This particular incident is about a person named John Pinto. He works in my uncle’s office, which calls for the employees to work a minimum of 6 days a week. Apart from being very sincere, he works beyond 12 hours a day. Any person in the ‘Operations’ team would relate to the pressure they faced everyday because of the escalations. Number of things might go wrong anytime and the employees should be well equipped to deal with it. He seemed to love his job in the Information technology industry, though the organisation was very demanding and expected the bandwidth to be extraordinary. First 3 days of the week was a routine, but every Thursday was distinct. In the sense, he would not turn up for work like on the 4th working day of every week.
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A psychologist with a biological perspective might quote the reason as ‘Stress’. The ‘fight-or-flight’ response related to stress, could have been the reason for his behaviour. The release of hormones like catecholamine’s, also called adrenalin, adrenal gland or even the neurotransmitters Dopamine and serotonin serve as the reason for this response. This response is based on adaptation and it regulates other stress responses. The activation of sympathetic nervous system, a main division of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) leads to that reaction. Stress, being a common condition among today’s working population might have had a negative impact on him. Working nonstop for the first three days must have taken a toll on him. This should have lead him to not being able to turn up for work the next day, making him feel disappointed with himself. When he takes a day off, his stress levels go down and he turns up the next day because he feels a lot better as the parasympathetic nervous system has worked to return the body’s condition to homeostasis (normal). Stress seems to be the common reason for most problems today. But there might be other things which could have possibly gone wrong with the normal functions of the …show more content…
Cognitive perspective:
A psychologist with this perspective would relate to the perception, memory, thinking and learning aspects of a situation. The reason for this behaviour would be that his perception of taking leave was different from that of others. He probably thought his work was gauged as against him being regular. Though, he failed to realise the fact that the latter was the problem. If he modelled his behaviour on others, he would be drawing on his memory. His way of processing information about such things might be faulty as well.
4. Humanistic
A psychologist with a biological perspective might quote the reason as ‘Stress’. The ‘fight-or-flight’ response related to stress, could have been the reason for his behaviour. The release of hormones like catecholamine’s, also called adrenalin, adrenal gland or even the neurotransmitters Dopamine and serotonin serve as the reason for this response. This response is based on adaptation and it regulates other stress responses. The activation of sympathetic nervous system, a main division of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) leads to that reaction. Stress, being a common condition among today’s working population might have had a negative impact on him. Working nonstop for the first three days must have taken a toll on him. This should have lead him to not being able to turn up for work the next day, making him feel disappointed with himself. When he takes a day off, his stress levels go down and he turns up the next day because he feels a lot better as the parasympathetic nervous system has worked to return the body’s condition to homeostasis (normal). Stress seems to be the common reason for most problems today. But there might be other things which could have possibly gone wrong with the normal functions of the …show more content…
Cognitive perspective:
A psychologist with this perspective would relate to the perception, memory, thinking and learning aspects of a situation. The reason for this behaviour would be that his perception of taking leave was different from that of others. He probably thought his work was gauged as against him being regular. Though, he failed to realise the fact that the latter was the problem. If he modelled his behaviour on others, he would be drawing on his memory. His way of processing information about such things might be faulty as well.
4. Humanistic