Understanding Learning: Types, Factors, and Disorders
Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior that reflects an acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, and may include research, instruction, observation, or practice. Associate learning with the acquisition of a new behavior, but it also leads to a decrease or loss of behavioral factors.
Factors Influencing Behavior Change
- Fatigue: It produces a change in behavior for a short time. Learning entails a more stable change.
- Maturation: This consists of behaviors which depend on
Understanding Crime: Factors, Trends, and Social Impact
Decrease in Adolescent Population (1990-2020) and Crime Rates
A decrease in the number of adolescents between 1990 and 2020, if not offset by other events, may lead to a reduction in delinquency. Crimes committed by youth are typically less severe than those committed by adults. The earlier adolescents start engaging in criminal activity, the more intense their criminal behavior tends to be as adults. Finally, it appears that age is a factor that can mask other underlying factors.
Female Crime Statistics
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School Bullying and Battered Women’s Syndrome: Understanding Vulnerability and Impact
School Bullying: A Habitat of Vulnerability
School environments can be breeding grounds for harassment. Three types of vulnerability and associated risk factors are evident:
1. Individual Vulnerability
a) Vulnerability to Diversion: Based on personal and sociocultural characteristics that affect the harasser.
b) Vulnerability to Victimization: Relies on individual features of the student as a potential victim.
2. Relational Vulnerability
Intensifies acute situations of asymmetry of strength or power in
Read MorePolitical and Historical Concepts for Elementary Students
Understanding Political Concepts for Elementary Students
Although most human activity is governed by political decisions, knowledge of how more complex and seems to be reached later than other economic or social skills.
The performances of the students are (Connel):
- Up to 6, are dominated by fantasy. Political facts are mixed with non-politicians. They have heard of various political figures, but do not know their role. No laws differ from other rules confined to family or school areas.
- 7-9 shows the
Learner Autonomy and Language Acquisition: Key Factors
Control as a Natural Attribute of Learning
To What Extent Are We Born Self-Directed Learners?
Thomson suggests that as young children, we take control over the learning of our first language (L1). However, as learning becomes more complex, we appear to give up much of our autonomy. When we learn foreign languages as teenagers or adults, we seem to find self-directed learning difficult and even show a preference for direction by teachers and learning materials.
Self-Instruction
Jones defines self-instruction
Read MoreEffective Group Techniques: Application and Best Practices
Group techniques are not based on pure theoretical models. They are considered best practices because their formulation and operation depend on the specific situation where the technique is applied. Borderline cases and hybrid techniques may be found in practice, as the technique requires adaptation to the objectives and circumstances of the work. No single technique is versatile enough for every situation or need. Adequacy requires taking certain precautions:
- The pre-established goals justify the