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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Psychology, Applied"”.
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Health Psychology: applied Health Psychology within Health Promotion
The UK has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Western Europe and young people are disproportionately affected by high rates of sexually transmitted infections. An experimental evaluation of a sexual health promotion DVD entitled, “Bedroom Business,” was undertaken to assess its capacity …
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Procesos cognitivos básicos relativos a la comprensión de los conceptos matemáticos en los estudiantes de Primer Año de Administración de Empresas de la Facultad Multidisciplinaria Oriental
… academic contribution to the field of cognitive psychology applied to university mathematics learning. Chapter I describes the problem to be evaluated; Chapter II presents the theoretical framework; Chapter III develops the methodological framework, which in this case is a qualitative research …
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The Disposition Effect, Trading Biases, and Cognitive Reappraisal
… the “state vs trait” argument from personality psychology. Applied here, the question is whether variation in trading behaviour is better explained due to environmental differences when decisions are being made (state), or because people differ in their tendencies to behave in certain ways …
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Situational Affordances and Psychopathy: Examining Contextual Influences on Exploitative Behavior in Economic Games
Psychopathy is a personality construct most prominently characterized by traits such as callousness, manipulativeness, and lack of guilt and remorse (Hare, 2003). This dissertation focused on the relationship between psychopathy and exploitation, using economic games as a method to measure …
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Examining the Underlying Mechanisms and Potential Outcomes of Stress Bragging
This study investigates the mechanisms behind stress bragging in workplaces and its impact on individuals and organizations, focusing on impression management (IM) tactics as a mediator. It posits that individuals use stress bragging to achieve desirable workplace outcomes through IM tactics. …
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Motivation and Its Effects on Auditory Detection Thresholds
The purpose of this study is to determine the relative influence of reward and punishment upon auditory detection threshold.
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Conditioned Helplessness and Human Escape Behavior
The present study was undertaken to determine, first, whether or not "helplessness" can be conditioned in human subjects, and, secondly, the amount of behavioral variability that can be accounted for in terms of locus of control as measured by Rotter's Internal-External control scale (I-E scale).
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Effects of Delay of Reinforcement on Problem Solving Behavior
This study was designed to investigate the effects of delay of feedback in a programmed instruction task, retention, and subsequent problem solving behavior. The instructional material in symbolic logic was specifically presented in such a way as to introduce certain basic logical concepts and …
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A Survey to Determine the Need for a Manual for the Preparation of School Psychologists' Reports
The major problem investigated was the feasibility of the development of a manual which would give guidance and assistance to school psychologists in writing of reports to referring classroom teachers. It was assumed that such a manual would be used by many school psychologists if available to them.
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The Relative Efficiency of Auditory (Social) Reinforcement vs. Food Reinforcement with the Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri Sciureus) in an Operant Situation
Research using non-deprivation and sensory or food reinforcement has received little attention to the present time. It is possible that, at least in the laboratory, sensory reinforcement under non- deprived conditions may be a much more economical and efficient reinforcer than food reinforcement …
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The Relative Effect of Time of Reinforcement and Pre-Reinforcement Activity on the Learning of Meaningful Verbal Material
The present study was designed to compare the relative effects on learning and retention of (1) time of reinforcement, (2) pre-reinforcement activity, and (3) the interaction of the temporal interval and activity. The hoped-for criterion was the retention of six principles.
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Verbal Conditioning with Vicarious Reinforcement as Related to Peer Attitudes in Grade-School Children
The purpose of the present study was to determine the effects of peer attitudes toward performers in a verbal conditioning experiment using vicarious reinforcement, and to determine whether birth order or need for social approval had any effect on conditioning. Fifth grade and sixth grade students …
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Conservatism in a Bayesian Probability Situation as a Function of the Sex of the Subject
The present study was designed to examine whether the conservatism present in a Bayesian probability situation could be partially attributable to the sex of the subjects performing the task. The experimental design required that the subjects estimate the probabilities of occurrence of two …
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The Effectiveness of the Presentation and Removal of Money as Reward and Punishment in a Paired-Associate-Constant Order Learning Task
This type of research is believed to be important because of the implications it would seem to have for educational techniques. For example, a program could be instituted at the high school level whereby students would be rewarded with money for maintaining a certain academic standard but punished …
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