Risk perception

Don Delillo, the author of White Noise, wrote an incredible story about the invention of plots, and explains how naming things correlates with the idea of certainty and uncertainty. He does this through the main character of the novel, Jack Gladney, along with other characters that are in Jack’s life, such as his friend and co- worker, Murray Jay Siskind, a neuroscientist and another co-worker, Winnie Richards, and the creator of Dylar, Willie Minks. White Noise teaches us that naming things are…

Inception: Perception Changes Reality Christopher Nolan is known for his intellectual takes on genre pieces. Often incorporating his appreciation and love of the film medium, it could be argued that while he does not always resort to cheap twists, his eye for what separates film from other forms of entertainment and how he uses it to play with the audiences’ expectations and notions seems to be what primarily separates him from his contemporaries. Inception is no exception to this, and in fact…

Creativity is defined by the blending ideas and elements together that have not been thought of or done before. In its most pure form, creativity represents imagination. Imagination is described as the faculty or action of forming new ideas, images or concepts of external objects not present to the human senses [dictionary.com] of sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell. An example of imagination would be a child using his/her perspectives of imagination to create the world, different from our…

which creates language. In Ignorance: How It Drives Science, Stuart Firestein’s explains that knowledge does not come after ignorance, it is the other way around. Nietzsche asserts that there is no thing as absolute truth. To him, all thinking and perception comes from a particular perspective, and every perspective produces a different view of truth. Firestein argues that in science, knowledge enables scientists to propose and pursue the interesting questions. The pursuit should…

Libotton 2004). The Finnish study described earlier correspondingly assessed students ' perceptions (Kangasniemi et al. 2011; Utriainen et al. 2011). The result describes positive student experiences of group supervision due to the dynamic ways in which learning activities could take place and students could be involved in each other’s processes. However, if the students only focused on their own work it was a risk that they would perceive the group supervision as meaningless. Group supervision…

The human mind is always conscious using sensation and perception to be aware of its surroundings. During every conversation we have we are making connections and we are aware of what we are doing. This is mindfulness a good example of this is when you are talking to a friend you notice her facial expression, body posture, and what she looks like etcetera. We make these connections without really thinking about it but all day and night we are constantly making connections and learning and…

Learning is lifelong process and ‘the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life…how you perceive yourself may determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.’ (Dweck, 2012, p. 6) In this essay, I shall explore the concept of mindsets and how it may support and underpin the notion of learning power for learners in formal educational settings such as primary and secondary schools. It is will also consider the…

Albert Einstein once said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Due to heavy usage of technology, teenagers are becoming socially isolated. Technology is used heavily amongst teenagers for numerous reasons, one being multitasking. When allowing a student to plug their brains into a environment they are not naturally evolved into we are allowing technology to rewire their brain in a blink of an eye. Participating in…

While reading the article entitled “Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice” by Adam Grant, I found that I was immediately drawn to it because I agreed with many of the concepts Grant addressed. To be honest, I did not realize what a commonly used phrase “be yourself” was, and still is, until he pointed it out. Grant points out that while most people claim honesty and authenticity is the best policy, when this theory is actually put into use the negative effects of the two can be…

psychological interpretation. Time is construed cognitive functioning; an individual is to develop and organize thinking to sustain the monitoring of time by being totally mindful of the passage of time. Time is characteristic of a person’s experience. The perception of time judgment depends om individuality that involves behaviors and activities directed for time duration awareness practiced by individuals. The Psychology of time play a role in perceptive capabilities in the past, present…