Development experience: experiential

Our laboratory has begun to determine if this phenomenon of experience-dependent attraction to male volatile cues also occurs in female Syrian hamsters, as experiential effects on odor preference may vary according to species. Syrian hamsters provide an ideal model species for studying sexual preference as these behaviors are almost exclusively mediated by chemosensory cues (Johnston 1983). Furthermore, both males and females display robust preferences for opposite-sex volatile odors that are independent of adult sexual experience (Landauer, Banks and Carter 1977 Petrulis and Johnston 1999), suggesting that early olfactory experience may play a critical role in the development of these behaviors. 

By contrast, in the top right-hand cell are the managers for whom experiential development is deliberate. These managers will specially design an experience or project to meet... 

Much development through experience takes place at the time of the experience. Often it is Intuitive, virtually unconscious. You have done something, so you know it. Something happens and you absorb its meaning. But some experiential learning will need more deliberate and calm reflection after the event. 

Some readers may be on an academic course which demands that you write a report or dissertation in which you relate your experiential learning to the wider body of management theory and knowledge, perhaps even develop your own theories or principles. The process of relating your experience to organized knowledge Involves analysing the events you have experienced, to produce ... 

Kolb, D. A. Experiential Learning Experience as the Source of Learning and Development Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1984. 

Kolb D. Experiential learning experience as the source of learning and development. 1984. Prentice HaU. New Jersey. 1SBN-10 0132952610. 

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