Personality psychology and human development: The best textbooks summarized

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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: Human Resource Management: Functions, Applications, and Skill Development by Lussier and Hendon - 3rd edition
  • 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: Solidarity and social justice in contemporary societies by Yerkes and Bal - 1st 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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Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters by Reason

Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters by Reason

Summaries per chapter with A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters

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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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Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Getting to yes: negotiating an agreement without giving in by Fisher et al.

Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Getting to yes: negotiating an agreement without giving in by Fisher et al.

Summaries per chapter with Getting to yes: negotiating an agreement without giving in

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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

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Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of Introduction to Personality, Clinical and Health Psychology by Custom Edition LU (2018)

Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of Introduction to Personality, Clinical and Health Psychology by Custom Edition LU (2018)

Summaries per chapter with Introduction to Personality, Clinical and Health Psychology

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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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Summaries per chapter with the 9th edition of Life-Span Human Development by Sigelman and Rider

Summaries per chapter with the 9th edition of Life-Span Human Development by Sigelman and Rider

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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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Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of Mastery in Coaching by Passmore

Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of Mastery in Coaching by Passmore

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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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Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature by Larsen et al.

Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature by Larsen et al.

Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature by Larsen et al.

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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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About Psychology and behavioral sciences

  • Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and behavior, exploring thoughts, emotions, and actions. Behavioral sciences encompass a broader range of disciplines examining human and animal behavior, including psychology, sociology and anthropology.
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Persoonlijkheidspsychologie en ontwikkeling: De beste studieboeken samengevat

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  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach van Arnett -5e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Adult Personality Development Volume 1: Theories and Concepts van Wrightsman - 1e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Don’t shoot the dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training van Pryor - 3e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Essentials of Negotiation van Lewicki - 5e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Experience Human Development van Papalia en Martorell - 14e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Forensic psychology: crime, justice, law, interventions van Davies en Beech
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Handbook of Coaching Psychology van Palmer en Whybrow - 1e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Human Development van The Human Development Teaching and Learning Group
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Intelligentie: meten en weten
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Leren Reflecteren van Nijgh en Van Tol - 3e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Origins of human communication van Tomasello
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature van Larsen e.a. - 5e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Psychologie van het uiterlijk van Woertman
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Reflecteren: de basis: Op weg naar bewust en bekwaam handelen van Groen - 4e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Sport Psychology: concepts and applications van Cox
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: The cultural nature of human development van Rogoff - 1e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: The Developing Human van Moore e.a. - 10e druk
  • Samenvatting bij het boek: Understanding Motivation and Emotion van Reeve

Over Persoonlijkheidspsychologie en ontwikkeling

  • Persoonlijkheidspsychologie richt zich op het begrijpen van de stabiele patronen in denken, voelen en handelen van individuen, terwijl ontwikkelingspsychologie de veranderingen in deze patronen over de tijd bestudeert, van babytijd tot ouderdom.
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