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Gestalt and Human Vision, 2006.
An analysis of the Gestalt theory of human vision.
727 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 25.95
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The paper shows that Gestalt theory contributed much to the study of human vision and object perception. It explains that the eye does not consciously select objects as was suggested in earlier theories. The writer explains that Gestalt theory proposes that the eye tends to group objects into meaningful units, and that this grouping is an organizational behavior. In summation, the writer states that the recognition theorists agree that the human eye is faced with a variety of difficulties when it undertakes the task of object perception and identification and that it is most often believed that recognition occurs when a comparison is made between visual input date and memory identification.
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"Early Gestaltists balked at the idea that object perception was merely a matter of physiology: fiber systems or conductors with fixed pathways which connect various sensory arenas in the central nervous system. Wertheimer asserted that no matter how complex these structures may be, they are inadequate in terms of explaining perceptual experience. [5] The nervous system is not a machine. Instead, it must be studied as a whole entity with all of its dynamical interactions. Gestaltists, however, failed to work out the details. "The computational theory of object perception includes a large body of experimental findings on visual performance, but was developed by Marr as a mathematical approach to the subject. Marr defined certain "processing stages" in visual perception and acknowledged that these stages are ones which could be realized on a computer. [6]"
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Reading with Vision Therapy, 2004.
An analysis of the impact of vision therapy on vision-impaired children's reading ability.
4,340 words (approx. 17.4 pages), 25 sources, MLA, $ 114.95
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This paper presents a study that attempts to determine the impact of vision therapy of vision-impaired children's reading ability. The paper explores the purpose of this study, claiming it to be three-fold: 1.To determine the current incidence of vision-impaired children in American schools; 2. To determine the extent to which current diagnostic procedures are failing to identify potentially vision-impaired children; and, 3. To identify efficacious treatment interventions to improve reading abilities in vision-impaired children.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Background of the Problem
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Significance of the Study
Research Questions
Limitations and Delimitations
Definitions
Chapter Summary
Chapter 2: Preliminary Literature Review
Chapter 3: Methodology
Description of the Study Approach
Data-gathering Method and Database of Study
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"Among the many serious problems facing American society today is the need to deliver effective educational services to an increasingly diverse population of students, both in terms of cultural and ethnic background as well as their levels of learning abilities. In an effort to "mainstream" as many learning disabled and minority children as possible into American classrooms, educators have been faced with a wide range of challenges and obstacles to providing this equitable distribution of educational services in a meaningful way. One of the major problems facing educators at all levels is students' ability to read in the first place. Without the ability to read efficiently, students are unable to achieve academic proficiency in almost any subject area without significant tutorial assistance and even then, the chances of success are not as great as if a child has already acquired the ability to read efficiently before entering the classroom."
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Age-Related Vision Loss, 2007.
This paper discusses the issue of the loss of vision and focuses on ages-related vision loss.
2,210 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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In this article the writer discusses the possible causes of age-related vision loss. The writer looks into the matter of possible treatment for such kind of vision loss. Further the writer examines how vision loss may affect the person, physically, emotionally, intellectually and/or psychologically. The writer concludes that the effect of age-related vision loss is highly dependent on how the person accepts the severity of his or her case. For those who can accept it positively, they will then subject themselves for various treatments thereby minimizing the negative impact of vision loss. However, the writer points out that for those who may find it very hard to accept the fact that they are actually having difficulty to see things clearly, they would have the tendency not to seek any help or treatment from the registered medical professionals. This in turn would heighten the negative impact of their vision loss. This paper includes diagrams of statistics.
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Introduction
Vision Loss
Impacts of Age-related Vision Loss
Works Cited
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"Vision impairment is defined as the vision that is 20/40 or worse in the better eye even with glasses. In America, more or less 6.5 million people who have reached the age of 55 are suffering from blindness or severe vision loss. Further, it was also found out that one in every six people who reached the age of 65 and one in every three who reached 85 and above years old are having problems with some degree of vision loss. These numbers are continuously rising as the years go by. Indeed, age-related eye diseases are found to be the most common cause of blindness and vision impairment."
