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Vocabulary in autism spectrum disorders. Part 3: Qualitative description – the category of relations / Słownictwo w zaburzeniach należących do spektrum autyzmu. Część 3: Charakterystyka jakościowa – kategoria relacji

Author(s): Ewa Hrycyna / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 11/2022

The article is the third part of a study concerned with vocabulary in autism spectrum disorders. The subject of interest in this article is the category of relations and its lexical exponents. The author presents various types of linguistically expressed relations. She discusses how they are represented in the language of people with autism spectrum disorders and devotes a separate fragment to parts of speech. The acquisition of relational concepts and their lexical exponents is a significant development challenge; especially difficult for people with autism. In the category of relations the differences between the vocabularies of typically developing people and people with autistic disorders are the most pronounced. Other conclusions from the analysis carried out are in line with those in the second part of the study concerning the category of things and events.

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Exploring FL Readers’ Metacognitive Beliefs: Narrations from Learner Diaries

Author(s): Monika Kusiak-Pisowacka / Language(s): English Issue: 9/2023

Metacognition is a complex construct widely investigated in SLA studies, also those that focus on reading skills and reading comprehension. Ample research points to metacognition as a strong predictor in developing foreign language reading skills, thus promoting metacognitive strategies in FL education is highly recommended. This paper presents a report on a study in which Polish FL learners kept a diary for a period of one month and wrote comments in reference to the reading classes in which they participated. The data obtained from the students’ narrations allowed to examine the learners’ metacognitive beliefs defined in the study as knowledge about cognition, consisting of three components: person knowledge, task knowledge, and strategy knowledge (Flavell, 1981). The diary data were analyzed in a global narrative way, which enabled the researcher to examine a complex character and a dynamic nature of metacognition in relation to the reading lessons. The findings underline a double role that learner diaries played in this study: as a research tool useful in investigating learners’ metacognition and an effective task that seemed to facilitate the learners’ reflection skills.

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BRITISH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE OF THE 18TH CENTURY – THE INFLUENCE OF STORYTELLING ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Simona Olaru-Poșiar / Language(s): English Issue: 26/2021

Storytelling is the oldest form of teaching. Throughout the history of literature, British children’s literature of the 18th century has had a very didactic purpose and appealed more to the cognitive intelligence of the child than to his emotional side, to empathy, to the universe of perception, associations that all lead to imagination and free will. Having a sole purpose, that is educational, intellectual and formative, the literature of the time did not give any right to free expression, but only to means of expression for feelings and manners that society approved of. Therefore social tightness, the corset of etiquette was refraining children from expressing their own personalities.

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THE INTERACTION BETWEEN HEREDITY, ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND EDUCATION IN VIEW OF THE CHILD'S PSYCHOPHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Marta Mutașcu (Gana) / Language(s): English Issue: 31/2022

It is necessary to take into account the natural development approach in which the interconnection between the stages of the child's development and the transition to different stages of preschool is emphasized. According to this approach, a child can be successful in the learning process only when he reaches a certain stage of development necessary for this process. Social, emotional and academic adaptation is significant for the child and exerts a direct influence on the formation of a positive attitude towards school, but the child can acquire socio-emotional maturity only when he is mature in development. Socio-emotional adjustment is important as a predictor of school adjustment, especially in the early school years. Also, the physical and mental development of the child must reach a certain degree of maturity so that he can benefit from school learning. Otherwise, learning becomes ineffective or, in cases of overloading the immature child, becomes even harmful. This does not mean that the mental development of children, the pace of this development cannot be accelerated or slowed down. To prevent failures, medical and psychological examination of children is necessary. This exam to identify the degree of school maturity is necessary due to the frequent discrepancies between the chronological age – the classic criterion of schooling - and the psychological (mental, motor, emotional, etc.) of the children.

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THE CONTEMPORARY FASHION CONSUMER: PROFILE, FEATURES, TYPOLOGIES

Author(s): Sandra Celia Chira / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2023

Fashion as a contemporary socio-cultural phenomenon is not only a problem related to clothing trends but also one related to the social behaviors of consumers and producers. Thus, the psychology of the fashion consumer is one of the central elements on which the evolution of fashion towards one direction or another is based, and at the same time it is one of the main concerns of designers, stylists, fashion journalists and marketing specialists. On the one hand, they analyze the different needs and typologies of fashion consumers, and on the other hand, they try to identify the necessary ideas to determine their interest in consumer goods and new trends. Along with the establishment of the main identity features that lead to the formation of the clothing identity, respectively the main features that the individual will have in the role of fashion consumer, relating the image to the individual, clothing is defined in accordance with all the components of the self, including self-awareness that stands out as the main influencing factor of the clothing image. In the process of self-knowledge and in interpersonal communication, the clothing identity of one person is defined through a conscious process of choices, being configured and reconfigured permanently in relation to social trends, standards and collective models.” People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.” Cristian Lacroix

