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Wolfensteller, Uta; von Cramon, D. Yves – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010
The implementation of higher-order conditional motor behavior was investigated in the present fMRI study with the objective of answering three questions: (a) what happens in situations where one stimulus dimension alone does not sufficiently determine the correct response?; (b) does the implementation of second-order stimulus-response (S-R) rules…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Behavior
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Swim, Janet K.; Clayton, Susan; Howard, George S. – American Psychologist, 2011
We are facing rapid changes in the global climate, and these changes are attributable to human behavior. Humans produce this global impact through our use of natural resources, multiplied by the vast increase in population seen in the past 50 to 100 years. Our goal in this article is to examine the underlying psychosocial causes of human impact,…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Context Effect, Behavior
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Nesselroade, John R.; Gerstorf, Denis; Hardy, Sam A.; Ram, Nilam – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
Ideally, the unit of analysis in psychology is the individual. However, many psychological methods do not cope well, either at the level of construct definition or at the level of measurement, with individuality in behavior. There is little leeway for constructs to be both idiosyncratically tailored to the individual, and still identified as…
Descriptors: Psychology, Behavior, Factor Analysis, Individual Differences