...Children start to develop symbolic skill and thought around the age of two. Positives that result from this significant step include the ability to learn a language (or more than one) and the start of pretend play or make believe. On the other hand, symbolic skill doesn’t do much to help a child get over egocentrism or the frailer to conserve. Egocentrism describes the time when child cannot perceive a perspective other than his own, while failure to conserve is the antithesis of logical thinking. The question here is: how does symbolic thought or symbolic skill lead to these points within the child's development? What is the connection? The key here is understanding what symbolic skill is (which, truthfully, took me some time). Symbolic skill...
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...While names can be difficult to remember, failing to even make the attempt to recall the names of workers demonstrates perceiving other people as merely material things and not as humans, which is an in the box thought process. Then, Tom questions how one can view workers as people without getting taken advantage of, and Bud proceeds to ask Tom a question about whether his viewing an employee as an object would inspire her to become more innovative about her work. Even when reprimanding an employee, a boss should make sure that their perceptions include seeing them as real people. Bud then encourages Tom to consider his company employees and how he perceives them (The Arbinger Institute,...
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...Problem Solving Renae L. Hayworth BEH225 Janurary 20, 2012 Ann Reed Problem Solving “Trial and Error, information retrieval, algorithms, and heuristics an all assist at problem solving. There are two ways most people think. Divergent thinking is usually someone who is open minded and can think outside the box. Convergent thinking can be thought of thinking inside the box or narrow minded thinking” (Morris & Maisto, 2010). When I try to solve a problem, I tend to think outside the box. However, my methods are never the same, depending on the situation. Trial and error are great if it is an easy problem. For example, buying new pants, I know this can be an obstacle. When I was young I could just go and pick out my size and leave. I never had to try on a pair of paints because my body didn’t change much. As I have gotten older and now have a child, my body has changed. I know have to grab pants that I think will fit and try them on. Not all woman jeans are made the same; some sizes are smaller or bigger than other brands. This can be a struggle and therefore, I need to use trial and error. I grab let’s say three pairs of pants and one will fit. This will be the ones I buy. Information retrieval is something I think of as when I studied for my driver’s license. I needed experience but I needed to study the driver’s manual. This helped me learn the rules of the road, because these rules of the road will keep me safe. Also, my grandfather has given me tips when...
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...Skinner, American behaviorist, author, inventor, social philosopher and poet. He discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychologist. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure the rate of response as part of his influential work on schedule of reinforcement. While F.B Skinner was at the University Of Minnesota he invented the operant conditioning chamber to measure the responses of organisms and their orderly interactions with the environment useful devices like the cumulative recorder, even in his old age he invented a thinking aid to help with writing. Skinner showed the positive reinforcement by placing a hungry rat in the Skinner box. This box contained a lever with food as the rat moved inside the box the lever would drop the food to a container next to it. The consequence was that the rat would repeat the behavior again and again. A good example to picture this would be thinking of a daily basis situation every time you do something good you get a reward, so then the same action becomes a daily thing so you can get rewarded more often. The negative side is that if one day you don’t do the right thing then you won’t get reward and then the habit might be broken. The opposite of reinforcement is punishment this can also work directly by doing something unpleasant stimulus. For example if the children don’t behave then they get put in time out and they won’t get to do something they enjoy. Superstitious behavior arises when...
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...Skinner, American behaviorist, author, inventor, social philosopher and poet. He discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychologist. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure the rate of response as part of his influential work on schedule of reinforcement. While F.B Skinner was at the University Of Minnesota he invented the operant conditioning chamber to measure the responses of organisms and their orderly interactions with the environment useful devices like the cumulative recorder, even in his old age he invented a thinking aid to help with writing. Skinner showed the positive reinforcement by placing a hungry rat in the Skinner box. This box contained a lever with food as the rat moved inside the box the lever would drop the food to a container next to it. The consequence was that the rat would repeat the behavior again and again. A good example to picture this would be thinking of a daily basis situation every time you do something good you get a reward, so then the same action becomes a daily thing so you can get rewarded more often. The negative side is that if one day you don’t do the right thing then you won’t get reward and then the habit might be broken. The opposite of reinforcement is punishment this can also work directly by doing something unpleasant stimulus. For example if the children don’t behave then they get put in time out and they won’t get to do something they enjoy. Superstitious behavior arises when...
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...internal events such as thinking and emotion. His work is based off of Edward Thordike’s Law and Effect theory, which he renamed as Reinforcement. It was Skinner’s findings that behavior that was reinforced tends to be strengthened and repeated opposed to behavior that is not reinforced tends to be weakened and extinguished. Skinner studied this behavior by conducting experiments using animals, such as lab rats, which he placed in what he called a “Skinner Box.” B.F. Skinner came up with...
