Humans Innately Aggressive? Aggression is "an action…intended to harm someone in a verbal sense (sarcasm, insults, threats or playing out "nasty motives" -- and it can be a physical act, pushing, hitting, shooting at another person or otherwi Continue Reading...
Path-Goal and Expectancy Theories During the 1980 Winter Olympic Games held in Lake Placid, New York, the United States Men's ice hockey team, comprised of predominantly college players with no experience in international play, performed one of the Continue Reading...
In particular, they specify the need for students to be good listeners, team players, and to make compromises to work toward mutual goals (Scheuerell, 2010). Group work must be a time for students to engage in productive and accountable collaborati Continue Reading...
Transformative Learning in Adults Adult learners desire more than just knowledge and resist academic teachings strategies such as notes memorization and examinations. They desire something more than just what is offered in the classrooms- the learni Continue Reading...
Though they can cooperatively work well with other people, they would rather spend time for learning by themselves. Distant teacher. If traditional education teachers act as directors of learning - telling learners what, when, and how is it to be l Continue Reading...
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! -- Michael Gurian and Patricia Henley Michael Gurian's book has been a best seller and a much-discussed, respected handbook on the topic of boys vs. girls in a learning milieu since it was published in 2001. But mor Continue Reading...
Social Learning Theory emphasizes the importance of observing and modeling the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others. Albert Bandura (1925- Canadian born Stanford psychologist, is the leading proponent of the theory, which is also Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice Motor Learning The purpose of this paper is to discuss current theories, concepts and research involving Motor Learning. The research provides evidence-based information discussing how humans utilize motor-learning throughou Continue Reading...
The students were asked to examine a case study and determine a treatment method for recovery. Each student was to present the situation based on their specific area of interest. The varied responses by the different students assisted all the parti Continue Reading...
The article is extracted from "Learning Disability Quarterly," a magazine specialised in researches on various aspects of learning disabilities. In addition, it has a high level credibility and is also extremely useful for researchers interested in Continue Reading...
Distant students and their teachers often have little in common in terms of background and day-to-day experiences and it takes longer for student-teacher rapport to develop. Technology is typically the conduit for information and communication flo Continue Reading...
Styles of Piano Teaching and Learning At its core essence, teaching piano is a skill and a craft, as well as inculcation in a musical art from the student's perspective. In other words, a student must learn to love what he or she does enough to prac Continue Reading...
Animal Learning Comparative cognition is a psychological approach to learning that studies how animals process information. S.T. Boysen (1998) in his article presents the summary and review of different issues concerning this approach specifically i Continue Reading...
There's an understood supposition of opposing causal agency at work. No matter what pressures and factors came to bear, the addict could have done something else, but simply decided not to (Choice and Free Will: Beyond the Disease Model of Addiction Continue Reading...
Rogers lists these qualities of experiential learning: personal involvement, self-initiated, evaluated by learner, and pervasive effects on learner. To Rogers, experiential learning is equivalent to personal change and growth. Rogers feels that all Continue Reading...
Frozen Fluidity The transfer model of learning, when taken to its extreme, assumes the act of teaching implies that learning occurs (Schraube & Marvakis, 2015). From this perspective, as long as the teacher teaches, the student will learn. The f Continue Reading...
Counseling and Personal Values Integrating Learned Theories about Counseling with Your Personal Values As the world has modernized, people have started experiencing more psychological problems and other problems than ever. Despite the normal behavi Continue Reading...
This is the foundation of the psychiatric classification of antisocial personality disorder. Robins also thought that antisocial personality is evident early in life and that it tends to persevere from childhood to adulthood, with dissimilar behavio Continue Reading...
d.). A need also frequently serves to answer the question motivational psychologists regularly ask as they explore motives that impel the person people to do what he/she does: "What drives people to do the things they do?" Basic concepts of motive in Continue Reading...
