Search

The paper reflects on psychological research on spirituality. It takes issue with the purpose of such research and with psychological definitions of spirituality. It deals with the question what type of psychology is required, and makes some recommendations for empirical research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with common activity of parents and children as one of the effective educational instruments developing mastering diverse kinds of activities and supporting the favourable emotional climate in family. It continues the previously published text "Educational interaction of parents and children and its transformations" that is supplied by further research data. The results brought factual data concerning the proportion of commonly executed activities in adolescent boys and girls with their parents and proposed the conditions for their effective implementation. It shows that favourable emotional relations of parents and adolescents are important for the implementation of common activities. Common activity of parents and children represents an important socialization and educational factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper informs about the battery and its development, including recent projects of screening batteries (Horwitz et al., 2008; Vanderlice-Barr et al., 2008). It sums up the discussions about psychometric features of HRNB, about relation of fixed and flexible batteries, and quite flexible test selection, about rightfulness of court expert examinations in the USA. According to the author, the objections of some critics that the HRNB battery is outclassed by the development do not stand. HRNB is being developed due to numerous studies, the norms and interpretations are precised, new procedures originate in its framework. The sample consisting of more than 520 persons was examined by the Czech translation of the method, with useful application among others in schizophrenia (comparison of ill and their healthy twins, relation of neuropsychological tests to monitoring eye-movements and to density of white cortex), in epilepsy (pharmacotherapy and compensation), and in persons with chronic intoxication by toxic substances (toluene, mercury, dioxin). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proposal of alternative procedure measuring intelligence by dynamic test is described in the paper. The traditional intelligence tests identify usually how much and what a person has learned of what is tested. The dynamic tests have ambition to estimate the measure in which the child is able to learn. As a theoretical starting point the authors choose the Campione and Brown theory of intelligence and its postulates about characteristics of executive system that is influenced by child's environment characteristics in early childhood. The basic principles of dynamic testing are characterised applied usually in two forms: as long-termed or shorttermed learning tests that differ in duration of the learning phase. The authors decided to construct a dynamic test using the principles of the short-termed learning test. The model of short-termed dynamic test is described using for the measurement of latent learning abilities the tasks having the character of subjectivelly new problems for a child and provided by standardized graded help for its solving. The proposed dynamic test is advisable for 6 to 8 years aged children coming from socially disadvantaging environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]