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Behavioral and Cognitive Schools of Psychology

of mind" (Wilder Dom, 2003). Boeree (2000) reports the roots of the cognitive movement began in the mid-1900s: "the advent of th...

Socrates' Life and Contributions to Philosophy

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

Democracy Defined

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

2 Articles on Systems Thinking

pieces of what is being studied . . . . Systems thinking, in contrast, focuses on how the thing being studied interacts with the o...

William Glasser's Cognitive-Behavioral Approach, A Case Study

out various psychological situations. No longer is such treatment considered taboo in a world where mental imbalance is quite pre...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Reflection and Logic

lifetime of treasures and family "heirlooms" as special things, but things nonetheless. Though losing irreplaceable items is regr...

Specific and General Deterrence Criminological Theories

other citizens from committing the same behavior (Renteln 192). General deterrence operates under the assumption that no matter h...

Problems with Censorship

if not almost the world as well. Information of any kind imaginable is quite easily obtained. This creates a situation wherein the...

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Judgments and Rational Thinking

ecologically rational if it is adapted to the structure of the environment (Bounded Rationality, 2003). Bazerman (1998) describe...

Professional Context of Lifelong Learning

may not be enough to spark motivation or improve performance. Lifelong learning has been viewed as one way of defining motivation...

Overview of Jungian Psychology

brought to mind and also repressed memories (Boeree, 2002). It can be argued that part of the problem in Jungs recognition or the...

Weight Control: An Exercise in Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

someone that wants to lose weight. If help them to approach their problem using critical thinking skills they will likely recogni...

The Non-Neutrality of Technology

comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail mail and email, that comes pouring into our homes, it is something else when the i...

Augustine, Aquinas and Luther/Role of Government

those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...

Technology is Not Neutral

think we "fit" the services they offer. While this may be merely annoying when it comes to dealing with the junk mail, both snail ...

Ethics and Morals

outcome, this is the approach taken by Kant (Collinson, 2000), as such, ethics may not require critical thinking, they are reliant...

HEALTHCARE IN MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS

the same view of chronic illness or its treatment than white patients might have. The Situation Family physician David Sat...

Marx and Durkheim and Their Theories of Religion

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

Stereotype Cause And Effect On The Black Population

enact gratuitous murder. Moreover, all blacks are drug addicts, deal drugs and live in the ghetto, an equation that causes them t...

Abnormal Psychology: Amnesia

take place, which is within two distinct systems. One system is referred to as "declarative memory" and this system records "names...

Healthcare And Strategic Management

institution with a type of benchmark that evaluates their position in the market, internal metrics provide information about the i...

Acer

notebooks and net books, specifically the Aspire, with Acer selling 9.67 million units in the third quarter of 2008 alone, this wa...

Nursing and Reflective Thinking Development

as a solution to the problem of developing reflective skills, Ferrario defines reflective thinking as: a) analyzing, synthesizing,...

Is America or Mexico a Better Example of a “Melting Pot”?

arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...

Creative Intelligence And Mental Models

is the ability to go beyond the traditional by generating new and innovative ideas (Gavarny, 2007). The use of creative intellig...

Critical Thinking in Business Decision Making

the most important things any critical thinker can do is learn to identify their own assumptions, and whether or not they have any...

The Contribution Of Motivation Theories To Understanding Work Place Behavior

the idea that man was motivated economically. The increased efficiency meant that Ford could produce in one day what had previousl...

Kantian Ethics: Is a First Trimester Abortion Ethically Permissible?

situations where lying is attached to a greater good, no one can predict the future. The premise is therefore sound as a maxim. In...