Whistling Our Way to Work
Good morning. This is me. Just me. It’s 4:15 am and we’ve been up for about 15 minutes … think we’ll go get the coffee. BRB. Ahh that’s good … thanks for waiting.Well, feel like we need to report this morning that we’ve gone through the first night with the machine. We’d gone to bed around 8 pm. Woke up once about 11 pm. Then slept til 4 am. I guess that’s 8 hours. Pretty good. I woke up aware that there was air escaping from the machine, so we’ll have to adjust it better. And, I don’t think that we’d turned on the heater, so we might want to work with that. And, we woke up with a red mark on our face from the attachment. All that will need to be adjusted. The kitties did fine with it, though this morning I found Chief sniffing at the air that was getting out. Hehehe … he said he would wear the mask though.
I feel alert though there are a few yawns. Because I’m using distilled water for her … I’m reminded of ironing smells. It’s a different sensation breathing it in all night. Basically, there seems to be two parts of the machine. The first is the apnea part for air pressure and the second part is a humidifier. It is so my nose or throat doesn’t obviously become dry. There is nothing else to buy except the water.
It runs on one electrical cord and is about 5 pounds. I could replace separate parts though like the filter, mask, hose, etc. The lady says that we can order a new mask that comes with the head gear once every three months. She recommends getting another set so that if anything happens to ours we’ll have one right away. I thought that a good idea … we might want a couple … just in case. She showed me the plastic parts on the mask that were more fragile. And she showed me cleaning the mask and all. She gave us a couple terrible stories about people who had used regular water or not taken care of their stuff. Umm, we’ll be sure to remember the horror stories.
She was very good at her job.
In general the lady was very personable. She and us jelled and after awhile, she knew of our personalities and we’d learned about her and her family. It wasn’t a therapy session, but I listened to her, cuz she had a lot to say. She talked about the family’s abuse – mostly due her ex-husband. She had gone through a lot and I felt a great amount of empathy for her and the situation. I felt a lot of respect for her courage to have gone through what she had and I felt a sense of pride in that she had sought and received help. This had given me a sense of trust in the survivors’ system and my small part as a witness to the others’ experience. She’s done well all considering the tremendous burden of her responsibilities of getting 3 kids through it. I felt bad for her though, in that at the very end, she stated that she had told somewhat of the story to one other customer who had turned her in for lack of professionalism. I felt nothing like that. I understand her lack of trust, but I wish I could have comforted her more in that I felt honor in that she shared as much as she had.
So, that’s pretty much of that … as an aside, she also taught me about the machine.
She was a very good teacher. She started at the beginning and explained every nuance. I was grateful that she was so careful. She really does know her responsibility. I enjoyed the meeting very much. It’s been a very long time since we sat in our living room and … we even served coffee wooohooo That had been a good idea. Our friend had come over afterward and had commented on that part. We grinned from ear to ear and told him we’d remembered that part of being a housewife. He was very understanding too of our new situation. After we’d talked quite a while out in the dining room, he agreed to come take a look at the machine. We pushed him into holding it sort of close to his face and feel the air coming at him. He didn’t like that part so much, but did his best to comfort us through it. The worst part is that we were afraid of what we’d looked like with all that apparatus on our face. We kept comparing ourselves with a dog who was muzzled. Unfortunately, we were still doing the same with Deb when she stopped by later during the night. We held it to our face with our friend and looked very mopily at him. He asked, are you feeling sorry for yourselves? And, as earnestly as we could, we nodded our head up and down. Yes, we were feeling sorry for ourselves. I know this isn’t a good thing, so we added that it came in the rule book that it was ok to be like that the first night. He didn’t scold so much. :)
There was a lot of talk before that of his circumstances … his daughter is still going through a lot with her break-up. That’s another difficult situation where you just do your best to listen … I think our friend is going through very protective feelings of his daughter. I can tell he is hurting, because he’s not able to fix things for her. He’s trying to get over the part where his daughter is conveying she is 24 and able to handle things, with the other part where she’s very vulnerable to being hurt. I think he would feel better if he went down there to check her out, but he is telling himself that he can’t do that, because it would undermine her efforts. I don’t think you can take away the fatherness just because she’s older. God Bless him!
So, that was our excitement … well, maybe that came afterward … but we’re not going there
Next!??
It’s about 5 am now and we’re thinking we would like breakfast and see what we can do with school yet. AND, more COFFEE!!
Mmm ahh … that was good. We have to acknowledge that today is a work day. Be good to be in the shower in an hour. So … need to open something, up, right? I never know what to do at this point … seems I gotta do something with the information given.
