Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology

Psychology / By /
Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology

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Publisher: Academic Press

ISBN: 9780080547749

Category: Psychology

Page: 2688

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The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology encompasses applications of psychological knowledge and procedures in all areas of psychology. This compendium is a major source of information for professional practitioners, researchers in psychology, and for anyone interested in applied psychology. The topics included are, but are not limited to, aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. The entries drawn from the above-referenced areas provide a clear definition of topic, a brief review of theoretical basis relevant to the topic, and emphasize major areas of application. Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com.

Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology

Business & Economics / By /
Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology

Author: Charles Spielberger

Publisher: Academic Press

ISBN: 9780126574104

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 962

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Encompasses topics including aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. Each entry provides a clear definition, a brief review of the theoretical basis, and emphasizes major areas of application.

Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology: Per-Y, Index

Psychology, Applied / By /
Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology: Per-Y, Index

Author: Charles Donald Spielberger

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015060622332

Category: Psychology, Applied

Page: 896

View: 938

The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology encompasses applications of psychological knowledge and procedures in all areas of psychology. This compendium is a major source of information for professional practitioners, researchers in psychology, and for anyone interested in applied psychology. The topics included are, but are not limited to, aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. The entries drawn from the above-referenced areas provide a clear definition of topic, a brief review of theoretical basis relevant to the topic, and emphasize major areas of application.

Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology: F-Per

Psychology, Applied / By /
Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology: F-Per

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Publisher:

ISBN: LCCN:2004104290

Category: Psychology, Applied

Page:

View: 791

The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology encompasses applications of psychological knowledge and procedures in all areas of psychology. This compendium is a major source of information for professional practitioners, researchers in psychology, and for anyone interested in applied psychology. The topics included are, but are not limited to, aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. The entries drawn from the above-referenced areas provide a clear definition of topic, a brief review of theoretical basis relevant to the topic, and emphasize major areas of application.

Applied Psychology

Psychology / By /
Applied Psychology

Author: Graham C. Davey

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781444331219

Category: Psychology

Page: 697

View: 742

For a significant portion of psychology students, their reason for choosing an undergraduate degree in psychology is their interest in applied psychology and a desire to use psychological knowledge to help solve personal and social problems. With this in mind, this textbook has been designed to satisfy these needs for applied psychology teaching at all undergraduate levels. Applied Psychology is designed to introduce students to the main areas of applied psychology (Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Educational Psychology, Occupational Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Sports & Exercise Psychology, Counselling Psychology and Teaching Psychology) from UK, European and international perspectives. It also introduces the core psychological knowledge that underpins these applied and professional areas. As a result, students learn core knowledge from the five main areas of psychology, as well as acquiring a thorough grounding in how this knowledge is applied, and the professional issues associated with that application. Highlights include a broad range of teaching and learning features designed to help the student learn and the teacher teach. These include: Focus Points, Colour Illustrations, Activity Boxes, Research Methods, Case Histories, Self-Test and Essay Questions, Learning Outcomes and Section Summaries, a Glossary as well as Links to Journal Articles and Further Reading. The chapters on Counselling Psychology and Teaching Psychology are available online via the Student Companion Site at: http://tinyurl.com/c3ztvtj The text is written to be accessible to Level 1 Introductory Psychology students, and also to provide the core knowledge and professional information that students at Levels 2 and 3 would require.

Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine

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Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine

Author: Lyle J. Micheli

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 9781412961158

Category: Medical

Page: 1881

View: 661

Entries cover issues related to sports medicine, including diagnostic and treatment techniques, conditioning and training, diet and nutrition, doping and performance enhancement, injury prevention, and career opportunities.

Future of Intelligent and Extelligent Health Environment

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Future of Intelligent and Extelligent Health Environment

Author: R.G. Bushko

Publisher: IOS Press

ISBN: 9781607501480

Category: Medical

Page: 352

View: 698

The technology on our body, in our body and all around us enhances our health and well-being from conception to death. This environment is emerging now with intelligent caring machines, cyborgs, wireless embedded continuous computing, healthwear, sensors, healthons, nanomedicine, adaptive process control, mathematical modeling and common sense systems. The human body and the world in which it functions is a continuously changing complex adaptive system. We are able to collect more and more data about it but the real challenge is to infer local dynamics from that data. Intelligent Caring Biomechatronic Creatures and Healthmaticians (mathematicians serving human health) have a better chance of inferring the dynamics that needs to be understood than human physicians. Humans can only process comfortably three dimensions while computers can see infinite number of dimensions. We will need to trust the distributed network of healthons, Intelligent Caring Creatures, and NURSES (New Unified Resource System Engineers) to create Health Extelligence. We need new vocabulary to push forward in a new way. For instance; healthons are tools combining prevention with diagnosis and treatment, based on continuous monitoring and analyzing of our vital signs and biochemistry. The 'Healthon Era' is just beginning. We are closer and closer to the world with healthons on your body, in your body and all around you; where not a doctor but your primary care healthmatician warns you about an approaching headache; and where NURSE programs your intelligent caring creatures so they can talk to your cells and stop disease in its tracks.

