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    Creativity is one of those grand psychological constructs that both professionals and laypeople seem to understand but no one can unambiguously define. The reason for this might be that, as mentioned earlier, creativity appears to overlap traditional ID categories. It is certainly a major constituent of intelligence. However, creativity also extends beyond the intellectual domain: there are sources of individual and developmental differences in creative performance include not only process aspects, but aspects of knowledge, thinking styles, personality, motivation, and the environmental context in which the individual operates. Ever since those early days creativity has remained an important although somewhat underresearched subject in psychology with reviewed relevant behavioral, biological, clinical, cognitive, developmental, economic, educational, historiometric, organizational, psychometric, and social research. Otherwise thorough overview of creativity research ...

Learning strategy use and, more generally, self-regulated learning, are typically measured by self-report questionnaires. These instruments are based on the assumption that strategy use and strategic learning are related to an underlying aptitude because items ask respondents to generalize their actions across situations rather than referencing singular and specific learning events. Although the concept of learning strategy has been influential in developments in language teaching methodology, the unresolved theoretical problems surrounding the concept and its measurement made it less appropriate for research purposes: In the absence of a tight definition, it is unclear what different researchers mean by the term language learning strategy and the actual language learning strategy measures presented in the various studies tend not to have sufficient psychometric properties. The logical question is, then, whether or not we need to abandon the concept altogether. Various mnemonic str...

  Injuries that are deliberately self-inflicted are common and their examination is a frequent task for both pathologists and clinical forensic practitioners. These events consist of suicide, attempted suicide and suicidal gestures, the latter lacking the intention to kill though death may inadvertently ensue. In addition, there is non-suicidal self-inflicted trauma, as described below. One of the most difficult decisions that can face pathologists ,medical examiners and legal authorities, such as coroners, is the differentiation between homicide, suicide, accident and other self-inflicted injury. Though it is not the legal function of a pathologist to attribute motive, his   experience and training are often the factors that lead the official authority to make a decision as to the classification of the manner of death or injury.   In addition, when a pathologist is assisting the police in the early stages of a death investigation, his opinion and decision about the m...

La majorité des décès sont causés manuellement, soit en frappant ou battre avec les mains, secouer, lancer, laisser tomber et - moins souvent - par brûlure ou suffocation. C'est exceptionnel que la mort soit causée par l'impact d'un objet contondant instrument, bien que des ecchymoses non mortelles dues aux coups avec un une sangle, par exemple, est parfois vue. Tir, étranglement et les coups de couteau sont caractéristiques de l'homicide classique, qui est distinct du syndrome de maltraitance des enfants. Le mode de décès le plus courant est le traumatisme crânien. Suivant dans la fréquence est la rupture d'un viscère abdominal, laissant un large gamme de blessures diverses pour tenir compte du petit reste. En se concentrant sur les résultats de l'autopsie, les différents types de le traumatisme sera décrit ; même si beaucoup ne le feront pas d'eux-mêmes ont causé ou même contribué à la mort. Leur la reconnaissance n'en est pas moins indispensable car, ...