Sentences with phrase «other psychological concepts»

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These modifications do go beyond most of Whitehead's explicit statements about Psychological Physiology, but they neither constitute a substantial revision of his main operative concepts, nor are they inconsistent with some of his other remarks.

Writer and director Alex Garland manages to take a high - concept premise — a reclusive, Steve Jobs - like genius (Oscar Isaac) invites a young employee (Domhnall Gleeson) to test the android he created (Alicia Vikander) to see if she's truly intelligent — and tuns it into a claustrophobic, tense thriller, as the three circle each other through an hour and a half of vicious psychological manipulation and constant shifts in the balance of power.

In his seminal work, Children and Emotion: The Development of Psychological Understanding, Harris explores when and how children develop a concept of mental life, and how this relates to their understanding of the behavior, intentions, and emotions of other people.

Research related to optimal youth development has begun to delineate critical dimensions of important social contexts.8 — 11 For example, some researchers propose 3 basic experiences (ie, connection, regulation, and autonomy) to define youth's main associations with their environment that can be measured across multiple settings.8, 12,13 Others have articulated similar concepts and expanded the number of dimensions to include characteristics, such as adequate nutrition, health, and shelter; physical and psychological safety; adequate and appropriate supervision and motivation; supportive relationships; support for efficacy and opportunities for skill building; and integration of family, school, and community efforts.10, 11

Parenting behaviors (behaviors of parents directed to the child) were assigned to the parenting dimensions: (1) support, (2) authoritative control, (3) authoritarian control, (4) behavioral control — including active monitoring3, (5) psychological control, (6) general control — concepts that are too broad for classification in a specific kind of control, (7) general parenting — aspects that covered both support and control, (8) indirect parenting behavior — parental knowledge and child disclosure (see footnote 3), and (9) other parenting — all remaining parenting that did not fit the other categories (e.g., fairness of discipline, co-parenting).

If a child receives tender loving care when in need, and support for autonomy during exploration from mother as well as father, such experiences are assumed to a) give the child a sense of worth, a belief in the helpfulness of others and enable the child to explore the environment with confidence; b) be an optimal precondition for mutually supportive, enduring adult partnerships; and c) provide a model for later parenthood.12, 6 Confident, competent exploration is equivalent to our concept of «secure» exploration.13 Combining the concept of secure attachment with secure exploration yields the concept of «psychological security» that we advocate.13

For example, some think the sum total of a custody case is something called «the psychological best interests of the child» [12] which aside from not being the custody decision - making standard in any state of the United States, is itself an undefined concept; others have opined that they are «the child's voice» [13a] or the «eyes and ears» of the judge [13b]; and others behave as if rather than being just another witness in a case, they are tantamount to being the de facto judge (the court, by calling them in, presumably having admitted to incompetence beyond uttering administrative orders for their benefit at the parties» expense, and handling case minutiae.)

Only a few previous studies (besides those mentioned earlier) have examined whether the relationship between the structure of the self - concept and psychological well - being was conditional on other variables.