Psychology

Hypothesis Students who have higher grades are more likely to be chosen to participate in extracurricular activities or after school clubs as compared to those with records lower grades due to assumption that those with higher grades have the ability to prioritize evenly. This assumption is important for two reasons  one, in the event that the hypothesis is proven to be valid, the author can make recommendations on how students with high grades can efficiently manage their time while performing...

The learner is the first in the list of the components of the educative process, followed by the teacher and the learning situation.  This is so because the learner is the reason why there is education (Duka,2003)  . Learning modalitiesthis word labels emphasize the different ways children and adults learn best. Just as a single shoe size doesnt fit everyone neither does a single learning environment ensure learning for all. Learners come not only from differing localities, abilities,...

In the movie Mean Girls, Cady, played by Lindsay Lohan is faced with a new chapter in her life when she enrolled in a high school for the first time. Since she was home schooled and never had an experience of being in a regular school, she finds everything different as compared to her life back then in Africa. This means she has to go to school and deal with everyday life like normal kids do. Despite her new environment, Cady found true friends in the person of  Janice and Damien.  They...

In a modern society, interactions with other people are inevitable. Whether at the workplace, home, school or any other social context one is expected to interact with others for the achievement of either individual or collective goals. In the organizational context, both employees and management officials are engaged in continuous consultations and relations in the workplace. As human beings it is expected that these interactions may be characterized by pleasantness or disagreements. While amicable...

One of the many interesting and surprising experience of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults, Melanie Klein (Cherry. n.d.)  This quote summarizes Dr. Kleins passion for child development.  She was a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and had two primary theories Play Therapy and Object Relations.  Klein compared Play Therapy to the free association technique used in adult analysis....

Data-collection is as crucial as any other step in the process of carrying out research. The medium used makes a significant difference in the quality and reliability of data, owing to the characteristics of the data as well as the targeted population. Questionnaires possess numerous advantages over the other data collection methods available to researchers. The concerns of a researcher range from the reliability of data to the cost-effectiveness of the medium. Steps followed during preparation...

Quiz 1 1. The study of human development may best be described as an attempt to understand  how and why people from diverse cultures are different. how children learn to speak and understand language. Xhow and why people change across the life span. how humans and animals are similar and different.2. Which of the following best summarizes the relative importance of nature and nurture in our development The relationship between the two moves only in one direction. In other words, our genes...

The use of tactile pictures for the blind The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relevance of using tactile pictures in the cognitive development of the blind. This paper examines two experiments, the first evaluates the cognitive development of congenitally totally blind children using tactile-based tests and the second experiment examines the neural activity triggered by exposure to tactile pictures for both sighted and blind subjects. Cognitive Patterning in Congenitally Totally Blind...