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...images in the greyness--warm blankets and foamy seas. I began to lose myself in the thick fluffy atmosphere of the clouds. My thoughts then drifted to one day in art class when we were given an assignment to use the constraints of a shoe box, and create an environment inside so when you look through the cut hole on the side of the box, your perspective would shift and the box would seem bigger than it really was. I watched my peers use reflection or miniature things to give the illusion of a larger space, but I took a different approach. I created device through which light changes, shapes transform, the back-, mid- and foreground become one, and the world is not fixed: a kaleidoscope. The evolving patterns and sequences appeal to my vision of nature, my view of myself. I am, like everyone really, a “masterpiece” in the making. I begin as a sketch, or many sketches, and evolve into something greater than the pieces of my origin. No one ends up the way she expects. Like the transformation of the grey clouds into beautiful images, or the constrained box into an expanse of possibilities, I believe it is all about perspective. Our ideas change just like the way we want to execute our “dreams”. So, here I sit, writing an essay for FSU, thinking about perspective and change and the future. Isn’t this what global awareness is about? Recognizing the same in the difference,...
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...when we observe the needs of other and let them pass without acting on them. This self-deception breed ill feelings toward the other person in order to justify our own actions. This area of self-deception is what the author refers to as “the box”. The book is an easy read because the author or authors use a story-telling approach to the topic of self-deception. Instead of saying we deceive ourselves, the authors used clear examples to illustrate their meanings. I found this to be appealing because the topic of their book is a bit vague when only hearing the main points of self-deception. By providing a story and stories with in the story, the authors clearly convey their point which makes understanding it much easier. The authors believe that productivity in an organizational and interpersonal relationship setting can be directly impeded by our unwillingness to view other people as people. The author points out that when we begin to view co-workers, spouses, family members and people in general as objects, their feelings and needs take a back seat to our own. This point is illustrated quite well in the book by the specific examples Tom, Bud, Kate and Lou give when speaking about their own experiences of being in and out of the box. One example of how clearly this is explained is the story...
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...into trouble. But slowly as the years go by the supply list gets smaller and smaller and less and less diverse. I stare down and sigh at this unbelievably sad stack of things i have. Not that i'm not grateful, of course i always am, i’m just surprised. Apparently once you start high school, they drop the lists entirely and you just need the bare minimum. A few comp. tablets, a few folders, a binder, a pack of pencils -i always ask for the normal wood ones, i hate the sound mechanical pencils make when they write on paper- and a pack of black bic ballpoint pens. What i'm mainly happy about is the bag my neighbor bought me, its bright green and big with the logo eastport on it. Though my supplies barely take up 10% of the bag, i put them inside thinking positively about this school year. I will fill my bag with work and books and hopefully i'll acquire more supplies along the way. Honestly, i'm just excited for school to start. Summers are always the bane of my existence since my ma is a nut job and i dont have my brother to keep me company anymore. I can understand school being boring and stressful, but its actually not that bad when you are only allowed to leave the house for school and when you have literally nothing else to do in life but homework and read. Im very much looking forward to school because I'm a freshman in highschool, and high school is just something a kid dreams about. You see all these movies about teenagers living their lives and finding themselves, and though...
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...categorize the following cards into 3 categories: changes in males during puberty, changes in females during puberty, changes in both genders during puberty. The winner is the group which get the most correct answers in the shortest time. Physical Growth | Oily skin | Acne growth | Concern more aboutappearance | Beard growth | Axillary hair growth | Greasy hair | Pubic hair growth | Breast development | Morning wood | Ovulation | Menarche | Vaginal discharge | Excessive sweating | Voice break | Hips widen | Shoulder widen | Sperm production | Increase penis size | Testicular enlargement | Sex hormone production | Irritability | Care about friends | Mood disorder | Start thinking about sex | Have feelings for someone else | Depressive disorder | More independent | Start thinking about the future | | Key Males | Females | Both | Beard growth | Breast development | Physical Growth | Morning wood | Menarche | Concern more aboutappearance | Voice break | Ovulation | Greasy hair | Sperm production | Vaginal discharge | Oily skin | Increase penis size | Hips widen | Acne growth | Testicular enlargement | |...
