Challenge & Change Exam Review Notes UNIT 1: SOCIAL CHANGE Anthropology: examines development of the human species and human cultures throughout the world. Sociology: looks at the development and structure of human society and how it works Psychology: examines people’s feelings‚ thoughts‚ and personality development Anthropology: Study: examines human species and cultures‚ compares cultures‚ kinship Perspectives on Society & Social Change: believe social change is due to the fact that
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Grade 12 Sociology Exam Review People Sigmund Frued – the founder of psychoanalytic theory; believed that our early childhood experiences‚ usually involving our relationships with parents and family‚ are stored in our unconscious mind Phillip Zimbardo – an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University; college students chosen to be prisoners or guard in a mock prison; 2 week planned study ended after only 6 days from emotional trauma experienced by participants ;
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs by Saul McLeod published 2007‚ updated 2014 Maslow wanted to understand what motivates people. He believed that people possess a set of motivation systems unrelated to rewards or unconscious desires. Maslow (1943) stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fullfil the next one‚ and so on. The earliest and most widespread version of Maslow’s (1943‚ 1954) hierarchy of needs includes five motivational needs‚ often
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CURRICULUM EVALUATION DEFINITION OF EVALUATION Curriculum evaluation is a systematic process of determining whether the curriculum as designed and implemented has produced or is producing the intended and desired results. It is the means of determining whether the program is meeting its goals‚ that is whether the measures / outcomes for a given set of instructional inputs match the intended or pre-specified outcomes. (Tuckman‚ 1979) Types of Evaluation 1. Humanistic approach – goal free
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SELF ACTUALIZATION "Self Actualization is the intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism‚ or more accurately‚ of what the organism is." Abraham Maslow Maslow studied healthy people‚ most psychologists study sick people. The characteristics listed here are the results of 20 years of study of people who had the "full use and exploitation of talents‚ capacities‚ potentialities‚ etc.." Self-actualization implies the attainment of the basic needs of physiological‚ safety/security‚ love/belongingness
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social psychologist but has a strong commitment to multidisciplinary research‚ and he is currently working with political scientists‚ anthropologists‚ sociologists‚ policy analysts and educationists. He works on processes of national and ethnic enculturation‚ the development of prejudice and stereotyping‚ the identifications and cultural practices of ethnic minority and mixed-heritage individuals‚ the development of the intercultural competences which are required for successful intercultural dialogue
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Relationships between magnitude representation‚ counting and memory in 4- to 7-year-old children: A developmental study Abstract Background The development of an evolutionarily grounded analogue magnitude representation linked to the parietal lobes is frequently thought to be a major factor in the arithmetic development of humans. We investigated the relationship between counting and the development of magnitude representation in children‚ assessing also children’s knowledge of number symbols
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Malinowski and A.R Radcliffe-Brown. Games are universally or nearly universal in human cultures. Games particularly give us an idea of the salient activities and beliefs of that culture. Indigenous games also provide importance for socialization and enculturation. At the individual level‚ the degrees of involvement‚ choices of games‚ and meanings attached to them may differ‚ depending on the ages‚ gender roles‚ level of expertise‚ and personal idiosyncrasies of the participants. The types of games according
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Civilizing Processes-Myth or Reality? A Comment on Duerr’s Critique of Elias Author(s): Stephen Mennell and Johan Goudsblom Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History‚ Vol. 39‚ No. 4 (Oct.‚ 1997)‚ pp. 729-733 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/179366 Accessed: 21/09/2010 15:16 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s
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Final Monday‚ April 28‚ 2014 3:09 PM Chapter 8: Variables affecting school achievement: • Cognitive dissonance: where there are significant differences between the culture of the student and the culture of the schoo l • Poverty‚ lack of stimulating extracurriculars‚ lack of family support‚ underrepresentation (if minority) in head start progra ms‚ needing to support family Society: • Group of people who share a culture‚ government‚ institutions‚ land or set of social relationships. •
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