An Interactionist Approach to Learning Disabilities

Metaphor and Cognition: An Interactionist Approach

Bipin Indurkhya has written a wide-ranging and interesting work that is easy to read. Although Indurkhya's starting point is the puzzle of similarity-creating metaphors, the book is really about cognition and conceptual structure. In particular, he is concerned with the philosophical problem of reconciling the constructive nature of our concepts with the notion of a pre-existing mind-independen...

Predictors of burnout among nurses: an interactionist approach.

BACKGROUND Nurses' practice involves working in complex organizational settings and facing multiple stressors over time that can lead to burnout. This study aimed to identify predictors of burnout among nurses working in hospitals. METHOD A sample of 1,157 participants from four hospitals in the city of Porto (Portugal) was investigated (78% women, mean age = 34.7 years) using socio-demograph...

Improving Source Selection in Analogical Reasoning An Interactionist Approach

The success of any analogical reasoner depends upon its ability to select a relevant source. We can improve source selection by more completely integrating the process of source retrieval with analogical inference, and by using experience in solving target problems to find properties that effectively predict a source’s relevance to future targets. This paper describes the design and evaluation ...

THE PSYCHOEDUCATXONAL APPROACH TO LEARNING DISABILITIES 1 : 2 Gaston

Orthomolecular Approach to the Treatment of Learning Disabilities

Learning in the formal sense is markedly impaired in all children afflicted with the psychoses of childhood or with brain injury. Their behavior is most often bizarre and marked by intense hyperactivity and ritualism. The most common treatment has been psychotherapy based on psychoanalytic or related theories. Judging from studies of the relevant literature, Rimland finds that the children who ...