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Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism: The Case of Iain M. Banks’ „Culture”

Author(s): Ivana Damnjanović / Language(s): English Issue: 1 (21)/2023

The Culture series created by Scottish author Iain (M.) Banks consists of nine novels, one novella and a couple of short stories situated in the same fictional universe. The eponymous Culture is a space-faring (and spacedwelling) civilization, a conglomeration of several humanoid species and sentient machines, most intellectually powerful beings called The Minds. Technological advances made the Culture a post-scarcity society focused on the maximization of personal freedom. The character of its socio-political structure, however, is somewhat unclear. Based on the differences between its internal and external politics, scholars have mostly placed the Culture within the categories of Utopia and Empire. This is, as the present paper argues, a false dilemma since the Culture is simultaneously both and neither of those. The main argument is that the truly adequate label for the political complexities of the Culture civilization was coined only after the untimely death of the author himself – around 2015, when the far (or, some would say, radical) left activists on the Internet coined the phrase Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. Using both writings of Marx and Engels on the features of communism and Ollman’s systematization of these features, I will try to show that this is indeed the case.

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UNVEILING THE LITERARY EXPRESSION OF ITS CREATOR'S SUICIDAL INSTINCT

Author(s): Vivianne Urziceanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 35/2023

A complex phenomenon, the suicidal instinct is a challenging issue to discuss overtly. From a psychiatric perspective, in order to experience suicidal thoughts, one must also have underlying mental health conditions, a family history of suicide, suffer substance abuse, or encounter stressful life events resulting in trauma. As Shelly Kagan asserts in his book ”Death”, the act of contemplating suicide is, in general, considered evidence of being psychotic. Despite its devastating consequences, suicide ideation is particularly thought-provoking when observed through a philosophical lens. For this reason, Kagan takes this subject matter a step further and discusses if, when, and under which circumstances suicide could be an appropriate and justified thing to do. It is through literature that one may live multiple lives if one is not satisfied with one's own life. The only tools which are required are a narrative pattern, imagination, and reading skills. Imagine being a writer. You need not live vicariously through others. You can create your own story and dive right into it. You may shape whatever life you crave, thus waving goodbye to any suicidal feelings. As a writer, you would possess the ultimate weapon to do just that. But imagined life will never surpass actual life. Suicidal thoughts may haunt a writer's mind as well, and, as a matter of fact, they sometimes prevail. Therefore, my study explores the way in which particular word patterns, narrative structures and so on can expose the suicidal instinct which lingers in the writer's mind. Ultimately, my study aims to reveal the manner in which literature sheds light on its creator’s inner nature.

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THE ”SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE” OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO INTERACT WITH DISABLED CHILDREN IN KATHRYN ERSKINE’S MOCKINGBIRD, R.J. PALACIO’S WONDER, MARK HADDON'S THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

Author(s): Alina Lucia GRAPINI / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2024

Our innate characteristics influence our interactions with the world. It is well acknowledged that individuals possess varying degrees of shyness and outgoingness, which stem from their unique personalities and influence their perceptions and interactions with others. For such cognitive and social issues to be properly comprehended we have chosen some parental models and also a social model identified through police officers' and interdisciplinary approached via Daniel Goleman's book "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships"(2006)

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Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Humanities

Author(s): Włodzisław Duch / Language(s): English Issue: 48/2024

The complexity of cultures in the modern world is beyond human comprehension. Cognitive sciences cast doubts on the traditional explanations based on mental models. The core subjects in the humanities may lose their importance. The humanities have to adapt to the digital age. New, interdisciplinary branches of the humanities emerge. Instant access to information will be replaced by instant access to knowledge. Understanding the cognitive limitations of humans and the opportunities opened by the development of artificial intelligence and interdisciplinary research necessary to address global challenges is the key to the revitalization of the humanities. Artificial intelligence will radically change the humanities, from art to political sciences and philosophy, making these disciplines attractive to students and enabling them to surpass current limitations. The main goal of this article is to alert people working on different branches of humanities that a new wave of very advanced technology is quickly coming, enhancing human intellect in an unprecedented way.

