Learning is not easy to define formally because there are many different perspectives,each emphasizing a different facet of this complex process.A definition of learning could refer simply to the overt behavior.For instance,the fact that someone successfully drives an automobile suggests that the perso...
It is always a difficult question to ask, where to begin to tell the story of the history of psychology. Some would start with ancient Greece; others would look to a demarcation in the late 19th century when the science of psychology was formally proposed and instituted. These two perspective...
in others, it is seen as an elite skill restricted to formally trained experts. These opposing perspectives reveal much about how societies construct ideas of creative participation. Tracing the roots of these widely divergent worldviews on music is a worthwhile endeavor. ...
Were the love of science genuine, I suspect it would produce very different fruits to that which we see borne by the tree of knowledge, as it flourishes at present; and this suspicion is exceedingly strengthened by the recollection that, among the numerous students and professors of science I ...
For instance, a child who is three should be able to point to her mouth and eyes, a child who is nine should be able to name the months of the year in order, and a twelve-year-old ought to be able to name sixty words in three minutes. Their assessment became the first IQ test....
use. Even in contexts where such standards are imposed, as in the IPCC reports on climate change (Mastrandrea et al.,2010), other terms not on the list, for instance,canandcould, are used repeatedly to draw attention to expectancies that are not formally defined. One major limitation of ...
Impulsive Other, they completed another block making their own intertemporal choices (Self2, green solid line). For this participant, their preference shifted away from that of Impulsive Other (‘Impulsive DKL’), meaning that the participant’s own temporal preference became less similar to ...
The Guardianrecently published anarticlesaying “People won’t get ‘tired’ of social distancing – and it’s unscientific to suggest otherwise”. “Behavioural fatigue” the piece said, “has no basis in science”. ‘Behavioural fatigue’ became a hot topic because it was part of the UK Gov...
Harvey dug in deeper, after a "summer camp of indoctrination," and became entrenched in the Brethren Christian church for a couple of years. Then came a pivotal moment. One of his Brethren leaders, backed into a corner by Harvey's queries, admitted that, yes, by definition of church doctr...
The Guardianrecently published anarticlesaying “People won’t get ‘tired’ of social distancing – and it’s unscientific to suggest otherwise”. “Behavioural fatigue” the piece said, “has no basis in science”. ‘Behavioural fatigue’ became a hot topic because it was part of the UK Gov...