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Social constructivism is a part of the larger school of cognitive constructivism, developed by the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsk...

be able to point out faulty thinking, something that can free a person from the desire to act a particular way. Such acknowledgmen...

(Berube, 2000). This type of teaching follows what could be called the linear thinking model (Berube, 2000). But....science is not...

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

held true: creatures which could adapt most effectively to their environment had a better chance of their genetic material survivi...

Company as a leading example of how large multinationals ought to function in terms of currency risk management. Dow generates mo...

the primary reason for the rush was to reach the market with the PS2 before Microsofts scheduled release of its X-box. Sony did n...

the most telling incidents was when he told his fathers fiancee, Cathy, that she was insane to consider marrying somebody as self-...

patterns that were shown (Link, 2002). Between the ages of three and six there are some interesting attitudes. These may be seen a...

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

(the proletariat,) and the termination of class-based society. Marxist demanded communal property in the place of private propert...

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

(1998; 24). The main approach here is that the information gathered should be able to give an account of the influence or idea th...

Whether it was spending "frigid nights beneath the open observatory dome photographing nebulae" (Parshall et al, 1998, p. PG) or f...

regulations, as well as the users ability and the constraints of any equipment that is being used. These different factors all com...

became popular in the 1980s because companies were faced with a significant amount of competition in a rapidly changing world. The...

the process of indicating which individuals abide by the prescribed societal rules and which ones do not. Generally, a community ...

+ Pedagogy, 2002). However, the term often incorporates the profession of teaching and therefore a more complete definition would...

Their individual research involved the personality variables that could be identified as having a positive correlation with leader...

so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at...

the mass media has become one of the strongest players in that interaction. While many human traits are inherited genetically, ot...

as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child-rearing which resul...

On the one hand, free market economists point to the idea of "survival of the fittest" - whoever can sell the most should profit a...

books, and view the publishing arm of their diversified empire as but one more item for the ultimate balance"(Gould 157). Apparent...

by Hatten and Schendel Mintzberg took the analytical school further. The formation of this school is one where there is a foundati...

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

and negative, as has happened with Rondell. Research, overall, demonstrates that conflict can be multidimensional (Amason,...

Achievement Theory and Maslows Hierarchy of Needs (reviewed below). Content and process theories are both in place to explain what...

for only one small part of the production process. The worker concentrating his or her full effort on being the best that he or sh...

are, meaning that their immediate physical conditions affect the likelihood of success of the procedures they are about to undergo...