Learning Essays

Same-sex friendship in childhood and adolescence has been well investigated. However, normative individual differences in the perception of friendship among heterosexual young adults has had little research attention. The aim of this study is to explore individual differences in the perception of friendship including needs attached to close relationship. Three …

I am going to look at how Sparkbrook in the 1960’s could be seen as a zone of transition, as described in Burgess’s Chicago school study, in relation to the housing classes, conflicting interests of the immigrants and the immigrant’s position within Sparkbrook. However I will also look at how …

For this essay I have chosen the short story done by Ann Eggley as my primary source document. It is located at the end of chapter twenty-two under the heading of “Listening to the Past” on pages 754 to 755. My focus within this essay will be to demonstrate the …

In this essay I will be discussing face perception and in particular Bruce and Young’s (1986) theory on face recognition. I will discuss their theories of recognizing people’s faces and forgetting the names of people who we know. I will discuss how helpful their theories are in understanding face perception. …

Learning through imitation is a form of gaining knowledge through interpretation. Since early youth, humans learn through imitation. “Imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being this, that he is the most imitative creature in the world, and learns first by imitation. …

The Abraham narrative in Genesis is one of the best-known stories in the Old Testament, and Abraham (or Abram, as he is referred to here)1 is a key figure in the wider picture of the whole Pentateuch. Indeed, Abram becomes the key human figure in the Pentateuch if we accept …

Ethics are very much a part of everyday life, with us all having a certain set of morals and values we live by. It therefore makes sense that ethics should play a major part in any research, be it with adults or children. This ensures that the utmost care and …

Animals and humans both have an innate predisposition to learning. This is shown with animals like snakes who are not “reared” by their parents but still know how to hunt. However some behaviours must be learned, this is the cognitive view. The biological view believes there is prepared, unprepared and …

On a genetic level monkeys (being primates) are distantly related to humans, but out of all primates apes are a humans closest relative in the animal kingdom, with monkeys being an evolutional stepping stone for humans. On a genetic level, the closest member of the great apes species to humans …

This care study will focus on a seventy eight year old gentleman, who I will call Mr James, which is a pseudonym to protect his identity as cited in clause 5 paragraph 5. 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2002). Mr James’s diagnosis is heart failure. I have …