Psychology and the Search for Certainty in Everyday Life

Edited by Daphne Halkias

ISBN: 978-960-9549-35-6, 324 pages

First published in 2013 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Psychology and the Search for Certainty in Everyday Life: An Introduction Daphne Halkias		i
Part I: Educational Psychology
1.	Links between Metacognition and the Self-esteem of School-children Valérie Pennequin, Olivier Sorel and Charlotte Radafshar-Faget	3
2.	Is School-yard Bullying Driven by Defensive Personality? Paul R. Nail, Elson M. Bihm and Joan B. Simon	17
3.	Middle School Mathematics Teachers’ Implicit Conceptions about Multiple Representations for Functions Alfredo Bautista, Bárbara M. Brizuela and Yi-Yin Ko	31
4.	Portfolios as an Assessment Tool of Learning and Competences from Students with SEN Adelinda Araújo Candeias, João Silva, Maria José Saragoça and Mónica Rebocho	49
5.	Project “Positive Attitude”: Promoting School Success through Social and Emotional Abilities Development. Design for Elementary and Middle School Students, Portugal  Vitor Alexandre Belo de Moura Pereira Coelho and Ana Paula Couceiro Figueira	63
6.	The Variations of Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Problems after Participating in Play Therapy (As per A. Adler Theory) Laura Valytė and Liuda Šinkariova	79
7.	Raven's Color Progressive Matrices Test in Children from Public and Private Schools without Mental Health Problems Rosangela Kátia Sanches Mazzorana Ribeiro, Latife Yazigi, Rosimeire do Nascimento and Isabel Altenfelder Bordin	91
Part II: Cognitive Psychology
8.	Study of Exploratory Model about the Effects of Cognitive Abilities, Socio Emotional Competences in School Achievement Adelinda Araújo Candeias, Manuela Oliveira, Catarina Dias and Fátima Leal	101
9.	Social Representations of Technology by University Students from Diverse Disciplinary Grounds Alberta Contarello, Sonia Brondi and Raffaella Romano	113
10.	The Elusive X Factor: Engaging Transfer of Training Lex McDonald	133
11.	Subliminal Persuasion: Psychological and Juristic History and Current State of Affairs Christina Bermeitinger and Benjamin Unger	149
12.	The Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome Eva Bolceková, Jindřich Fiala, Robert Rusina and Petr Kulišťák	163
Part III: Adult Development Psychology
13.	Self Esteem and Self Types Selin Onaylıand K. Funda Barutçu	181
14.	Using Sociomapping of Crew Communication and Cooperation as a Tool for Team Performance Management in the Ground-based Experiment Simulating manned Flight to Mars Alek Lačev, Tomáš Srb, Iva Poláčková Šolcová, Radvan Bahbouh, Jaroslav Sýkora and Cyril Höschl	193
15.	Relationships between MCMI-III Personality Patterns and Anxiety and Depression Scales: Analyses of 1,200 Tests Administered in an Outpatient Practice Michael A. Church, Jess G. Kohlert and Charles I. Brooks	207
16.	Features of Mental Development of Children with Mild Perinatal Brain Pathology Alfiya S. Sultanova and Irina A. Ivanova	217
17.	Lost Self: Four Theoretical Discourse on New Psychological, Personal & Social Pathos Saeid Abdolmalaki	229
18.	Personality Disorders and Cognitive Performance: A Study with the WAIS-III Nara Lucia Poli Botelho, Aspasia Papazanakis, Maria Luiza de Mattos Fiore, Lucas de Francisco Carvalho and Latife Yazigi	245
19.	Academic Entitlement in a Canadian Context Kenneth M. Cramer, Laurie Freeman-Gibb, Kathryn D. Lafreniere, Craig Ross and Simone Foster	259
20.	Basic Assumptions and Different Kinds of Interpersonal Tolerance in Psychology Students Galina Kozhukhar	273
21.	Psychological Time of Women aged from 55 to 65 Years Elena Dorosheva, Andrey Golubev and Larisa Mishenina	287