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Gestalt Therapy, 2004.
An analysis of the Gestalt therapy.
1,079 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses the Gestalt therapy that emerged from a multitude of philosophical, theoretical, scientific and cultural roots. The paper explains that as a product of the early twentieth century, it would be impossible to divorce the evolution of Gestalt therapy from Marxism or existentialism and indeed the theories of Gestalt therapy in part derive from those philosophies. Moreover, the paper claims that the Gestalt therapy at least in part originated through a therapeutic application of the perception principles of Gestalt psychology. The paper examines the tenuous and controversial relationship between Gestalt therapy and Gestalt psychology.
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"The key founders of Gestalt therapy were Fritz Perls, Laura Perls, and Paul Goodman. Their theories first become codified in the 1940s and 1950s, decades after the publication of key Gestalt psychological works like Wertheimer's 1933 Productive Thinking, and Kolher's 1929 book Gestalt Psychology. Perhaps the main contribution of Gestalt psychology on Gestalt therapy were the "gestalt laws," including the law of pragnanz, the law of closure, the law of similarity, and the law of proximity. Although these laws were used by Gestalt psychologists to describe mostly perceptual phenomenon, they can be easily extended to offer descriptions of human mental and cognitive processes. For example, the law of pragnanz (literally the "law of pregnancy") implies that the individual will gravitate toward experiencing "as good a gestalt as possible," (Boeree 2000). In other words, the human being naturally seeks wholeness in his or her visual perceptions. Applied to Gestalt therapy, the law of pragnanz would imply that the human being naturally seeks wholeness in his or her experiences of reality, and in his or her relationships. One of the keys to psychological healing is the achievement of wholeness, or gestalt."
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Sembene's and Mandela's Vision, 2002.
Compares and contrasts Ousmane Sembene's and Nelson Mandela's visions of a postcolonial Africa and argues that Mandela's vision is more realistic and realizable.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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Ousmane Sembene and Nelson Mandela offer two visions of postcolonial Africa. Mandela envisions the future as promising and sees the possibility of cooperation between former oppressors and victims. He sees the struggle through the lens of the individual and envisions humanity as frail and yet filled with courage. He is optimistic and forgiving. Sembene is not as forgiving and his vision is one more of protest. He does not see the possibility of cooperation and envisions the struggle through the lens of the collective, rather than through the individual. Overall, Mandela has the more realizable vision, because it is more tuned into the real world and understanding of human nature. There cannot be perfection and a society must ultimately try to reconcile its differences.
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Vision in Hinduism, 2008.
An analysis of the role of vision in Hinduism.
2,504 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper explains that, in contrast to Western traditions where the transmission of sacred wisdom has been embodied within texts, the sacred world of Hinduism has interpreted images as "visual texts". The paper further suggests that, in Hinduism, it would be more accurate to say that vision is the intertwining of sensory perceptions, allowing a Hindu worshipper to become completely immersed both visually and emotionally in the presence of the divine. The paper goes on to discuss the importance of vision in Hinduism and concludes that to reduce vision to a Western conception of vision is to fail to look at reality from the eyes of a Hindu.
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"According to Hindu mythology, it is the ever-watching eyes of the gods that allow the world's existence to continue. In one myth, Parvati, the female companion of Shiva, playfully covers his eyes, leaving the whole world encompassed in darkness (Eck 1). Another tale, this one describing the Mother Goddess, tells of how the world is dissolved or created based on whether her eyes are open (Clooney 97). Fortunately for existence, the Goddess never closes her eyes. Vision is sacred. Hindu worshippers placed before an image of a deity; hope to gain the darsan of the deity. Darsan literally translates as "seeing." (Eck 3). It can also be translated as an "auspicious sight." (Eck 3). "
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Feminist Visions, 2003.
