Methodological Comments and Application Fields of Fear Conditioning in Different Psychological DisciplinesAbstract. Fear conditioning represents an important paradigm for investigating emotional learning and memory processes. With a history of about 100 ...
Effects of Familiarizing Children With Objects on Their Early Gestural Behavior: Individual Differences in 16-Month-Old ChildrenAbstract. There is ongoing discussion on the function of the early production of gestures with regard to whether they reduce ...
Compensatory health beliefs (CHBs)–beliefs that an unhealthy behavior can
be compensated for by a healthy behavior–can be distinguished into
trait and state beliefs. Trait CHBs are stable individual differences, whereas
state CHBs are activated in a ...
Zusammenfassung. Selbstauskünfte leisten bedeutsame Beiträge zur Aufklärung interindividueller Unterschiede in der räumlichen Orientierung. Es wird über die Entwicklung und Validierung des deutschen Fragebogens Räumliche Strategien (FRS) berichtet, der ...
Zusammenfassung. Texte und Bilder stellen weitverbreitete Repräsentationsformen bei der Wissensvermittlung dar. Neuere computerbasierte Lehr- und Lernumgebungen bieten die Möglichkeit, die Textinformation als Hörtext oder als Lesetext anzubieten. Bislang ...
Psychological adjustment and school achievement during transition from elementary to secondary schoolAbstract. School transition from elementary to secondary school is often considered a critical life event typically requiring several readjustments. The ...
Preference for Intuition and Deliberation (PID): An Inventory for Assessing Affect- and Cognition-Based Decision-MakingAbstract: People differ in the way they make decisions: Some people prefer intuitive decision making, while others prefer a deliberate, ...
Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über individuelle Unterschiede bei der Lösung komplexer Probleme. Betrachtet werden Unterschiede in Wissen und Fertigkeiten, in Parametern der Informationsverarbeitung und in motivationalen Variablen. Das ...
Is the Negative Priming Effect a Reliable Measure of Individual Differences in Cognitive Inhibition?Summary: In cognitive psychology negative priming (NP) experiments were developed to assess inhibitory functions. NP, defined as a slowed reaction on ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Untersuchung hat die Entstehung interindividueller Unterschiede in der Entwicklung des aussagenlogischen Denkens zum Gegenstand. Dabei wird das Verhältnis zwischen der individuellen Entwicklung und den Bedingungen der ...
Development of a questionnaire for measuring perceived emotional intelligence: attention to, clarity, and repair of emotionsAbstract. Based on the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (Salovey, Mayer, Goldman, Turvey & Palfai, 1995) a German questionnaire was ...
Is there any need for German Language Journals on Psychological Assessment, Personality, and Individual Differences?Abstract.Leutner (1999) analyzed the publication habits of German spoken authors. Two tendencies showed up: (1) Articles on instruments ...