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Teaching Social Competence

2010-12-18T09:43:00.001-08:00

Parents and teachers can help teach social competence first by demonstrating it themselves. Second, by displaying faith in the child’s ability to achieve. Third, by explaining the existence and nature of the tools available to the child for the purposes of developing social competence (the ability to coordinate affect, cognition, and behavior). It is important that the expectations of patents and

Research Validity

2010-12-18T09:41:00.001-08:00

nternal validity is the result of an experiment being crafted in such a manner that the outcome of the experiment matches its teleology. That is to say it in fact does what it purports. In order to have internal validity the experiment must demonstrate that it was the variable manipulation and not some other extraneous cause that brought about the effect. External validity is the ability of the

Lev Vygotsky

2010-12-14T08:11:00.001-08:00

Vygotsky’s theories are often criticized out of a misapprehension of his concepts in their contextual setting. He was a showpiece of Soviet science. Living and working in a totalitarian régime, he had to pay far more than lip service to Marxist dogma. However the fact that Marxist doctrine forms the foundation for Vygotsky’s thought does not in and of itself disqualify his theories. It is the

John Dewey Human Nature and conduct

2010-12-14T08:10:00.001-08:00

There is a positive and negative side to morals. In ethics it may be sufficient to do no harm, but morals go beyond mere avoidance of the contumely of society. This is the spiritual pride of the prodigal son’s elder brother. Claiming moral praiseworthiness only on the basis of an absence of blameworthiness is above all only another permutation of self-concern. Not being the cause of ill is not

Teaching children social competence

2010-12-14T08:07:00.001-08:00

Global Warming?

2010-11-06T18:02:00.001-07:00

Global warming is s shibboleth of the modern day. Here in Oregon, a few years ago the governor punished the chief climatologist of Oregon State University with excommunication (its equivalent) for insisting in the face of the dictates of current faith, the equivalent of the earth moving around the sun. Without citing references the partisans claim that the earth has warmed two degrees

Gender Roles in a Subsistence Level Economy

2010-11-06T17:42:00.001-07:00

Whether one believes in evolution or special creationism, at one point in human history, humans were greatly outnumbered by large carnivorous species. At that time, social cooperation for defense was necessary for survival. Whether the human economy was as hunter-killers or as scavengers is irrelevant as in either case that economy was subsistence level only. Due to physiological sexual

Territoriality

2010-11-06T17:41:00.001-07:00

Robert Ardrey postulated that territory for early humans was a function of the pair bond. Extrapolating from stamping ground behavior of certain ungulates, wherein males possessed of territory ignored available females outside of their personal territory, he developed the idea that territory was not for sex but that sex was for territory. While early humans lived in communal groups, the greater

Persuasion

2010-11-06T17:40:00.001-07:00

The more strongly held an attitude is the more difficult it is to change also the greater lengths of time of view is held the more difficult used to change there are Cross links to other attitudes and behaviors a social identity an attitude that is publicly known is the most difficult to change there are three components to persuasion the messenger the message and the audience and this would be

Group Therapy

2010-11-06T17:37:00.001-07:00

The central issue to group therapy, as in any therapy is how does the therapy improve the quality of life for the recipient? The methodology of applying therapy is determined by this question as a paradigm. The individual therapist has a vested interest in the theoretical foundation for the therapy (s)he prescribes. Client improvement may well have different attributions based upon these

Non-traditional Gender Roles and Coping Skills

2010-11-06T17:36:00.001-07:00

There is research that suggests women and men who are non-traditional in their gender orientation adjust better and more quickly to a marital breakdown. The explanation for this is that androgynous women and men have better coping skills with which to handle the trauma of divorce than do women and men who behave according to traditional gender role expectation. This latter point has major

