Drink driving & The social learning theory Drink driving in the U.K is on the rise‚ with many people breaking the legal limit of drink driving daily. The current legal limit in England and Wales is 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood‚ 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath or 107 milligrams per 100 millilitres of urine. (www.telegraph.co.uk) If a driver gives a specimen of any form which gives a reading that is higher than the limit provided above‚ they have in fact broken
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What is learning? According to Hergenhahn and Olson (2005)‚ learning is defined as " a relatively permanent change in behavior or behavioral potentiality that comes from experience and cannot be attributed to temporary body states such as those induced by illness‚ fatigue‚ or drugs" (p. 8). The study of learning is important because it gives us a greater comprehension of how behavior is learned. By understanding the learning process we can manipulate the environment to encourage normal behavior that
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Post-colonialial theory as a recent field of study has lately become one of the most attractive academic disciplines - if it can be called a discipline - that incessantly triggers piles and piles of literature written by art of critics‚ social reformists‚ political scientists‚ literary critics and political economists. The continuous expansion of post-colonialism in its recent version made its own domains of interest and areas of functionality overlap with other fields of global academic studies
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The purpose of this post is to define the three learning theories and evaluate one theory related to Cardiovascular Disease in my community. The population to be focused on will be a centering group in an outpatient clinic. Lastly‚ listing two teaching strategies for the education of the group. There are three learning theories‚ Humanistic‚ Cognitive‚ and Social (Nies & McEwen‚ 2015). The humanistic theory encourages people to be self-directed and holistic. The cognitive theory is the patient’s
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Constructivist Theory is very similar to the traditional ideas about teaching. The teacher’s roles that are similar include specifying learning objectives‚ preparing learning activities‚ and designing assessments. The main difference between Constructivist Theory and the traditional roles of a teacher is “a shift in emphasis away from the teacher merely providing information and toward the teacher promoting the interaction that makes students’ thinking open and visible.” The constructivist theory puts the
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“No one ever said that you could work hard—harder even than you ever thought possible—and still find yourself sinking even deeper into poverty and debt.” This is a quote by Barbara Ehrenreich who wrote “Nickel and Dimed‚” she is a journalist with a PHD in biology and writes about her own story as she chooses to change her entire lifestyle‚ face the hardships of being a part of the working poor class just to see if she can survive. Throughout the book she illustrated the different jobs she endured
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Theory X‚ Theory Y by Douglas McGregor is a motivation theory. Douglas McGregor is a social psychologist and applied two sets of assumptions to the organizational structure called Theory X and Theory Y. His theory is based on managerial views of human beings. In his book‚ The Human Side of Enterprise‚ he outlined a new role for managers. He stated that managers should assist subordinates in reaching their full potential‚ rather than commanding and controlling. Theory X is negative and Theory Y can
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The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister ITP 17‚2 210 The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-3845.htm Trojan actor-networks and swift translation Bringing actor-network theory to IT project escalation studies ¨ Magnus Mahring Stockholm School of Economics‚ Stockholm‚ Sweden and J. Mack Robinson College of Business‚ Georgia State University‚ Atlanta‚ Georgia
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Transformational Learning Theory of Adult Education Introduction Transformational learning is a relatively new and thoroughly modern yet evolving learning theory‚ with timeless implications for the educator. Developed initially by Jack Mezirow‚ it is a theory that involves‚ at its core‚ a shift in beliefs‚ deep self reflection and a discourse of that reflection. This constructivist-based process of making sense of the world is in stark contrast to simply acquiring knowledge. Most assume that Transformational
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LEARNING THEORIES BASED ON BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVES Behaviorism is a school of thought in psychology based on the assumption that learning occurs through interactions with the environment (Cherry‚2011). Two other assumptions of this theory are that the environment shapes behaviour and that taking internal mental states into consideration is useless in explaining behaviour. Ivan Pavlov‚ a Russian physiologist discovered the classical conditioning in the 1920s. Classical conditioning focuses on
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