1. Psychologist intern at Instituto de Cardiologia; Specialized in Hospital Psychology, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. 2. Psychologist Coordinator of the Psychology Service in Instituto de Cardiologia – Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia/ IC-FUC; Coordinator and Preceptor of Integrated Internship in Health: Cardiology – RISC, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. 3. Cardiologist at Instituto de Cardiologia F...

purpose: the present paper aims to relate self-efficacy as an important psychological construct to information literacy as an essential requisite of the information society.methodology: reviewing related literature in communication, sociology, information science and computer science.findings: self-efficacy could increase interest, efforts, enjoy, self-regulation and performance. it is consider...

Despite a widespread acceptance that the brain that underpins human psychology is the result of biological evolution, very few psychologists in any way incorporate an evolutionary perspective in their research or practice. There have been many attempts to convince mainstream psychology of the importance of such a perspective, mostly from those who identify with "Evolutionary Psychology," and th...

Much of the work of a clinical psychologist consists of making relatively routine psychological measurements of fairly well established traits, either cognitive or orectic. It is well known, however, that there can be no measurement without error. The psychologist must have the means of taking error into account if he is to assess his test scores intelligently. There appear to be three main typ...