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An Exploration of Adolescent Development: Changes and Continuities Over the Last 30 Years

Reflecting on My Personality Type: Insights, Challenges, and Strengths in the Workplace

Week Five Homework: Quasi-Experiments, Single-Case Designs, and Developmental Research

Navigating Criticism: The Power of Communication and Consultation in Decision-Making

Navigating Criticism: The Power of Communication and Consultation in Decision-Making

PSY 315 Week 5 Assignment: Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Analysis, and Correlation

Comparing Gender Differences in Aggression Using a t-Test for Independent Samples

Critical Analysis of Child Development Research: A Comprehensive Article Critique

Challenges in Diagnosing Personality Disorders: Limitations of the DSM-IV Axia College

Strains on Intimacy: Understanding Stress, Jealousy, and Anger in Relationships

Understanding Workplace Stress and Job Satisfaction: Key Insights and Strategies

PSYCH 610 Understanding the Hawthorne Effect: History, Importance, and Strategies for Mitigation

IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF [THEORIST NAME] AND [THEORY NAME]: UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

A Cross-Sectional Study on the Evolution of Sexual Attitudes Among College Students Over Time

Exploring Organizational Behaviors and Employee Performance: Moderation and Mediation Analyses

Exploring Descriptive and Inferential Statistics in Behavioral Research: A Comprehensive Analysis

Analysis of the Effects of Treatment and Gender on Emotion and Worry: A Factorial MANOVA Approach

Exploring the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: Understanding Personality through Judgment Styles

Psychological Predictors of Sexual Harassment: Locus of Control and Sexually Permissive Attitudes in the Workplace

Animal Behaviour - Learning

There are two main types of learning: Classical learning (also known as Pavlovian) involves forming associations between stimuli, while Instrumental learning (also called Operant or Trial and Error) involves learning through consequences, where behaviours are shaped by rewards or punishments.

Animal Behaviour - Equine Social Behaviour

Feral horse breeds are free-roaming populations that have adapted to wild or semi-wild conditions. Notable examples include the Przewalski from Mongolia, Mustangs from the USA, Brumbies from Australia, Konik from Poland, and Exmoor ponies from the UK. These breeds reflect regional histories and envi...

Animal Behaviour - Behavioural Needs

The Brambell Committee, formed in 1966, was established to assess welfare concerns in intensive farming. It led to the creation of the original Five Freedoms, focusing on animals' physical needs, especially the ability to move freely and express natural behaviours.

Animal Behaviour - Frustration And Emotional Conflict

Operant learning influences behaviour development by reinforcing actions that lead to desired outcomes. Behaviours that successfully avoid perceived threats or achieve rewards are more likely to be repeated, increasing their frequency over time.

Animal Behaviour - Age Related Cognitive Decline

Animal Behaviour - Psychopharmacological Agents Used in Practice

Drug therapy in animal behaviour is advocated when behavioural responses are extreme, deeply ingrained, or occur at very low thresholds, making behavioural therapy difficult to initiate. It is also used when there's a strong organic basis (e.g. neurological disorders) or when rapid improvement is ne...

Chapter 11: Organizational Communication

Information flows from lower levels of the organization to higher levels (employees to management). This includes feedback, suggestions, grievances, and reports.

Chapter 10: Employee Satisfaction and Commitment

Affective Commitment reflects an emotional attachment to the organization. Continuance Commitment is based on the perceived cost of leaving the organization.

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 15

This flashcard set covers the sensory systems of smell and taste, including the number of human olfactory receptors, neural pathways for taste perception, newborns’ taste sensitivities, and the recognition of umami as the fifth basic taste.

Chapter 9: Employee Motivation

Individual differences such as personality traits, levels of self-esteem, intrinsic motivation tendency, and the need for achievement play a key role in influencing work motivation. These factors determine how employees respond to challenges, set goals, and stay committed to their tasks.

Theories of Motivation

The Affective-Cognitive Consistency Model suggests that individuals are motivated to maintain harmony between their emotions (affect) and thoughts (cognition). When inconsistencies arise, people are driven to adjust either their feelings or beliefs to restore internal consistency and reduce psycholo...

Chapter 8: Designing and Evaluating Training Systems

The first step in developing an employee training system is conducting a needs analysis. This process identifies skill gaps, performance issues, or knowledge deficiencies among employees and helps determine what type of training is necessary to meet organizational goals.

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 14

This flashcard set focuses on haptic perception and tactile processing, including how we use touch to identify object properties like shape, which body parts have the highest tactile acuity, and how mechanoreceptors respond to differences in surface curvature.

