The Rough Guide to Psychology An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind (Rough Guides)
PSYCHOLOGY AT SCHOOL motivation dissolves. Using material rewards also risks the morally dubious situation whereby less capable ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY IT’S NOT ONLY ABOUT IQ Of course, academic success doesn’t just rest on external factors, such as ...
PSYCHOLOGY AT SCHOOL In one study conducted by Tracy and Ross Alloway at the Universities of Stirling and Edinburgh, for example ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Another pupil trait that’s been found to predict academic success accu- rately is self-discipline. ...
PSYCHOLOGY AT SCHOOL whose self-control he’d tested in the 1960s (see p.113), he found that those who were more skilled at defer ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY The psychologist Maggie Snowling at the University of York is one of the world’s leading authoriti ...
It’s taken a while for psychological science to catch up with sport. The US Olympic Team didn’t take a psychologist with them un ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY England.” Tough thinking, meanwhile, was characterized by astute decision-making at critical momen ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY three irrelevant words; and in the third on a single word that encapsu- lated the entirety of thei ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY shots at goal, then their chances of scoring on their next attempt is raised compared with if they ...
SPORT when a string of hits or misses occurs, we attribute this to an athlete being on or off form, rather than recognizing that ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY can be short-lived. They recommended completing mental rehearsal every one to two weeks. They also ...
SPORT their endurance (the controlled use of morphine during training is legal). When it came to the day of the real event, the ...
Illness isn’t always something that just happens to us. The choices we make, the ways we conduct our lives, the beliefs we hold, ...
BODILY HEALTH Central to health psychology is recognizing that the mind and body are deeply entwined. Our mood, our stress level ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Related to this, there’s evidence that the warnings on cigarette packs could actually encourage so ...
BODILY HEALTH Exercise, obesity and self-control One of the most pressing threats to health at the start of the twenty-first cen ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY that in rich countries, tasty, fatty food is now in far greater abundance than in previous eras, a ...
BODILY HEALTH participants to name a colour word – for example “blue” – while ignoring the distraction of the ink colour it is w ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY after lunch is more likely to buy chocolates thinking they’ll be able to resist them until the wee ...
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