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Job knowledge tests, cognitive ability tests, and personality assessments

Achievement tests or job knowledge tests are composed of questions designed to measure technical or professional expertise in a specific area of knowledge. Therefore job knowledge tests assess the knowledge of the test taker at the point in time of the assessment.

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Motivation: psychological components, intrinsic and extrinsic sources

The concept of motivation has as many diverse meanings as there are its application and intended purpose for its application. Word Net (2011) gives a psychological angle of the motivation idea.

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Maturity, not age, determines capacity for healthy passionate relationships

Passionate relationships are one of the most profound aspects of human social and individual development. Passionate intimate relationships are the next developmental stage after the childhood learning done in a family.

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Consumer irrationality and the "more is more" mentality in fast food

Irrational consumption: more is more 'More is more.' Consumers tend to associate 'more' -- as in more volume, larger amounts of a product, and even simply bigger products -- with greater value.

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Self-esteem as an affecting factor in second language acquisition

Since the beginning of human civilization, language has played a key role in the learning process. It is an essential tool through which one expresses himself to another in a precise and comprehensive manner. With time, the number of languages grew and undergone many changes.

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Is child sexualization evidence-based or moral panic?

Public hysteria or "sex panic" involving the "sexualisation" of children may be getting a decent outing in Australia at the present moment, but it is certainly nothing new: fifty years ago it was Elvis Presley's hips that portended imminent moral collapse, two hundred and fifty and a dance craze…

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Distinguishing counseling and coaching in Antti Kytolandd's case

In considering the case of Antti Kytolandd it is critical to differentiate his possible mental health needs from those that are strictly work performance issues.

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Keynes and Galbraith on government intervention in capitalism

John Maynard Keynes and his leading North American disciple John Kenneth Galbraith insisted that traditional free market capitalism and laissez faire economic thought of the 19th Century variety were no longer valid to the problems of modern industrial society.

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Las Casas on Spanish violence and native resistance in Hispaniola

Las Casas, Bartolome de. "Brief account of the devastation of the Indies," 1542. From Human Rights Protection, 2008. Accessed December 21, 2011 at http://www.rpo.gov.pl/pliki/12289972270.pdf

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Interpersonal therapy effectiveness for postpartum depression treatment

Postpartum depression or postnatal depression is a term that describes the occurrence of moderate to severe depression in a woman after she has given birth (although sometimes men are given this diagnosis when severe depression occurs after the birth of a child).

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