WORK ORGANIZATIONS Group Directed Study Fall 2003 Book Title: The Joy of Not Working. A book for the retired, unemployed, and overworked. ... After reading Zelinski's book, "The Joy of Not Working", I have a better appreciation for my reasons of working. ... Zelinski's book highlights some very important and wise ideas regarding my situation. ... One chapter of Zelinski's book profiles Abraham Maslow, a humanistic psychologist, who developed his own theory on the hierarchy of human needs. ...

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This book tries to explain how the two can be integrated and be able to work together. ... Critical response page Although this book was kind of hard to read, and some what boring, I did see what it had to say. ... When this happens, we also reject the basic principles that psychology offers us because it doesn't "sound right." ... I think that they may have overcomplicated the book by trying to sound smart when they could have just explained how integrate them instead of telling us ways that wont work. ... I think that they could have made the book more readable and comprehensive, a...

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The researchers trained rhesus monkeys to pull a lever to avoid getting shocked after a specific sound was played. ... The second monkey was exposed to the sound that indicated the shock, but had no lever to prevent it. ... The animals were exposed to the sound and shock randomly and at different times. The results showed that the monkey with the lever pulled it more often when the receiver heard the sound. ... He said "A greylag goose that has lost its partner shows all the symptoms that John Bowlby has described in young human children in his famous book Infant Grief. . . the eyes sink deep ...

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This may sound like a skipping record, but it is not. ... To people who hear this, it might sound strange. ... In his book, Everything In Its Place, television show host Marc Summers talked about his own childhood with the disorder. ... Judith Rapoport, in writing her book found that some of her patients shared their disorder with their children (Rapoport, 1989). ... As bleak as the life of someone with OCD may sound, there is hope. ...

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For example, a math or spelling program that contains all kinds of interesting images and sounds can capture the attention of students with ADHD. ... Their movement is limited by the impairment of their body parts; therefore, they might experience difficulty in activities that involve using fine motor skills such as turning book pages and controlling computers. ... According to the textbook, there are ten tips for a better memory in which four of the tips can be found in using assistive technology in learning; they are attention, pictures, sounds, and relaxation (Woolfolk, Winne, & Perry, 2012...

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Chapter three in Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning, discusses the general characteristics of the imagination that occurs in our students between ages eight and fifteen. ... This could be something he expands more on in later chapters, but for now I feel that he made it all sound so simple to implement. ...

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The result happened to be that after repeatedly pairing the rat with the noise, the boy started crying every time he saw the rat even if the latter was not combined with the noisy sound. ... It is the "Acorn" theory, postulated by James Hillman in his book The Soul's Code. The central premise of the book is that each one of us comes into the world accompanied by an acorn of ability and purpose. ...

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Even though behaviorism and Christian faith don't blend, Watson's theory sounds a bit similar to Proverbs 22:6. ... For example, a child is sitting on his dad's lap and glancing at a book. ...

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The early experiences in reading were filled with questions about what word is pronounced what way and why certain arrangements of letters sounded the way they did. ... Rather than having the teachers spit useless interpretations of the book at us, we were given the task of interpreting it for ourselves. ...

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The following are some common obsessions: fear of dirt or germs, disgust with bodily waste or fluids, concern with order, balance and exactness, worry that a task has been done poorly, fear of thinking evil or sinful thoughts, thinking about certain sounds, images, words or numbers all the time, need for constant reassurance, fear of harming a family member or friend. ... In a book I was reading I read a story of an older man who couldn't drive his car without constantly stopping and getting out to make sure no one was under his car. ...

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-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... If the character of the people is sound, laws are unnecessary; if unsound, laws are useless. ...

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