...Similarities. The Social Learning Theory and the Rational Choice Theory are similar in the following ways: According to Theorist Akers, he argued that the Social learning theory and the Rational choice theory share some of the same major elements; especially moral reasoning. I feel that the similarities between the two theories are that the individuals know what they are doing as far as criminal behavior is wrong. I believe one group randomly chooses to do things or commit criminal acts to further their financial gain, just as long as the crime is not too severe and their reward is greater (Rational choice theory). The other group (Social learning theory), they just do whatever they see someone-else doing without really thinking...
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...beings are reduced down to a number, slapped on a piece of paper, or mechanically entered into some cyber sphere. This is the value of today’s students in America; the numbers that represent them. However, there are key principles taught by David McCullough in his address “Love of Learning,” and Thomas G. Plummer’s “Diagnosing and Treating the Ophelia Syndrome” that have given new insight into addressing the errors in our educational system that so many today are lamenting, yet are misdiagnosing, and treating with snake oil. These two men have been on both the learner and the teacher side of life, and I believe have correctly identified critical elements to true learning. And as they possess such experience, it begs the question: how does our country’s current approach to education align with these men’s ideas about learning? Let’s be so bold as to propose that it does not. These men provide the two key pieces to education that our country is currently lacking, and while both use rational thinking to arrive at their conclusions, Plummer argues that individuals stunt their learning and growth when they depend on others to do the thinking, while McCullough focuses on the distinction between learning, and the accumulation of information. The question remains, is there a distinction between gaining knowledge and just getting good grades? Summaries In the first article, “Diagnosing and Treating the Ophelia Syndrome,” Thomas G. Plummer (1990/2013), a professor of Germanic and Slavic...
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...Unit 1 Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a USB drive • Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference • Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number. Please note that this Assessment document has 16 pages and is made up of 5 Parts. Name: Part 1: Understanding equality This section will help you to evidence Learning Outcome 1: Know the meaning of equality |Learning objective |Place in Assessment | |1.1 Define the following terms: |Question 1 Page 1 | |Equality | | |Stereotyping | | |Prejudice | | |Labelling ...
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...Old School vs Current Learning Old school learning where a student such as myself will sit in a classroom and an instructor talks to the point where if you have insomnia he/she will cure it. With this the student has a book which could have from twenty five pages to five hundred and can be used as a deadly missile if thrown towards another student. Having the instructor on hand to handle questions and review your work while addressing any issues, this helps me a lot as a student because old school, no computers, no eBooks, and actually writing on paper. Going to the library was even part of the curriculum and going through shelves of index cards to find the information for your research paper. No going forward about twenty years, I am back in school and most everything has gone digital. I am enrolled in a technical college and I do have instructors and they present a power point presentation and then we go to the hands on now for me personally this is the best way of learning, they review what we are going to do and then we as a class conduct “Labs” and the instructor comes around and reviews the work we done and if it is not correct, then the instructor goes over where I went wrong and explains it to the class because someone else may have done the lab incorrectly as well and they know where they went wrong. I can go to google and find all the research information to include a research paper someone else did on the same subject. I miss the books the most out of my schooling...
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...than everyone else. These people all have one thing in common, that they do not know the true meaning of happiness. It does not come from striving to be the best. Mitch’s old college professor, Morrie, spends his last days teaching his final lessons on how to live life to the fullest. Morrie teaches people to live life through the love of family, the importance of showing emotions, and forgiving others for actions not taken. First of all, Morrie teaches that nobody can get anything as important as the love that family provides. He knows that this is a very important topic because he lost his mother when he was young. Later on, he...
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...Class, Learning theories assert that development results from an accumulation of experience. There are 3 main psychologists associated with this theory. There is Ivan Pavlov, who believed that learning results from the association of stimuli called classical conditioning. Also, B.F Skinner, who coined the term operant conditioning, which involves learning to repeat or stop behaviors because of the consequences it may cause. Lastly, Albert Bandura, who thought that a person could learn from observing someone else perform an action and experience reinforcement or punishment. This is called observant learning or modeling (Boyd & Bee, 2015,p. 32). Each one of these psychologists’ theories has strengths and weaknesses. A strength in Pavlov’s...
