Physical Activity: All bodily movements that cause increases in physical exertion beyond that which occurs during normal activities of daily living Exercise: A form of leisure physical activity that [...]
Clinical assessment may be undertaken for various reasons and to answer a variety of important questions. For the clinical psychologist working in a hospital, clinic, or other clinical setting, [...]
Ensure knowledge being shared by teacher has been received by students Helping students better their learning skills —> administer tests pinpointing possible areas of learning difficulty Determine if students [...]
Composed of neurons CNS (brain and spinal cord) PNS (neurons that convey messages to and from the rest of the body) Cerebrum divided in 2 hemis Each of the [...]
• Body of ethics: body of principles of right, proper or good conduct • To the extent that a code of professional ethics is recognised and accepted by members [...]
First edition was first published intelligence test to provide organised and detailed administration and scoring instructions. First American test to employ concept of IQ First test to introduce concept [...]
Intelligence defined: views of the lay public High degree of similarity between the experts’ and laypeople’s conceptions of intelligence Intelligence defined: views of scholars and test professionals Francis Galton [...]
Procedures typically used by test developers in their efforts to select the best items from a pool of tryout items Criteria for the best items may differ as a [...]
Test conceptualisation Test construction Test tryout Item analysis Test revision TEST CONCEPTUALISATION An emerging social phenomenon or pattern of behaviour might serve as the stimulus for the development of [...]
Reliability = consistency in measurement A score on an ability test is presumed to reflect not only the testtaker’s true score on the ability being measured but also error. [...]
Test: measuring device or a procedure Psychological test: involves sample of behaviour e.g. responses to a questionnaire, performance on task, oral responses. Even two psychological tests designed to measure [...]
Today's Goals Mini Review: Pro-social & Love Catch up: Love Consider the 'bank account' analogy of relationships Explore positive relationship behaviours o Gratitude, Capitalization, Forgiveness, etc. Note: some findings [...]
Today’s Goals Mini review: Prosocial behaviour Review the history of love research in psychology Discuss how psychologists and lay people define love Review the correlates of different approaches to [...]
Today’s Goals Discuss projects & final papers Mini review: Post-trauma growth Consider classic approaches to helping behaviour Explore whether or when prosocial behaviour might be ‘automatic’ Mini-review: Post-Traumatic [...]
Today’s Goals Mini-review: Resilience & nature relatedness Consider a few more negative events and resilient responses Understand the concept of post traumatic growth Unpack the Frazier et al. reading [...]
Today’s Goals Mini-review: Nature Catch up: Nature relatedness Understand how psychologists define resilience Become familiar with the MIDUS study Explore resilience findings & identify protective factors Mini-review: Nature [...]
Today’s Goals Mini-review: Accomplishment Catching up: Creativity Become familiar with the effects of nature exposure (cognitive, emotional, etc.) Understand the construct of ‘nature relatedness’ Become familiar with the correlates [...]
Today’s Goals Mini review: Self-compassion, self-esteem Consider cultural differences in the self (catch-up) Understand ability, interests, and drive, and how they combine to produce accomplishment Understand the cognitive, personality, [...]
Today’s Goals Think about ‘the self’ Understand approaches to defining and measuring the ‘true self’ Understand when people are likely to feel authentic Explore links between true-self and meaning [...]
Today’s Goals Looking ahead (proposal, exam review) Mini-Review: Religion Become familiar with the VIA strengths & virtues Understand the background of the strengths Become familiar with assessment of and [...]
