Goals

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Punishment goals of crime victims.

Research on subjective punishment goals has focused on the perspective of third-party observers of criminal offenses and neglected the perspective of victims. This study investigates punishment goals among 174 adult crime victims (rape and nonsexual ...
Uli Orth (Law Hum Behav, 200304)
punishment-goals-crime-victims.asp

42.

A strategy for improving worker satisfaction and job attitudes in a repetitive industrial task: application of production standards and performance feedback.

Worker satisfaction improved significantly as a consequence of the provision of the assigned and participative standards with performance feedback in a repetitive industrial production task. The maximum improvement in worker satisfaction was found for ...
Ashraf A Shikdar, Biman Das (Ergonomics, 200304)
strategy-improving-worker-satisfaction-job-attitudes-repetitive.asp

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Cognitive flexibility and adaptability to environmental changes in dynamic complex problem-solving tasks.

People who show good performance in dynamic complex problem-solving tasks can also make errors. Theories of human error fail to fully explain when and why good performers err. Some theories would predict that these errors are to some extent the ...
José Cañas, José F Quesada, Adoración Antolí, Inmaculada Fajardo (Ergonomics, 200304)
cognitive-flexibility-adaptability-environmental-changes-dynamic.asp

44.

The learning of goal-directed locomotion: a perception-action perspective.

This study was designed to better understand the process underlying the learning of goal-directed locomotion. Subjects walked on a treadmill in a virtual reality setting and were asked to cross pairs of oscillating doors. The subjects behaviour was ...
Gilles Montagne, Martinus Buekers, Cyril Camachon, Aymar De Rugy, Michel Laurent (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200304)
learning-goal-directed-locomotion-perception-action-perspective.asp

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Automatic for the people: how representations of significant others implicitly affect goal pursuit.

Five studies are presented that explore how representations of significant others may automatically affect goal pursuit. Specifically, evidence is presented that suggests goals may be primed by ones representation of a significant other and that this ...
James Shah (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200304)
automatic-people-representations-significant-others-implicitly-affect.asp

46.

Task goals and change in dynamical degrees of freedom with motor learning.

In this article, the authors examined the hypothesis that the direction of the change (increase or decrease) in the dynamical degrees of freedom (dimension) regulated as a function of motor learning is task-dependent. Adult participants learned 1 of 2 ...
Karl M Newell, Michael P Broderick, Katherine M Deutsch, Andrew B Slifkin (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200304)
task-goals-change-dynamical-degrees-freedom-motor-learning.asp

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Continuing professional development (CPD): GPs perceptions of post-graduate education-approved (PGEA) meetings and personal professional development plans (PDPs).

BACKGROUND: Conventional post-graduate meetings-typically lunchtime meetings outside practices-have been heavily criticized. Revalidation is also impending, and there has been associated pressure for the widespread introduction of personal development ...
Paul Little, Stephen Hayes (Fam Pract, 200304)
continuing-professional-development-cpd-gps-perceptions-post.asp

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Culturally competent psychotherapy.

To provide effective psychotherapy for culturally different patients, therapists need to attain cultural competence, which can be divided broadly into the 2 intersecting dimensions of generic and specific cultural competencies. Generic cultural ...
Hung-Tat Lo, Kenneth P Fung (Can J Psychiatry, 200304)
culturally-competent-psychotherapy.asp

49.

Setting a personal career direction.

In summary, we believe that both you and your organization should have a set of core values, a well-defined mission (core purpose), and a vision of the future. Ideally, your projects and activities should be congruent with your mission and values, you ...
Fredrick A McCurdy, Karen Marcdante (J Cardiovasc Manag, 200303-04)
setting-personal-career-direction.asp

50.

Self-regulatory behaviors in children with Down syndrome and typically developing children measured using the Goodman Lock Box.

Self-regulation has been identified as an area of difficulty for those with mental retardation. The Goodman Lock Box provides measures of two critical aspects of self-regulation-planfulness and maintenance of goal-directed behavior. In this study, the ...
Linda Gilmore, Monica Cuskelly, Alan Hayes (Res Dev Disabil, 200303-04)
self-regulatory-behaviors-children-down-syndrome-typically-developing.asp