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  2. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    The outlook or the way an individual perceives the given situation can affect the manner to which the individual handles stress, whether it be positive or negative. Too much stress can be detrimental to the individual and can cause negative psychological and physical health effects. [91]

  3. Behavioural responses to stress - Wikipedia

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    A study about stress effects on female songbird’s response to sexual signal for mating indicated that the response to this specific signal can be impaired if the female is exposed to developmental stress. Behavioural changes as a result from developmental stress impairs neural responses to sexual signals, which reduces mating. [5]

  4. Performance appraisal - Wikipedia

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    A performance appraisal, also referred to as a performance review, performance evaluation, [1] (career) development discussion, [2] or employee appraisal, sometimes shortened to "PA", [a] is a periodic and systematic process whereby the job performance of an employee is documented and evaluated. This is done after employees are trained about ...

  5. Work–life balance - Wikipedia

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    Allen, Herst, Bruck, and Sutton (2000) [6] describe in their paper three categories of consequences related to WFC: work-related outcomes (e.g., job satisfaction or job performance), nonwork-related outcomes (e.g., life or family satisfaction), and stress-related outcomes (e.g., depression or substance abuse). For example, WFC has been shown to ...

  6. Effects of stress on memory - Wikipedia

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    The varying effects of stress on performance or stress hormones are often compared to or known as "inverted-u" [10] which induce areas in learning, memory and plasticity. [8] Chronic stress can affect the brain structure and cognition.

  7. Stress management - Wikipedia

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    This method of measuring stress is currently the most popular method in the clinic . Despite stress often being thought of as a subjective experience, levels of stress are readily measurable; using various physiological tests, similar to those used in polygraphs. An example of stress being measured is using nano EEG sensors in detecting stress ...

  8. Job performance - Wikipedia

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    A meta-analysis of selection methods in personnel psychology found that general mental ability was the best overall predictor of job performance and training performance. [13] While intelligence (general mental ability) is the strongest known predictor of job performance, that is less true for fields that are information-rich and require much ...

  9. List of psychological research methods - Wikipedia

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    Neuroimaging and other psychophysiological methods; Observational study, can be naturalistic (see natural experiment), participant or controlled. Program evaluation; Quasi-experiment; Self-report inventory; Survey, often with a random sample (see survey sampling) Twin study; Research designs vary according to the period(s) of time over which ...