Another A for a final grade

2010-11-06T17:34:00.001-07:00

Psy 509 Theories of marriage and Family Counseling

Marius and Sulla and the rise of Ceasarism

2010-11-06T08:03:00.000-07:00

Caesarism only gave a name to a well established process in the fall of the Roman Republic. The conflict between Caesar and Pompey was merely a reflection of the class conflict left unresolved by Marius and Sulla. The conflict erupted when the counter weight of Crassus was removed and the familial ties between the men were broken. The artificial friendship between Pompey and Caesar were plugs

Turn it Teal

2010-10-04T09:46:00.001-07:00

Teal tutu any size fifteen dollars with 5 dollar shipping and handling All proceeds go to Oregon/Southwest Washington Ovarian Cancer Awareness in honor of Marla Lenore Ackeret who died of ovarian cancer two years ago at age 27. Fundraiser is being held by tutucorner found on facebook or www.etsy.com/shop/userbear4829 Email tutucorner@aol.com

The Scientific Method

2010-09-16T23:24:00.001-07:00

The process of the application of the scientific method can be described as a feedback loop where in the output of one research question becomes the input of another. It has been said that with complex issues, the more answers that are found, the more questions that need to be asked. It is the important questions that are begged. The application of the scientific method is an incremental process

Physiological Psychology

2010-03-03T22:31:00.001-08:00

Psy 540 Physiological Psychology final exam: A final grade: A

Human Nature and Conduct John Dewey

2010-02-20T16:11:00.001-08:00

Dewey said that, “Morality is largely concerned with controlling human nature”. Nietzsche would refer to this control as the sublimated resentment and self-congratulations of the controlled. This compensation for inferiority is the obverse side of the coin of the attempt to control human nature. Common to both is the view of human nature as evil. Dewey addresses the question that Nietzsche

Jungian Archetypes

2010-02-09T12:02:00.000-08:00

Archetypes are within the collective unconscious. They are mystical and artistic creations of ancient civilizations. Similarities in artistic images across cultures all the interpretation of unexpressed personal issues. Symbols give greater depth. Empirical testing is personal and subjective only. Is the collective unconscious something from beyond that extends downward into humanity or is it an

theories of motivation

2010-02-08T19:12:00.001-08:00

The leader’s job is to help the work group achieve goals they desire. Leadership, in this theory is seen as a guide; a help to navigate obstacles in the path of goal achievement. In this theory, leadership is divided into four behavior categories. They are directive behavior, achievement oriented behavior, supportive behavior, and participative behavior. These categories are more intricately

Happy Birthday, Malachi!

2010-02-06T08:53:00.001-08:00

Today is my grandson’s eleventh birthday.

Alternative pay structures

2010-02-06T08:50:00.000-08:00

Two alternative pay structures are merit pay, a pay structure which adds performance to a base pay rate, and knowledge based , or skill based pay, a pay system based on the knowledge and skills of the individual instead of the position the individual actually holds. Other alternative pay structures such as gain sharing and profit sharing are based on the performance of the company instead of the

Feb 4,2010

2010-02-04T19:30:00.001-08:00

Had she lived, my daughter would have celebrated her 29th birthday today

Sleep and Depression

2010-02-04T12:22:00.001-08:00

Sleep is not an homogenous phenomenon. It is, of course, divided into sleep both with and without rapid eye movement (REM); Slow and fast electroencephalograph (EEG) wave sleep; sleep with or without muscular tonus. Sleep categories can be discriminated as to whether noradrenalin or serotonin is ascendant. As sleep is divided into dreaming or not, dreaming sleep is subdivided into tonic and

free will vs. determinism

2010-02-03T23:39:00.000-08:00

The theory of Materialistic Monism lends itself to a denial of free will. There are those that would attribute this theory to evil in that a denial of free will is in effect, a denial of moral responsibility. The observations of Konrad Lorenz, and Robert Audrey have great value, but do they really support a denial of spirit without prejudiced interpretation. Does one’s philosophical

Ooops!

2010-01-28T11:37:00.000-08:00

I am currently moving 500 gigs interrupting many operations sorry