Equivalence Rules for Sentential Logic
In any logic system, you compare statements to prove or disprove their validity. With sentential logic, you use the following equivalence rules to make those comparisons: [more…]
Identity and Quantifier Rules for Quantifier Logic
Quantifier logic encompasses the rules of sentential logic and expands upon them so that you can write whole statements with logic symbols. Those symbols come into play when you work with [more…]
Tips for Taking a Logic Exam
Taking an exam in logic calls for a clear head and a clear plan. The tips in the following list can help you approach a logic exam with the best chance to prove your proficiency: [more…]
Logic For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Logic is more than a science, it’s a language, and if you’re going to use the language of logic, you need to know the grammar, which includes operators, identities, equivalences, and quantifiers for both [more…]
Building Confidence in Sports
Sports psychology can help athletes looking to improve their confidence. You may be the strongest, tallest, most powerful athlete on the field, court, or track, but if you aren’t confident in your abilities [more…]
Improving Your Focus with Sports Psychology
Focus is one of the most powerful tools in sports psychology. Whatever sport you compete in, the ability to focus is essential to success. When you’re in the middle of a practice or competition, does your [more…]
Using Sports Psychology as a Coach
As a coach, you can run drills with your athletes day and night, but if you ignore your athletes’ minds, you’ll only tap into a fraction of what they can do. Here are some ways you can use sports psychology [more…]
Sports Psychology For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Being a successful athlete is about more than just physical strength and agility — your mind plays a key part in your winning performance. You can use sports psychology techniques to build confidence and [more…]
Keeping NLP Coaching Confidential
Confidentiality is an essential ingredient in establishing trust in a Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) coaching relationship. Your clients must feel extremely safe in your hands right from the outset [more…]
NLP TOTE Model Coaching Strategies
The benefit of understanding Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) coaching strategies is that if you can find times when your clients are motivated, energised, excited, making good decisions and really firing [more…]
How to Establish Your Core Values
Values bring energy and direction; they’re at the heart of what makes an individual tick. When people deeply understand their values, they can create a way of operating in the world that leads them to [more…]
Taking Perceptual Positions with NLP
Perceptual positions help you imagine what difficult situations look like when viewed with others’ eyes. The term refers to the ability to imagine what others perceive by imagining that you are that other [more…]
Making a Great First Impression
Making a powerful first impression helps enormously with persuasion and influence. Follow these recommendations when you want the impression you make to be the best it can possibly be. [more…]
Building Rapport in Relationships
Rapport is about making a two-way connection between people. It is the foundation for any relationship. When it comes to building rapport, size doesn’t matter. You can develop rapport on a one-to-one basis [more…]
Your Persuasion and Influence To-Do List
This is a list of behaviours for you to adopt that can help you become a person of persuasion and influence. Rather than tackling them all at once, pick one or two to begin with and focus on them for a [more…]
Examining the Characteristics of a Psychopath
Robert Hare's Psychopathy checklist is a tool commonly used in clinical practice to assess whether an individual is a psychopath. Here are Hare’s definitions of two types of psychopath: [more…]
Using Forensic Psychology in Assessing a Criminal Offender
Forensic Psychologists often assess offenders to determine whether they’re fit to plead their case in court, or are likely to be violent in the future. There are a number of important issues to be considered [more…]
Identifying Criminal Capacity in Children with Forensic Psychology
Criminality can often be linked back to an offender’s childhood. A child who exhibits three or more of the following behaviours is at risk of becoming seriously anti-social as an adult: [more…]
Forensic Psychology For Dummies Cheat Sheet (UK Edition)
Forensic Psychology is the application of psychological knowledge to the criminal justice system. Print out and pin up this Cheat Sheet to remind yourself of how Forensic Psychology is used within the [more…]
Determining the Role of Variables in Psychology Statistics
In psychology statistics, research studies which involve collecting quantitative data (any data that can be counted or rendered as numbers) usually require you to collect and store data on a data sheet [more…]
Choosing between Mode, Median and Mean in Psychology Statistics
When putting together the psychology statistics you need to report when you’re describing a variable in a report, you need to know which of the three measures of central tendency – the mode, median and [more…]
Choosing the Right Measure of Dispersion in Psychology Statistics
The measures of dispersion you use in psychology statistics show you the spread or variability of the variable you are measuring. The three main ones are the range, the interquartile range and the standard [more…]
Looking at Levels of Measurement in Psychology Statistics
When working with psychology statistics you can classify variables according to their measurement properties. When you record variables on a data sheet, you usually record the values on the variables as [more…]
Psychology Statistics For Dummies Cheat Sheet (UK Edition)
You may be more interested in studying psychology than in crunching numbers, but knowing psychology statistics is essential if you’re going to make all that research data stack up, and have other people [more…]
What to Do in a Psychological Crisis
When someone is in a state of panic or extremely angry about something, it’s useful to have some basic ideas of how to help. You can use psychological first aid — a form of crisis intervention that consists [more…]
