Competition and Self Esteem
... good about themselves in a competition. Many of the losers (or nonwinners) feel worse about themselves. Since there are fewer winners than nonwinners, most competitions leave a lot of children feeling worse about themselves. Alfie Kohn (1992) states: “To lose—particularly in a public event—can be ps ...
... good about themselves in a competition. Many of the losers (or nonwinners) feel worse about themselves. Since there are fewer winners than nonwinners, most competitions leave a lot of children feeling worse about themselves. Alfie Kohn (1992) states: “To lose—particularly in a public event—can be ps ...
Social Psychology and the Comic-Book Superhero: A
... The Art Instinct as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of art; but its value does not end here. Given that evolutionary theory is itself an ongoing intellectual project, Dutton’s approach necessarily lends itself to extension and revision as new discoveries are made about the human cognitive e ...
... The Art Instinct as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of art; but its value does not end here. Given that evolutionary theory is itself an ongoing intellectual project, Dutton’s approach necessarily lends itself to extension and revision as new discoveries are made about the human cognitive e ...
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... human motives and needs to determine which needs motivate different individuals. Process Approaches to Motivation Process approaches to motivating employees explain motivation in terms of the decision-making process through which motivation takes place. Adam’s Equity Theory Adams’s equity theory ass ...
... human motives and needs to determine which needs motivate different individuals. Process Approaches to Motivation Process approaches to motivating employees explain motivation in terms of the decision-making process through which motivation takes place. Adam’s Equity Theory Adams’s equity theory ass ...
Towards Good Social Science - Centre for Policy Modelling
... The development of the theory of electromagnetism and, eventually, Einstein’s special and then general theories of relativity and quantum mechanics were driven by experiment and observation of natural phenomena. Faraday identified a wide range of electricity-related phenomena in a connected series ...
... The development of the theory of electromagnetism and, eventually, Einstein’s special and then general theories of relativity and quantum mechanics were driven by experiment and observation of natural phenomena. Faraday identified a wide range of electricity-related phenomena in a connected series ...
What is Sociological Theory?
... Paradigmatic example of how a sociologist should connect theory and research Chose to study suicide to demonstrate the awesomeness of sociology! (no, really!) Explained suicide rates, why one group had a higher rate than another Changes in collective sentiments changes in social currents ...
... Paradigmatic example of how a sociologist should connect theory and research Chose to study suicide to demonstrate the awesomeness of sociology! (no, really!) Explained suicide rates, why one group had a higher rate than another Changes in collective sentiments changes in social currents ...
THE MISBEHAVIOR OF ORGANISMS
... conditioning theory, we readily admit now that ethological facts and attitudes in recent years have done more to advance our practical control of animal behavior than recent reports from American "learning labs." Moreover, as we have recently discovered, if one begins with evolution and instinct as ...
... conditioning theory, we readily admit now that ethological facts and attitudes in recent years have done more to advance our practical control of animal behavior than recent reports from American "learning labs." Moreover, as we have recently discovered, if one begins with evolution and instinct as ...
AP Psych Name Hall of Fame
... Critic of Kohlberg; said his model of moral development was too general and only applied to males. ...
... Critic of Kohlberg; said his model of moral development was too general and only applied to males. ...
1 THE MISBEHAVIOR OF ORGANISMS Keller Breland
... the theory. Three of the most important of these tacit assumptions seem to us to be: that the animal comes to the laboratory as a virtual tabula rasa, that species differences are insignificant, and that all responses are about equally conditionable to all stimuli. It is obvious, we feel, from the f ...
... the theory. Three of the most important of these tacit assumptions seem to us to be: that the animal comes to the laboratory as a virtual tabula rasa, that species differences are insignificant, and that all responses are about equally conditionable to all stimuli. It is obvious, we feel, from the f ...
Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice Chapter 2
... How can you use the different theories of social, emotional, and moral development to help solve classroom problems in management? ...
... How can you use the different theories of social, emotional, and moral development to help solve classroom problems in management? ...
