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Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...

Nursing Theory Sites

unitary human beings (Newman). This theory is appealing because it acknowledges how each person is unique and, therefore, must be ...

Anomie Theory of Delinquency and Juvenile Delinquency

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

Gardner and Sternberg: Theories of Intelligence

practical facet, which is how the individuals intelligence "adapts to their current environment," shapes that environment, or even...

Social Work Practice Based Cognitive-Behavioral Theory

inasmuch as cognitive therapy distinctly addresses the spatial and temporal elements of human existence. Cognitive restructuring ...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Piaget's Theories

be identified by weeding through his autobiography combined with other sources, including Gruber (1996) and others. These stages a...

Arnheim and Bazin: Film Theory

is simply the record captured by a filmmaker who sets up a camera somewhere and lets it run, then even a documentary is not truly ...

Personality Theories in Humanistic and Existential Psychology

of theoretical perspectives that attempt to explain a variety of psychological phenomena. Nevertheless, the root of all psychologi...

Personality Theories of Jung and Allport

a collective unconscious, eschewing the categorizations of Freud (Boeree, 2010a). The collective unconscious is likely his most me...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

Maslow’s Theory of Needs and Its Impact on Traditional Organizational Behavior and Critical Management Perspectives

means to motivate employees for many years. However, it has drawn criticism, because there is "little evidence to support its stri...

Creativity, Systems Theory, Problem Solving

reapplying existing ideas" (p. 46). Creative thinking is about putting a new twist on something but it will always involve the kno...

Applying Learning Theories to Personal Experience

bell and the unconditioned response was the dogs salivation when it was fed. After the conditioning, the sound of a bell, which ha...

Game Theory for a New Entrant

look at the existing market conditions and consider the way a firm may be able to compete. Where there is an oligopoly there are c...

The Use of Real Options Theory in Financial Management/Modeling

may be hypothesised that real options theory may be seen as a theory more suited to real world applications than the discounted ca...

Strategizing using Game Theory

the way in which strategies the organization may impact on competition, which in turn will impact on the organization itself. In t...

Film and Communication Theory

instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...

Social Work and Attachment Theory

be in any other type of danger. The question is: how to properly address this situation through the instrument of social work. T...

Domestic Violence, Attachment and Narrative Theories

parents" and this factor has tremendous influence on whether or not a child feels safe and secure (Gewitz and Edleson, 2004, p. 3)...

WALMART STORES INC. AND ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES

while the Latin American arm is known as Wal-Mart de Mexico, or Walmex (Biesada, 2011). Physically, the organization has been reor...

CRIME AND SOCIAL THEORIES

by William Glasser, points out ten "axioms," which include components such as "the only person whose behavior we can control is ou...

Economic Frustration and Frustration-Agression Theory

As this suggests, the experience of being an American immigrant often includes "traumatic confrontation" with authority figures (P...

Theory and Practice in Airline Fuel Hedging

one of these concepts represents a total image of the truth of theory. Rather, a synthetic view of theory developed from exploring...

Ecological Modernization Theory

or sphere" as distinct from the three foundational analytical spheres that define modern society, namely, "political, economic and...

Bowen Family Systems Theory

family in terms of being an emotional unit and utilizes systems thinking to provide insight and understanding of the complex inter...

Criminology and Risk Theory

institutional influence and power) and the emergence of a risk-fixated consciousness (Beck, 2006). Under such conditions, it becom...

Medication Communication/Concept Analysis using Orem's Theory

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

Overview of Erickson's Theory of Modeling and Role Modeling

persons, who are the focus of care "know more about themselves than health providers do" (Parker and Smith, 2010, p. 203). The ess...

Piaget and Vygotsky/Theories of Child Development

goes forward when its pedals are rotated, until around age eight or nine (Harris, 2009). However, there are numerous instances rec...