Social Work Seminar‚ SOW 493 Macro Concept and Practice Paper Due: April 24‚ 2007 Macro practice: “Social work practice aimed at bringing about improvements and changes in the general society. Such activities include some types of political action‚ community organization‚ public education‚ campaigning‚ and the administration of broad-based social services agencies or public welfare departments.” (The Social Work Dictionary) Some of the varieties of roles in macro practice include the
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Intelligence and its Development Intelligence can be defined as the ability of an individual to think logically‚ understand different circumstances and solve them successfully by using the existing resources. Over the years‚ different psychologists have defined intelligence in several ways and also have come up with a number of methods to measure intelligence. The main purpose to measure intelligence was to aid those children who had lower intelligence in comparison to the other children
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Cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence have both been widely examined with regard to their effect on individual workplace abilities. A critical comparison of the two concepts will be the basis of this essay. Some theorists have hypothesised that the ease with which an employee can process information and work towards solutions (our cognitive intelligence) is the key aspect in our ability to contribute to the workplace‚ particularly in more complex environments (Viswesvaran & Ones‚ 2002)
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Why would they benefit from using psychological concepts and theories in their work practice • What concepts/theories in psychology would improve their work practice • How could they use these psychological ideas in their work • What would the benefits be to their quality of work Based on Nursing Care Allied Health (2010)‚ a social worker is an academic profession that provides immense aid and service for people across all sectors in the society that deals in personal‚ social and spiritual
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The 25th anniversary of the publication of Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Copyright 2008 Howard Gardner. All rights Reserved. In 1983‚ psychologist Howard Gardner published Frames of Mind‚ the book in which he introduced his ‘theory of multiple intelligences’ (MI theory). Gardner wrote this book as a psychologist and thought that he was addressing principally his colleagues in psychology. He devoted little of the book to educational implications and
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Emotional intelligence Kathy Abram PSY/301 September 12‚ 2011 T. Lee Burnham Emotional Intelligence Cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence have both been widely examined in regard to their effects on individual workplace performance. The critical comparison of the two concepts will be the basis of this essay. Emotional intelligence is important in measuring success in more ways than one. Emotional intelligence has a great deal of importance on one’s work ethic and values
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Logical-Mathematical Intelligence The theory of multiple intelligences was thought up by Howard Gardner through his opinion on people having not only one way of thinking. Howard Gardner is a Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of Multiple Intelligence: New Horizons and many other books. Gardner defines intelligence as an ability or set of abilities that allow a person to solve a problem or fashion a product that is valued in one or more cultures (Lane‚ 2005)
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Artificial Intelligence - Essay Computers are becoming more and more human. In some areas they are superhumans. Computers can calculate even the hardest math problems in less than one millisecond. Beat us at games such as chess and first person shooter. Memorize entire books and movies just by ‘scanning’ them for a split second. Compose entire pieces of music. They can give people information on virtually any subject from the Internet. Yet we still don’t have a machine that can do the things that
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{draw:frame} {draw:frame} Bachelor of International Hospitality Management Essay 1500 words Due: Friday 28th August 2009‚ 12 noon By Cody Huxtable ID# 0791315 “How can developing skills in social and e*motional intelligence benefit you as a hospitality management practitioner?*” Social intelligence can be organised into two categories: ‘social awareness’ which describes what we sense about others‚ and ‘social facility’ which describes what we do with that awareness. Social
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In the essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence‚ Turing introduces a test‚ named imitation game‚ which can decide whether a machine is intelligent or not. In the test‚ there is a man who pretends to be a woman‚ a woman who tries to clarify that‚ and a machine that tries to be a man. If the interrogator‚ which object is to decide who the man is and who the woman is‚ fails to make the right decision‚ the machine should be considered intelligent. If a machine can talk to people for a long time and
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