A study by J.W Pennebaker and S.K. Beall titled "Confronting a Traumatic Event Toward an Understanding of Inhibition and Disease" was conducted to see the health benefits of writing involved college students writing for 15 minutes over 4 days about their most traumatic or upsetting experiences while the control group wrote about superficial topics.
Finally, the study using the expressive writing task as intervention program [ 15] did not use a waiting list control group at all, but advised participants in the control group to write about superficial topics, in a factual manner, without exploring thoughts or feelings.
Taste is a superficial subject.
She is, in fact, incapable of sounding superficial even about topics like the hazards of fame, but since she moves in a world of mirrored surfaces, she wants to make sure I haven't mistaken her for some tinfoil, penny-ante movie star.
But these games dance around and approach in only the most superficial ways the topics they purport to confront.
Teachers who adopt a transmission-based approach to teaching encourage the rote learning of facts, and a resultant superficial understanding of the topic.
These courses were often survey courses that provided a superficial treatment of many topics within a discipline, and lecturing was the predominant instructional strategy used.
Though the handbook's coverage of topics is superficial, its format makes this a useful quick reference, for example, as a reminder for clinicians assembling differential diagnosis lists for a febrile viral syndrome.
His latest film, the resolutely superficial "Mansome," tackles the fearsome topic of masculinity as expressed through grooming, and it feels like a bunch of television segments slapped together, with sparing use of Mr. Spurlock himself.
Finally, our skill-focused intervention responds to criticisms of large science courses that are teacher centered and content heavy, with exams that represent independent topics and require superficial understanding of content and little demonstration of skills (Handelsman et al., 2004; Alberts, 2005; Wood, 2009).
