Culture from the Perspectives of Piaget, Bruner, Vygotsky, and Isaacs
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This 4 page report discusses the fact that perspectives on culture always require that one consider the personal experience and understanding, along with experience and timeframe of the person offering the perspective. A number of notable theorists in the realms of education, language, and socialization offer points of view that within given circumstances are all valid. Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, Lev Vygotsky, and Susan Sutherland Isaacs’ views are brifly discussed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Defense Mechanisms
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The concept of defense mechanisms are and how we use them are discussed in this 10 page research paper. The writer explains defense mechanisms, then identifies and describes, with examples several of those used often. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Departmental Reorganization and Cognitive Dissonance Theory
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This 3 page paper considers the issue of a directive for departmental reorganization and opposition and changing attitudes towards this directive based on Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Developing a Personality Test to Distinguish the Trait of Creativity
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This 6 page report discusses the processes associated with developing and using a personality test to seek out a particular trait -- creativity. Because creativity can be thought of in both subjective and objective terms, the question may even be asked as to whether or not it can be measured, predicted, or appropriately analyzed. Then the issue may be how creativity may be stimulated and enhanced. Therefore, a personality test that can focus on creativity as a specific trait could serve as a valuable tool in understanding what stimulates people most powerfully to create new perceptions and ideas. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Development of Children's Scientific Reasoning
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5 pages in length. This research proposal is on the cognitive abilities of infants. Includes a hypothesis, the proposed study, as well as the independent and dependent variables. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Development of Socialisation in Children
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A twenty page paper which looks at theories of the development of socialisation in children, from the Freudian model to modern studies, taking into account the influence of parents, the education system, peer dominance, gender stereotyping and the media. Bibliography lists 21 sources.
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Developmental Theories For Personal Development
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20 pages in length. Experiencing life requires much more than merely going through the paces of one's existence; rather, the various developmental stages inherent to personal growth require cognitive awareness in order to achieve a true state of being. Myriad people do not realize the abundant elements that comprise one's personal development, often incorrectly surmising that one's transition from childhood to adolescence, marriage to family and advanced education to career are all a matter of happenstance. This presumption, however, does not reflect the intrinsic responsibilities of external influence upon one's personal development, rendering any single theory devoid of comprehensive function over all individuals. The writer discusses Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory, John Dewey's Progressivism Theory and the Development Model of Education. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Deviance as a Catalyst for Social Change
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This 8 page paper analyzes some of the functions of deviance and how the violation of norms actually contributes to social order. Bibliography cites 7 sources.
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