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La expresión literaria del trauma histórico en dos novelas contemporáneas latinoamericanas: „Amuleto” (R. Bolaño, 1999); „Insensatez” (H. Castellanos Moya, 2004)

Author(s): Cecilia M. T. López Badano / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 23/2023

Writing about memory involves balancing on the limits of the symbolizable and the unspeakable of trauma – individual and social – putting together puzzles in which some of the pieces do not fit and others have been lost. The aforementioned novels, both within the imaginary of disenchanted impotence in the face of the reconstructive faculty of memory in personalities devastated by state violence, share traits that connect them: both confront the difficulties of a pathological narrative by posing it from a delirious and/or dislocated discursive inquiry in which the authors sustain the literary possibility of anamnesis. The aim of this article is to explore the fragmentary, fetishizing construction of the paradoxes of memory in the aesthetic constitution of both novels as the only possible support in front of the irreparable damage produced by social subjugation. Through stylistic traits, the reconstructive, salvific viability of traumatic memory is renewed, and at the same time put into crisis.

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“La historia que nos ha sido arrebatada”: crisis de representación de la memoria y la historia en „Entrada libre” de Carlos Monsiváis

Author(s): Alejandro Ramírez Méndez / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 23/2023

In Entrada libre (1987), Carlos Monsiváis, ruminates about the importance of civil resistance in Mexico after decades of political instability, corruption, and violence. The cruel actions of the ‘dirty war’ left an unstable democratic system and an absent-minded population, which was still trying to understand the violent repression against left-wing groups. Under these conditions, Monsiváis questions the role of civil society in the production of mechanisms of resistance and reconciliation against a large history of abusive treatments and misuses that generated crisis in the country. This essay rethinks the representation of memory and history in the chronicles of Carlos Monsiváis. This project analyzes how the depiction of an the everyday life becomes an alternative method of expression for the a society in resistance, as well as a reevaluation of the meaning behind “historia nacional” and memory as the foundation of the perspective of time in Mexican society.

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Średniowieczny dokument jako znak i przedmiot oglądu w przestrzeni publicznej. Garść uwag o semiotyce dyplomatycznej, percepcji wizualnej i granicach nauk pomocniczych historii

Author(s): Anna Adamska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 20/2024

The article analyzes the functioning of a document as an object (artefact) in medieval Europe, against the broad background of changes in the paradigm of research on medieval writing culture, which assumes a multitude of forms of contact with writing, including its perception as a system of signs that could be viewed rather than “read” in the modern sense.The physical aspects of the document, including its writing material, text layout on the page, graphic symbols and objects attached to the document, constitute an issue that goes beyond the boundaries of traditional diplomatics. It encourages researchers to engage in a more intensive dialogue with experts in other auxiliary sciences, primarily with experts in epigraphy, because a large number of documents were produced on hard material, and also in sphragistics, due to the close interaction between the document and the seal in the process of communicating by sight and touch. The article discusses the occasional presence of a document in public space – as an element of the rituals of power, shown at the request of its issuer or recipient, or as an object of viewing in the practice of examining its authenticity – as well as its permanent presence in the form of a text “exposed” in a stone or as a fresco (charta lapidaria). In all situations in question, the specialized or very general knowledge of viewers determined whether and to what an extent they were able to “read” the information encoded in the format and material of the document, in graphic signs, illuminations, and seals.

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Gmerk – znak własnościowy czy tożsamości mieszczan? O pewnych niekonsekwencjach polskiej terminologii heraldycznej

Author(s): Marcin Starzyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 20/2024

The author of the present study traces the way the signs used by city dwellers have been defined in Polish historiography so far. Taking the capital city of Krakow as an example, he showed that, like in Prussian centres, they used both gmerk house marks (i.e. bar identification signs) and bourgeois coats of arms (made up of a coat of arms and a shield, where heraldic figures in the strict sense of the word, but also bar signs, were used in parallel). The division outlined in this way allows us to assign the status of a coat of arms to a composition consisting of a coat of arms and a shield. The author also confirmed that the adoption of this graphic pattern (emblem + shield) by the townspeople was the result of their influence and observation of certain products of knightly culture. Moreover, both (knights’ coats of arms) and the other (burghers’ coats of arms) were intended to identify in the first place. In the case of noble coats of arms, at least in Poland, they have become a visual symbol of belonging to a particularly privileged class. So they spoke, as if for the owners, about their legal status. And although they were undoubtedly also used among the townspeople (as the result of some imitation), they did not duplicate all the functions of the nobility coat of arms, and, above all, they did not build the bourgeois (estate) identity.

