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This revision guide reviews the key topics required by the BPS curriculum, allowing readers to check their understanding of the research, debates and practical applications within the field.
"This is a practical guide. Learn how to target 'in flow' and 'low-threshold' activities that engage people creatively and improve their work-flow and learning. Identify people's struggles and stress areas, including 'high-threshold' activities for which a person may avoid or do…
"Gordon Allport was an American psychologist, largely credited with the development of personality psychology. Allport is particularly known for the development of his trait theory of personality. With a strong religious and moral upbringing, Allport had a strong desire to integ…
The parasite-stress theory of values and sociality offers a compelling evolutionary explanation as to why and how there is such wide variation and diversity of cultures and their underlying value and belief systems. Its authors propose that temporal and geographical variation in…
In the past four decades considerable efforts have been taken by higher education to understand learner’s differences and learning. Learners have different levels of learning ability associated with their different learning motivations, attitudes and thoughts which are built thr…
Dual-process models propose that two processes support recognition memory; familiarity, a general sense that something has been previously encountered; and recollection, the retrieval of details concerning the context in which a previous encounter occurred. Event-related potenti…
This study examines the acquisition of syntactic island constraints on wh-movement in English by native speakers of Najdi Arabic to test whether it is possible for second language learners (L2) to acquire syntactic constraints that are not present in their first language (L1). A…
Due to the rapid growth of Internet technology, universities and higher educational institutions around the world are investing heavily in web-based learning systems to support their traditional teaching and to improve their students’ learning experience and performance. However…
The rational choice perspective has a storied history dating back to the enlightenment period of the 1700s. In criminology, the perspective has undergone several revisions, testing, and iterations. One of the more recent lines of research in this perspective is the merger of ind…
This book explores current thinking about the role of corrective feedback in language learning and teaching. Corrective feedback is a topic that is of relevance to both theories of second language learning and language pedagogy. Younghee Sheen, an Assistant Professor of Applied …
This thorough exploration of the conceptual framework behind both oral and written feedback in ESL classrooms provides a historical perspective on past research, synthesizes current work on the topic, and details an original study into the effects of feedback.
Hypermedia Learning Systems (HLS) are being used increasingly widely in Higher Education, offering non-linear navigation through complex learning materials and, it is argued, leading to improve cognitive flexibility. For some learners, though, nonlinear navigation in HLS leads t…
"Synaesthesia is a fascinating cognitive phenomenon where one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another. For example, synaesthetes might perceive colours when listening to music, or tastes in the mouth when reading words. This book provides an insight into the idiosync…