This does not mean that culture excuses a student from learning -- far from it -- only that teachers need be mindful of the specific values of different student's culture when imparting specific batteries of knowledge.
It is also important to remember that because culture does attach meaningful significance to identity issues such as race and gender, and what is remembered generates meaning, that our culture remains lopsided in its inequitiable treatment of women in prominent fields is. A 1996 survey of major American newspapers revealed that 85% of front page stories were about men. (Cited by Moyer, 1997, 1) When participants in a study were asked to 'remember' on the spot ten prominent people, the figures were mostly Caucasion and male. However, with appropriate cuing, a 1995 study found that instructions intended to activate either a category of famous men or a category of famous women succeeded in altering participants' estimates of how many men's or women's names subsequently appeared on a list presented in the laboratory. (Cited by Moyer, 1997, 1)
Cultural and immeidate personal pressures thus can modify memory. The cultural pattern memory itself, even in the larger context of a potentially biased culture can be changed with outside pressures. Also, more meaning can be conferred onto meaningless objects, such as more meaning given to female personas, which translates into different performance of the same group's memory and recall. However, the effects of aging upon the memoery process are more sobering. For example, "Pezdek (1983) found that only younger adults benefited from the organization of array objects into blocks of phonetically or physically similar items." (Cited in Cherry & Jones 1999, 1)
The inexorable limits of cognitive impariment of age are biologically...
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Gerontology The interview subject is from Germantown, Pennsylvania, the third of seven children. For the purposes of this report and to preserve her anonymity, we will call her Ms. S. Ms. S's mother did everything she could to keep her family together through difficult financial times. They had to squeeze the entire household into their grandmother's house, and even had to go "junking," sifting through trash to find valuable things people
Martorello loves deep sea fishing, while I cultivated an interest in farm animals. I spent time as the Treasurer of the Campbell Chapter of the Future Farmers of American (FFA). My sheep won the Grand Champion award in the 1985 Santa Clara County Fair, a significant accomplishment. I also developed interest in the martial arts and I earned my black belt in Tai Kwon Do. Thus, Martorello and I
Gerontology The research study framework explains the theory or a part of the theory that is to be tested in the research study. The framework shows the relationship between the different variables and helps to create the hypothesis which is to be tested in the research. The important concepts of quantitative study design are introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion and recommendation. List the type of quantitative research design and briefly describe how each
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