Learning modalities

With blended learning, human resource practitioners now have a range of delivery modalities to meet various learning styles within an organization. But that is not enough. HR needs to match learning modalities (e.g., instructor-led,... 

In the case of KU, we find that problem-based, project-based, and collaborative learning modalities adopted from Western peer educational models can be implemented with minimal modification to their core features. Our research results show that learning gains or favorable attitudinal gains in the three pilot courses studied are all improved relative to the traditional, lecture-centered version of the same courses and with the same student body. While there is still a gap between these and similar Western counterpart courses, evidence shows that the differences are likely due to pre-instmction factors, particularly second-langirage issues, and not to the effect of the adopted pedagogy or instractional strategies. 

Several sensory modalities can be involved in complex interactions involving at least three cues rats learnt better to associate the bitter taste of quinine in water with a context such as a black or white box if a pyrazine was also present (the specific compound used was 2-methoxy-3-isobutyl pyrazine) (Kaye etal, 1989). It is said the odor potentiates learning the connection between taste cue and context. ... 

Chemical cues hold considerable promise for manipulating behavior in vertebrates, provided we understand an animal s natural history, biology, and behavior well. However, the development of chemical attractants, stimulants, inhibitors, and repellents for vertebrates has progressed rather slowly for several reasons. First, chemical stimulus and behavior are not connected as rigidly as in insects, for example. Second, the same stimulus may elicit different behaviors, depending on the state of the recipient and the context. Third, chemical cues often are rather complex mixtures of compounds. Fourth, learning, especially early experience plays a major role in vertebrate, notably mammalian behavior. Finally, many behaviors are modulated by several sensory modalities so that chemical stimuli alone trigger only incomplete responses at best. 

In the case of behaviour, for example, a totally instinctive modality is not only simpler but also more primitive than a behaviour which is dependent on some forms of learning. More generally, a strategy that... 

Pisa M, Cyr J (1990) Regionally selective roles of the rats striatum in modality-specific discrimination learning and forelimb reaching. Behav Brain Res 37 281-292. 

This book does not focus on these other treatment modalities. It simply focuses on a non-MD therapist and a physician working together to care for their common patient. However, the non-MD therapist could be a psychologist, a social worker, a marriage and family therapist, a psychiatric nurse, or a counselor. When we refer to physicians, we could mean a family physician, a psychiatrist, an internist, a pediatrician, or an obstetrician-gynecologist. To simplify matters, we refer to the therapist and the physician throughout this book. This book is primarily intended for therapists who want to build collaborative relationships and learn the biological information they need to communicate with physicians. 

Study (MACS) Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test Trail Making Test Symbol Digit Modalities Test Grooved Pegboard Test CES Depression Scale... 

Healthy newborn human infants are endowed with a highly sensitive sense of smell. Moreover, there are documented accounts of olfactory learning during the early postpartum period. In the present chapter, we present a brief overview of the relevant research literature and suggest tentatively that olfactory learning may be facilitated by neurochemical activities associated with labor and delivery, and memory traces of odors learned shortly after birth may be retained more efficiently than early postnatal memories involving other sensory modalities (i.e., vision and audition). 

A second area in need of study is the interaction between visual and chemical stimuli and the learning of chemical cues. Field (Wisenden et al., in press) and laboratory studies (Abrahams and Hartman, 2000) have indicated that a fish s behaviour is affected when given the opportunity to use visual and chemical cues together versus being presented with chemical cues alone. In response to the results outlined both in the literature and in section 5.2, Pollock and Chivers are currently exploring the interaction between learning and the two sensory modalities as a potential explanation for why learning does not occur as readily when populations occur in complex habitat. 

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