Educational Psychology Essays and Term Papers
769 Essays on Educational Psychology. Documents 226 - 250
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Psychological Concepts in a Clockwork Orange
Psychological concepts in A Clockwork Orange At the start of A Clockwork Orange, you are introduced to Alex and his droogs. They are at a milkbar drinking milk-plus. Milk, plus types of drugs that enhance Alex and his droogs ultraviolence, which is the main backdrop to the story that leads to other psychological events. Drug addiction is a complex disorder that is compulsive and often uncontrollable. This is a chronic relapsing disorder, and treatment for
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How Sleep Deprivation Affects Psychological Variables Related to College Students Cognitive Performance
How Sleep Deprivation Affects Psychological Variables Related to College Students Cognitive Performance Jenny R. Downs Fall07, PSY 1513 41 General Psychology (MSVCC) (25) Sleep deprivation is very common for college students. A pattern is usually developed with sleep deprivation peaking during the week and even more during exam periods. Performance levels are significantly lower during these periods even though the students beleived that their performance was better. Many studies have been conducted to try
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Importance of Education
Importance of Education Generally, at the start of a very young age, children learn to develop and use their mental, moral and physical powers, which they acquire through various types of education. Education is commonly referred to as the process of learning and obtaining knowledge at school, in a form of formal education. However, the process of education does not only start when a child first attends school. Education begins at home. One does not
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Inclusion of Special Education Students
Inclusion in the Classroom One of the largest controversies faced by schools today is the mandated implementation of inclusion of students with special needs into general education classrooms. Many administrators, teachers, and parents question the possible academic effects of students with special needs being placed into general education classrooms and being held accountable for the material taught. _______ Rather than segregating students based on their differences, inclusion recognizes that all students are learners who benefit
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Prison Inmate Education
The article “The Impact of Career and Technical Education Programs on Adult Offenders: Learning Behind Bars” by Howard Gordon and Bracie Weldon (2003) studies of how prisoners receiving educations in prison reduces the recidivism rate. Gordon and Weldon studied the inmates who were participating in the educational programs at the Huttonsville Correctional Center in West Virginia and claimed that inmates who participated in the educational programs were less likely to recidivate once released back
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Combining Educational Aspects
People question whether to work towards a liberal or specialized degree. It is not uncommon for a person to question what it is they need to know to for their educational success. In John Henry Newman’s article, ”The Idea of a University”, he discusses some of the advantages in acquiring a degree in the liberal arts. He explains that it gives people an understanding about the world in which they live in (49). Similarly,
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Psychology
Probably the best way to approach the issue of schools of psychology is to take the extremes plus one approach that lays somewhere in the middle. For me that would be the psychodynamic school, the behavioral school and the cognitive school. Knowing that a cognitive approach to psychology emphasizes the "hear and now" approach, the psychodynamic approach is directly opposite. The psychodynamic school is predicated on analyzing the root causes of a dysfunctional behavior and
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Educational Philosophy
Philosophy 2 What is philosophy? According to the book, Foundations of Education, philosophies are fully developed bodies of thought each representing a generalized worldview (Ornstein & Levine, 2003). Many people have their own philosophies and worldviews so it is hard to say that everyone has the same educational philosophies. I never fully understood what a philosophy was or even acknowledged the fact that every teacher has a hidden philosophy behind their teaching strategies. My instructors
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The Keys to a Successful Implementation of a 1 to 1 Laptop Program in K-12 Education
For the past ten years a debate about the merits of using computers, specifically laptops, has been waging on the capability to improve a student’s ability to learn. This has been particularly significant in the past five years for two reasons, the introduction of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, and the dramatic price drops on the equipment itself. No Child Left Behind seeks to improve school and student quality, partly through the use
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Philosopy of Education According to ontologies
Philosophies of Education according to Ontologies Ontological philosophy takes ontology to be a kind of explanation in which the causes are basic substances, and the effects are found in the world. Given the existence of certain kinds of basic substances and basic relationships, it explains the things found in the world by showing how their existence is constituted by such substances and relations among them. In dualism there are two kinds of things that are
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Newark, New Jersey's Education Crisis
"I am just so concerned, our kids aren't punks. Our kids aren't wise guys. They're the kids who come from single parents, lots of them on welfare, and every one of them can be college material. Isn't it our job to protect them? If we don't have these schools, what's going to happen to them?"(Newark’s School Choices Grow Bleaker, par. 17) These are the agonizing questions asked by Newark, New Jersey’s Our Lady of Good
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Psychology of Ethnic Minorities
The term “Asian American” can be used to reference over ten million or more Americans who can trace their ancestry to Asia, to more than some two dozen countries in Asia, or to a Pacific Island. The term includes people of diverse backgrounds. Some people, relative newcomers to the United States, some people who may be third, fourth, or fifth generation Californian. The term includes people of different ethnicities, different faiths, different linguistic backgrounds, and
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Yes on Sex Education