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 13

This flashcard set explores key concepts in speech perception and early language development, including how emotional tone affects language interpretation, infants’ phoneme discrimination abilities, and the role of phonetic boundaries in speech processing.

Chapter 7: Evaluating Employee Performance (Reversed)

Performance Appraisal is the formal assessment of an employee’s job performance to evaluate their effectiveness and productivity. It also helps identify areas for improvement and supports decisions related to promotions, training, and career development.

Chapter 7: Evaluating Employee Performance

Performance Appraisal is a structured process used to assess an employee’s job performance and contributions over a specific period. It helps identify strengths, areas for improvement, and potential for future development or promotion within the organization.

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 12

This flashcard set delves into how we locate and organize sounds. It covers interaural level differences and acoustic shadows as localization cues, findings from neural studies on spatial hearing, and the role of timbre similarity in auditory stream segregation—highlighting how the brain groups and ...

Chapter 6: Evaluating Selection Techniques and Decision (Reversed)

Reliability is the degree to which a selection tool produces consistent and repeatable results. It indicates that the measure is dependable and largely free from random errors, ensuring accuracy in evaluating candidates over time.

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 11

This flashcard set focuses on key concepts in auditory perception, including age-related hearing loss (presbycusis), the role of the auditory canal in amplifying sound through resonance, and the dual nature of sound as both a physical event and a perceptual experience.

Chapter 6: Evaluating Selection Techniques and Decision

Reliability refers to the consistency and stability of a selection measure over time. A reliable test yields similar results under consistent conditions and is free from random errors, making it a dependable tool for evaluating candidates.

Health and Social Care Influences On Life: Economic Factors

This flashcard set explores Influences on Life – PIES in Health and Social Care, focusing on how life events like getting a first job and earning money can impact Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Social development in young people.

Chapter 5: Employee Selection: References and Testing (Reversed)

Openness is a personality trait characterized by curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to explore new ideas and experiences. It is considered the strongest personality predictor of academic performance due to its link to intellectual engagement and learning motivation.

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 10

This flashcard set explores the mechanisms of depth perception and visual distortions. It includes conditions like strabismus that affect binocular coordination, depth cues such as accommodation and convergence, and illusions like the Ames Room, which tricks perception through distorted but convinci...

Health and Social Care The Life Stage: Later Adulthood

This flashcard set focuses on the Later Adulthood life stage in Health and Social Care, beginning at age 65 and beyond. It covers how advancements in healthcare and nutrition contribute to longer, healthier lifestyles in older adulthood.

Chapter 5: Employee Selection: References and Testing

Openness to experience is the best personality predictor of academic performance. Individuals high in openness tend to be curious, imaginative, and open to new ideas, which supports learning, creativity, and academic engagement.

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 9

This flashcard set covers key principles of color vision, including how multiple visual pigments enable wavelength discrimination, the opponent-process theory, and mechanisms like chromatic adaptation and color constancy. It also introduces concepts such as metamers and how variations in saturation,...

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 8

This flashcard set examines how we perceive and interpret actions and motion. It includes findings on how changes in movement speed signal action boundaries and explains Corollary Discharge Theory, which describes how the brain distinguishes self-induced motion from external movement.

Health and Social Care The Life Stage: Early Adulthood

This flashcard set covers the Early Adulthood life stage in Health and Social Care, focusing on ages 19–45 years. It explores key physical developments such as reaching peak physical performance and the gradual slowing of metabolism.

Chapter 4: Employee Selection: Recruiting and Interviewing (Reversed)

Recruitment is the process of drawing in qualified candidates to apply for a job within an organization. It aims to ensure that the applicant pool includes individuals who meet the job requirements and fit the company’s needs.

Chapter 4: Employee Selection: Recruiting and Interviewing

Recruitment is the process of attracting individuals with the appropriate skills, qualifications, and experience to apply for job openings within an organization. It involves identifying talent needs and encouraging suitable candidates to apply.

Chapter 3: Legal Issues in Employee Selection (Reversed)

A **grievance system** is a formal process through which employees can file complaints or concerns about workplace issues, such as unfair treatment or policy violations. The complaint is reviewed by a designated person or committee, which then makes a decision to resolve the issue.

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 6

This flashcard set explores how the brain integrates visual features like color and orientation, how infants perceive object continuity, and how attention affects perception—highlighted through real-world phenomena like illusory conjunctions and stages in feature integration theory.

Sensation and Perception: Chapter 5

This set of flashcards covers key concepts in visual perception, including figure-ground segregation, scene decoding, Gestalt principles of grouping, historical perspectives in psychology, and the role of masking stimuli in visual processing. It highlights foundational theories and mechanisms that e...

