Social Structure: Roles, Communication, and Norms

Society and Culture Always Lead

A human group should provide the framework for relations with the environment and sexual reproduction. Society and culture are always at the forefront.

Relationship with the Environment

The appropriate relationship with the environment is more than being in a physical medium. That relationship is related to being united with the environment, both rural and urban, in both a near and more distant environment.

This relationship involves the development of appropriate attitudes,

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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Key Concepts

Key Concepts in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Artificial Intelligence

  • Evolutionary capacity for which the individual is able to reason and make decisions depending on their environment and improve their survival, as an individual, as a group, or kind: Intelligence
  • That intelligence exhibited by human-created artifacts: Artificial Intelligence
  • Experiment to prove whether a computer thinks or not, which tries to offer a definition of Artificial Intelligence that can be evaluated: Turing Test
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Understanding Personality: Traits, Structure, and Development

What is Personality?

The term personality refers to a set of features that are more or less stable, not fixed, but constantly evolving and unique, that identifies an individual. The features that form it are shaped by temperament, personal characteristics, and character.

Temperament, Emotions, and Feelings

Everyone is born with a temperament, which manifests in the form of emotions. It acts as an instinctive reaction of self-defense, and its expression is purely hormonal.

It is important to clarify

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Cognitive Impairment in Dementia: Symptoms and Diagnosis

Cognitive Impairment in Dementia

This article discusses the most relevant aspects of some of the more frequent cognitive symptoms of dementia. We review the superior functions that are altered during the evolutionary process of dementia, taking Alzheimer’s disease with amnesic syndrome-aphasic-apraxic-agnostic as a paradigm. Then, we analyze the clinical differences between the most common dementias: cortical and subcortical.

Introduction

A few years ago, the concept of dementia was always related

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Understanding Learning: Theories, Types, and Strategies

Understanding Learning

Definition

The definition of learning is complex, with many different points of view. It can be defined as a process by which a new behavior is acquired, an old behavior is modified, or a behavior is extinguished as a result of experience or practice. Learning is how living creatures adapt to survive environmental changes. Maturation is required to learn and adapt to the environment appropriately.

Theories of Learning

There are two main theories of learning:

  • Behavioral theory
  • Cognitive
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Cognitive Learning and Human Behavior

Cognitive Learning: An Active Process

Cognitive learning is an active process by which an individual modifies their behavior, giving a personal meaning to what is learned. Cognitive psychology is a school of psychology that deals with the study of cognition, i.e., the mental processes involved in knowledge. Its object of study includes the basic mechanisms whereby knowledge is drawn from perception, memory, and learning, until the formation of concepts and logical reasoning.

Human Memory

Human memory

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