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Eloge de la bêtise
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ISBN: 2130516777 Year: 2001 Publisher: [Paris] : Presses universitaires de France,

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Combating terrorism : assessing the threat of a biological weapons attack : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, October 12, 2001.
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Combating terrorism : assessing threats, risk management, and establishing priorities : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, July 26, 2000.
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Psychological and developmental assessment: children with disabilities and chronic conditions
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ISBN: 1572306459 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Guildford


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Development and validation of a novel method for evaluating behavior and temperament in guide dogs.
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Most guide and service dog organizations would benefit from the development of accurate methods for the early evaluation of canine temperament traits. This paper describes the development and validation of a novel questionnaire method for assessing behavior and temperament in 1-year-old guide dogs. Volunteer puppy-raisers scored a total of 1097 prospective guide dogs on a series of 40 semantic differential-type, behavioral rating scales. Principle components factor analysis of these scores extracted eight stable and interpretable common factors: stranger-directed fear/aggression, non-social fear, energy level, owner-directed aggression, chasing, trainability, attachment, and dog-directed fear/aggression. Three of these eight factors exhibited moderate internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha greater than or equal to 0.72), while the reliabilities of the remaining factors were relatively low (Cronbach's alpha = 0.53-0.61). The eight factors were then validated against the guide dog school's own criteria for rejecting dogs for behavioral reasons. The results of this analysis confirmed the construct validity of the puppy raisers' questionnaire assessments of their dogs, and suggested that such methods can provide a useful and accurate means of predicting the suitability of dogs for guiding work. Various modifications to the original questionnaire are proposed in order to enhance its overall reliability. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved

Dynamic assessment of young children
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ISBN: 0306465108 1461354641 1461512557 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Kluwer academic/Plenum,

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Dynamic/interactive assessment has been a long time coming! It has been almost a century since Alfred Binet suggested that assessment of the processes of learn­ ing should constitute a priority in the mental testing movement, and over 60 years since Andre Rey made the same suggestion. An important model that supports many contemporary approaches to "flexible" or "process" assessment was offered by Vygotsky in the 1920s. The ground breaking work by Reuven Feuerstein and his Swiss colleagues on process assessment of North African Jewish children was done in the early 1950s. In the intervening years almost every serious psy­ chometrist has, at one time or another, called for emphasis on assessment of the of learning, rather than an exclusive emphasis on assessment of the processes products of prior opportunities to learn. One has to wonder why we have had to wait so long for formalization and instrumentation of the methods for doing just that! Of course, we psychologists like to do what we do well, and we have learned to do static, normative assessment, especially of "intelligence," very well indeed. Unfortunately, it is also true that dynamic/interactive assessment has not attracted or fueled the volume of high-quality research that is still going to be necessary if it is to survive as a widely used supplement to static, normative testing. This volume, incorporating a strong research base, goes a long way toward remedia­ tion of that situation.

The Family System Test FAST : theory and application
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ISBN: 041521789X Year: 2001 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.): Taylor and Francis

Methods of behavior analysis in neuroscience
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ISBN: 084930704X Year: 2001 Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press [Chemical Rubber Company],

Counselling the person beyond the alcohol problem
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ISBN: 1846427061 1417504455 9781417504459 9781846427060 1843100029 Year: 2001 Publisher: Philadelphia Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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This practical book shows how client-focused counselling can support problem drinkers seeking to develop and sustain a less alcohol-centred way of life. Supported by contributions from clients who have undergone counselling for alcohol reliance, this is a comprehensive for people working with those who have a problematic relationship with alcohol.

Relational frame theory : a post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition
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ISBN: 9780306466007 0306466007 9780306476389 9786610201228 1280201223 030647638X Year: 2001 Publisher: New York, New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,

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Human language and our use of it to communicate or to understand the world requires deriving relations among events: for example, if A=B and A=C, then B=C. Relational frame theory argues that such performances are at the heart of any meaningful psychology of language and cognition. From a very early age, human beings learn relations of similarity, difference, comparison, time, and so on, and modify what they do in a given situation based on its derived relation to others situations and what is known about them. This volume goes beyond theory and gives the empirical and conceptual tools to conduct an experimental analysis of virtually every substantive topic in human language and cognition, both basic and applied. As the term `post-Skinnerian' suggests, this volume challenges behavioral psychology to abandon many of the specific theoretical formulations of its most prominent historical leader in the domain of complex human behavior, especially in human language and cognition, and approach the field from a new direction. The need for a pragmatically useful analysis of language and cognition is as enormous and varied as its extensions and applications. This volume will be of interest not only to behavior theorists but also to cognitive psychologists, therapists, educators, and anyone studying the human condition.

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Psycholinguistics. --- Cognition. --- Behavioral assessment. --- Psycholinguistique --- Cognition --- Analyse comportementale --- Experimentele psychologie --- psycholinguistiek --- Artificial intelligence. --- Consciousness. --- Languages. --- Philosophy (General). --- Psychology, clinical. --- Psycholinguistics --- Behavioral assessment --- Clinical Psychology --- Psychology --- Social Sciences --- Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- psycholinguistiek. --- Psychology. --- Clinical psychology. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Psychology, Clinical. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Thought and thinking --- Assessment of behavior --- Behavior assessment --- Behavioral analysis --- Behavioral evaluation --- Psychodiagnostics --- Psychological aspects --- Methodology

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