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Issues in Psychology Education

This research paper pertains to five separate topics, which are: heredity vs. environment, in regards to development; policy for i...

B.F. Skinner's Analysis of Freedom

provides information on birth control and abortion. In some way, the government is providing reinforcement to the choice of not ha...

B.F. Skinner's Contributions

Law of Effect. In the Law of Effect positive effects serve to strengthen the stimulus/response connection while negative effects ...

Skinner's Operant Conditioning

sound of the food dropping and will begin to go to the tray as soon as it hears that sound (Skinner, n.d.). A small lever is next ...

Information Science, Cognitive Learning or Social Learning Theory

is represented by mass media. Television influences children greatly. "Knowledge about many settings is based on a symbolic fict...

Life and Contributions of B.F. Skinner

the head of behavioristic psychology. It is a scientific approach. In Skinners view, it is not individual decision-making that s...

Three Major Behaviorists

infant and child. Watson gave Albert one of the lab rats which elicited a play response from Albert. While playing with the rat, W...

Functional and Behavioral Approaches to Juvenile Delinquency

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

Kinesthetic Learning and Spirituality

This essay pertains to spirituality and kinesthetic learning. The writer discusses how the student's kinesthetic learning style ca...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Human Behavior: Conditioned Responses

Utilizing rats and pigeons, Skinner (1965) set out to prove the whole of human behavior is based upon the fundamental concept of o...

Criminal Justice and Various Educational Strategies

appropriate way students are able to obtain a full and eclectic spectrum of what is being taught. Of course, not every subject ne...

Training and Development in the Commercial Environment

the years, to return to a high reliance model would be difficult and would undermine motivation as adults would feel they were bei...

Memory and Learning

These problems have a neurological base. They can interfere in learning basic skills, such as reading, and they can also impede hi...

Learning as Adults

This essay begins with a statement about what the writer expects to learn in the adult education program and whether the writer sh...

Experiential and Reflective Learning - A Presentation

A key skill for those pursuing a career in leadership is the ability to learn. This paper is a presentation looking at the experie...

Online Learning Issues

The purpose of Online learning, or, e-learning is to provide knowledge and enhance skills. There are many advantages to e-learning...

Word Processing Programs Support Cognitive Learning

Word processing programs support the cognitive learning theory by helping students learn how to edit their documents from beginnin...

Does An Effective Learning And Development Strategy Enables Organizations To Compete More Effectively?

order to asses show firms can use learning to create and maintain competitive advantages it is first necessary to look at the conc...

How Do You Learn Best

Learning styles have been researched and studied for decades. Do you know what your own learning style is? If you are a teacher, y...

Meaningful Learning Experiences

brain and how learning takes place supports moving away from a "mechanistic/Newtonian paradigm" that relies primarily on teacher-d...

Whole Numbers and Fractions

The physical class of learning is self descriptive, this is where the student will learn from physical experiences that they under...

Community College Learning and Teaching

funds, federal funds and miscellaneous funds (Association of Community Colleges). The community college system serves a different...

Overview of Learning

From this beginning, other theories involved that explain social behavior in terms of learning theory. According to social-learnin...

Drawing Up a Contract for Learning

a clear, understandable and realistic business plan that could be applied to a real life scenario without any adjustment. The deve...

Conceptualization and Teaching

In eleven pages this paper discusses how preteaching conceptualization for a specific child group can be organized as it pertains ...

Learning Disability and Attention Deficit Disorder

In a paper consisting of six pages the behavioral issues connected with ADD are discussed along with the ways in which learning di...

The Classroom and the use of Materials

Classrooms are looked at in this thoughtful paper that examines education. In three pages, this writer looks at various theories o...

What People in the Colonial Era Knew

Knowledge and learning were extremely important in America during colonial times. With examples such as Benjamin Franklin and Thom...

Learning Potential Among Students With Learning Disabilities

This paper examines various learning styles, as well as different learning theory relating to the education of students with learn...