Psicogente

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Authors: JOSÉ HERNANDO ÁVILA-TOSCANO*, SARA LUCÍA HOYOS PACHECO DIANA PAOLA GONZÁLEZ, ANGÉLICA CABRALES POLO

This research paper shows the results of the assessment of anxiety in university students of different careers in relation to examinations, the types of tests made and their academic performance. 200 students at a private university were evaluated through a correlational design to determine cognitive manifestations, physiological and motor anxiety. Data were analyzed using Pearson Chi square and showed significant relationships for each set of symptoms with academic performance (p<.05). Group work, tests such debates, argumentative tests, among others were significantly related to anxious symptoms. It can be concluded that test anxiety significantly affects university students which becomes a problem that requires comprehensive interventions.

294-309

Authors: Sandra Fontanilla*, Ana Mercedes Bello**, Jorge Palacio

This research paper describes the results of a study whose objective was to describe the sexual and reproductive behavior of adolescents aged 10-19 years attending school according to the attitude, beliefs, intention, knowledge, assertion skills and decision making in the city of Santa Marta (Colombia). The study was done from an analysis of the Theory of Planned Behavior and the variables included were: knowledge, sexual assertion skills and decision making based on the intention of sexual and reproductive behavior. The design research was a descriptive or experimental cross transaction. The instrument used was the sexual and reproductive health questionnaire-male and female version (CSR F-M) and a Likert-type scale (Peralta, Bello, Palacio, & Mosquera, 2010) was used for their design. It was validity by experts in the area, with a Cronbach’s Alpha greater than .85, indicating a very acceptable reliability. The sample was 556 adolescents from two private and three public schools of Santa Marta city. The results indicate a need to design better strategies to impart knowledge and empower sexual assertion skills and decision making in the teenagers work.

321-335

Authors: Gustavo Villamizar Ac

This review article examines the concept of intelligence and how it has been conceived and studied throughout history. The whole discourse analyzes the implicit theories of intelligence, which refer to the set of ideas generated for society as a result of its interaction with the concept. The generation of these concepts has led to assume that intelligence from multiple perspectives, but it is clear there can not be a paradigmatic view of intelligence, so it is necessary to understand it from different points of view exist.

352-363.

Authors: Jesús Carlos Guzmán*

This article reflection part of idea that educational psychology should seek better ways of teaching and learning, and will increase the quality of education. However, his teaching has focused only on disciplinary issues and little in the way necessary for professional practice. For this reason, we propose in this reflection, principles and forms of strategy: Learning Centered Education (LCE). This is compared with traditional teaching strategies, using a topic of educational psychology. Subsequently, proposes some suggestions for those teachers interested in applying this strategy. The conclusion highlights the responsibility of educational psychologists in the sense of used in their teaching everything that educational psychology offers to innovate education

372-388

Authors: LILIA ANGÉLICA CAMPO TERnera

This review article discusses the important role of the general diagnosis of human development in early childhood education as a means of prevention, early identification of difficulties and starting point for stimulation and intervention activities. It analyzes the characteristics of evolutionary development and emphasizes on aspects of greatest need identified in the stimulation of research, “Features of the general state of development in children under 7 years of the city of Barranquilla”, which was conducted as a study empirical-analytic correlation design. To measure the study variables, we applied the Inventory of Development Battelle to 312 children from different educational institutions in the city of Barranquilla. The results show the need for stimulation and intervention in different areas of development, something of great value when you consider that children who do not meet during this period appropriate evolutionary patterns, may have difficulties later in the acquisition of complex skills.

403-420.

Authors: Jaime Adams ANGULO

This article presents the results of an investigation whose purpose was to identify the technical and practical knowledge that teachers have about teaching educational implemented at the faculty of psychology at a university in Bogota (Colombia), which generate significant learning in students. It was a descriptive exploratory study and the instrument used was a semi-structured interview that was validated by expert judges rating of 5 and consists of 11 items. The results show that teachers handle teaching focused more on learning of students in the instruction. Besides the main teaching used by teachers include master classes, work guidelines and those that promote active learning such as forums, discussions and seminars and group work. Finally, we highlight the exhibition activities by students who socialize the product of their research and are fed and enriched by the teacher.

439-459

Authors: Juan Francisco Muñoz*

This review article highlights the imagination as the factor that plays a crucial role in the way people compare, assess, describe and explain their experiences. It also discusses the origin of the human imagination, suggesting a joint effect: The evolution of forms of social interaction and simulated alternatives, development of ultra-social adaptations and the development of evolutionary strategies evolved for cooperation. This effect seems to have given rise to a particularly human quality that makes learning the species Homo sapiens be qualitatively different from that occurs in others. This quality is the simulation of experience, a psychological mechanism resulting in millions of years of evolution, which enables many of the qualities most characteristic of human beings. At the end, they share some ideas about how you can research in psychology in the light of these theories.