Wednesday, January 20, 2016

NIGERIA AS A NATION LACKS THE CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT TO PRODUCE CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS IN ANY FIELD OF PROFITABLE HUMAN ENDEAVOUR

NIGERIA AS A NATION LACKS THE CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT TO PRODUCE CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS IN ANY FIELD OF PROFITABLE HUMAN ENDEAVOUR AND CONSEQUENTLY THERE ARE NEITHER GENUINE SCIENTISTS NOR INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED INVENTORS TO CRAFT OR NURTURE A PROGRSSIVE POLITY



1.     If you have digested all I have deposited so far on WHAT MAKES A GENIUS, then you will certainly realize that OUR PERRENNIAL ALBASTROS IN THIS BACKWARD MOVING CONTRAPTION BY BRITISH COLONIAL OPPRESSORS IS ENDEMIC.
2.     It will take hundreds of years for this nation to recover from THE DAMAGES THAT THE INTRODUCTION OF QUOTA SYSTEM HAS DONE TO EXCELLENCE IN EVERY FACET OF DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA.
3.     Therefore, all I am trying to make Nigerians UNDERSTAND is that WE ARE FOREVER DOOMED SO LONG AS WE FAIL TO REALISE THE WICKEDNESS OF OUR FORMER BRITISH COLONOAL SLAVE DRIVERS!

Let us start from the basic information on INTELLIGENCE as informed psychologists see the development of this all important trait in human beings and then compare and contrast WHAT WE HAVE IN NIGERIA. This I regard as the FIRST STEP in a correct diagnosis!

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE LEARNING ABILITY
A variety of factors determine an individual’s ability to learn and the speed of learning. Four important factors are the individual’s age, motivation, prior experience, and intelligence. In addition, certain developmental and learning disorders can impair a person’s ability to learn.

A.
Age
Animals and people of all ages are capable of the most common types of learning—habituation, classical conditioning, and operant conditioning. As children grow, they become capable of learning more and more sophisticated types of information. Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget theorized that children go through four different stages of cognitive development. In the sensorimotor stage (from birth to about 2 years of age), infants use their senses to learn about their bodies and about objects in their immediate environments. In the preoperational stage (about 2 to 7 years of age), children can think about objects and events that are not present, but their thinking is primitive and self-centered, and they have difficulty seeing the world from another person’s point of view. In the concrete operational stage (about 7 to 11 years of age), children learn general rules about the physical world, such as the fact that the amount of water remains the same if it is poured between containers of different shapes. Finally, in the formal operational stage (ages 11 and up), children become capable of logical and abstract thinking. See also Child Development.
Adults continue to learn new knowledge and skills throughout their lives. For example, most adults can successfully learn a foreign language, although children usually can achieve fluency more easily. If older adults remain healthy, their learning ability generally does not decline with age. Age-related illnesses that involve a deterioration of mental functioning, such as Alzheimer’s disease, can severely reduce a person’s ability to learn.

B.
Motivation
Learning is usually most efficient and rapid when the learner is motivated and attentive. Behavioral studies with both animals and people have shown that one effective way to maintain the learner’s motivation is to deliver strong and immediate reinforcers for correct responses. However, other research has indicated that very high levels of motivation are not ideal. Psychologists believe an intermediate level of motivation is best for many learning tasks. If a person’s level of motivation is too low, he or she may give up quickly. At the other extreme, a very high level of motivation may cause such stress and distraction that the learner cannot focus on the task. See Motivation.

C.
Prior Experience
How well a person learns a new task may depend heavily on the person’s previous experience with similar tasks. Just as a response can transfer from one stimulus to another through the process of generalization, people can learn new behaviors more quickly if the behaviors are similar to those they can already perform. This phenomenon is called positive transfer. Someone who has learned to drive one car, for example, will be able to drive other cars, even though the feel and handling of the cars will differ. In cases of negative transfer, however, a person’s prior experience can interfere with learning something new. For instance, after memorizing one shopping list, it may be more difficult to memorize a different shopping list.

D.
Intelligence
Psychologists have long known that people differ individually in their level of intelligence, and thus in their ability to learn and understand. Scientists have engaged in heated debates about the definition and nature of intelligence. In the 1980s American psychologist Howard Gardner proposed that there are many different forms of intelligence, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, and interpersonal intelligence. A person may easily learn skills in some categories but have difficulty learning in others. See Intelligence.

E.
Learning and Developmental Disorders
A variety of disorders can interfere with a person’s ability to learn new skills and behaviors. Learning and developmental disorders usually first appear in childhood and often persist into adulthood. Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may not be able to sit still long enough to focus on specific tasks. Children with autism typically have difficulty speaking, understanding language, and interacting with people. People with mental retardation, characterized primarily by very low intelligence, may have trouble mastering basic living tasks and academic skills. Children with learning or developmental disorders often receive special education tailored to their individual needs and abilities.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
INTELLIGENCE AND BEHAVIOR IN MONKEYS
Monkeys are among the most social of all mammals. Some species live in small family groups, but many form much larger troops that may contain more than a hundred animals. The size of these social groups is strongly influenced by what each species eats and the risks it has to take when foraging for food.
Like other primates, monkeys have varied diets. Some species, such as howler monkeys, feed largely on leaves, but most eat a mixture of foods, including leaves, flowers, bird eggs, and small animals. The leaf-eaters often live in small groups, noisily defending their area of forest from their neighbors. Foraging high in the forest canopy, they are safe from most ground-based predators, although they do have to be on their guard against birds of prey. Monkeys that often feed on the ground take greater risks because their food is more scattered. They face a greater chance of being attacked by large predators, such as cheetahs, lions, and hyenas. To survive, they tend to band together into larger troops.
Apart from the fearsome-toothed baboons, few monkeys have good defensive weaponry. Instead, they survive largely by using their intelligence. Ground-feeders, traveling in troops, often take turns acting as sentinel, making specific alarm calls to alert their companions to approaching danger. In trees, monkeys have other ways of outwitting their enemies. Capuchins, for example, sometimes fend off inquisitive predators by urinating on them from high above or by jumping up and down to make dead branches fall on the predators. Most monkeys can breed at any time of the year, so their troops often contain young of many different ages. Courtship is typically brief, with few of the complex rituals seen in many other animals (see Animal Courtship and Mating). Female monkeys show that they are receptive to mating by changes in behavior, scents, and visual signals. In Old World monkeys, these signals include color changes in patches of bare skin around the genitals. Unlike many mammals, primates have good color vision, so these changes soon attract the interest of the males.
Monkeys usually give birth to just one or two young, but some, such as marmosets, are known to have triplets. Most monkeys seem to have gestation periods ranging from 4 to 8 months, but the length of gestation of many species is unknown. As with other primates, a long period of growth and development enables the young to learn skills from the adults around them. The young stay with their mothers at least until they are weaned, and in many species the daughters remain with their mother’s family group for life. In many species, males often leave their mother’s family group when they reach adolescence. Depending on the species, adolescent and young adult males may lead solitary lives, live in bachelor groups, or move from group to group.
Compared to other mammals, monkeys are often long-lived. Life spans in the wild are difficult to gauge accurately, but in captivity some monkeys have survived to be more than 50 years old.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

My dear friends dispassionately compare and contrast Nigerians and monkeys and tell me the major differences you see … this exercise will bring to your consciousness what the British explorers saw on arrival in the 1800s. HAVE WE IMPROVED TO DATE, Dr Danmbaezue wants to know!
       


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