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    Brittany  Borcherdt   EDU  4100;  Tuesday  3:30-­‐6:30   MIDTERM  ASSIGNMENT‚  PART  1   November  6‚  2011     The  humanistic  approach  to  teaching  is  rooted  in  the  philosophy  that  a  student’s  emotional  state  of  being  is   inextricable  from  his  or  her  cognitive  state.  Therefore‚  a  constructive  learning  environment  addresses  the

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    Hayley Oxborrow Cole Gestalt Psychology Reflection PSY/310 Feb 23‚ 2015 Instructor: Cheri Meadowlark Gestalt Psychology Reflection Gestalt Psychology Reflection Gestalt psychology can be credited to the work of three men who all shared a passion for exploration of the mind and who helped lead the revolt against structuralism. Austro-Hungarian Max Wertheimer‚ had an epiphany that perception was sometimes an illusion‚ different from the current days practice of introspection. His theory

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    Behaviorism v.s. cognitive theory. Its about the process not the product. What did the child do to get themselves to this reward or punishment. Its like cause and effect but with more detail. If children receive emphasis on the journey then they are more likely to learn from it. Cognitive theory does do a better job at rewards and punishments as a whole. The more cognitive theory is practiced I think will lead to higher levels of self-regulation in children. If children can think about the actions

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    Behaviorism Behaviorist theorists believe that behavior is shaped deliberately by forces in the environment and that the type of person and actions desired can be the product of design. In other words‚ behavior is determined by others‚ rather than by our own free will. By carefully shaping desirable behavior‚ morality and information is learned. Learners will acquire and remember responses that lead to satisfying aftereffects. Repetition of a meaningful connection results in learning. If the student

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    Psychology!!!! 1.) Psychologists who argue that Psychologists should only study behavior‚ measurable behaviors are called (behaviorists). 2.) (Pavlov) discovered classical conditioning 3.) At the Beginning of an experiment on classical conditioning‚ (The UCS elicits a UCR automatically). 4.) In Pavlov’s experiments he paired the presentation of food with measured salivation to each. In this experiment the buzzer was the (conditioned stimulus). 5.) You were once stung

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    gestalt reflection

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    During the short history of psychology many influences played a role in the development of Gestalt psychology. “Gestalt psychology is an approach to psychology that focuses on the organization of perception and thinking in a “whole” sense rather than on the individual elements of perception” (Feldman‚ 2010) This essay will talk about the main influence that played a central element in the evolution of Gestalt psychology and also explain each of the gestalt principles of perceptual organization.

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    the gestalt theory

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    Hovik Chilian Professor Rodgers Intro to Psychology 7 Nov 2013 The Gestalt Theory The Gestalt theory is a complex but rather interesting theory that I will be writing about in this essay. For this essay‚ I will be looking for the different parts of the Gestalt theory. Before that‚ I will find where the name “Gestalt” even means and originated from. I will also find out who discovered the theory. I will describe the theory and provide background information on the theory. I will describe how

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    Gestalt Therapy

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    Koffka (2013)‚ enumerates that Gestalt is an arranged entity that is full and professed as having increased to a level that is beyond its total outcome. On the other hand‚ Gestalt therapy is a phenomenological existential notion that was introduced by Frederick and Laura Perls back then in the 1940s (Koffka‚ 2013). The purpose of the therapy is to enumerate to the user strategies of know-how based on assumptions‚ feeling and distinguished from interpreting preexisting outlooks. The purpose of the

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    discusses and defines behaviorism and explores how this theory of learning has affected understanding of learning. It includes a brief history of the founding of behaviorism; discusses the key theorists‚ including Pavlov‚ Watson and Skinner; details experiments conducted by the key theorists and the results there from; and discusses how the behaviorist model of learning can be utilized to develop knowledge. This paper concludes that whether or not to utilize behaviorism to develop new behaviors

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    Constructivism and behaviorism are similar because they are both philosophies of learning. They are psychological theories that try to define how a student learns. Both types of theorists study the nature of learning and the properties and nature of knowledge. The theorists propose separate views detailing how learning occurs and how knowledge can be defined. Thus‚ both have had an influence on the methods used to teach students in the traditional classroom setting and in Web-based instruction.

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