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...There was one judge, one witness, one clerk, couple of students were members of the jury and some were members of the other juries, there were one usher, there were two lawyers, one lawyer was a defendant lawyer while the other lawyer was the prosecution lawyer, there were press and public watching finally there was a defendant who was the criminal. In this role I was actively a criminal and this is what I fulfilled. When the classroom was organised into a Crown Court, I took my seat and sat at the back of the court room as was instructed by the usher. I kept completely silent for the time being, until it was my turn to go to the witness box and give my statement. The minute the usher stood up and removed me from my seat and took me over to the witness box, this is the exact statement I gave. Statement I gave while I was inside the witness box: “I took delivery of my new Mazda sports car, from the garage Brookside Mazda and I was driving alongside Hillside Road. I live at 32 Able Close and I got stuck in the usual traffic jam. I am very familiar with the road as I drive it every day If I get stuck in traffic when I get close to my turning I have a habit of pulling out to the other side of the road and driving up to the right side of the road up to the right hand turn of Able Close. When I do this I am very careful to look for oncoming traffic. I usually do it at the point there is a central refuge so that I would get some warning of any pedestrians...
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...STRANGE IS UNIQUE I’m Damian, a simple guy with brown eyes, brown hair, white skin and tall but just a little strange. I didn’t ask for too much I just needed someone to care but no one did, I started doing sport to keep my mind out of it but nothing work, then I started doing music and writing songs but she keep getting into my head. I still remember how we started, we started just like best friends, her name was Emma she was beautiful, she had brown and really long hair, brown eyes with glasses and a clean white smile. Every friend that I had started saying that is better to never get involved with her because she wasn’t “OKAY” but I don’t listen and fall in love with Emma.at first everything was nice and romantic but after 3 months I started seeing what everybody told edema started acting weird, I ask her but she said that nothing was wrong but I don’t know what to think so when Emma was taking a shower I started searching for weird stuff around the apartment, to my surprise I found 3 blades covered In blood, a picture of a women with a big “X” on the middle and behind everything else was a colt Wiley clapp.at first I have to admit I was scared but then I was fascinated with everything I found, when Emma got out of the shower I confronted her and she told me what was happening she told me that she was cutting herself and then told me who the women in the picture was, she told me that the women of the picture was her mother but suddenly she got angry and sad started...
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...Identifying the Science Processes Kathy Harris EED-364 Curr. Mthd & Asmt: Sci & Math September 8, 2011 Identifying the Science Processes Observing Gathering information by using sense and instruments that extends the senses such as microscopes, magnifier glasses and telescopes. Students collect and array of leaves and describe the leaf pattern and texture. Classifying Objects or organism are sorted according to characteristics, attributes and features. Sort different type of animals with backbones and those without backbone. Communicating Record observation, measurements and experiment and sharing it with others. Record student’s favorite color and record it on a bar graph. Measuring Quantify variables using different instrument and standard units. Standard units of measurement produce consistent results. Students can measure the length of a book by using cubes and then use a ruler for actually measurement. Predicting Making a guess of a possible outcome based on data collected. Ask class how many cups of water it would take to fill up a pint jar. Inferring Draw a tentative conclusion based on observation and prior knowledge. Could change before it is final or complete. Guessing what is in containers by touching or feeling the objects. Identifying and Controlling Variables Variables that are intentionally kept the same in an investigation in order to confound results. Place plants away from all light and see how long they can flourish without sunlight...
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...So, in short, he made them. Zeus allowed him to make them because he helped the Olympians during the war. On the other side, Equality also made a creation in the tunnel― his light box by experimenting different things that lead to that creation. We all know that in their society, no one is allowed to be alone by themselves. What I see about this thing, is that they both made a creation, but it was different things ― Zeus gave Prometheus the permission to make his own creation, but nobody gave Equality the permission to do his own...
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...Paradoxical Thinking in Organizations………………………………………………………........ 4 Apple Inc. and Paradoxical Thinking……………………………………………………………... 5 Learning Paradoxical Thinking…………………………………………………………………… 7 Paradoxical Thinking as a Skill of Intelligence…………………………………………………... 8 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………... 9 References……………………………………………………………………………………….. 10 Abstract Paradoxical thinking is looking at a problem from a different perspective and coming up with a solution. We live in an ever-changing, dynamic environment. In order for organizations to be successful, they must be willing to resolve conflict and contradiction using apparently opposite ideas and beliefs. It is vital for organizations to understand and embrace paradoxical thinking. This paper will further discuss what paradoxical thinking is, analyze how Apple Inc. has demonstrated paradoxical thinking, discuss whether paradoxical thinking can be learned, and finally review paradoxical thinking as it relates to the eight skills of intelligence. Paradoxical Thinking in Organizations Paradoxical thinking should be the cornerstone of all organizations. A paradox exists when two seemingly inconsistent or contradictory ideas are actually both true (Quinn, Faerman, Thompson, McGrath, & St. Clair, 2011). Paradoxical thinking involves, among other things, switching to the opposite of what is conventional (Ravi, n.d.). Many organizations do not take the time to learn and absorb paradoxical thinking and instead...
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