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Теоретични основи на психофизическата подготовка на охранители

Author(s): Elena Stefanova Pesheva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 21/2025

This article examines the main theoretical aspects that define the psychophysical training of security guards as a key component for their effectiveness and professionalism. Psychophysical readiness forms the foundation for an individual's ability to perform various activities under conditions with varying degrees of extremity. Emphasis is placed on the integration of psychological and physical skills necessary to handle professional challenges. To build adequate situational psychophysical readiness that can guarantee effective actions in extreme situations, targeted preparation is required. This training can be organized both in group and individual forms and must be accessible to all security guards. A methodology is applied, including various methods and exercises for mental, physical, and psychophysical influence. One of the most effective and easily applicable methods is psychophysical relaxation. By creating mental models reflecting future situations, adequate psychophysical readiness for action in extreme conditions is formed. A key focus is placed on the method of ideomotor modeling training, based on the concept of the interconnection between the psyche and movements. This approach ensures the formation of the necessary readiness to successfully cope with future extreme situations.

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CREATIVITY AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Author(s): Emilia Lapoșina / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

Creativity and emotional intelligence are two distinct aspects of psychological functioning, but they can be interconnected and influence each other. Creativity can be seen as a component of emotional intelligence and emotional intelligence can help to foster creativity. Creativity can be seen as the ability to generate new, innovative ideas and find original solutions to problems. This skill requires mental flexibility, divergent thinking and the ability to look at things from different perspectives. Emotional intelligence, on the other hand, refers to the ability to recognise, understand and manage emotions, as well as to identify and respond appropriately to others' emotions.

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EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING: REFLECTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL ACTORS

Author(s): Mariana Baţog / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

Emotional development is an important psychological aspect for creating and maintaining well-being in a modern school. Emotional development is a structural component of student well-being. In this article, we presented the results of an experimental study of the opinions of school leaders, teachers, and school psychologists about the importance of emotional development and well-being in an educational environment. Thus, 175 participants of the educational process were interviewed. Heads of the education system, teachers and school psychologists have identified the impact of the emotional development of participants in the educational process on well-being at school, and identified the main emotional problems of students of different age categories. At the same time, school leaders, teachers and school psychologists noted preferences in vocational training in certain psychological disciplines, which significantly contribute to the creation of well-being in educational institutions. Well-being is a condition and resource of a developing, friendly and inclusive school environment and a completion and product of quality psychological assistance in school

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THE LINK BETWEEN IE AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS IN PRESCHOOLERS

Author(s): Miluța Ursu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

Preschool children show sympathy, a certain degree of self-control, and occasionally a sense of fairness in sharing objects, [2,p.83]. Conscientiousness requires maturity and this moral feeling develops in school age and adolescence. There will emerge that personal integrity which we call character. The school's role is to cultivate emotional intelligence through therapy. Freeing the emotions, "will not be an easy task politically... given the turmoil they will create. But we must accept this or continue to raise generations of adults who ignore emotions and thus behave in destructive ways" [2, p. 105]. Preschoolers with language impairments have less access to social interaction, which in turn limits their opportunities to learn about their emotions and the emotions of others. Language barriers are disruptive factors in the expression of emotions and the consequences are seen in the behaviour and attitudes of young children.

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CURRICULUM INTEGRATION STRATEGIES FOR THE FORMATION OF ECOLOGICAL CULTURE IN EARLY SCHOOL-AGE STUDENTS

Author(s): Elena Chiriac / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

The article given in the formation of ecological culture in students of small school age, emphasizing the importance of an interdisciplinary approach in education. The integration of ecological themes in various school subjects, such as: natural sciences, civic education, practical skills and visual arts, mathematics, Romanian language and literature, music and movement allows students to understand the interdependence between man and nature, thus contributing to the formation of culture ecological.

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LEGALITIES AND PSYCHO-PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR MANAGING OCCUPATIONAL STRESS IN TEACHING STAFF

Author(s): Maria Gabriela Ilisie / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

The article presents the legalities and psycho-pedagogical conditions necessary for managing occupational stress in teaching staff. The legalities are interdependently related to the pedagogical and social needs of teachers. As a result of analysing the specialized literature, other specific legalities related to the research topic have been identified, contributing to the regulation of the educational process. Psycho-pedagogical conditions provide a significant reference point for resolving stressful situations within the educational institution.

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CONCEPTUAL-THEORETICAL INTERDISCIPLINARY IDENTITIES AIMED AT ECOPSYCHOLOGY

Author(s): Maria Dorina Paşca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

Knowing that interdisciplinarity is essentially a way to bring together flexible and interconnected strategies and logistics, which, in turn, capture the essence of the component part, at a given moment re-integrating the whole. In this context, responding to certain needs and keeping their competence and the imprint that defines them, psychology: environmental, ecological and ecopsychology, are found in terms of the relationship of man with the environment in which he lives, this being both physical and social. We thus try to answer the rhetorical question "I rule the world or the world rules me".

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