Emerging Welfare Blueprints for Hong Kong: A Contribution
... The theoretical base for “reciprocal welfare” is active citizenship and welfare contractualism. The principal tenet of active citizenship is “an emphasis on the responsibility-side of citizenship, and the need to provide adequate resources for the vulnerable to exercise their ethical duties to the c ...
... The theoretical base for “reciprocal welfare” is active citizenship and welfare contractualism. The principal tenet of active citizenship is “an emphasis on the responsibility-side of citizenship, and the need to provide adequate resources for the vulnerable to exercise their ethical duties to the c ...
THE MISBEHAVIOR OF ORGANISMS
... and utter failure of conditioning theory. They are far from what one would normally expect on the basis of the theory alone. Furthermore, they are definite, observable; the diagnosis of theory failure does not depend on subtle statistical interpretations or on semantic legerdemain—the animal simply ...
... and utter failure of conditioning theory. They are far from what one would normally expect on the basis of the theory alone. Furthermore, they are definite, observable; the diagnosis of theory failure does not depend on subtle statistical interpretations or on semantic legerdemain—the animal simply ...
PSYCHOLOGY OF SAFETY: Seeking success vs
... highest levels of self-efficacy, personal control and optimism, and are more likely to actively care for the safety and health of others. It’s generally better to be an overstriver than a failure avoider or failure accepter, but the high fear of failure among overstrivers leads to self-doubt. These ...
... highest levels of self-efficacy, personal control and optimism, and are more likely to actively care for the safety and health of others. It’s generally better to be an overstriver than a failure avoider or failure accepter, but the high fear of failure among overstrivers leads to self-doubt. These ...
FunctionalismWeb
... "Gellner concludes (1962,1967) that functionalism is best regarded as a method of seeking non-superficial causal explanations of social phenomena, and that this method happens to have been framed in a rather overstated doctrine mainly bcause of the debates that were taking place in anthorpolgoy at t ...
... "Gellner concludes (1962,1967) that functionalism is best regarded as a method of seeking non-superficial causal explanations of social phenomena, and that this method happens to have been framed in a rather overstated doctrine mainly bcause of the debates that were taking place in anthorpolgoy at t ...
Ideas, Uncertainty, and Evolution
... where causes are endogenous and nonlinear, and where outcomes of interest are not normally distributed? The consequence is that our nonideational theories should lead us astray a lot of the time, which they do (Blyth 2006; Tetlock 2005). Why this is the case has an unobvious answer: a priori knowled ...
... where causes are endogenous and nonlinear, and where outcomes of interest are not normally distributed? The consequence is that our nonideational theories should lead us astray a lot of the time, which they do (Blyth 2006; Tetlock 2005). Why this is the case has an unobvious answer: a priori knowled ...
Social Sciences - University of Alaska Southeast
... SOCIAL SCIENCES One of the important goals of a university education is to “liberate the powers of the individual by disciplining them” (William Theodore deBary). The Social Science program at UAS fulfills this aim by stressing the importance of method, concept, and theory in the study of human orig ...
... SOCIAL SCIENCES One of the important goals of a university education is to “liberate the powers of the individual by disciplining them” (William Theodore deBary). The Social Science program at UAS fulfills this aim by stressing the importance of method, concept, and theory in the study of human orig ...
FORMATION OF IDENTITY BY MEANS OF SOCIAL STEREOTYPES
... The result of identification of individual with different communities is the presence of numerous identities, whose actuality and significance depends on time and situation, and their sum composes social identity of individual. So universalization of the notion ‘identity’ can be explained by the fac ...
... The result of identification of individual with different communities is the presence of numerous identities, whose actuality and significance depends on time and situation, and their sum composes social identity of individual. So universalization of the notion ‘identity’ can be explained by the fac ...
Behaviorism 101 for Math Teachers
... • Forming and storing mental representations of the behavior to be imitated • Transforming this mental representation into actions you are capable of reproducing • And, being motivated to imitate the behavior by some expectation of reinforcement or reward ...
