This book critically examines the historical and philosophical foundations of construct validity theory (CVT), and how these have and continue to inform and constrain the conceptualization of validity and its application in research.
This text is about doing science and the active process of reading, learning, thinking, generating ideas, designing experiments, and the logistics surrounding each step of the research process.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to psychological assessment and covers areas not typically addressed in existing test and measurements texts, such as neuropsychological assessment and the use of tests in forensics settings.
Claus Lampert ermöglicht den Auszubildenden und Mitarbeitern in der Hotel- und Gastronomiebranche mittels Hotel- und Barpsychologie einen Einblick in die Grundlagen der Psychologie.
Der vorliegende Band versammelt einführende Beiträge, die einen Überblick über das Feld kritischer Psychologien im deutsch- und englischsprachigen Raum sowie deren methodisch-methodologische Implikationen verschaffen.
This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan's controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important.
This book argues that some aspects of mental health practice have become mechanical, joyless and uninspiring, leading to a loss of creativity and wellbeing.
This book presents a model of supervision that is based on both contemporary theory and research, which is strongly contextualized to child and family social work.
This work challenges the current reliance on "e;The Three R's"e; or Replacement, Reduction and Refinement which direct most animal research in the behavioral sciences.
Alle Analysen werden an einem durchgehenden Fallbeispiel konkret und transparent durchgeführt Strukturgleichungsmodelle sind in allen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen von größter Bedeutung, da sie das Standardinstrument zur empirischen Prüfung von Hypothesensystemen darstellen.
This book applies a range of ideas about scientific discovery found in contemporary philosophy of science to psychology and related behavioral sciences.
This book explores missing data techniques and provides a detailed and easy-to-read introduction to multiple imputation, covering the theoretical aspects of the topic and offering hands-on help with the implementation.
Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden wie Befragungen, Beobachtungen und Inhaltsanalysen kommen in der Marktforschung, bei Studien zur Zeitgeschichte, in der Stadtplanung und in der Kommunikationsforschung zum Einsatz.
Students can find statistical analysis a challenging and complex task and, in order to master the techniques and complete their assignments and projects successfully, they need to have a sound understanding of IBM SPSS and its functions.
Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure, this book provides essential distinctions for thinking through the history and systems of Western psychology.
Since the late 19th century, when the "e;new science"e; of psychology and interest in esoteric and occult phenomena converged - leading to the "e;discovery"e; of the unconscious - the dual disciplines of depth psychology and mysticism have been wed in an often unholy union.
In Decision Making and Problem Solving: A Practical Guide for Applied Research, the author utilizes traditional approaches, tools, and techniques adopted to solve current day-to-day, real-life problems.
This edited volume offers useful resources for researchers conducting fieldwork in various global conflict contexts, bringing together a range of international voices to relay important methodological challenges and opportunities from their experiences.
This graduate-level textbook is a tutorial for item response theory that covers both the basics of item response theory and the use of R for preparing graphical presentation in writings about the theory.
Dieses anwendungsnahe Grundlagenbuch erläutert den Stand von Wissenschaft und Technik zum gesamten Prozess der Personalauswahl: von A wie Anforderungsanalyse bis Z wie Zuverlässigkeit.
This book focuses on the latest developments in behaviormetrics and data science, covering a wide range of topics in data analysis and related areas of data science, including analysis of complex data, analysis of qualitative data, methods for high-dimensional data, dimensionality reduction, visualization of such data, multivariate statistical methods, analysis of asymmetric relational data, and various applications to real data.
This book provides users of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) with information on applying the WAIS-IV, including additional indexes and information regarding use in special populations for advanced clinical use and interpretation.
Alternatives to Suicide: Beyond Risk and Toward a Life Worth Living demonstrates how fostering resilience and a desire for life can broaden and advance an understanding of suicide.
Im Jahr 2014 nahmen Volbert und Steller eine Neuordnung der 19 Kriterien der Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) vor, welche die Kriterien anhand möglicher zugrundeliegender Prozesse in 1.
This is the first technical book that considers tests as public tools and examines how to engineer and process test data, extract the structure within the data to be visualized, and thereby make test results useful for students, teachers, and the society.
Strukturgleichungsmodelle stellen das Standardinstrument zur empirischen Prüfung von hypothetisierten Beziehungen zwischen theoretischen Konstrukten (latenten Variablen) dar.