Sex education is being taught to students in middle schools across the country. It educates young teenagers about the responsibilities and sometimes consequences of having sex. Teaching sex education helps students understand that the changes their body is undergoing is normal. Some parents may feel uncomfortable talking with their children on this subject because it’s very personal. Also, it gives kids the knowledge of what a Sexually Transmitted Disease is and how to protect themselves
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Brown V. Board of Education
In the early 1950’s, segregation of public schools was an issue. White students would go to one school, and colored students would go to another. At the time, white schools were far superior to colored schools because of things like indoor plumbing and heating. All students should be able to go to the same school and get equal education. Oliver Brown agreed, and along with the help of the NAACP, took the Board of Education
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Bi Polar Disorder (psychological Disorders - Manic Depression)
The severe mood fluctuations of bipolar or manic-depressive disorders have been around since the 16-century and affect little more than 2% of the population in both sexes, all races, and all parts of the world (Harmon 3). Researchers think that the cause is genetic, but it is still unknown. The one fact of which we are painfully aware of is that bipolar disorder severely undermines its’ victims ability to obtain and maintain social and occupational
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Education in Finland
1. Students in Finland The Finnish school system has been intentionally developed towards the comprehensive model which guarantees equal educational opportunities to everyone irrespective of domicile, gender, financial situation or linguistic and cultural background (section 25 Basic Education Act, herein BEA). With this objective in mind, accessibility of education is ensured throughout the country. Finland does not have segregated educational services for different genders, i.e. no girls’ and boys’ schools. Basic education is provided completely
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Mothers Need Education like Babies Need Milk
Mothers need education like babies need milk Men incorrectly view women as naturally weak and therefore only capable of serving the male citizens, “being the greatest charm of society”, and not needing any masculine qualities like education or physical strength (Rousseau, 262). Women are ill taught by men to believe these social stigmas assigned to them, which are obedience, chastity to the family, and subservience to men, their family, and society. This view of motherhood
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Physical Education Class: The Perfect Place to Be Bullied?
Physical Education Class: the Perfect Place to be Bullied? Every day we are seeing how the population in our society acquires really bad habits that risk their health. Obesity has become an issue touching everybody’s life. People are wondering what the solution of the problem might be, and a good amount of them think that the only way to stop this increasing problem is to fight it from childhood. One of the ways to keep
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Present Career, Carrer Interest, and the Value of a College Education
Conflicts Resolutions within Work Groups There are many things to consider when talking about working within a group. One of the major things is conflicts between the group's members. People will always have conflicts among themselves and with others; it is just a way of life. One of the conflicts that occur within a group is Lack of Leadership, someone needs to be in charge and keep everyone else pointed in the right direction. Another
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Definitionof Education
Many people believe that there is a crisis in the educational system in America right now. People are especially worried about the low scores that high school seniors recently received after taking an international placement test. The U.S. was ranked very low in comparison to forty other industrialized nations. Because of this, a large group of politicians and educators want to increase the standards expected by high schools for their students. However, there are several
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Special Education
Special Education 2 Special Education plays an important role in American Education. It is a very common thing in this world to have some sort of disability whether it is mental or physical. Parents also rely on the schools to include their disabled child into a normal life, surrounded by those who will teach them. Being a special education teacher involves a lot of stress. The working level is different verses a regular student
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How Important an Education Can Be
How Important an Education Can Be The day that changed my life and made me realize I better go back to school and get my college education, was a day that altered my life forever. I was working in a warehouse for a popular gourmet store called Citerella, in Manhattan. It was not one of the best jobs I’ve ever had, but at the time it had paid the bills. The hours were long, the
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Cognitve Psychology
Cognitive psychology deals with the mental processes like memory and problem solving. It is also concerned with internal processes such as attention, perception, thinking, reasoning and language. However in the past these processes were studied by means of laboratory tasks, however it has become clear that the cognitive approach is very useful when understanding developmental issues, social functioning and treatment of many mental disorders. Biological psychology however brings together biology and psychology to understand behavior
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Research on Early Father’s and Mother’s Involvement and Child’s Later Educational Outcomes
In 2004, the British Journal of Educational Psychology releases a report on a research that was conducted by Eirini Flouri and Ann Buchanan dealing with the correlation of early interaction of parents and the future assessment of their children in school. Previous to this article, little research was given to the individual long-term contribution that early parent involvement had in a child’s success in school. Flouri and Buchanan had three particular goals in mind while
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Comparison and Contrast of Three Perspectives of Early Psychology
Running Head: COMPARISON AND CONTRAST OF THREE PERSPECTIVES Comparison and Contrast of Three Perspectives of Early Psychology George Carpenter American Intercontinental University Abstract This paper will explore the comparisons and contrasts of three of the ten different perspectives of early psychology. The three chosen for this assignment are Behavioral, Humanistic, and Cognitive. Comparison and Contrast of Three Perspectives of Early Psychology As much as anything else, psychology has many different theories and methods. One theory
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