The results uniformly suggest that various kinds of practical knowledge and abilities, such as the ability to get along with others and tacit knowledge about what is expected, are often far more important for success than intellectual ability as measured by IQ tests (see also Cantor & Kihlstrom, 1987, for an analysis of this issue from a social-cognitive perspective). ... Returning to the description of how the test was developed, it became evident that a disconcertingly large number of students in Epstein's class on emotions often thought counterproductively about many potentially str...

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Many of these ideas are not testable in the real world, which means they cannot be detected, measured or critically examined. ... What about love, determination, self, esteem, and other powerful driving forces? ...

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In doing so he too rejected Freud's psychosexual and Freud's 'cupboard love' explanation. ... When our needs for love and affection are met by consistent, warm and loving parenting, a healthy personality development ensues. ... While a well-structured theory, with distinct descriptions of personality styles, Maltby, Day & Macaskill, (2010) argue that Horney's concepts are essentially vague and lack testability. ...

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At birth, Victor's creation reflects the Lockean "blank slate" concept as he begins in a state of innocence, exemplified in the metaphor "my soul glowed with love and humanity." He develops characteristically human traits such as the understanding of values, illustrated in his use of superlatives "I felt the greatest ardor for virtue and abhorrence for vice." However, as he matures, he becomes a product of societal rejection depicted in his personification of misery "misery made me a fiend" reflecting Rousseau's notion that humans are innately good and it is a society which...

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Among the students who are rationally motivated, their love and passion for their potential careers and goals in life are divorced by the standards of a liberal education where forced, accidental, and blind themes prevail. ... In these circumstances, there is little pressure to overcome the obstacles of learning, for exists a lack of sense of friendship, testing of one's insights against those of their peers, a desire to listen to others and assist them if necessary, a sense of cooperative participation in a shared endeavor, and knowledge of people's names, backgrounds, and interes...

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Another form of temptation that a lot of college students face is cheating or as teachers and professors loves calling it, Academic dishonesty, wikipedia.com defined academic dishonesty as any type of cheating that occurs in any relation to a formal academic exercise be it be plagiarism, deception, bribery, sabotage, cheating, fabrication or impersonation. ... When I was in high school, one of my close friends told me that when she gets to college, no matter how much she is pressured to party on a school night or even on the weekends when she has test(s) the following week, she would not go bu...

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Teach Institution: Building the Heart of a Teacher "Restoration, reweaving, is one of the obligations of leadership." (Max De Pree, 1997) Schools today are being rewoven. The focus on high standards has created a culture of accountability that calls for high quality teaching to help each child reach his or her potential. Unfortunately, schools are also facing a severe shortage of teachers, particularly in middle and secondary schools as well as areas such as special education. One short-term solution has been the use of teachers who are operating with emergency credentials. ...

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