When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Behaviorally anchored rating scales - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorally_anchored...

    Behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) are scales used to rate performance.BARS are normally presented vertically with scale points ranging from five to nine. It is an appraisal method that aims to combine the benefits of narratives, critical incidents, and quantified ratings by anchoring a quantified scale with specific narrative examples of good, moderate, and poor performance.

  3. Context effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_effect

    "THE CAT" is a classic example of context effect. We have little trouble reading "H" and "A" in their appropriate contexts, even though they take on the same form in each word . A context effect is an aspect of cognitive psychology that describes the influence of environmental factors on one's perception of a stimulus. [ 1 ]

  4. Peer contagion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_Contagion

    Rejected adolescents with low antisocial behavior tend to seek the friendship of those with high levels of antisocial behavior. [ 4 ] In residential group care , though there is evidence for peer contagion, "over 90% of the youth did not have an increase in problem behaviors" and positive peer influences can have protective effects .

  5. Personality - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality

    Personality is any person's collection of interrelated behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life. [1] [2] These interrelated patterns are relatively stable, but can change over long time periods, [3] [4] driven by experiences and maturational processes, especially the adoption of social roles as worker or parent. [2]

  6. Adolescent egocentrism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_Egocentrism

    In the second study, they analyzed the data obtained from two samples: a sample of 7th-, 9th-and 11th-graders and another sample of college undergraduate students. They used Adolescent Egocentrism Scale (AES) (Enright et al., 1979, 1980), [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Lunzer (1965) [ 10 ] formal operations measure and Imaginary Audience Scale (IAS) (Elkind ...

  7. Behavior analysis of child development - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_analysis_of_child...

    For example, a child whose depressive behavior functions for negative reinforcement by stopping fighting between parents could develop a lifelong pattern of depressive behavior in the case of conflicts. Two paths that are particularly important are (1) lack or loss of reinforcement because of missing necessary skills at a developmental cusp ...

  8. Positive behavior interventions and supports - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Behavior...

    Positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) is a set of ideas and tools used in schools to improve students' behavior.PBIS uses evidence and data-based programs, practices, and strategies to frame behavioral improvement relating to student growth in academic performance, safety, behavior, and establishing and maintaining positive school culture.

  9. Flexibility (personality) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexibility_(personality)

    An example of being present would be meditation and mindfulness. [20] Values teaches people to take actions in deliberate furtherance of qualities they choose. [20] An example is somebody who chooses to continue to improve on being a father (chosen quality) by reliving painful childhood memories about how his own father parented him (action).