Psychology Tutor: Mentor (PSI) Psycho-Social Incarnation

Image via Wikipedia An important activity in academia and the business world is the ability for a professional to reflect critically on their decisions and actions. Thinking about one’s personal opinions, values and attitudes and linking these to models and theories presented in class is a practical exercise. Knowledge about oneself and how one’s views [...]

Image by dragon762w via Flickr if you have five numbers, average/mean= add them up and divide by five sd= take each value away from the mean square each add them up (variance) find the square root

Image via Wikipedia Enjoy… Carlyn, M. (1977). An Assessment of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Journal of Personality Assessment, 41 (5), 461-473. Retrieved July 22, 2008, from http://www.informaworld.com/10.1207/s15327752jpa4105_2 Edwards, J. A., Lanning, K. & Hooker, K. (2002). The MBTI and Social Information Processing: An Incremental Validity Study. Journal of Personality Assessment, 78 (3), 432-450. Retrieved August [...]

Image via Wikipedia Critically discuss how training and development could be used to implement a corporate strategy that involves substantial change within an organisation. Training and development of employees, at all levels of an organisation, is a critical method for implementing an overall corporate strategy to reach goals and meet mission statement commitments. For example, [...]

My walkabout on Sunday was an adventure! The landscapes and skyscapes were so peaceful; oblivious to our strenuous efforts at hiking, climbing and photography. I spent the entire day away from the keyboard which was almost a new experience again. There was plenty of time for reflection as everybody else spoke Czech (I know enough [...]

Image by Fr Antunes via Flickr I made a visit this morning to the Urban Monk site for his next installment on personal development. I was not disappointed to read What is Your Personality Trying to Tell You? Overcoming Shyness. Not that I consider myself shy, just that the encouragement to be aware of how [...]

Here are a list of references shared with me by a student to answer an assignment question asking her to contrast two theories of Aggression. Bandura Bandura, Ross & Ross (1961). Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models.  Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63, 575-582. Bushman & Huesmann (2006). Short-term and long-term effects [...]

Image via Wikipedia An interesting read over at Mama PhD, Math Geek Mom : A Mother Lion Does Statistics gives an interesting insight to the normal curve, using ADHD as an example.

Image via Wikipedia Are Personality Test Effective? Objective Personality Tests: Methods of test construction, rational, factor analysis, empirical and a little soul searching Personality Tests and Theories Personality Theory: Draw-a-picture personality test Projective verses Objective Personality Tests The Advantages and Disadvantages of Objective Personality Tests The Scientific Status of Projective Tests What’s Wrong With This [...]

A student sent me these questions a while ago, they are great stimuli for getting one’s critical hat on and determining strengths and weaknesses of other’s and our own arguments. 1. EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEX AND GENDER. HOW DOES ONE ADOPT ANDROGYNOUS ROLES IN TODAY’S SOCIETY? PROVIDE EXAMPLES FROM DAILY LIFE. 2. WHAT IS [...]

Image via Wikipedia I found this in my e-mail one bright shiny day last year. I like it because it encourages the student to push their boundaries of understanding, and to make learnt knowledge relevant to their own lives.  The tale is a great example of a student “owning” the question; making it theirs and [...]

Some people are beautiful to be around and make life meaningful in ways that a landscape or seaplains cannot.  Such is today’s Sunday Selection of blogs and articles; thoughtful in their consideration of others and and the interconnections of life. A marvelous read for the student struggling for purpose in the face of mountains of  [...]