This study is an exploratory qualitative study of college professors' beliefs about the psychological learning constructs of motivation, attention, memory, and learning strategies. I interviewed professors about their beliefs...
While an extensive body of research has documented the deleterious consequences of in-person child sexual abuse (CSA), there is a paucity of literature on the sequela of online child sexual abuse. With the sexual abuse of youth...
Soggetto:
Psychology, Pathological, Child sexual abuse e Sexual abuse victims
Psychopaths are often violent, aggressive, and manipulative. They pose a serious threat to our social structures, and it is essential that we better understand the nature and origins of psychopathy. The present study examined...
Soggetto:
Cooperativeness, Decision making -- Psychological aspects, Prisoner's dilemma game -- Psychological aspects e Psychology, Pathological
Psychopaths are often violent, aggressive, and manipulative. They pose a serious threat to our social structures, and it is essential that we better understand the nature and origins of psychopathy. The present study examined...
Soggetto:
Cooperativeness, Decision making -- Psychological aspects, Prisoner's dilemma game -- Psychological aspects e Psychology, Pathological
For several decades research has documented the overrepresentation of minorities in special education programs. The public school system in Wayne County, North Carolina, has been plagued by accusations of racial inequality,...
Parola chiave:
disproportionality, ethnicity, minority, overrepresentation, race e special education
Soggetto:
Minorities -- Education -- North Carolina -- Wayne County -- Case studies, Discrimination in education -- North Carolina -- Wayne County -- Case studies e Special education -- North Carolina -- Wayne County -- Case studies
The purpose of this study was to investigate male and female perceptions of variables related to popularity in females. In this study, 120 college female and male freshmen were given a questionnaire asking them to rate highly...
Soggetto:
Popularity, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Success in adolescence, Adolescent psychology e Teenage girls -- Psychology
Implicit racial bias has a measurable impact on the judgments and evaluations of Black individuals by Whites, as well as communication between these two groups. The purpose of this study was to develop an efficient,...
Parola chiave:
Aversive Racism, Cultural Responsiveness, Education, Impact Awareness, Implicit Bias e Race
Soggetto:
Student teachers -- Attitudes e Racism in education -- United States -- Prevention
Theory-of-mind (ToM) describes the ability to understand other's perspectives, thoughts, emotions, and beliefs that may differ from one’s own (Pavarini et al., 2013). A child’s ToM development may be influenced by parenting...
Soggetto:
Parenting, Emotions in children, Preschool children, Philosophy of mind e Parent and child
The relationship between anxiety and working memory capacity (WMC) andperformance is a widely researched topic in the field of psychology. Typically, anxiety has anegative effect on working memory performance (Coy, O’Brien,...
Parola chiave:
anxiety, personality e working memory
Soggetto:
Short-term memory -- Psychological aspects e Anxiety -- Psychological aspects
Online gaming is a relatively new concept, yet due to the millions of followers these games have attracted over the past decade; it is not difficult to deduce that they are not going away any time soon. Individuals use the...
Parola chiave:
MMORPG, Online Gaming, Online Relationships, Online Social Interaction, Personality e Social Anxiety
Soggetto:
Computer games -- Social aspects, Computer games -- Psychological aspects e World of Warcraft