The DSM explicitly "strives to be atheoretical, using merely observationally referent terms. The hope with this is to make the manual as acceptable as possible to professionals with different theoretical orientations (Gilles-Thomas 1989, Lecture 2). Continue Reading...
Behavioral and Cognitive Behavioral Theories Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Theories In this paper, there is going to an examination of Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic theories. This is accomplished by focusing on: the two theories, Continue Reading...
Cardsmax Humanistic Theory Humanistic learning theory as explained by Lipscomb, & Ishmael (2009 p. 174) emphasizes feeling, experience, self-awareness, personal growth, and individual / psychic optimization. Learning, from this perspective, is Continue Reading...
The acculturation model developed by Schumann (1978) consists of a taxonomy of variables that were developed based on the concept that both social (group) and affective (individual) variables are the primary causative variables as shown in Table __ Continue Reading...
In this view, the fact that underprivileged subcultures already promoted a different set of social values emphasizing "street smarts" and toughness instead of socially productive attributes and goals combined with the substitution of deviant role mo Continue Reading...
Biological explanations, in contrast to fair and severe punishment as advocated by classical theorists, stress the need for institutionalization and psychological and medical treatment for the 'ill,' but they also offers what seems like a defeatist Continue Reading...
Psychotherapy Theories and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy The cognitive behavioral and person-centered approaches regarding counseling and psychotherapy come from a much different developmental history and theoretical underpinnings. Cogni Continue Reading...
Conceptualization of Psychological Distress Psychology is a discipline of mental development and behavior. Psychology involves behavior examination, which determines how actions are related to the environment. Whereas psychology is frequently funct Continue Reading...
Motivation Theories and Emotions Motivation Theory Fear Extrinsic Motivation The theory of intrinsic and extrinsic motives helps explain the presence of fear in motivation. An activity is intrinsically motivating if a person does it voluntarily, Continue Reading...
Nursing Theories Nursing is a practice or field that must be based on nursing theories, which contributes to the consideration of nursing discipline as a profession. The significance of nursing theories in the practice is attributed to their provis Continue Reading...
Management Principles: Organizational Theories The book The manager's bookshelf: A mosaic of contemporary views offers a compilation of a series of short essays on management, specifically how to be a 'good' versus a 'bad' manager. Although all of t Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime Theories, Laws and Processes Explain white collar crime in terms of various theories related to criminology and crime. A white collar crime is an illegal and unethical act that violates public trust (Friedrichs, 2010). Common exa Continue Reading...
Great Gatsby -- a Theoretical Analysis The Great Gatsby is one of the legendary novels written in the history of American literature. The novel intends to shed light on the failure of American dream that poor can attain whatever he wants and emphasi Continue Reading...
Nursing Ethical Theories Ethical Theories in Nursing Significance of Moral in Nursing Deontology vs. Utilitarianism Deontology Utilitarianism Justice Ethics vs. Care Ethics Justice Ethics Care Ethics Rights Ethics Conflict of Rights Ethica Continue Reading...
For instance, this theory holds that extraverts have low levels of cortical arousal and introverts high leaves, meaning extraverts need more stimulation for socializing and being outgoing, while introverts receive enough stimulation from their own p Continue Reading...
Yet the film ends on an optimistic, even triumphant note, with the raised hand of Bender symbolizing victory over the stereotypes subject to which the characters began the film. Conclusion The film "The Breakfast Club" contains myriad examples of Continue Reading...
Personal interviews -- especially what the respondent actually says in them -- can be extremely useful to humanist practitioners. They also share a reliance on objective tests -- where the respondent attempts, in a guided way, to assess their own be Continue Reading...
Counseling Theory Existential therapy, person-centered therapy, and gestalt therapy all fall under the rubric of humanistic psychology. They share a considerable amount of theory, philosophy, and practice. Yet each of these practices is stemmed in i Continue Reading...
child development theories of several prominent psychologists, using a theoretical four-year-old girl and her interactions with her parents as an example. Child Development: An Exploration of the Theories The development of a child is an important Continue Reading...
