Archive for May 15th, 2006
« Previous EntriesThe Father And His Two Daughters
Monday, May 15th, 2006 A man had two daughters; the elder was married to a gardener, and the younger to a tile-maker.
One day, he visited the elder daughter, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, “All things are prospering with me, and I have only […]
Observational Learning
Monday, May 15th, 2006We learn best when we are having fun.
Observational learning, also called social learning theory, occurs when an observer’s behavior changes after viewing the behavior of a model. An observer’s behavior can be affected by the positive or negative consequences–called vicarious reinforcement or vicarious punishment– of a model’s behavior. There are several guiding principles […]
Beauty Quotes I
Monday, May 15th, 2006As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. ~Johann von Goethe
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ~Karl Kraus
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows […]
Gestalt Psychology
Monday, May 15th, 2006Gestalt psychology (also Gestalt theory of the Berlin School) is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. The classic Gestalt example is a soap bubble, whose spherical shape (its Gestalt) is not defined by a rigid template, or a […]
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