Thematic instruction is the organization of a curriculum around “themes” which students can identify with on a daily basis. Thematic instruction is based on the principle that students will learn better when they can connect what they’re learning to the real world. Thematic instruction integrates the core subjects like math, science, and language arts with ...
There are many ways that one can analyze a work of art. To say that something as complex as artistic expression can only be looked at or defined in one dimension is nothing short of a lie. In realizing this, we must also realize that film is like any work of art, the many messages ...
Developed by Canadian sociologist Albert Bandura in the 1950’s as a way of explaining how people learn about their world, the social learning theory ( later renamed the social cognitive theory) is conceivably the most instrumental theory of learning and development. Although this theory finds it origins in many of the basic ideas of traditional ...
Using observations, dialogues and experiments, Piaget suggested that children progress through a series of stages in their thinking and these stages occur in a fixed order from the sensori-motor to the formal operational. Before, describing the stages which Piaget observed babies go through in the attainment of object permanence, briefly the actual “concept” of object ...
There are many branches of psychology from which to chose from, so it is essential to understand exactly what activities each field of psychology does, and what skills one must possess if they wish to pursue a career in that field. The intention of this paper is to discuss the activities of a clinical psychologist, ...
This article will explain the processes associated with face recognition, identification, and classification. This article will also explain the roles of concepts and categories in face recognition, identification, and classification. The role of encoding and retrieval processes involved with long-term memory and how this affects face recognition will be analyzed. Last, two errors that can ...