We’re working on persuasion, right? Lookin over at the OneNote … it asks what principles of persuasion am I going to use to market myself. I suppose they mean market myself as? Umm, a Q, student, mother, multiple, etc? Which of myselves, or would that even matter. I’m thinking they are asking for some kind of advertisement or commercial, or maybe that’s just my interpretation of how to make this task easier. Not sure if that’s the easy way though. Maybe we’ll have to go through the notes more carefully to find some plus’.
Persuasion Paper Notes
All want freedom to think, feel and act as we choose (not others), we are motivated to maintain our cherished freedom, even when challenged, and we are willing to restore freedoms we feel are slipping away (p. 212).
“View persuasive communication as the outcome of three factors: a source (who)[credible (trustworthy) and likable [similar and physically attractive], a message (says what and in what context [how – message length, presentation order, messages discrepancy, fear, and positive emotion]), and an audience (to whom [personality {high need for cognition and low need for cognition, and self-monitors and non self-monitors} and his or her expectations {cultural – independence and collectivists])” (p. 197).
Messages that promise to serve personal needs are evaluated more favorably than messages that make no such promises (Ericksen & Sirgy, 1985; Fodor & Smith, 1982). Messages that match needs are also evaluated as more persuasive (Lavine & Snyder, 1996). (Fung, p. 164).
Finally, cultural values influence the effectiveness of advertising (Pollay, 1983). Han and Shavitt (1994), for example, presented young adults in the United States, a relatively individualistic culture, and young adults in Korea, a relatively collectivist culture, with advertisements that emphasized either individualistic benefits or family or group benefits. (Fung, p. 164).
The central Route
Source speaks clearly, gives important message, is bright and captive, involved with the audience, cares deeply about issue, gives time to absorb message (p. 197).
Learn the message according to its strength, ease of learning, and sometimes truth (p. 195-196).
Involvement “the level of perceived personal importance and/or interest evoked by a stimulus (or stimuli) within a specific situation” (Antil, 1984, p. 203). In general, the more involved consumers are, the more motivated they are to pay attention to advertisements about the product and spend more cognitive effort processing the information (Petty & Cacioppo, 1984). This increase in attention and effort increases the persuasiveness of the message if its argument is strong (Zaichkowsky, 1986). (Fung, p. 164) **
Teach contents to people motivated
When give time (open-ended) = Knowledge related goals – optimize the future, acquire new information (Fung, 163).
More acceptable to people young in age or spirit
When time is limited = Emotionally meaningful goals (immediately gratifying) – feelings and balanced emotionally states, or being needed by others (Fung, p. 163)
More acceptable to people older or ill with less time; better suited to their memory (Fung, p. 164).
And, able to accept it … they must be (p. 195-196).
Willing to attend
Comprehend – actively, critically, and thoughtfully
Retain in memory for later use – greater impact, memorable
Elaborate – thinking thoughts in a favorable manner by focusing on it more than not (p. 196).
The peripheral Route – less strenuous (p. 197-198).
Source speaks too quickly, message trivial or too complex, distracted, pressed for time, uninterested (p. 197).
Not motivated or able (the masses)
Receptive ability limited, understanding small, people forgetful (glass half empty) (p. 197).
Learn from peripheral cues information that is with little effort and superficial (p. 197).
Simple-minded heuristics or rules of thumb (p. 197).
Summary - These findings in advertisement preferences are highly consistent with findings from prior research conducted by our research team testing similar hypotheses in the area of social preferences (Fredrickson & Carstensen, 1990; Fung et al., 1999; Fung, Lai, & Ng, 2001) that show that compared with younger adults, older adults in both Western and Eastern cultures are consistently more likely to prefer emotionally close social partners than younger people and that these age differences can be modified by changing time perspective (Fredrickson & Carstensen, 1990; Fung et al., 1999; Fung, Lai, & Ng, 2001). Findings from the present studies suggest that time perspective also influences evaluations of messages. (Fung, p. 14-175).
End Paper notes – First 40%
Ok, It’s 6:37 am now … we got through the first 40% … Trying to integrate the notes … the ones that don’t say Fung are the Brehm group. It’s a process you know … at this time you are comparing apples and oranges and trying to make fruit. Hehehe I like that … fruit …*giggle*
Oh, you just don’t know … it really is funny. It’s a category joke :)
Ok ok … I hear you … we’re moving on. I want to get going now, but I also want to give my buddy a chance … wooHOOO and if by Q .. here he is … He’ll probably look at his email first though. I think he’s going to say hi, but I think he is going to then give me a list of stuff to do, so we’re going to avoid him this morning. If you saw me I’d be the one whistling.
posted by Ann Marie @ 3/06/2007 06:44:00 AM
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