How Teenage pregnancy can affect the progression of education and why has teenage pregnancy decreased Introduction Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenager or underage girl becoming pregnant The term connotes that the girl has not yet reached legal adulthood before conceiving A teenage girl may become pregnant because of various reasons or situations but all teenage pregnancies are a result of sexual activities either voluntary or not One of the most traumatic and devastating effects of teenage pregnancy is making it difficult for the girl to continue with her education Drop out rates repeaters poor scoring and unable to gain qualifications are the educational consequences of teenage pregnancy This paper proposes to explore how teenage pregnancy affects academic progression and understand the reasons behind the decrease in teenage pregnancy As a student pregnant teenagers are expected to meet a minimum rate of academic progress Academic progress implies achieving 50 of the credit points for the subjects that they are enrolled over the duration of the course Progression status is based on course status multiple fails and assessment guide Research Questions The key questions that will be answered in this study is how teenage pregnancy affects the academic development And why has teenage pregnancy decreased Other research questions are 1 How teenagers view the effects of their pregnancy and their education 2 Does being pregnant contribute support or limit the desire to finish schooling 3 How teenage pregnancy changes the studying patterns of the teenager 4 In what specific ways does teenage pregnancy affect the academic performance of the teenager 5 To what extent does teenage pregnancy affect the academic achievement of the teenager Research Aim and Objectives
Chapter four was about sensation and perception Throughout our lives we use our five senses in order to connect with the world and our environment The five senses that we use in our everyday lives are touch taste smell hear and see Sensation refers to the recognition of our surrounding by just using our five senses While perception is mainly about explaining the sensations to your brain These five senses then go through a process called transduction A transduction is the process of transforming stimulus energy sound light smell waves into neural messages that go to your brain The type of psychologists that studies sensation and perception and the effects of it are called psychophysics In order to measure sensation psychophysics studies the absolute threshold The absolute threshold is testing the use of the five senses from things we can barely reveal ourselves, For example, it's like tasting a pinch of salt in a 4-liter water bottle or feeling a lady bug walking across your arm You either notice that there s something there or don't notice anything at all A second way to measure sensation is called the difference threshold as known as JND just noticeable difference
