Intelligence: Nature versus nurture
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Similar to the “egg and chicken” argument, the long-standing “nature versus nurture” argument regarding behavioral traits has puzzled scientists and educators alike. The diverse viewpoints have spawned various expectations regarding the ability to manipulate intelligence....
The recovered memory controversy
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Some people who experience sexual abuse during childhood cannot recall the trauma in later years. Psychologists do not all agree as to why this occurs, reasons ranging from repression to age to natural forgetting, etc. Regardless as to how such memories are “hidden,” the real...
The relationship between drop-out rates and high-stake exams
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Educational studies
Issues on education took up a complicated level wherein the micro aspects of this pervasive social institution are given much scholarly attention. Recently, a concern about the effect of increased use of high-stake testing on students' academic performance has baffled the intellectual circle....
Getting the necessary nutrition on a vegetarian diet ( Different nutrients and its sources included )
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Regardless of one's reason for choosing to become a vegetarian, there is more to this choice than simply eliminating meat from one's diet. Meat contains nutrients vital to the human body, so when meat is removed from a person's diet, extra measures must be taken in order to ensure that that...
Salvaguardar a los niños o abandonar a las escuelas?: La política educativa del "NCLB" y su impacto en dos comunidades de Atlanta
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Jurando que la reforma educativa bipartidista sería la piedra angular de su administración, George W. Bush fomentó una serie de propuestas a cerca del tema durante su campaña presidencial de 2000. Con la intención principal de mejorar el sistema de escuela pública a través de los Estados Unidos,...
Is porn really biologically beneficial for human sexuality? A response to popular conception
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
I will present a critique of the conception of male sperm in contemporary popular science media; in particular my critique will address the idea that porn is somehow biologically beneficial for human sexuality. On one level, my motive in doing this is to demystify the systematic but almost...
Instinct vs Experience : Are there two separate hemispheres in the human brain ( With data and graphs )
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
Scientists have long acknowledged the presence of two separate hemispheres in the human brain as well as the severe difference between the two. The significance of these differences however was not until recently properly understood. The scientific community formerly considered the right...
Pornography is not your friend: Pornography and the First Amendment
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Under the First Amendment, pornography is sometimes protected as freedom of speech in our country today. However, pornography harms our society in several ways. Pornography is detrimental to attitudes and views about healthy sexuality, particularly the views held by men. Pornography promotes...
A consideration of a comparison/contrast of two research studies in the field of education: One quantitative study and one qualitative study
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Research in the field of education administration demonstrates that there are plethora of pressing issues that are addressed in this context. While many of the investigations undertaken in this discipline focus on quantitative methodologies, some utilize qualitative methodologies in order to...
E-commerce safety guide
Essay - 14 pages - Educational studies
Few developments have altered America's lifestyle more quickly and more completely than the Internet. Online access has enabled people from all walks of life to bring entire libraries, entertainment venues, post offices and financial centers to a workplace, to a desktop or to a shirt pocket. The...
A framework for the development and implementation of character education into the larger school curriculum
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
The current state of the American education system has promulgated a substantial outpouring of criticism for what teachers and administrators are accomplishing in the school. Although many schools defend their academic programs—arguing that a lack of funding makes it difficult for them to...
A herbarium report on: Aralia spinosa, saponaria officinalis, schinus molle and sphaeralcea cisplatina
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Perhaps, most of the time, if not always, what actually makes plants attractive to common men is the presence of budding flowers. However, not all organisms under the kingdom Plantae bear flowers. Nevertheless, in the vast taxonomy of plants, there is one class that is composed of flowering...
Psychological assessment
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Psychological assessment is the process of integrating information gathered from different sources. You can obtain valuable information from psychological testing. Interview with medical practitioners could also yield important information about the medical records of the individual. Another...
The significance of computer literacy in college and in the workforce
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Today's information age has progressed very rapidly that the world is suddenly controlled and overwhelmed by vast innovations - the most dominant of which are the computers. The device has literally run every single detail of our lives that people are almost obliged to familiarize themselves with...
How music can affect academic achievement
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
The Cognitive theory is concerned with the development of one's thought processes or basically how the mind acquires knowledge. There are many ideas that make up the cognitive theories—from the developmental theories of Piaget to relatively more recent theories like Gardner's Multiple...
