Extraneous cognitive load

Metacognition is a term used to define how well a student is aware of their own understanding of a concept or topic. This is essential for nursing school as it allows students to understand and identify their strengths and weaknesses and how to overcome any weakness that may be present. Students who are overly confident in the material they have studied, often have lower test scores and a weaker understanding of a topic as they feel that reviewing or changing a study habit is unnecessary (Chew,…

In the book Animals In Translation by Temple Grandin has two overall messages. One of these overall messages is the idea of the why people with autism function, the next message is that animals need to be treated humanely and ethically. Temple Grandin starts off the book by explain how she came about this idea that people with autism think in pictures rather than in words. She explains how when she was younger she went to a special school where they had animals and everyday she would go out to…

Early Brain Development for Social Work Practice by Lefmann and Combs-Orme. It provides examples of the usefulness of understanding the ontology of early brain development by proving how this comprehension can be incorporated into Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, more specifically throughout the stages of the sensorimotor period of Piaget’s theory. The problem addressed by the author is how social work profession fails to include critical bio-physiological approaches to human behavior…

The Stroop Effect is a commonly researched phenomenon involving the concept of direct attention and dealing with the notion that opposing information has an effect on an individual’s reaction time. The Stroop effect gained notoriety after American psychologist, John Ridley Stroop, published his paper on the effect in 1935. Since J. R. Stroop’s publication, countless researchers have continued to administer Stroop tests in an attempt to continue to develop upon this concept. There are a variety…

People often give others labels. Labeling someone is usually an attempt to predict what would a person be like later in their life based on observing their current characteristics. However, a repeated labeling to a person may be possible to come true whether the label is good or bad. According to William Isaac Thomas, Thomas Theorem states that “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences” (Keirns, Strayer, Griffiths, Cody-Rydzewski, Scaramuzzo, Sadler, Vyain, Bry,…

TIME-OUT FOR RADICAL SELF-CARE By Silvia Mordini Yoga is time where we get back in touch with caring about ourselves. Self-care is essential to a productive, peaceful life. It is a deeply spiritual practice. Developing an attitude of self-care means seeing yourself as the author and expert on your life story. Authoring one's own life assumes some measure of authority and requires appreciating yourself. Sadly deep down a lot of us don't approve of ourselves. Or we don't think we are worth the…

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word disparity means the quality or state of being different. It listed synonyms of disparities such contrast, disagreement, discrepancy, disparateness, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distance, diversity, otherness, and unlikeness. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary defined the word disparity as a great difference. This source stated that the term disparity was originated in the 1550’s and derived from the Latin word paritas, the Late Latin…

In this article, the authors tested five individuals who were categorized as fluent dysphasia with severe anomia (Hodges, Patterson, Oxbury, & Funnell, 1992). It explains that semantic memory is important for comprehension and it outlines the percentage of the long term memory. This kind of memory assists with picture-picture matching and item naming. The researchers recognized that all five individuals’ vocabularies decreased dramatically since their conditions first occurred. The individuals…

1. How are you doing on your plan? I would say my self confidence has improved. I have performed well when given a blank treatment plan and needing to come up with one on the spot when treating a patient for the first time. I have learned to just my "gut instinct" when it comes to therapeutic exercises or activities, because when I second guess myself it causes me to lose confidence in myself. At the end of each day, we (me and whichever OT I am with that day) digest how the day went, the…

If I may be candid, after reading this book written by Petersen (2015) he opened my eyes on a lot of skills that I thought I had mastered, but now I know this is not the case. Furthermore, I have fallen into several of the traps that Petersen talks about in the book. I realize that even in my personal life I fall into the trap of having the Flat Head Syndrome. For example, I could remember a case where one of my cousin and eye were talking about sports, in which, sometimes one of us could…