Truancy as Related to the Migrating Instinct

Truancy and injury-related mortality.

Truancy has well-documented short-term and long-term consequences, but there are few studies that look at its impact on injury-related mortality. This study evaluated the rate of injury-related mortality for 2006-2010 among youth (11-17 years old) with a history of severe truancy compared with youth without such history. There were 168 injury-related deaths (51 homicide, 29 suicide and 88 unint...

Truancy

Dreaming as a story-telling instinct

Dreams create new stories out of nothing. Although dreams contain themes, concerns, dream figures, objects, etc. that correspond closely to waking life, these are only story elements. The story itself weaves these mnemonic items together in a manner far more novel than a simple assemblage or collage, producing an experience having a life-like timeframe and life-like (if often bizarre and imposs...

Innateness and the instinct to learn.

Concepts of innateness were at the heart of Darwin's approach to behavior and central to the ethological theorizing of Lorenz and, at least to start with, of Tinbergen. Then Tinbergen did an about face, and for some twenty years the term 'innate' became highly suspect. He attributed the change to Lehrman's famous 1953 critique in which he asserted that classifying behaviors as innate tells us n...

Developing the teaching instinct.

The first approach focuses on giving the right stimulus to elicit the response you desire. It lays emphasis on reinforcing desired performance through feedback and activity. It is known as ‘Behaviourism’. Another approach is about mental processes, ie what the brain does with information. It focuses on ensuring the learner can make sense of information through relating it to what has been previ...