Aspectos Evolutivos y Educativos de la Deficiencia Visual

With a quiz at the beginning that helps readers determine their dominant temperament, this self-improvement manual also demonstrates what they can learn from other temperament types, all in an effort to achieve greater happiness. The author asks readers to imagine that they carry around a backpack that they’ve spent a lifetime filling up with beliefs, values, attitudes, and repressed emotions. Rather than being weighed down by this baggage, though, she encourages them to replace unwanted and harmful items—complacency, anger, self-pity, perfectionism, and others—with positive parcels...

A new understanding of ADD, along with practical information on how to recognize and treat the disorder

El presente trabajo estudia la derivación de funciones psicológicas establecidas por condicionamiento aversivo. La derivación (también denominada transferencia o transformación) de funciones es un área de investigación relativamente nueva dentro del análisis de conducta (vg. Dougher y Markham, 1996), que se centra en el estudio de la emergencia de funciones conductuales no entrenadas de manera específica, esto es, funciones cuya aparición en ciertas circunstancias no puede ser explicada por una historia directa de contingencias de reforzamiento. Esta línea de trabajo se puede...

It's true that human beings as a species are equipped with a brain that allows us to think and carry out a series of complex functions. Thanks to our gray matter, we are able to make use of superior faculties such as intelligence, willpower, freedom, and consciousness, among others. However, if reasoning is a quality that distinguishes us, why don't we put it at the service of our happiness? Our actions affect others, and as much as we take responsibility for our personal mental health, we act for the benefit of others, always searching for a better quality of life and a healthy life that's...