Naturalistic Analysis : ' Big Picture '

The topic studied in this naturalistic observational research study was called “pick me up.” The purpose of this study was to place a note card on the ground labeled “pick me up” and observe the type of person that picked the card up. The research question was “Which gender will pick up the card more and which gender will react more?” The researchers had three hypotheses: (1) More women will smile when reading the card than men, (2) More men than women will notice the card and continue walking, and (3) More men than women will notice the card.

For years, there have been many theorists who have shared their views on how individuals learn. Such research has determined that individuals have different learning styles. It is important for teacher to understand the learning styles of both themselves and their students because it helps them to relay the subject knowledge to the students. The teacher is in a position where they must be able to assess the learning styles of their students. This means that the students and teachers are both in a process of learning.

Jane Goodall would have a naturalistic intelligence because she recognizes the patterns in nature. Goodall understands animals so precisely. She was very connected with the chimps she studied for 55 years in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She was very sensitive towards the chimps, and appreciated every aspect of them. She knew how to interact with them because she observed them for so long. This gave her the chance to know what she could do with the chimps and what they would not like. This is why I think Jane Goodall is a naturalist.

This paper is going to describe the behavioral and cognitive traits that can be inferred from that behavior of a two year old child that I observed in the park as she was playing with her mother. The child that I observed is a girl, has blonde hair and is physically well-developed for her age. She is around two, weighs approximately twenty (20) pounds and is about two (2) feet tall.

“Just as students have different personalities, they also have different ways of learing (Slavin, 107).” Learning styles are another important factor to incorporate when implementing the best learning environment. Learning styles are defined as an individual's mode of gaining knowledge. The most common learning styles addressed are auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. Auditory leaners understand information through hearing. Visual learners need more visual aids in the learning process, such as diagrams, webs, or pictures. Kinesthetic learners learn better by using manipulatives or by being physically involved in the learning process. Learning styles is a piece of the “backbone” of differentiated learning. Both are used to individualize instruction to help students achieve the most success.

I agree with your summary of the assigned article. You were able to break down the article in a manner that was easy to understand. The description of a naturalistic setting in a managed health care organization or HMO, was a bit vague. I also took the vagueness to mean that a naturalistic setting could be any setting that is not a clinical setting. I, personally, did not agree that it is possible to obtain a naturalistic setting in a managed health care facility. When I think of a naturalistic setting managed health care locations are the last places that come to mind.

A flow state, also known as an optimal experience, is characterized by a merging of attention and effortlessness awareness with an activity or performance. Being in a flow state in a fully immersed experience in which the individual is pouring all of one’s self into an activity without the feeling of mental effort (Sinnamon, Moran, & O 'Connell, 2012). Being in a flow state is correlated with: a sense of motivation (clarity of goals), peak performance, peak experience, enjoyment, increased learning, creativity, life-satisfaction, a sense of agency and well-being within settings such as: work, school, sports, leisure, and the arts (Sinnamon, Moran, and O’Connell, 2012; Kivikangas, 2006; Jackson & Marsh, 1996). Artists and athletes have referred to this phenomenon as “being in the pocket.” What emerges from my research is the question: what are these individuals in the pocket of? Through this essay, I will examine the construction of flow state and how an individual might create the conditions and if possible enter into a state of flow.

Flow experiences are what happen when we are able to do our favorite activities or desired things, and flow tends to occur when a person is faced with a goal. Another characteristic of flow activities is that they provide immediate feedback. After every decision you will be able to tell whether or not it was positive or negative for yourself.

Education benefits individual mentally, emotionally and physically by placing them in better place than they were previously before. Everybody would agree that learning something new would take place throughout the life. Learning style defined as "A term that describes the variations among learners in using one or more senses to understand, organize, and retain experience" (Reid, 1987, p. 89). Furthermore, Felder and Henriques (1995, p. 21) explained learning styles as "the ways in which an individual characteristically acquires, retains and retrieves information". However, different learners possess different characteristics and different preferred learning styles to perceive, process, take in and understand information.

The usage of cell phones is steadily increasing over the years, especially by teenagers. As statics has shown, teenagers use their phones approximately 7.5 hours. They tend to rely on their cells phones as their means of communication, instead of having a face-to-face conversation. Learning about all this information, I choose to run my own naturalistic observational study on this topic. The study I decided to do is which gender in the teenage age range tends to use their phones more often when they are with others compared to when they are alone. The hypothesis I had was that teenage females tend to use their phones more than teenage males. Yet after the study was completed, my hypothesis was proven wrong. It was shown that males tend to use

Different aspects of a person’s psyche determine their learning style, psychological profile, and intelligence. A person’s learning style is found in three distinct categories: Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic/Tactile. Visual Learners depend on learning through seeing where they need to see the concept that they want to grasp. Auditory Learners differ from Visual Learners in that they need to learn through hearing the concept that is being taught to them. Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners need an active learning environment as they are often in need of movement. When a person determines their learning style it assists them in exemplifying theses traits during their study and lecture time in order to succeed in school.The Myers-Briggs type indicator

Apart from learning style, a student’s personality will also affect their learning. A student with a quiet or shy disposition may not feel comfortable to participate or ask questions. A child in need of social skills may blurt out or not take the time to think things through; thus being unable to grasp the information in question. According to Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory, there are eight intelligences that affect the way we process information and therefore, the way we learn, (Smith, 2002 and 2008). The way each person learn affects every aspect of his or her life, specifically

Csikszentmihalyis model of flow (1990) refers to meaningful moments that make experiences in life enchanting, these can be referred to the state of “flow”. Six components have been dictated by Csíkszentmihályi that introduce an individual to the experience of flow.

A student’s individual learning style is their normal reaction to information or experiences. For example, Keefe (1979) defines learning styles as the "composite of characteristic cognitive, affective, and physiological factors that serve as relatively stable indicators of how a learner perceives, interacts with, and responds to the learning environment.", or more succinctly, Stewart and Felicetti (1992) define learning styles as those "educational conditions under which a student is most likely to learn.", as quoted in Clark (2004).

Taking the time to learn about the learner yields a more productive learning environment. Knowledge of general learner characteristics can inform the instructor of the nature of the students at local and distance site (Simonson, 2015). I believe these elements are most important because it is the learners who master the course objectives and outcomes that ultimately indicate how well the course designers, the instructors, and other course stakeholders have performed their jobs and if the course’s return of investment is profitable.