Essays on Memorizing

Clinical psychology is a branch of psychology, which main objectives is to address issues (both practical and theoretical) related to the prevention, diagnosis of diseases and pathological conditions, as well as psych correction forms of influence on the process of recovery, rehabilitation, addressing various issues and experimental study of the impact of various psychological factors on the shape and course of various diseases. (Trull & Prinstein, 2013) A common task of the clinical psychologist in the medical institution is its involvement in the differential diagnosis of various diseases, treatment and social and labor adaptation of patients. First, it is to ...

As I sit down to write a few lines on my experience related to mathematics, I find myself at a loss to describe mathematics, as I understand. I have read that mathematics is a science related to numbers and their operations, measurements, and abstractions. This evokes memories of childhood and how I dreaded numbers. How I hated memorizing multiplication tables. When I was in elementary school, I failed to recite the multiplication tables and my teacher punished me. This had profound effect on my young psyche. She forced me to write the tables ten times because she felt that ...

The cultures of a place, the social norms and ways of doing things have great influences on the things that individuals do and justify. This essay explores and relates Richard Feyman’s story O Americano Outra Vez and Ruth Benedict’s The Individual and the Pattern of Culture. The two stories are about norms, behaviours, tendencies, cultures and generally how people influence each other to follow certain paths. In order to understand the correlations between the two texts, it is important to highlight some issues about the authors and the motivations each had for writing their pieces. Richard Phillips ...

Abstract

The question of memory has been an interesting one in psychology for some time. Brown-Peterson hypothesized that distraction tasks have a role to play in how well our memory works, and that this can be measured by a simple task. This research uses a modified version of their experiment to assess their hypothesis. The task involves memorizing a three letter trigram and then taking part in a backwards counting task that was designed as a distractor. 112 participants took part in this experiment. They were asked to complete twenty control trials in which they had to continue counting backwards ...

Inquiry Based Learning in STEM Education

One of the major problems that exists in education today is a need to alter teaching practices to meet the changing demands of our modern world. One way that globalization is directly effecting education is in the creation of a greater emphasis on STEM education. Teachers must find a way of instructing students that makes them more successful in studying and developing professionally in the areas of science and technology. This relies on inquiry based instruction. However, the basic premise of inquiry based, or vocationally focused education runs counter to the classroom setting, and its cultural tendencies to be ...

In an increasingly globalized world, the knowledge of a second language has not only become common but also a must. Language teachers are constantly in demand and use different methods to teach a second language. There are many methods and approaches to language teaching, but there is no evidence that one particular method is the most effective. “The art of teaching does not lie in accessing a checklist of skills but rather in knowing which approach to adopt with different students, in different curricular circumstances or in different cultural settings (Klapper 17).” Some of the methods that were used ...