In the "Internet use among college students: tool or toy? " by Fred Englander, he discusses the distractions of college student's and how media and technology can affect their grades. Englander states that: "This study of the relationship between the intensity of Internet use and student academic performance, focusing as it does on actual grade performance rather than the students' perception of their performance, offers an alternative and hopefully useful perspective on whether the Internet typically functions as a tool or a toy in the hands of college students " (Englander, 93). .....

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The teacher makes all decisions for the students, and therefore also doles out any disciplinary actions necessary to the meek students. ... Often, students are learning form each other. ... High school was more problem posing in essence than junior high was because it was set up to prepare us for the individualistic setting of college. ... This was set forth on us because as freshmen in college, we would know very few of our classmates, despite the fact that we would have to interact with them on a regular basis. High school also taught the individualistic nature of college in that it pre...

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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. ... Discussion Eventually, PERS will hopefully move on to another university, implementing the program to another group of student athletes. ... PERS as a program is aimed to aid in student athletes understanding the benefits appropriate sleep and recovery c...

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If they have a question, let the student figure it out the question, and for the educator to guide the student to the answer, but not give the student the answer. ... This will allow the student to be more confident in which they are. ... Now, that I am in college it is making things difficult. ... All students are not the same each year. ... After the students has seen the examples. ...

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As a first year student at the University of Waterloo, my time here so far has been anything but relaxing. ... These students exhibited various time management behaviours such as setting goals and priorities, planning, and scheduling (Fisher and Hood, 1987). ... The authors found that students were less likely to feel helpless if they were well adjusted to their new home and learning environment. They also found that homesick students missed their homes the most when they were experiencing a major problem or strain in their lives (Fisher and Hood, 1987). ... Factors such as an absence of ...

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These statistics don't necessarily pin point the student population being a main eye of concern, however the student lifestyle and adopted culture is very well known throughout Europe. ... The Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS: Dimeff et al., 1999) was used to assist the strategy design of motivational interviewing within this study. ... A total of 37 students were included in the weekly alcohol consumption versus year of study (fig. 2) the mean age was 26 years. ... Weekly alcohol consumption (Units) Discussion This current study was carried out to se...

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Case Study on Angeline (i) Angelina's symptom of nervousness about not knowing an answer which was asked to her or her desire and anxiety of not getting a good grade is typical of a college student, also like me. The notion that other students and even her professor were watching her was abnormal. (ii) An external event that might have been responsible for Angelina's feelings is the drive she made on her way to classes in college. ...

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Everyone has their time of complete solidarity when the music starts the guy in the corner of the bar tapping his foot, happy to be where the good music is the ballerina practicing for her big audition and even the stressed college student listening to soothing Beethoven as he crams for finals. ... Just as any other college, these guidelines include general education and electives, as well as music courses, music therapy courses, and biological/behavioral science courses. Following the completion of this concise academic coursework, the students must then complete a six-month clinical intern...

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The Stanford prison experiment can demonstrate cluelessness and the lack of social intelligence, not only because the student participants demonstrated an unawareness of others motives, feelings and psychological states but also their own. ... As well as in the Zimbardo experiment the participants were college students, who were presumed to have never been a prisoner or a prison warden before. ... The students assigned to wardens became ruthless towards their classmates and treated them as prisoners even though in reality they were probably just classmates or even strangers. ...

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In a follow-up study of 100 Harvard students to their midlife, Vaillant (1977) found that intellectual ability was not significantly associated with any of his measures of adjustment, which included mental health, physical health, family relations, and success in work. ... The intellectually most gifted in college did not earn the most money if they became business executives, nor did they achieve the greatest recognition or productivity if they became professors. ... Students in a class on emotions and the self-concept taught by Seymour Epstein kept records of their most positive and negat...

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With this influx of adults entering colleges the educators are left with the task of learning to educate adults. ... I do feel that depending on the prior computer experience of the learner I could hand out a manual to the students and let them work through the information by themselves while also giving them the specific information they will need to be successful learners. ...

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The new science of behaviorism was highly influenced by its antecedents, namely, animal psychology and functionalism. Watson, the founder of behaviorism, adapted many of the original ideas of animal psychologist as well as functionalists into the basic ideas of the new science. Therefore, these idea...

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The studies they discuss indicate watching music videos and other media has been shown to increase adversarial sexual beliefs and have a negative effect, and also make college students have a greater acceptance of anti-social behavior after viewing media displaying similar behavior. ...

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