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 Onaylı and 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