Back Stage

Examples of Back Stage in the following topics:

• Stages of Changing Unhealthy Behaviors

  • These participants need to learn how to strengthen their commitments to change and to fight urges to slip back.
  • It is important for people in this stage to be aware of situations that may tempt them to slip back into doing the unhealthy behavior—particularly stressful situations.
  • Importantly, the progression through these stages is not strictly linear.
  • People may move back and forth between the stages as their motivation changes.
  • In this way, relapse is conceptualized as a return from the action or maintenance stage to an earlier stage.

• Stages of Sleep

  • Stage 1 NREM is characterized by:
  • This stage, formerly divided into two separate stages (3 and 4), is called slow-wave sleep, or SWS.
  • In this stage, most muscles are paralyzed.
  • Sleep progresses from stage 1 to stage 2 to stage 3, and then back to stage 2 before transitioning into the REM phase.
  • (Note that stages 3 and 4 are now considered to be one stage, stage 3.)

• Planning a Project

  • This stage should determine the scope of the operation.
  • This stage includes predicting the time investment, costs, specific resources required, and the necessary inputs to achieve the outputs forecasted in the initiation stage.
  • Executing: The simplest stage in theory, and perhaps the most complicated in practice, is the execution stage.
  • Monitoring the operation for ways to increase value can redirect the strategic-planning cycle back to the planning-and-design stage.
  • This stage is the other possible result from the monitoring and controlling phase—that is, instead of being redirected back to the planning-and-design phase, the assessment shows that value is now being lost and it is no longer profitable to continue the process.

• Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development

  • At each stage there is a crisis or task that we need to resolve.
  • Erikson also added to Freud's stages by discussing the cultural implications of development; certain cultures may need to resolve the stages in different ways based upon their cultural and survival needs.
  • This is the “me do it” stage.
  • Erikson’s task at this stage is called integrity vs. despair.
  • People who feel proud of their accomplishments feel a sense of integrity, and they can look back on their lives with few regrets.

• The Responding Stage

  • The responding stage is when the listener provides verbal and/or nonverbal reactions to what she hears.
  • The responding stage is the stage of the listening process wherein the listener provides verbal and/or nonverbal reactions based on short- or long-term memory.
  • Following the remembering stage, a listener can respond to what she hears either verbally or non-verbally.
  • Responding verbally might involve asking a question, requesting additional information, redirecting or changing the focus of a conversation, cutting off a speaker, or repeating what a speaker has said back to her in order to verify that the received message matches the intended message.

• Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

  • Each stage builds upon knowledge learned in the previous stage. 
  • The sensorimotor stage occurs from birth to age 2.
  • Children figure out ways to elicit responses by "doing", such as pulling a lever on a music box to hear a sound, placing a block in a bucket and pulling it back out, or throwing an object to see what happens.
  • The preoperational stage occurs from age 2 to age 7.
  • Reversibility is the idea that something can be changed back to its original state after it has been altered (for example, pouring water back and forth between two differently shaped glasses and still having the same amount of water).

• Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

  • Stage 1 focuses on the child's desire to obey rules and avoid being punished.
  • Stage 2 expresses the "what's in it for me?"
  • As a result, concern for others is not based on loyalty or intrinsic respect, but rather a "you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours" mentality.
  • Moral reasoning in stage four is beyond the need for individual approval exhibited in stage three.
  • Democratic government is theoretically based on stage five reasoning.

• Situational Anxiety

  • Also known as stage fright, situational anxiety is the short-term form of anxiety surrounding public speaking.
  • In some cases, stage fright may be a part of a larger pattern of social phobia or social anxiety disorder, but many people experience stage fright without any wider problems.
  • Stage fright can also be seen in school situations, like stand up projects and class speeches.
  • This bodily response is known as the fight or flight syndrome, a naturally occurring process in the body done to protect itself from harm. "...The neck muscles contract, bringing the head down and shoulders up, while the back muscles draw the spine into a concave curve.
  • Second, blood vessels in the extremities constrict (Managing Stage Fright).

• Analyzing every stage of production

  • After every stage of production has been laid out, the next phase is to break the stages down into subtasks for further analysis.
  • Examining the company's rubbish makes it easy to determine what can be reduced, reused, reincorporated back into production, or sold to a recycler.
  • The company now only orders snacks from vending machine suppliers that take back their packaging – a move that has greatly reduced the amount of rubbish in office bins.

• Labor and Birth

  • Labor and birth are divided into three stages: the dilation of the cervix, the delivery of the baby, and the expulsion of the placenta.
  • At this time, the baby reorients, facing forward and down with the back or crown of the head engaging the cervix (uterine opening).
  • There are three stages to labor.
  • During stage one, the cervix thins and dilates.
  • During stage two, the baby is expelled from the uterus with the umbilical cord still attached.