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  • Summary with the book: A Critical Introduction to Sport Psychology by Moran and Toner - 3rd edition
  • Summary with the book: Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Arnett and Hughes - 6th edition
  • Summary with the book:  A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters by Reason - 1st edition
  • Summary with the book: Getting to yes: negotiating an agreement without giving in by Fisher a.o. - 3rd edition
  • Summary with the book: Foundations of sport and exercise psychology by Weinberg
  • Summary with the book: Intelligence and intelligence tests by Kessels
  • Summary with the book: Introduction to Personality, Clinical and Health Psychology Custom Edition LU - 1st edition
  • Summary with the book: Life-Span Human Development by Sigelman and Rider - 9th edition
  • Summary with the book: Mastery in Coaching by Passmore - 1st edition
  • Summary with the book: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Thaler and Sunstein - 1st edition
  • Summary with the book: Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature by Larsen a.o. - 3rd edition
  • Summary with the book: The Individual by McLeod (Custom UT Twente) - 1st edition

About Personality psychology and human development

  • Personality psychology studies the patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make each individual unique, while human development explores the changes that occur in people over their lifespan.

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Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of A Critical Introduction to Sport Psychology by Moran and Toner

Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of A Critical Introduction to Sport Psychology by Moran and Toner

Summaries per chapter with A Critical Introduction to Sport Psychology

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  • Chapter 1 - What are the basics of sport psychology?
  • Chapter 2 - What is the relationship between motivation and goals-setting in sport?
  • Chapter 3 - How do psyching up, calming down and anxiety relate to sport?
  • Chapter 4 - Hoe verloopt de herkenning van objecten?
  • Chapter 5 - How do athletes stay focused and concentrated?
  • Chapter 6 - How do athletes use imagination in sport, like mental imagery, motor imagery and mental practice?
  • Chapter 7 - What makes someone an expert athlete?
  • Chapter 8 - How does one research team cohesion in sport?
  • Chapter 9 - What do embodied cognition and cultural sport psychology entail?
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Summary of A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters by Reason - 1st edition - Exclusive

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  • Chapter 1 - What are the nature and varieties of human error?
  • Chapter 2 - Plans lead to Actions and Consequences
  • Chapter 3 - Skill-based, Rule-based and Knowledge-based performances
  • Chapter 4 - Slips and Lapses when Absent-Minded
  • Chapter 5 - Individual Differences
  • Chapter 6 - SIML in the Courtroom
  • Chapter 7- The New Freudian Slip
  • Chapter 8 - Failures in planning
  • Chapter 9 - Violations
  • Chapter 10 - Organizational Accidents
  • Chapter 11 - Resisting Change in Organizational Culture
  • Chapter 12 - Medical Error
  • Chapter 13 - Disclosing Error
  • Chapter 14 - Looking back
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Summary of Getting to yes: negotiating an agreement without giving in by Fisher a.o. - 3rd edition - Exclusive

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  • Chapter 0 - What topics are involved in a succesful negotiation process?
  • Chapter 1 - What is positional bargaining?
  • Chapter 2 - How to separate the people from the problem?
  • Chapter 3 - How to identify and focus on the underlying interests in a negotiation?
  • Chapter 4 - How to invent options for mutual gain?
  • Chapter 5 - How to negotiate on the basis of objective criteria?
  • Chapter 6 - What if the other has a stronger bargaining position?
  • Chapter 7 - What if the other side does not want to negotiate?
  • Chapter 8 - How to deal with a hard bargainer?
  • Chapter 9 - Who is winning the negotiation?
  • Chapter 10 - How to deal with different people and different circumstances and what is the role of negotiation power?
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Summary of Intelligence and intelligence tests - Kessels - 2019

Summary of Intelligence and intelligence tests - Kessels - 2019

 

At the end of the nineteenth century, researchers became interested in mapping out the individual differences in people when it comes to their intellectual functioning. This also came with a new interest in experimental tradition.

What are the theories?

The first theory about intelligence came from Spearman who worked for Binet. He said that there was something what he

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Summary of Introduction to Personality, Clinical and Health Psychology - 1st Custom Edition LU - Exclusive

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  • Chapter 1 (Abnormal Psychology) - What does abnormality mean?
  • Chapter 2 (Abnormal Psychology) - Which theories and treatments of abnormality exist?
  • Chapter 3 (Abnormal Psychology) - How can you assess and diagnose abnormality?
  • Chapter 4 (Abnormal Psychology) - What anxiety disorders do we distinguish?
  • Chapter 5 (Abnormal Psychology) - What types of somatic symptom disorders and dissociative disorders do we distinguish?
  • Chapter 6 (Abnormal Psychology) - What is the relationship between mood disorders and suicide?
  • Chapter 7 (Abnormal Psychology) - What do the schizophrenic spectrum and related psychotic disorders look like?
  • Chapter 8 (Abnormal Psychology) - What personality disorders do we distinguish?
  • Chapter 9 (Abnormal Psychology) - What eating disorders do we distinguish?
  • Chapter 10 (Abnormal Psychology) - What does health psychology entail?
  • Chapter 11 (Personality
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Summary of Life-Span Human Development by Sigelman and Rider - 9th edition - Exclusive

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  • Chapter 1 - How to understand human development over a life span?
  • Chapter 2 - What are the different theories of human development?
  • Chapter 3 - What about genes, the environment and development?
  • Chapter 4 - How do processes of prenatal development and birth go?
  • Chapter 5 - What to learn about (interactions between) body, brain and health?
  • Chapter 6 - What can I learn about sensation, perception, and action throughout the life span?
  • Chapter 7 - What can I learn about cognition throughout the life span?
  • Chapter 8 - What can I learn about memory and information processing throughout the life span?
  • Chapter 9 - What can I learn about intelligence and creativity throughout the life span?
  • Chapter 10 - What can I learn about language and
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Summary of Mastery in Coaching by Passmore - 1st edition - Exclusive

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  • Chapter 1 - What is mastery in coaching?
  • Chapter 2 - What is positive psychology coaching?
  • Chapter 3 - What is psychodynamic coaching?
  • Chapter 4 - What is narrative coaching?
  • Chapter 5 - What is gestalt coaching?
  • Chapter 6 - How to apply neuroscience research to the development of coaching practice?
  • Chapter 7 - What is cognitive behavioural coaching?
  • Chapter 8 - What is mindful coaching?
  • Chapter 9 - What is compassionate mind coaching?
  • Chapter 10 - What is acceptance and commitment coaching?
  • Chapter 11 - What is motivational interviewing?
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Summary of Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature by Larsen a.o. - 3rd edition - Exclusive

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Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of The Individual by McLeod (Custom UT Twente)

Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of The Individual by McLeod (Custom UT Twente)

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  • Chapter 0 - What is the book 'The Inidvidual by McLeod' about?
  • Chapter 1 - What different delivery formats can we use to enhance access and effectiveness?
  • Chapter 2 - How can we use research to inform practice?
  • Chapter 3 - What is the psychodynamic tradition?
  • Chapter 4 - What does the cognitive behavioural perspective entail?
  • Chapter 5 - What is the content of interpersonal therapies?
  • Chapter 6 - What different person-centred, humanistic and experimental approaches do we distinguish?
  • Chapter 7 - What narrative approaches to therapy do we distinguish?
  • Chapter 8 - How do we create a therapeutic relationship of working together?
  • Chapter 9 - How should therapists apply an ethical and moral framework when working in practice?
  • Chapter 10 - What does the field of personality psychology study?
  • Chapter 11 - How can we categorise traits
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