The University of California,Santa Cruz is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz,California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay,on the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz,the main campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of rolling,forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As of Fall 2023,its ten residential colleges enroll some 17,812 undergraduate and 1,952 graduate students. Satellite facilities in other Santa Cruz locations include the Coastal Science Campus and the Westside Research Park and the Silicon Valley Center in Santa Clara,along with administrative control of the Lick Observatory near San Jose in the Diablo Range and the Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Observational learning is learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others. It is a form of social learning which takes various forms,based on various processes. In humans,this form of learning seems to not need reinforcement to occur,but instead,requires a social model such as a parent,sibling,friend,or teacher with surroundings. Particularly in childhood,a model is someone of authority or higher status in an environment. In animals,observational learning is often based on classical conditioning,in which an instinctive behavior is elicited by observing the behavior of another,but other processes may be involved as well.
George William "Bill" Domhoff is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and research professor of psychology and sociology at the University of California,Santa Cruz,and a founding faculty member of UCSC's Cowell College. He is best known as the author of several best-selling sociology books,including Who Rules America? and its seven subsequent editions.
The role of the children in ancient Mayan civilization was first,and foremost,to help their elders. Once children turned five or six,they were expected to contribute to the family and community. They were treated as young adults and received more responsibilities as they grew older.
Team learning is the collaborative effort to achieve a common goal within the group. The aim of team learning is to attain the objective through dialogue and discussion,conflicts and defensive routines,and practice within the group. In the same way,indigenous communities of the Americas exhibit a process of collaborative learning.
Informal learning is characterized "by a low degree of planning and organizing in terms of the learning context,learning support,learning time,and learning objectives". It differs from formal learning,non-formal learning,and self-regulated learning,because it has no set objective in terms of learning outcomes,but an intent to act from the learner's standpoint. Typical mechanisms of informal learning include trial and error or learning-by-doing,modeling,feedback,and reflection. For learners this includes heuristic language building,socialization,enculturation,and play. Informal learning is a pervasive ongoing phenomenon of learning via participation or learning via knowledge creation,in contrast with the traditional view of teacher-centered learning via knowledge acquisition. Estimates suggest that about 70-90 percent of adult learning takes place informally and outside educational institutions.
Dominic W. Massaro is professor of Psychology and Computer Engineering at the University of California,Santa Cruz. He is best known for his fuzzy logical model of perception,and more recently,for his development of the computer-animated talking head Baldi. Massaro is director of the Perceptual Science Laboratory,past president of the Society for Computers in Psychology,book review editor for the American Journal of Psychology,founding Chair of UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media program,and was founding co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Interpreting. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow,a University of Wisconsin Romnes Fellow,a James McKeen Cattell Fellow,an NIMH Fellow,and in 2006 was recognized as a Tech Museum Award Laureate.
James Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work combines perspectives from history,literature,history of science,and anthropology.
Nora S. Newcombe is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and the James H. Glackin Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Temple University. She is a Canadian-American researcher in cognitive development,cognitive psychology and cognitive science,and expert on the development of spatial thinking and reasoning and episodic memory. She was the principal investigator of the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (2006-2018),one of six Science of Learning Centers funded by the National Science Foundation.
Katherine Nelson was an American developmental psychologist,and professor.
Mahlon Brewster Smith was an American psychologist and past president of the American Psychological Association. His career included faculty appointments at Vassar College,New York University,University of California,Berkeley,University of Chicago and University of California,Santa Cruz. Smith had been briefly involved with the Young Communist League as a student at Reed College in the 1930s,which resulted in a subpoena by the U.S. Senate in the 1950s. That activity caused him to be blacklisted by the National Institute of Mental Health for ten years without his knowledge.
