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Goal setting intervention for improved athletic performance and fitness

Working as a psychologist on a 1-to- 1 basis with a client, you must perform a four-week goal setting intervention. The intervention strategy will be designed to motivate your client to alter one aspect of their lifestyle related to health and exercise.

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Social psychological principles for sustainable agricultural development in Africa

Today more than ever before, societies around the globe are pressed with increasingly complex issues.

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Piaget and Erikson's theories of child cognitive and social development

When Sigmund Freud first introduced the concepts of psychology, it led other theorists to look at the development of children into adults.

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Marketing strategies in Common Ground Center and University of Kentucky fundraising brochures

Although it might seem more like an inspirational, rather than a promotional brochure, the Common Ground Center skillfully uses the psychology of marketing and advertising to solicit funding.

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Four major branches of personality theory and assessment methods

Though there are almost as many ways of looking at psychology and personality as there are psychologists, there are currently four main branches in the psychological study of personality.

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Grossman's analysis of physiological and psychological responses in combat

Dave Grossman in his book on Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace uses his expertise from his military service to describe and characterize the two aspects cited in the title, the psychological and the physiological factors in combat.

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Cooley's looking-glass self and primary groups in modern society

Cooley left two important legacies in the field of social psychology, which pertains to his study of the self in the context of the changing human society.

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Ted Bundy's childhood trauma and serial killer development

The man who violently stole the lives of more than forty women, Ted Bundy does not easily fit into any compartment of criminal theory.

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Understanding ENFJ personality type and career direction in bioengineering

According to my Jungian test results, my personality type is ENFJ, meaning that I am extraverted, intuitive, feeling, and judging.

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John Dewey's theory of ethics and environmental modification in Human Nature and Conduct

In Human Nature and Conduct, John Dewey propounds the theory that all human conduct is the outcome of an interaction between elements of human nature and the environment, both natural and social (Dewey, p. 10).

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