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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics Copyright free Icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...et al. (2005) found that tests of general mental ability and specific cognitive abilities (verbal, numerical, perceptual and spatial) are valid predictors of both job performance and training success, especially for job roles that require complex thinking. Psychologists use different psychological theories to inform the content of each psychometric test plus statistical...
Crime fiction in French: le polar français Copyrighted Icon
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Crime fiction in French: le polar français

...et cuturel - Le roman policier moderne trouve ses origines dans le roman d’aventures qui apparaît en France, en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis au milieu du XIXe siècle. Il devient un sous-genre distinct peu de temps après. Pourquoi ces formes littéraires se sont-elles développées à ce moment et dans ces pays ? Pour répondre à ces questions, nous allons...
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain? Creative commons Icon
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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...et al., 2018). At any given time, one in six working-age adults have symptoms associated with mental ill health (McManus et al., 2016). There are 72 million working days lost every year due to mental health, costing the UK economy £74–£99 billion (Centre for Mental Health, 2017; Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care , 2017)....
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Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...et je suis chanteuse. Mon père et ma mère sont nés en Guadeloupe. La Guadeloupe, c’est une petite île qui se trouve près de l’Amérique latine, qui est à 8000 km de la France mais qui appartient à la France. C’est une île qui est très joviale, où il fait bon y vivre, enfin où il fait bon y passer les vacances. J’ai commencé par faire des études de...
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Employment relations and employee engagement

...emotional connections (Truss et al., 2013). Conversely, disengaged employees ‘uncouple’ themselves from their roles, suppressing personal involvement in physical, cognitive and emotional aspects of work. Engaged workers are generally considered to be ‘happy productive workers’. For example, it has been suggested that ‘engaged employees often experience positive...
Marketing communications in the digital age
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Marketing communications in the digital age

...et al., 2019, p. 634) Figure 3 Elements in the communications process The macro-model of communications illustrates that communications should be a circular process and not a linear one. In the next activity, you will apply this model to a hypothetical campaign. Activity 2 communications process model Timing: Allow around 10 minutes for this activity. For a hypothetical...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology

...et al., 2021). A combination of techniques (known collectively as psychological skills training) that are often drawn on by sports psychologists may help commercial pilots maintain - or improve - their performance. Training to excel in any sport and learning to become a pilot both require copious amounts of time, effort, focus, and motivation. International travel is an...
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What is Locus of Control?

...et al., 2019). Job turnover: those with internal locus of control are more likely to take positive action to change their jobs than those with external locus of control (Allen et al., 2005). Job search strategies: individuals with an internal locus of control search more for jobs. In addition, individuals who believe that their future outcomes are decided by external...