Chapter 3: Legal Issues in employee Selection

A grievance system is a formal process that allows employees to file complaints about workplace issues. The organization reviews the complaint, and a designated person or committee makes a decision to resolve the matter fairly and consistently.

My EPPP Practice Questions: Psychological Assessment

“Testing the limits” is a technique used after a cognitive ability test has been administered according to standardized procedures. It helps gather additional qualitative information, such as how the examinee arrives at their answers.

Psychology: Social Area: Levine et al. (2001)

This flashcard set explores Levine’s research, which aimed to examine the consistency of helping behavior across different situations and cultures, and to identify community traits linked to greater prosocial behavior. It also defines helping behavior and introduces the social exchange theory, which...

Chapter 2: Job Analysis and Job Evaluation (Reverse)

The process of determining the job duties and requirements is known as job analysis. It identifies what a job involves and what is needed to perform it effectively.

My EPPP Practice Questions: Social

This flashcard set covers Social Psychology concepts for the EPPP, focusing on the fundamental attribution bias. It explains the common tendency to overemphasize personality traits and underestimate situational factors when interpreting others’ behavior.

Psychology: Social Area: Piliavin (1969)

This flashcard set covers Piliavin’s study, which examined factors affecting helping behavior, including the victim’s condition and race, presence of a helping model, and number of bystanders. It also defines key social psychology concepts such as diffusion of responsibility and bystander apathy, wh...

Chapter 2: Job Analysis and Job Evaluation

Job analysis is the process of identifying and describing the duties, responsibilities, and requirements of a specific job. It helps determine the KSAOs needed and forms the basis for hiring, training, evaluation, and job design.

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Exploring Career Paths in Psychology and Approaches to Wellness

PSYC 110 Psychology Fundamentals: Key Concepts and Applications

PSYCH/660 Legal and Ethical Aspects of Professional Psychology

The Impact of First Impressions and Self-Disclosure in Relationships

The Role of Reinforcement in Personal and Social Development

The Impact of Criticism on Decision-Making and Personal Growth

PSYC110 Post-Lab Test: The Nervous System and Brain Functions

Treatment Models for Comorbidity and Integrative Approaches

Understanding Psychological Models of Abnormal Behavior Axia College

Statistical Analysis and Z-Score Calculations: Week Two Assignment

Group Dynamics and Work Teams: Theories, Stages, and Effectiveness

Essential Qualities for a Committed Relationship: My Values and Expectations

Exploring Developmental Theories: Freud, Erikson, and Moral Education

Hypothesis Testing and Effect Size Analysis in Psychological Research

Assessment and Treatment of Addictive Behaviors: Case Studies Analysis

Understanding Stress: Causes, Effects, and Management in the Workplace

Comprehensive Summer Music Program Plan for Early Childhood Development

PSY 460 Human Behavior: Negative and Positive Effects on the Environment

Paired t-Test for Assessing Aggression Levels Before and After Intervention

Qualities I Seek in a Partner: A Guide to Building a Committed Relationship

Case Studies Analysis: Identifying Disorders and Treatment Approaches

An Exploration of Adolescent Development: Changes and Continuities Over the Last 30 Years

Reflecting on My Personality Type: Insights, Challenges, and Strengths in the Workplace

Week Five Homework: Quasi-Experiments, Single-Case Designs, and Developmental Research

Navigating Criticism: The Power of Communication and Consultation in Decision-Making

Navigating Criticism: The Power of Communication and Consultation in Decision-Making

PSY 315 Week 5 Assignment: Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Analysis, and Correlation

Comparing Gender Differences in Aggression Using a t-Test for Independent Samples

Critical Analysis of Child Development Research: A Comprehensive Article Critique

Challenges in Diagnosing Personality Disorders: Limitations of the DSM-IV Axia College

Strains on Intimacy: Understanding Stress, Jealousy, and Anger in Relationships

Understanding Workplace Stress and Job Satisfaction: Key Insights and Strategies

PSYCH 610 Understanding the Hawthorne Effect: History, Importance, and Strategies for Mitigation

IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF [THEORIST NAME] AND [THEORY NAME]: UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

A Cross-Sectional Study on the Evolution of Sexual Attitudes Among College Students Over Time

Exploring Organizational Behaviors and Employee Performance: Moderation and Mediation Analyses

Exploring Descriptive and Inferential Statistics in Behavioral Research: A Comprehensive Analysis

Analysis of the Effects of Treatment and Gender on Emotion and Worry: A Factorial MANOVA Approach

Exploring the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: Understanding Personality through Judgment Styles

Psychological Predictors of Sexual Harassment: Locus of Control and Sexually Permissive Attitudes in the Workplace