SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder where people have normal mental health throughout most of the year‚ but experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer. Seasonal Affective Disorder is often diagnosed inaccurately in doctor’s offices. But‚ thorough personalized details of the symptoms can help a patient be diagnosed properly. There have been new studies that link SAD to other conditions such as alcoholism or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
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accelerate at rapid rates beyond their peers. As gifted‚ or exceptionally intelligence children make up around 6 to 10 percent of the students within America‚ roughly 3 to 5 million (“Gifted Education in the U.S”). But as America is behind many Asian and European countries in the general education‚ which was firmly expressed in the most recent PISA test‚ it is bounds behind in gifted education (Chappell). Teachers aren’t equipped to challenge the gifted students‚ or simply have no time to spend developing
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identification of gifted and talented education over the past few decades. The purpose of this research paper is to show these consistencies do‚ in fact‚ exist and try to give some explanation as to why they exist and how we can overcome the negative tendencies of Underrepresentation of minorities in the school programs that are meant to identify gifted students regardless of the socio-economic background and race. The Underrepresentation of Minorities in Gifted Education
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Modifying Regular Classroom Curriculum for Gifted and Talented Students Many educators have become well-versed in modifying the regular classroom curriculum to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Educators are not as experienced‚ however‚ in meeting the instructional needs of high-ability students. In a growing number of states‚ revisions in regulations pertaining to gifted and talented students are requiring that high-ability students‚ previously served in part-time pull-out programs
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Gifted Students and Social Stigma Gifted Students and Social Stigma Philosopher Benedict Spinoza said‚ "Man is a social animal" (Kaplan 278). The desire for social acceptance‚ whether recognized or denied‚ is part of human culture. People yearn for it‚ obsess over it‚ and alter themselves to obtain it. Humans can spend their entire lives unsuccessfully attempting to achieve a level of social status they believe will validate them. Acceptance is denied for superficial reasons varying from clothing
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researchers and students‚ who have issues with understanding the cognitive process‚ how these methods interfere or contribute with our daily lives. The main purpose of this article is to explain how the Cognitive methods and Cognitive theories is bidirectional. Cognitive methods now being used in social-psychological research is what is being describe in this volume. Some methods that are poplar is social psychology are affective priming‚ response interference paradigms‚ mathematical models‚
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Tracie Hand Title: Engaging Diverse Gifted Learners in U.S. History Classrooms Authors: Jaimon K. Jones‚ MEd’ and Thomas P. Hébert‚ Source: Gifted Child Today‚ October 2012 As our nation becomes more culturally diverse we our schools need to begin modeling and preparing for this diversity. The importance of learning about diversity in culture and stereotypes is of particular concern with gifted learners. This article discusses the Ford and Harris model (2000) which combines higher order
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who had been gifted with magic—and those who had not. Most of the Gifted felt it their duty‚ and their privilege‚ to protect their ungifted brethren. Most‚ but not all. Those who would rule over all disguised themselves and sowed seeds of distrust in the minds of the ungifted‚ knowing distrust would lead to fear‚ and fear to war. They who scorned the way of peace planned to be the only beings of magic left standing. Refusing to take up arms against their ungifted brethren‚ the Gifted created a realm
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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)‚ researchers disagree “whether SAD is a distinct mental illness or a specific type of major depressive disorder” (Duckworth and Freedman). There are two types of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)‚ a winter and summer version. Researchers conclude that only about five percent of adults in America have the winter variant of SAD‚ and less than one percent have the summer variant (Khazan). NAMI defines the classic winter form of SAD as “recurrent
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American Psychological Association 0021-9010/10/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0019985 Get Smarty Pants: Cognitive Ability‚ Personality‚ and Victimization Eugene Kim and Theresa M. Glomb University of Minnesota Drawing on the victim precipitation model‚ this study provides an empirical investigation of the relationship between cognitive ability and victimization at work. We propose that people high in cognitive ability are more prone to victimization. In this study‚ we also examine the direct and moderating
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