Discusses the feminist vision in literature within the context of "Jane Eyre", by Charlotte Bronte, and "Wide Sargasso Sea", by Jean Rhys.
1,283 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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Jean Rhys extends far past Charlotte Bronte's limitations, not only in the feminist vision, but also in her opinions of the post-colonial experience. Through "Jane Eyre", Bronte has a feminist vision, but in the 19th century, she was unable to view some of her patriarchal constraints. Jean Rhys, in "Wide Sargasso Sea", pulls back and stands apart, making her able to pick up where Bronte and other feminist writers have left off, and gives the readers a clear, uncensored vision. This paper states how Bronte is able to undermine part of her patriarchal constraints, but ends up falling short of her goal. It also shows how Rhys, who picks up the same storyline as Bronte, is able to overcome that patriarchy and truly have feminist visions.
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"Rhys, now, takes up the feminist torch from Bronte and runs with it. Woolf seems surprised in A Room of One?s Own when a female author remarks that one woman likes another woman (82). Females always seem to be portrayed in relation to a man, but in Woolf?s instance it?s a woman-woman relationship. Rhys accomplishes multiple relationships between Antoinette and various female, and male, characters. It could be argued that the main relationship observed is Antoinette and Rochester?s, however I believe that she delves much deeper in female relations than Bronte achieves."
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Gestalt Therapy, 2008.
A literature review of qualitative and quantitative studies discussing the interaction of Gestalt therapy with those suffering from anxiety symptoms.
2,801 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 83.95
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The paper reviews the academic literature on gestalt therapy and focuses on some of the quantitative and qualitative studies that explore the impact of gestalt therapy on relieving psychological anxiety in subject groups. The paper looks at how cultural integration can influence gestalt therapy and how it can permit this therapy to assist people in optimizing their quality of life and psychological well-being. The paper concludes that while the scholarly literature is not uniformly in favor of gestalt therapy, the academic view is generally a favorable one.
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"The number of purely qualitative studies that have been done on gestalt therapy is actually rather small; for the most part, it appears as though researchers prefer studies that are predominantly quantitative in nature - or studies that are a "mix" of qualitative and quantitative measures. As one consequence of this emphasis upon statistical measures, several of the studies pored over by this writer utilized bivariate and multivariate regression analysis to control for variables such as age, ethnicity and gender (sometimes also for socio-economic status) but these studies also used descriptive or qualitative devices to contextualize (or, more importantly, to defend) their empirical findings."
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Vision Loss Teaching, 2003.
Examines vision loss strategies and interventions for students with visual impairment.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This is a paper about vision loss strategies and interventions for students with visual loss in dealing with reading and writing.The paper looks at strategies aimed at both students with low vision and students with total vision loss.
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Adlerian and Gestalt Therapy, 2004.
A comparative study between Adlerian and Gestalt Therapy.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper examines similarities between Adlerian and Gestalt psychology theories, and their respective psychotherapies. It traces the history of Gestalt psychology and the development of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy.
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"Gestalt psychology traces its origins to when Max Wertheimer studied phenomenal movement in the way the cinema operates. Moving pictures do not actually move but we see movement because we impose our perception of a series of pictures as movement and this is an example of Gestalt organization. We don't passively respond to the world but we interact with it. Our environment is not just reality but is also subject to our perceptions of it."
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Gestalt Therapy, 2004.
Describes the principles and issues of Gestalt therapy.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper discusses Gestalt therapy in terms of its goals, concepts, approaches, and components. The paper also discusses the major ideas of Gestalt therapy including individuals seeking closure, constancy and wholeness and looks at how the Gestalt therapist works with clients.
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"Gestalt psychology emerged from a German movement that was a reaction against structural psychology. According to James F Brennan, underlying Gestalt psychology was the nativistic proposition that the organization of mental activity predisposes the individual to interact with the environment in characteristic ways. The goals of Gestalt psychology and therapy are to investigate the organization of mental activity while determining the exact nature of the interaction between the person and the environment. The principles of Gestalt psychology are described by..."
