passive and indirect assistance. Personality Synopsis‚ Carl Rogers Introduction The purpose of this article is to give a brief biography of Carl Rogers‚ an overview of his most influential theories‚ and the lasting impact of the man and his theories on clinical psychology. Rogers’ most influential theory was his person-centered approach to therapy. This approached has expanded to include such topics as leadership‚ education‚ and group work in general. Attachment 1 is my supplemental bibliography
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Major Learning Theories Objectives To consider some of the major theories that try to account for how learning occurs To think about the implications of these ideas for our work as teachers References Pritchard‚ A. (2014) Ways of learning: Learning theories and learning styles in the classroom (3rdedn). Abingdon:Routledge Pollard‚ A. et al. (2014) Reflective Teaching in Schools (4th edn). London:Bloomsbury Pound‚ L. (2005) How children learn: from Montessori to Vygotsky – educational
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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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Perspective Theories in Cognitive Development Cognitive function deals with the processes of the mind to know‚ to think‚ to learn and to judge. Its development is generally based on a variety of interweaving factors like genetics and learning through experience. Cognitive psychology has been an area of great interest over the centuries since understanding the cognitive process has been able to raise the standards of human interaction. There were a number of breakthrough studies that have
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Technology does not make contemporary students semi-literate. In “Our Semi-literate Youth? Not So Fast” by Andrea Lunsford‚ she discusses the results of her research on the effects of technology on the writing of college students. After studying the writing of college students for thirty years‚ Lunsford discovers that technology allows students to write more‚ develop different writing skills and embrace collaborative writing. For example‚ today students are writing more than they ever have. This
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Psychologist Jean Piaget’s theory describes the cognitive development of children. In Piaget’s view‚ children learn through the four fundamental stages of cognitive development. He believed that the stages need to occur in a particular order‚ as each stage involves and improves the last. (Webb‚ P.K‚ 2001‚ Piaget: Implications for teaching‚ page 1-2). Piaget suggested that development had to come before learning‚ and intelligence is something that grows and develops through a series of stages (Cherry
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the most influential theories on cognitive development comes from Jean Piaget‚ a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher. To Piaget‚ cognitive development was a progressive reorganization of mental processes as a result of biological maturation and environmental experience. His ideas have generated a lot of research into cognitive development which has significantly improved our understanding on the topic. He is well-known for his studies with children and his theory that cognitive capabilities
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Piaget’s theory develops different ideas of how children attain knowledge. He sees children as active thinking people. Therefore‚ children are usually pursuing knowledge. This is considered as a natural characteristic that defines the child. The theory leads to Piaget’s concerned with the growth of intelligence of a child. For Piaget‚ children build knowledge based on their personal interpretation of the world at the different stages of their life that range from infancy‚ childhood and adolescence
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Cognitive Learning Theory Angela Baker PSY 331 Mr. Domingo Mamaril June 21‚ 2010 Cognitive Learning Theory Cognitive theorists try to explain human behavior by understanding how we process and store new information. The cognitive theories of learning originated from the gestalt theory. The three major contributors to the cognitive learning theories were Jean Piaget‚ Edward Tolman‚ and Albert Bandura. In this paper‚ I will evaluate the work of all three theorists‚ demonstrate an understanding
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Vgotsky’s Sociocultural Theory Lev Semenovich Vygotsky was born in 1896 in Tsarist‚ Russia to a middle class Jewish family. At that time there were very strict rules on where Jewish people could live‚ work‚ and how many people could be educated. Vygotsky was privately tutored in his younger years and was fortunate enough to be admitted into Moscow University through a Jewish lottery. His parents insisted that he apply for the Medical school but almost immediately upon starting at Moscow University
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