Embodied cognition

The purpose of this review is to further investigate how children affected by trauma can be successful in the classroom. When appropriate interventions are applied, children who have been expelled or suspended from school due to their aggressive behaviors can succeed in the classroom; however, educators should understand that trauma affects the brain in children who have experienced or witnessed violence. Childhood trauma affects the social, emotional, behavioral, physical, and cognitive…

Introduction This paper discusses Social Brain Hypothesis (SBH) by referring to the book “Lone Survivors How we came to be the only humans on Earth” by Chris Stringer and Evolution in the Social Brain by R. I. M. Dunbar and Susanne Shultz. Primates have a large brain to body size ratio as compared to their non-primate counterparts. Scientists have tried to explain this trait using various ecological, evolutionary, sexual context. On the other hand, the SBH attributes this primate characteristic…

The 35th President of the United States understood the importance of diversity in our world. The above quote is an excerpt from his Commencement Address at the American University on June 10th of 1963. Today -- 53 years later -- our generation is still trying to embrace diversity and inclusion in various ways. One of the places in which diversity and inclusion is essential is in college and university environments. For the Group Communication course held in the Fall 2016 quarter, students…

This model is an addition of the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance (CMOP), focusing on engagement as a primary aspect of occupational performance. CMOP-E was published in 2007 and developed by Helene Polatajoko, Elizabeth Townsend and Janet Craik. (McColl et al., 2015). The ideas within this theoretical model stem from the ideas associated in the Person-Environment-Occupation (PEO) model. (McColl et al., 2015). The core of this model is the importance and value spirituality has on…

The domestic dog (Canis familiaris) was the first animal species to be domesticated by humans. They were tamed from Eurasian gray wolves (Canis lupus), and genetic studies revealed that this domestication could have occurred up to 40,000 years ago. There are many theories to how humans began taming wolves. One theory was that wolves began following people around in order to more easily acquire food and that the ‘tamer’ wolves were kept as pets. As people began acquiring these wolves they began…

Working with different children that range from different ages is something that I have been able to do in the past well taking other child development classes but this semester well I was taking ECH 320 I was able to get the knowledge of what it might be working with an infant all the way to a child that is eight years old. Over the course of the last eight weeks I have been able to observe what it might be to work with a toddler well reading a book to them or even a chance to conduct a four…

Eric’s cognitive abilities were assessed through the use of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V). The areas of cognitive processing ability measured include crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, visual-spatial processing, reasoning ability, and processing speed. The subtests measure different cognitive processing abilities, combining to form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed which all together…

I stared at the paper, and my only thoughts were of how awful it looked. You couldn’t even tell what it was; it was simply different shades of gray and black in misshapen blobs. But while I absorbed my classmates ' words, that described it with different terms and picked out interesting pictures, I let go of my predetermined ideas of good and bad and I looked at the drawing with a deeper understanding. My mind slowly developed a fondness for it, I began appreciating those misshapen forms, the…

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the most popular types of therapy when treating disorders such as anxiety, panic disorders, and most commonly, obsessive compulsive disorder. Cognitive behavioral therapy is defined as changing the disturbing thoughts of a person by identifying their feelings, beliefs, and behaviors in order to eventually change the behavior of the person (Courtois, 2009). Cognitive therapy treats…

Often times the conflict between the understanding of a subject versus the emotion felt from the subject go hand in hand.The knower 's perspective create uncertainty in understanding the areas of knowledge. In Theory the Knowledge the areas of knowledge are Mathematics,Natural Sciences, Human Sciences, History, The Arts, Ethics, Religious Knowledge Systems, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems. These are all areas that relatively can cause uncertainty in the understanding or beliefs the knower has…