The humanistic perspective on classroom management. In the education world of today‚ it is understood that one can only be effective in teaching by taking into consideration the different learning styles of students. In a classroom‚ it is expected that teachers would want their students to acquire a meaningful knowledge base‚ become proficient problem solvers and learn how to work productively with others (Biehler and Snowman‚ 2006‚ p. 370). If this is the case‚ teachers need to know how to be able
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Cognitive Psychology revolves around the notion that if we want to know what makes people tick then we need to understand the internal processes of their mind. Cognition literally means “knowing”. In other words‚ psychologists from this approach study cognition which is ‘the mental act or process by which knowledge is acquired.’ Cognitive psychology focuses on the way humans process information‚ looking at how we treat information that comes in to the person (what behaviorists would call stimuli)
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INCORPORATION OF HUMANISTIC‚ SOCIAL / ETHICAL VALUES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION – SOME OBSTACLES Dr. R. SRINIVASAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT An Engineer’s job today presents a greater degree of challenge than ever before. The engineering organizations are often exposed to an endless stream of problems that arise from the changes in the attitudes and beliefs of the interest group
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FRICKE /RALPH MÜLLER Cognitive Poetics Meets Hermeneutics Some considerations about the German reception of Cognitive poetics Theoretical discussions and applications of cognitive approaches such as Biopoetics and Cognitive poetics are remarkably growing in number among German scholars. This indicates that the cognitive turn has definitely reached a broader audience in the traditional “Literaturwissenschaften”.1 This article is meant to investigate the reception of Cognitive poetics in the context
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EVOLUTIONARY EXPLANATIONS Animal Aggression Lorenz- aggressive behaviour in animals have the following functions: • Selection of the fittest for survival • Aggression will protect the young animals for survival • Distribution of animal territories What are the criticisms of Lorenz? Human Aggression Benign Aggression and Malignant Aggression Nelson: the 3 basic factors affecting human aggression • Process of Learning: Social Learning theory-observation/imitation‚ Learning strategies
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The topic of seminar: The main trends of Cognitive Linguistics in works of foreign (American and European) scientists Problem task: What principles of cognitive linguistics did G. Lakoff pay much attention at ? Describe his idea. Describe the study of spatial relationships and types of movement in the conceptualization of language‚ the concept of imaginative schemes and types of schemes. Describe the study of body based consciousness and language of humans. The idea of the concept of embodiment
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Evolutionary approach to food preference – perfect essay Evolution is the change in inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. The environment our early ancestors lived in must be understood to understand why they adapted to certain behaviours or characteristics. This environment is known as EEA (environment of evolutionary adaption). Natural history and science have found that our species has spent much of its life as hunter-gatherers so by looking at their
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The Role of Primate Sociality in Evolutionary Theory Introduction Some animals‚ and more specifically primates‚ have been noted for having brains of an uncommonly large size. One explanation for this phenomenon is the ‘social brain’ or ‘social intelligence’ hypothesis‚ which states that brain sizes have increased in order to handle the demands of sociality (Lindenfors 2005; Pérez-Barbería et al. 2007). The increase in brain size can be attributed to the computational power needed to track
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Cognitive Psychology “Cognitive Psychology is a psychological perspective that addresses mental processes such as thinking‚ problem solving‚ perceiving‚ remembering‚ believing‚ and speaking‚ and seeks to identify behavior by characteristics other than its obvious properties‚” (“Cognitive psychology‚” 2009). Cognitive psychology and behaviorism are comparable but the main differentiation is that behaviorism fails to address mental processes and cognitive psychology works to create a comprehensible
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If evolution is descent with modification applied to life on Earth‚ then microevolution can be called the small‚ measurable evolutionary changes within a population while macroevolution is large evolutionary change over long periods of time - short term and long term/big picture evolution‚ essentially. Microevolution works on a single population’s genetics and could be said to be the status quo of evolution that occurs consistently and universally while macroevolution occurs over many years or as
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