draw logical conclusion and solve problems.

Sigmund Fred Development stages :
(sex and aggression)
· Oral, 0-18mths
· Uses mouth as source of satisfaction
· Anal, 1-3yrs
· Pleasurable sensation arising from anal region
· Learns muscle control of urination and defecation
· Increasingly independence
· Learn to say ’NO’
· Phallic, 3-6yrs
· Pleasurable sensation arising from genital region
· Learns sexual identity
· Emergence of superego
· Develops refinement of motor and intellectual activities
· Latency, 6-12yrs
· Enter a quite stage, sexual development lies dormant, emotional tension
· Experiences a normal homosexual phase
· Increase intellectual capacity
· Genital, 12yrs-adult
· Experiences reawakened sex drive
· Matures intellectually
· Experiences identity crisis

Erikson’s Stages of development:
· 0-1yr, Trust vs Mistrust
· 1-4yrs, Autonomy vs shame and doubt
· 4-8yrs, Initiative vs guilt
· 8-12yrs, Industry vs inferiority
· 12-20yrs, Identity vs role confusion
· 20-30yrs, Intimacy and solidarity vs isolation
· 30-60yrs, Generatively vs self-absorption and stagnation
· 60yrs-daeth, Integrity vs despair

Yeah!

Today shall at least be half a day of Mugging of my Behavior Science! Aiming to get an A! I love this subject so much! So it's a must must must! haha!

Mugging with my buddies later, Damien, Jia Hua, Hayati and Syed! Yeah! :]

Okie la....
I shall go prepare and get going le...

Wow!

Another week has just passed... Had fun in school and texting my friends in and out of class, it does help to kill those boring moments!

Hmm, I really love my Behaviour Science lesson! Start to really know more about myself! What are my weakness and strength! Haha.

Life is just getting to be better for me, my goals for leisure are almost met, but my studies still a hard kick in the backside! I will continue to strive for the best in me! Never ever going to allow being the one waiting to get choose but be the one choosing!
JiaYou!

So glad my social circle is widening... Knowing more great friends do bright up my days and staying in contact with the old pals is just as enjoying! Think I’m really starting to grow up, slowly moving towards my early adulthood!
Haix, if I would wake up my idea earlier, I might not end up in this stage! Maybe this is life; it just does not keep going the way you want but look on the bright side, due to this fact I now know my friends better! Know more great people!

Overall! I just love my life!
Yay! Getting myself a new bag tml! haha.

Mr Kow Signing off.... :]