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Montessori and Vygotsky: current applications.

the main query as to how students learn, Vygotsky explored how students construct meaning (Jaramillo, 1996; p. 133). Vygots...

Sociological Methodology and Emile Durkheim

In ten pages the ways in which the famed sociologist approached sociological inquiry are examined with a consideration of Rules of...

Policing: Solving Problems

about the problem. Once the problem is discretely defined through analysis, the team would generate possible solutions through bra...

Statistical Methods

to be used depending on hoe many of the variables are dependent and the type of dependence, for example, where only one or more v...

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

Leadership Style/MacArthur & Patton

to be so remote as to be unapproachable (Manchester 5). He is described as wrapping "himself in a cloak of dignified aloofness" (M...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Attachment Theory

to her father and myself. This can be problematic in regard to the non-custodial parent, but Attachment Theory principles and rese...

Structuralism, Functionalism and Behavioralism

this state functions, that is, "the role it plays," within the system to which the individual belongs (Levin, 2004). For example...

Changing a Personal Behavior

friend or family member in order to make this identification. It has been noted frequently in empirical literature that there ha...

Psychologists & Continuing Education

continuing professional education, Kavanaugh sees such laws as limiting and eroding the "defining characteristics of the professio...

Infertility

infertility are the structural and functional domains. In terms of infertility, the subcategory of gender, which is part of the st...

Comparing Structuralism, Functionalism and Evolutionism

A 3 page research paper that briefly contrasts and compares these three early psychological theories, which were formulated soon ...

Elderly Divorce

life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...

Prevalence of Depression in Cardiac Surgery Patients

by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...

Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

do this, Da Vinci prepared the wall as if he were painting on panel (Rosand, 2001). The Last Supper pictures the moment when Jes...

Minors and Access to Counseling/Parental Consent Issues

conundrum about which they can rarely discuss with their parents. Clearly, another outlet is required as a means by which to rele...

Overview of Short Term Memory Loss Research

appropriate, but notes that there are no pharmaceutical treatments available specifically for short term memory loss. The c...

Adolescent Depression And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

Hitchcock/Strangers On A Train

an accidental meeting, as they have lunch in Guys private compartment, Bruno makes comments that reveal that he has detailed knowl...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Overview of Breast Cancer

This research paper presents an overview of several different issues that apply to breast cancer. Topics surveyed include discussi...

Gage, Galton and Biopsychosocial Approach

This research paper concerns the biopsychosocial approach and the case of Phineas Gage and the theories of Francis Galton, which w...

How Do People Perceive Risk

Risk has become a popular research topic in a number of different fields of study, each of which has its own theories. This paper ...

Questions Pertaining to Psychology

This research paper explores three issues pertaining to psychological practice. These issues are burnout and its significance to t...

Benefits of Acquiring Another Language

Recent research has found that parts of the brain grow when adults learn another language, which would make this endeavor very hel...

The Impact of Mayo and Maslo on the Workplace Consortium

among any human population, which is why it is not uncommon to see on a resume that any given individual has utilized methods of f...

A Case study in Liability

considerably stronger and more powerful than Penny, which would indicate that even if Penny had struck first, the discrepancy in s...

Memory Research and its Value

factors, psychological factors and cognitive factors. There is a vast amount of information about the human memory and how it deve...