Category Archives: Perfectly Flawed

Human interest and/or personal stories

Before the paper Effect of a Health Game Prompt

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Priscilla

There are two stories here. One is the story of the content of the paper and this is pretty straight forward. It started reading a paper and wondering about something: “…reading the work of Brooks, it seemed to me that … Continue reading →

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Learning strategies and metacognition

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Priscilla

In very broad strokes there are three kinds of learning strategies: rehearsal, elaboration and organisational. Rehearsal is the much used ‘rinse and repeat’ approach of content repetition or rote learning. Elaboration might include the use of mnemonics, paraphrasing or summarizing … Continue reading →

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A tale of two papers

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Priscilla

Writing, submitting and publishing a paper contains the best of times and the worst of times. There is great pleasure in getting your thoughts down on paper, hammering on them with earlier research and the critical eyes of all the … Continue reading →

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Greater self-efficacy

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Priscilla

Self-efficacy is a persons’ belief in their capability to perform any task. When looking at self-efficacy we are not so much loooking at how correct this assesment is, but rather we are interested in the belief of the person.   … Continue reading →

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Humourous

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Priscilla

Different theories on humour Aggression, incongruity, and arousal-safety are the three explanatory mechanisms that most humour theories rely on. When a joke attacks an individual or group, this is considered an aggression based joke. These kind of jokes usually contain … Continue reading →

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DEAL WITH IT / Serenity

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Priscilla

One of the things out there that can give us more insight into coping by breaking a few things down is the structure of Primary and Secondary Appraisal (Chesney, Neilands, Chambers, Taylor, & Folkman, 2006). These are the two connected … Continue reading →

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