... • Forming and storing mental representations of the behavior to be imitated • Transforming this mental representation into actions you are capable of reproducing • And, being motivated to imitate the behavior by some expectation of reinforcement or reward ...
Psychology of Play (Cont`d)
... • Role of learning in renewing emo6ons and experience • Games are outcome based, control over emo6ons through choice ...
... • Role of learning in renewing emo6ons and experience • Games are outcome based, control over emo6ons through choice ...
Froh, J. and Parks, A. (2012). Activities for Teaching
... can impact their identity in a positive way and empower them in ways that will lead to a more successful transition from high school to college to adulthood. Skills that will help them enter the workforce and contribute to their society in a positive fashion are important and can be studied through ...
... can impact their identity in a positive way and empower them in ways that will lead to a more successful transition from high school to college to adulthood. Skills that will help them enter the workforce and contribute to their society in a positive fashion are important and can be studied through ...
Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The
... Antagonism toward a particular “race” may involve supposedly objective claims about the nature of people of that race—about their moral deficiencies or intellectual inferiority, for example. These claims can be subjected to scientific scrutiny and refuted. Confronted with these scientific arguments, ...
... Antagonism toward a particular “race” may involve supposedly objective claims about the nature of people of that race—about their moral deficiencies or intellectual inferiority, for example. These claims can be subjected to scientific scrutiny and refuted. Confronted with these scientific arguments, ...
notesUnit1web
... Social psychologists have worked to understand such phenomena as economic depression, attitude formation, racial prejudice, adaptation of immigrants, friendships and relationships, the effects of the Canadian multiculturalism policy, social norms of behaviour, group dynamics, propaganda and conformi ...
... Social psychologists have worked to understand such phenomena as economic depression, attitude formation, racial prejudice, adaptation of immigrants, friendships and relationships, the effects of the Canadian multiculturalism policy, social norms of behaviour, group dynamics, propaganda and conformi ...
Notes - Interpersonal Research Laboratory
... • "Of several responses made to the same situation those which are accompanied or closely followed by satisfaction to the animal will, other things being equal, be more firmly connected with the situation, so that, when it recurs, they will be more likely to recur; those which are accompanied or clo ...
... • "Of several responses made to the same situation those which are accompanied or closely followed by satisfaction to the animal will, other things being equal, be more firmly connected with the situation, so that, when it recurs, they will be more likely to recur; those which are accompanied or clo ...
Psychology and the consumer - Cultures of Consumption
... development of capitalism. They make the point that there is often scepticism in this literature concerning the extent to which psychologists and psychological theory, findings and perspectives really play in advertising. For all that, Miller and Rose (1997) identify a set of assumptions about the r ...
... development of capitalism. They make the point that there is often scepticism in this literature concerning the extent to which psychologists and psychological theory, findings and perspectives really play in advertising. For all that, Miller and Rose (1997) identify a set of assumptions about the r ...
Guide 29
... thought of as the "real" reason something occurred. Example: Why did the ship sink? Proximate cause: Because it was holed beneath the waterline, water entered the hull and the ship became denser than the water which supported it, so it couldn't stay afloat. Ultimate cause: Because the ship hit a roc ...
... thought of as the "real" reason something occurred. Example: Why did the ship sink? Proximate cause: Because it was holed beneath the waterline, water entered the hull and the ship became denser than the water which supported it, so it couldn't stay afloat. Ultimate cause: Because the ship hit a roc ...
An Introduction to Psychology
... In your life you must have come across many persons who have reached highest level of accomplishment. But such an accomplishment is not attained at once; it is the result of continuous learning in which the individual acquires the necessary skills and competencies through regular practice. Psycholog ...
... In your life you must have come across many persons who have reached highest level of accomplishment. But such an accomplishment is not attained at once; it is the result of continuous learning in which the individual acquires the necessary skills and competencies through regular practice. Psycholog ...