An analysis of the history, effects, and implications of the most common psychostimulants
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Attention Deficity Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) generally denotes a kind of deficit to selectively attend and (thereby) selectively inhibit certain stimuli. Evidently, the psychological community has much else to say about the disorder, frequently positing other cognitive and behavioral...
Category - Specific semantic deficits
Essay - 11 pages - Psychology
The task of explaining the organization of conceptual knowledge is both promising and difficult. It is promising because if conceptual knowledge is organized, then in principle it should be possible to form theories which would account for the nature of conceptual organization in normal brains...
Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and consciousness
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
The state of consciousness defies definition, but it may involve an awareness of self, dreams, emotions, moods, perceptions, sensations, and thoughts, although not essentially all of these. The issue surrounding the definition consciousness, and in what sense and to what extent this state exists,...
Arresting the alienation of foreign college students in the United States
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
College life in itself is proven to be a challenging time. There are quite a number of factors that can inhibit college success. Some of these factors may be financial—such as the demand of scholarships, the inadequacy of monetary support from the parents, or the need to look for a part-time...
Women, Prison and Crime
Book review - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This book examines female institutions and the treatment of women inmates in the past and today. It focuses on why women are incarcerated, the different programs in prison available to them, crimes women commit, incarceration and crime rates compared to men, prison socialization, and how female...
Can SATs survey scholarship, skills and service?
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Panic swallows the streets of a small town in southern New Hampshire. At every turn, people are wallowing in sadness: bent over backwards begging the heavens for answers. What could have happened to cause such appalling misery, a flood or a fire? No, college rejection letters have arrived in...
The problem of binge drinking, alcohol abuse among contemporary college transfer students
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Except for scratches and wounds that occur during school breaks every year, the most notable outcomes of college drinking that frequently come to the public's attention are sporadic student deaths resulting from excessive use of alcohol like for instance alcohol poisoning or other alcohol-related...
All day kindergarten Vs half day kindergarten
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Kindergarten programs first became popular after World War I. The kindergarten programs during that time were given on a half-day basis in order to serve more children and to save more money. During the depression, the enrollment in kindergarten programs got too low that a majority of school...
Alternative Vs Traditional School Calendar In The United States
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
There is an increasing popularity in year-round school programs that are seen as alternatives to the traditional ten-month school calendar. This alternative was seen as necessary in order to match the educational superiority of economically leading countries such as Japan which have longer school...
The Application of Metacognitive Reading Strategies by Learning From and Teaching Disabled Students in the Regular Classroom
Essay - 9 pages - Educational studies
As a child, I was an average reader but never enjoyed reading. I especially dreaded reading chapter books because once I had completed the book I had forgotten what had happened at the beginning. Even though I struggled with the comprehension of reading for pleasure, I was able to pass...
The benefits of existentialist psychology
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
JD is a 26-year-old Hispanic male with quadriplegia who has been refereed to treatment by his primary care physician. Anxiety and depression appear to be the most prominent issues facing the client at the present time; however, the client both denies suicidal and homicidal ideation and is...
An investigation of Edgard Varèse's Poème Électronique
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
To those who are familiar with the unique historical context in which he was growing up, it comes as little surprise that Edgard Varèse was a composer at the forefront of the twentieth-century electronic music movement. As Malcolm MacDonald claims in his treatise on the artist, Varèse grew up...
The Ideas of the University Student
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Here at Columbia University I am asked to weigh two arguments, which are concerned with the nature of the scales I use to weigh them as well as with the purpose of those scales. By scales I am referring to the university setting in America. The first argument is made by John Newman in The Idea...
School desegregation in the United States and problems with this issue as a pervasive part of social discourse
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Boston's Mess 1974-1978 Research on the process of school desegregation in the United States reveals that even though notable steps were taken after the Brown v Board of Education (1954) ruling to reduce segregation, problems with this issue remained a pervasive part of social discourse. For...
Gardens: Revealing the State of Our Minds
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
A garden is a simple place, a small escape from the home, where one can roam at leisure. But there is more, something about its sensuousness gives rise to deeper feelings. In the Decameron and in Augustine's Confessions gardens become representative of the consequences of beauty. But they also...
