Social Sciences: anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology stimulate our intellectual and personal growth by improving our understanding of our own and other ways of life. Our basic customs, of human development, of human social relations, and of the economic, political, social, and cultural systems in which we as individuals live. ...
Examples abound of people with high intellectual ability who live their lives very foolishly and of people of ordinary intelligence who live their lives very well. ... In another long-term predictive study, Felsman and Vaillant (1987) followed a group of 456 inner-city men from early adolescence to middle life. ... The evidence clearly indicates that intelligence, as conventionally measured, is often unrelated to practical problem solving or to success in many important life endeavors. ... Interestingly, among the many studies and analyses of practical intelligence presented in Sternberg and W...
Conflict of motivations is typically where self-regulation comes into play, student athletes want to participate in the social scenes of college life but also need to be concerned with health and performance. ... Self-regulation is structure which mimics the life of student athletes who live by a tight schedule set by advisors and coaches. ...
According to Bowlby this bond serves as an internal working model and basis for all future relationships from infancy to adult life. ... To cope, Horney believed that the child unconsciously develops a number of defensive attitudes or neurotic needs that she considered all humans need to succeed in life. ... Alongside this idealised image arises the 'tyranny of the shoulds', intensely strong urges to live up to this image, and an image of the 'despised real self'. ...
It is a time-proven trend that a dominant culture will try to force its methods and what it deems as "normal" on the other cultures that live within its constraints. ... Those in the majority position remain unaware that the people who make up the minority have a different cultural way of life that should be valued and included. ... Worldviews, cultural views and family beliefs influence the manner in which a person approaches making decisions, problem solving, and one's attitude toward life. ...