Lise Getoor is an American computer scientist who is a distinguished professor and Baskin Endowed chair in the Computer Science and Engineering department,at the University of California,Santa Cruz,and an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland,College Park. Her primary research interests are in machine learning and reasoning with uncertainty,applied to graphs and structured data. She also works in data integration,social network analysis and visual analytics. She has edited a book on Statistical relational learning that is a main reference in this domain. She has published many highly cited papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. She has also served as action editor for the Machine Learning Journal,JAIR associate editor,and TKDD associate editor.
Child work in indigenous American cultures covers child work,defined as the physical and mental contributions by children towards achieving a personal or communal goal,in Indigenous American societies. As a form of prosocial behavior,children's work is often a vital contribution towards community productivity and typically involves non-exploitative motivations for children's engagement in work activities. Activities can range from domestic household chores to participation in family and community endeavors. Inge Bolin notes that children's work can blur the boundaries between learning,play,and work in a form of productive interaction between children and adults. Such activities do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Styles of children’s learning across various indigenous communities in the Americas have been practiced for centuries prior to European colonization and persist today. Despite extensive anthropological research,efforts made towards studying children’s learning and development in Indigenous communities of the Americas as its own discipline within Developmental Psychology,has remained rudimentary. However,studies that have been conducted reveal several larger thematic commonalities,which create a paradigm of children’s learning that is fundamentally consistent across differing cultural communities.
Child integration is the inclusion of children in a variety of mature daily activities of families and communities. This contrasts with,for example,age segregation;separating children into age-defined activities and institutions. Integrating children in the range of mature family and community activities gives equal value and responsibility to children as contributors and collaborators,and can be a way to help them learn. Children's integration provides a learning environment because children are able to observe and pitch in as they feel they can.
Craig Haney is an American social psychologist and a professor at the University of California,Santa Cruz,noted for his work on the study of capital punishment and the psychological impact of imprisonment and prison isolation since the 1970s. He was a researcher on The Stanford Prison Experiment.
Patricia Zavella is an anthropologist and professor at the University of California,Santa Cruz in the Latin American and Latino Studies department. She has spent a career advancing Latina and Chicana feminism through her scholarship,teaching,and activism. She was president of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists and has served on the executive board of the American Anthropological Association. In 2016,Zavella received the American Anthropological Association's award from the Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology to recognize her career studying gender discrimination. The awards committee said Zavella's career accomplishments advancing the status of women,and especially Latina and Chicana women have been exceptional. She has made critical contributions to understanding how gender,race,nation,and class intersect in specific contexts through her scholarship,teaching,advocacy,and mentorship. Zavella's research focuses on migration,gender and health in Latina/o communities,Latino families in transition,feminist studies,and ethnographic research methods. She has worked on many collaborative projects,including an ongoing partnership with Xóchitl Castañeda where she wrote four articles some were in English and others in Spanish. The Society for the Anthropology of North America awarded Zavella the Distinguished Career Achievement in the Critical Study of North America Award in the year 2010. She has published many books including,most recently,I'm Neither Here Nor There,Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty,which focuses on working class Mexican Americans struggle for agency and identity in Santa Cruz County.
The Feminist Studies Department at the University of California,Santa Cruz constitutes one of the oldest departments of gender and sexuality studies in the world. It was founded as a women's studies department in 1974. It is considered among the most influential departments in feminist studies,post-structuralism,and feminist political theory. In addition to its age and reputation,the department is significant for its numerous notable faculty,graduates,and students.
Heejung Kim is a South Korean psychologist and a professor in the Department of Psychological &Brain Sciences at the University of California,Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on how culture influences humans' thought process. She is co-editor of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Aida Hurtado is a Mexican-American psychologist who has worked to promote the inclusion of women of color in the field of psychology. Her research has specifically focused on the psychological aspects of gender,race,and ethnicity,and intersectionality. In particular,Hurtado has been a pioneer in the development of feminist psychology. She has received two awards from the American Psychological Association:the Distinguished Contributions to Psychology Award in 2015 and the Presidential Citation in 2018.