Global Call Center Employees in India

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Global Call Center Employees in India

Author: Mayank Kumar Golpelwar

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783658118679

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 214

View: 165

Mayank Kumar Golpelwar analyses why Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) units and their young employees found themselves to be the target of severe criticism from India’s middle classes. Using social and organizational psychological frameworks as well as ethnographic and variance analytic research, the author takes a look at the validity of the criticism against the BPO industry. He uses the framework of cultural theories to analyze and present the gap between the mainstream Indian culture and its rapidly emerging and globalized BPO sub-culture.

Engaging Learners with Semiotics

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Engaging Learners with Semiotics

Author: Ruth Gannon-Cook

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004399792

Category: Education

Page: 326

View: 105

This educators’ introduction to semiotics describes a communications phenomenon that has permeated and influenced learner attitudes, behaviors and cognition in any learning environment but especially formal mediated learning environments. Relevant semiotic theory is meaningfully integrated into each chapter.

Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research

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Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research

Author: Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319314167

Category: Social Science

Page: 574

View: 936

This Handbook presents a broad overview of the current research carried out in environmental psychology which puts into perspective quality of life and relationships with living spaces, and shows how this original analytical framework can be used to understand different environmental and societal issues. Adopting an original approach, this Handbook focuses on the links with other specialties in psychology, especially social and health psychology, together with other disciplines such as geography, architecture, sociology, anthropology, urbanism and engineering. Faced with the problems of society which involve the quality of life of individuals and communities, it is fundamental to consider the relationships an individual has with his different living spaces. This issue of the links between quality of life and environment is becoming increasingly significant with, at a local level, problems resulting from different types of annoyances, such as pollution and noise, while, at a global level, there is the central question of climate change with its harmful consequences for humans and the planet. How can the impact on well-being of environmental nuisances and threats (for example, natural risks, pollution, and noise) be reduced? How can the quality of life within daily living spaces (home, cities, work environments) be improved? Why is it important to understand the psychological issues of our relationship with the global environment (climatic warming, ecological behaviours)? This Handbook is intended not only for students of various disciplines (geography, architecture, psychology, town planning, etc.) but also for social decision-makers and players who will find in it both theoretical and methodological perspectives, so that psychological and environmental dimensions can be better taken into account in their working practices.

NEURON & CORTEXOLOGIST

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NEURON & CORTEXOLOGIST

Author: Augustin Ostace

Publisher: Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace

ISBN:

Category: Philosophy

Page: 68

View: 249

It is usually said that the Culture is the nature of man, Kultur ist Natur des Menschen, but we must accept, volens nolens, that the Book is the essence of human culture, Das Buch ist die wessentlich der Kultur des Menschen! Upon this assumption, we must accept that the neuron is the basic anatomical structure of the entire nervous system of all inervated living systems of the biology, culminating in human through its neo-cortex system, as the highly abstract development of an abstract representation, existing in singularity, at least up to date, within the knowing Universe! Our endeavour is trying in a reconnection between neuron of biology with the neo – cortex of human ontology, in a synthesis that is done upon a triad of philosophical schools, like those of rationalist philosophy, of empiricist philosophy and of idealist philosophy! Nonetheless, for this extremely complex philosophy endeavour, will be used ideas and concepts belonging to the materialist and idealist of Greek philosophy, to those of Oriental philosophy of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism of India and Taoism, Confucianism and Ch’an –ism of China. Moreover, will be some references to the ideas and concepts from different religions of human being, namely those of Egyptean religions, Mesopotamian religions, then those of Judaism, Christianity and Islam religions, then to those belonging to the Persian religion of Zoroastrism, of Manicheism and of Shintoism. Cortexologis

RACE & SAPIENS

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RACE & SAPIENS

Author: Augustin Ostace

Publisher: Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace

ISBN:

Category: Philosophy

Page: 87

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The human history has many white links throughout its genesis phases, throughout its evolutionary and devolutionary periods and throughout its controversial becoming and fulfillments… One of this high dramatic controversial field is the persistence overall in Western Hemisphere of the concept of Race within the Specie Sapiens, Genus Homo, Hominid Family, Order Primate, Class Mammalia, Phylum Vertebrata, Kingdom Animalia, despite of anthropological and genetically advancements in a scientific argumentative way of the Species Sapiens without different Races within… Even if the World’s Politics and the World’s Media are still stubborn in presenting and defending the idea of different Races within our unique Species Sapiens, the biologic realities with scientific proofs are beyond of any doubt in favor of the Sapiens Species without different Races within, by putting thus aside a class of political and social concepts as race and racist, Rasse und Rassismus, with subsequent concept-o-logical developments of Pro-rassismus and Anti-rassismus… Sapientologist