This paper reports on how a university Introductory Psychology course was restructured after a campuswide information technology program was introduced at a small Canadian university. Our use of the campus Intranet and the Internet resulted in a technologyenhanced lecture environment, greater student exchange of ideas, greater and more efficient communication between the instructor and students...

This paper addresses a very salient feature of rural life and landscapes in Australia, natural disasters, and offers a psychological perspective on individual and community perceptions, responses, preparedness and planning. The convergent perspective offered reflects research and practice findings and insights from social and environmental psychology, as well as clinical, health and community p...

We find environmental psychology at the intersection between architecture and psychology. This article discusses the ways in which individuals are affected by architecture, departing from an early source on the psychology of architecture and taking three architectural examples as illustrations: a public place in Berlin, a health environment in Sweden, and a fitness centre in Denmark. Each of th...

This chapter concerns several important influences that biology has had on the development of psychology as a science. Specifically, we attempt to account for an apparent paradox: In the nineteenth century, rapid advances were made in relating biology in general and brain function in particular to the phenomena of mind. Throughout much of the first half of the twentieth century, however, these ...

This paper addresses the field of Artificial Intelligence, road it went so far and possible road it should go. The paper was invited by the Conference of IT Revolutions 2008, and discusses some issues not emphasized in AI trajectory so far. The recommendations are that the main focus should be personalities rather than programs or agents, that genetic environment should be introduced in reasoni...

Abstract Creating suitable classrooms that can meet the educational needs of mentally-retarded students is vitally important. The present study explores the effect of three physical characteristics of classroom environment on the creativity of educable mentally-retarded children: window view, window size, and classroom size. The participants, one hundred 9-to-11-year-old girl students, took th...

this study was an attempt to investigate the realization of catford’s shifts in the farsi translation of english psychology texts, a product-oriented point of view, shedding light on the areas farsi is different english. inspired by a study conducted by khorshidi (2010), the two questions raised in the study sought to detect the kinds of shifts applied in the translation of english psychology t...

This paper analyzes the concept and main ideas of positive psychology, discusses theoretical basis applying principle psychology to human resource management, problems encountered in development modern enterprise organization from a practical point view, its enlightenment management enterprises. From how establish culture create working environment for organization, training employees, includin...