Oct 11th, 1995
YoonWhan Cho
Psy409
Dr. Leon James
How difficult was this week's task (lumping all the sub-tasks together) circle one.
Very easy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very hard
This week's rating=9
How much negative emotions did it cost you, all in all?
Very little 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very much
This week's rating=8
How valuable for later use is this knowledge or skill going to be for you?
Not useful 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very useful
This week's rating=10
How likely is it that you'll be getting good at this week's tasks?
Not likely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quite likely
This week's rating=8
How satisfied are you with the computer and Internet systems?
Not satisfied 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very satisfied
This week's rating=8
How hard did you try to get through this week's tasks?
Gave up easily 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Refused to
give up
This week's rating=9
HUNT FOR IMAGES This
week's tasks were most interesting among all the tasks that I have ever
done. It's not that the tasks were easy to figure out but they were related to
all the fun stuffs like graphics and pictures. I spend so many hours to get
pictures, graphics, and images which were downloadable from the Internet. To
do this, I used Webcrawler to get a
list of downloadable icons and images. I
used search engine to see how many downloadable images they have. There were
so many of them. I thought it would be great to download those images into my
diskette and use them to beautify my
home page. I looked all the images and
icons over and I picked some of them. I double-clicked on images and saved
images. I saved them with names and added ".gif.bin" at the end. I did this
for all of my images. Things seem to go smoothly. I spend so many hours to go
over all the images and icons and my eyes began to hurt. I decided to fetch
them over as my files. I did it one by one. It took me so long time to do
this.
REACTION
This week's task was pretty easy. Maybe, it is because I have learned
to deal with my fossilized error which is my tendency to struggle, not asking
for help when I face any trouble. For this week, I spend less time struggling
with problem and asked for help. But I still felt lacunae about my skill to
deal with emotional
frustration. I have made repeated lapses with my affective
domain, especially with persistence. I know that I have the motive to persist
but as the frustration continues, the motive to persist weakens. I guess I
have learned quite a lot about this problem and maybe that's why I could ask
for help to make both affective and
cognitive breakthrough. Asking for help
could be a real breakthrough sometimes. It first works in cognitive domain in
a sense that it begins with identifying problem on any task. Then, it
continues with striving for accuracy on task in affective domain. When the
problem is resolved, I might have a sense of self-confidence which is a very
important step in affective domain. After the completion of one task, I always
have had the desire to complete another task. I guess these are steps of
affective domain involved with asking for help. I could note progression
whenever I go through these steps with asking for help. I could see my
developmental trend in my acquisition in both cognitive and affective domain.
I could acquire knowledge and skills. And, by doing so, I could finally
overcome with emotional frustration for a particular problem. I think, in most
of problem solving processes by asking for help, cognitive domain, in other
word, figuring out concepts and expanding knowledge should precede and then
affective domain or handling emotion follows by the outcome of acquisition in
cognitive domain. My conclusion is that I can assume that this kind of
process applies to other processes which involves Internet adaptation.