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...consequence of a changing era of guidelines, rules and punishments students of today have been reduced to cheating, forgeries and out blatant plagiarism. Many students take advantage of copying fellow classmates work whenever the opportunity presents. Other times, students will simply have someone else complete their work and present it as their own, not realizing the ramifications and consequences of their action. This fosters a lack of creativity; no sense of responsibility and the students then block the opportunity of new experiences and knowledge. This practice of cheating, copying and forgery by students are unethical and should be brought to the surface whenever possible. Students aren't the only ones who haven't cheated. Politicians, athletes, and even those who are close to you. Cheating, for the most part, is wrong. There are a few small examples where cheating can be good, but nonetheless it is something you shouldn't be doing. I will explain why it's not a good idea, especially for students. First, everybody cheats. Some may justify it, others proudly proclaim it, and others will deny their cheating vigorously. Their creativity level drops every time they copy or have someone else do their work. After a while of copying and forging, the student's ability to think creatively and successfully becomes next to nothing. Unfortunately, today's school system has become a playground where students have developed more and more ways of cheating. The internet is a huge blame...
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...University of Phoenix Material Tyrell Taylor US/101 August 19, 2013 Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment would be at home at my work desk. Without my kids of course because I can not study with them asking me 101 questions every couple of seconds. I do work and study better with some background noise, maybe the television or radio playing. A computer on hand and my phone just incase I need to call and ask someone a questions if it pertains to my studies. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Some things that would distract me are my kids, phone calls, people knocking at my door or my dog barking outside. Text messages are a huge distraction for me because I am glued to my phone. I am a social media person Facebook use to be one of my biggest addictions but I have slowly let go of Facebook. I am only on occasionally each day. Work is a big distraction too, only because I work five days a week and my hours are very odd afternoon to late evenings. I feel as if I never have time to get anything don’t in the mornings and after work I am usually very tired so I eat and go to bed. That is going to be my biggest struggle. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate...
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...Top 10 Strategies to Improve Your Math Grades by Jason Gibson Many students and parents ask for pointers and techniques to best learn Math. Here is my top-10 list which applies to any level of Math. 1) If you don't understand something, focus on mastering that topic before moving on to the next topic.It sounds simple, but it is absolutely essential. Lets say a student is learning Algebra, for example. Further, lets say he or she is having a hard time understanding how to add and subtract negative and positive numbers. All of us struggle with this in the beginning as it is a sticky point for most students. Some students in this situation, out of frustration that they "can't" learn this topic, will move on to the next lesson in the hope that they will be able to understand that one. This is a recipe for disaster. Math is very much like learning to read. If you don't know your letter sounds then you have no hope of being able to sound out words of course there is no way possible that you could read a book. All math courses are taught in a specific sequence because the every topic builds on the previous topic. If you are having a problem with a topic, continue working with that one until you understand it and can work problems successfully. Watch the DVD section over again, attend tutoring, read the book and examples a second time, or even get a totally different book to have it explained a different way...but whatever you do not turn the page and tackle the next topic. If you...
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...Rich Girl Habits” by Suki Kim. In this essay the author explains of a life altering experience where her and her family was living a life where money was of no object, a life where they were millionaires. They lived in a hilltop mansion with gorgeous scenery and perks that people of lower financial class were not privy to such as chauffeurs, private school and special aides to assist with homework. The author further explains how her life of luxury takes a dramatic turn. Suki goes into detail about how they lost everything in one quick swoop. Her father’s businesses all failed and were bankrupt. She explains how in her country of South Korea that bankrupts was a crime that was punishable with a jail sentence. In a last ditch effort to avoid him going to prison they fled their country with no money to America. They relocate to Woodside, New York. The realization of her new life shows apparent when she explains how she hated her new brownstone home that they are forced to relocate to. She also takes a moment to introduce us to her first “friends” Andy and Billy. The author then gives the reader the new and different experiences she faces as an immigrant in a brand new place. The young girl who had wealth and opportunity was now no more than another face no special than anyone else. She talks about the racial changes in her life as far as being labeled as Asian and learning that there is a conception that as someone from Asian heritage she has yellow skin. Teachers are another...
