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This text guides writers through the steps for producing an acceptable review of fine and performing arts. Campbell Titchener suggests ways to approach both familiar and unfamiliar art forms to prepare an informed evaluation, and includes current examples from practicing journalists and veteran critics.

Considers the use of sex to promote brands, magazines, video games, TV programming, music and movies. Exploring sexual information used in mass media to sell products and programs, this book will be of interest for scholars and students in advertising, marketing, media promotion, persuasion, mass communication & society, and gender studies.

In a managed care era, the MMPI-2 is required to generate more and more of the assessments that a battery of instruments once did. Edward Gotts and Thomas Knudsen have integrated useful MMPI scales with all the standard MMPI-2 scales.

A resource for practitioners who in a managed care era need to focus their testing not on the general goals of personality assessment, symptom identification, and diagnosis so often presented to them as students and trainees, but on specific questions: What course of treatment should this person receive? How is it going? Was it effective?

This volume presents an analysis of the children's television community--the organizations, major players, and approaches to programming--and offers an overview of the history, current state, and future of children's TV. The Children¿s Television Community is highly informative for educators, industry professionals, and practitioners in media, developmental psychology, and education.

Designed to help readers understand research reports, analyze data, and familiarize themselves with the conceptual underpinnings of statistical analyses used in behavioral science literature..

This book discusses measures of work-family, conflict, policies designed to reduce conflict, comparisons with other industrialized nations, and reasons why family-friendly work-policies have not been adopted with enthusiasm.

Presenting a range of approaches to understanding the role, function, impact, and presence of performance in education, this volume is a definitive contribution to a beginning dialogue on how performance, as a theoretical and pragmatic lens, can be used to view the processes, procedures, and politics of education.

The aim of this book is to present results of scientific research on how digital information should be designed and how artifacts or systems containing digital content should maximize usability, and to explain how context can influence the nature and effectiveness of digital communication.

Showing that writing groups function first and foremost as literary events, this work argues for writing groups to be seen contextually. One can then begin to comprehend the different types of collaboration that take place in writing groups across setting and communities.

This text brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on the negotiation of language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle over whose knowledge, discourses, and literacy practices "count".

This work is an addition to a series of annual publications of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) that address major issues, the latest research and the best practices in the field of adult literacy and learning.

This volume features contributions from many of the leading scientists in probability and statistics from the latter part of the 20th century. It is designed to appeal to researchers, professionals and students interested in the history and development of statistics and probability.

These are the proceedings of a workshop held at Emory University in 2002 to discuss what makes a symbol symbolic. The text synthesises recurring themes, questions, concerns, and conclusions and offers a new perspective on the process of understanding the relation between symbol use and symbolic insight.

Asserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. It focuses on the outcome of globalization in and among communities, and makes a case for the importance of local social practices, communicative conventions, linguistic realities, and knowledge paradigms to actively inform language policies.

This volume covers endogenous and exogenous causal forces in perception; inevitable natural laws and superpowerful mathematics; measurement, counting, magical graphs, and some statistical curiosities; and erroneous assumptions and conceptual errors.

This text provides background information for users of the "Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module", but can also be used by education students or others as an adjunct to the module. Each of the six sections covers a particular issue, including the seven points of home-school conflict.

The central argument of this book is that cognition is not the whole story in understanding intellectual functioning and development. To account for inter-individual, intra-individual, and developmental variability in actual intellectual performance, it is necessary to treat cognition, emotion, and motivation as inextricably related.

This book will focus on the important role of resistance in the persuasion process. It will be of interest to persuasion professors, researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in the fields of social psychology, marketing, and communications.

Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making valuable new discoveries and inventions. A special focus for this volume is to explore what fine-grained case studies can tell us about cognitive processes.

Studing the relationship of visual images to persuasion, this book analyzes a wide variety of visual modes of communication that demonstrate some of the variety among the many kinds of texts that could be considered instances of visual rhetoric.

This book in intended to be a resource for students, a guide for future researchers, and a call to concerned citizens to use this wealth of information to guide their own efforts to mitigate the pernicious effects of stigma in their daily lives.

A resource for practitioners who in a managed care era need to focus their testing not on the general goals of personality assessment, symptom identification, and diagnosis so often presented to them as students and trainees, but on specific questions: What course of treatment should this person receive? How is it going? Was it effective?

Reflecting policy and standards initiatives, emerging research agendas, and key innovations, this book provides a contemporary overview of important developments and issues that have, in recent years, shaped elementary science education pre-service courses and professional development and practices that are shaping future directions in the field.

An examination of the research issues surrounding innovative pedagogies. Using service-learning as its focus, the text explores ways in which researchers and evaluators can study a teaching and learning approach that has multiple goals including both academic and affective development.

This work focuses on the child's development of memory, visual representation, and language. It should be useful for students and researchers in cognitive psychology, language acquisition, and memory.

For many years behaviorism was criticized because it rejected the study of perception. This rejection was based on the extreme view that percepts were internal subjective experiences and thus not subject to examination. This book argues that this logic is incorrect and shows how visual perception, particularized in the study of form recognition, can be carried out from the behavioral point of view if certain constraints and limitations are understood and accepted. The book discusses the idea of representation of forms, considers the major historical neural, psychological, and computational theories of form recognition, and then concludes by presenting a modern approach to the problem. In this book, William Uttal continues his critical analysis of the foundations of modern psychology. He is particularly concerned with the logical and conceptual foundations of visual perception and uses form recognition as a vehicle to rationalize the discrepancies between classic behaviorism and what we now appreciate are legitimate research areas.

Through his extensive research, editorial activities, and his enormous impact on students and colleagues, Robert S. Wyer, Jr. has established himself as a prolific scholar in the history of social psychology. This book is a tribute to his remarkable contributions.

Examines the role of the speed of information processing in the brain in determining reading fluency in both normal and dyslexic readers. Part I explains fluency in reading from both traditional and modern perspectives. Part II deals with the determinants of reading fluency.