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The Role of Color Vision in Cockatiel Behavior, 2002.
A look at color vision in cockatiels and the role it plays in cockatiel behavior.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses color vision in cockatiels. A clinical trial is conducted to determine the presence or absence of color vision in cockatiels. Habitat and social behavior of the cockatiel is discussed, including the role that color vision plays in that behavior.
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"Birds communicate with each other and with the world around them mainly through hearing and vision. Because of this, birds? sight and hearing are their most important ? and most sensitive ? senses. Birds? sense of smell and taste are poorly developed in comparison to humans?. This experiment is designed to examine the ways in which birds see colors and how this is useful to their survival."
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Visions Electronics, 2007.
An evaluation of Visions Electronics' new business model and strategies.
1,667 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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The paper discusses how Visions Electronics is the newest business model that will allow customers access to the latest innovations in electronics first. It will provide a unique business model that allows companies to showcase their most creative designs in electronic gadgets. The paper considers Visions Electronics' business plan, the web-based strategy that will be the driving force of this new trendy electronics superstore. The paper discusses company's target consumer, "Super Kids in Digital Space," SKIDS for short. SKIDS are the new, young, consumers who live online and in a wireless world. The paper outlines the new company's costs, competitive positioning, strengths and weaknesses.
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Strategic Vision
Business Model
Technical Feasibility
Economic Viability
Marketing costs
Competitive Positioning
Strengths and Weaknesses
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"The strategic vision of Visions Electronics is to capture a substantial market share in the consumer electronics industry. It will provide customers the advantage of gaining access to the latest products and innovations from the World's top electronics producers. It will cater to an upscale clientele who wishes to stay on top of the latest gadgets to make their life easier. Visions electronics will generate sufficient profit to ensure financial growth into the future. It will maintain a growth rate that is challenging, yet manageable. It will strive to be a good citizen in the community and will contribute 5% of pretax profits to a local charity."
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Gestalt Therapy and MBCT, 2005.
Examines Gestalt Therapy in relation to mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT).
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 124.95
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Gestalt is as much a philosophical and spiritual approach to life as it is a treatment for psychological disorders. The paper shows that it proposes, fore mostly, to raise the awareness of a human being of the inner workings of his mind and body so that he feels alive to life. It is, according to the Gestalt point of view the lack of self awareness that confines man to a mechanical existence and it is also this lack of self awareness that keeps man from genuine contact: first with him and second with the environment and other humans.
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"In the last decade a new variant of cognitive therapy called mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has become popular as a psychotherapeutic branch, particularly in the treatment of depression. Gestalt therapy, on the other hand is an older branch that continues to have a select but fiercely loyal following. This paper is an attempt to compare the two. It will first look at each branch from a theatrical and also practice point of view. Then it will try to show where these tow modalities of psychotherapy converge and diverge."
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Gestalt Therapy and Behavior Therapy, 2006.
An analysis of Gestalt therapy and behavior therapy.
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper reviews and analyzes Gestalt and behavior therapy. According to the paper, Gestalt therapy is a psychological system that stresses integration of body and mind factors by developing self-awareness and personal responsibility. The paper goes on to discuss behavior therapy, stating that there are several approaches to cognitive-behavioral therapy, including rational emotive behavior therapy, rational behavior therapy, rational living therapy, cognitive therapy and dialectic behavior therapy.
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"Therefore, the therapeutic process encourages the client to interact with the environment, as a group, as an individual, and on many different levels, with different techniques, from using battacca bats to whack furniture, to imaging and interacting with the image in their mind by conversing with it out loud. The techniques used in therapy vary as widely as the therapists and clients, from principles based on Holism, Field theory, figure formation, organismic, the concept of the Now and "unfinished business." The therapist dialogues with warmth and caring, yet remains "invisible," as the client is encouraged to interact with the field (environment). The client must think of him- or herself as an abstract area in a limitless "field," thus, therapy is "unpredictable," or follows moment to moment dictum. (Doermann, 2002)"
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