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...reading a couple articles I went in more depth in learning what schizophrenia is than we did in class. Dr Kim T. Mueser and Susan R McGurk were the authors of the first article I read. The title of the article is “Schizophrenia.” In this article, it explains that schizophrenia is among the top long-term disabilities and how often it occurs in the population. As well as the epidemiology of schizophrenia, the authors note on how schizophrenia is diagnosed and its clinical description. The description of schizophrenia included all of the negative symptoms and what schizophrenia may affect in the every day life. Schizophrenia is mostly genetic which makes it most likely to occur in the same family and or in adoption cases. As well, Schizophrenia is not noticeable until around the ages of sixteen to thirty years old. The article explains that there are many different treatments for schizophrenia but no cures. The treatment only helps with coping with the illness not curing it. The article was very informative, which helped me understand what schizophrenia is and how it affects the world. After reading every little fact about schizophrenia in the first article, the second article I decided that I should read some personal experiences of schizophrenia. As a nurse, Ghafoor S. explains that the goal of treatment is to help cope with the illness and make sure the patient does not relapse in his schizophrenic ways. Ghafoor also explains how that establishing a relationship with the person...
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...Exchange, is another example of a market. This is a market in which people can buy or sell shares. This chapter will review how the different countries of the world are divided between those that follow the concepts of command economies - socialism and communism - and those that have adopted a market economic system - capitalism and a mixed economy. The pursuit of social, economic, and political goals; the treatment, use, and motivations of the workforce; and market dynamics are different under each of the two approaches. Many countries have changed their economic systems. The strength of an economic system, or the economy overall, has a major impact on business. Canada enjoys a mixed economy. As such, economic concepts such Gross Domestic Product (GDP), productivity, unemployment rates, inflation, Consumer Price Index (CPI), and the overall business cycle, need to be carefully and continuously monitored, understood, and analyzed. Learning Goals Key Concept/Learning Goal | Summary | Explain what capitalism is and how free markets work. | Capitalism is an economic system in which all or most of the factors of production and distribution (e.g., land, factories, railroads, and stores) are privately owned (not owned by the government) and are operated for profit. In capitalist countries, business people decide what to produce, how much to pay workers, how...
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...collective society. Both stories take place in the future, after the society we know today has fallen. These societies are similar in that they both go to great lengths to make everyone equal. However, they are different because of how they are controlled. “Harrison Bergeron” and Anthem are similar because they both strive for unrealistic equality. In the very first paragraph of “Harrison Bergeron,”...
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...your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number. Please note that this Assessment document has 15 pages and is made up of 7 Sections. Name: Glen Burroughs Section 1: Rights and responsibilities at work This section will help you to evidence Learning Outcome 1: Know the employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer |Learning objective |Place in Assessment | |1.1 Identify the main points of contracts of employment |Question 1 Page 1 | |1.2 Identify the main points of legislation affecting employers and employees |Question 2 Page 2 | |1.3 Identify where to find information on employment rights and responsibilities both |Question 3 Page 3 | |internally and externally | | |1.4 Describe how representative bodies can support the employee |Question 4 Page 3 | |1.5 Identify employer and employee responsibilities for equality and diversity in a business...
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... 04/14/2010 Communication and Collaboration Strategy I - Learning styles and Strategies A. Bodily-Kinesthetic B. Logical-Mathematical C. Interpersonal II - Personality types and Strategies A. Organizer B. Giver C. Adventurer III - Conclusion IV - References Abstract People have many different learning styles and personality. Knowing my learning styles will help me use it to learn quickly and absorb information faster. Knowing my personality will help me to work well by myself and others. Through Pathways to Learning and Personality Spectrum worksheets, I will find out my learning styles and personality types. Each learning style and personality will have strong and weak points. I will have to use the strong points to my advantage and watch out for the weak points. Communication and Collaboration Strategy Learning Styles and Strategies Bodily-Kinesthetic is the ability to use the physical body skillfully and to take in knowledge through bodily sensation (coordination, working with hands). Strategies for studying are move fingers under words while reading and act out scripts of material, design games. Logical-Mathematical is the ability to understand logical reasoning and problem solving (math, science, patterns, sequences). Effective strategies to learn are organize material logically, explain material sequentially to someone and analyze information. Interpersonal is the ability to related...
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