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The broaden-and-build theory in positive psychology suggests that positive emotions (such as happiness, and perhaps interest and anticipation) broaden one's awareness and encourage novel, exploratory thoughts and actions. [1] Over time, this broadened behavioral repertoire builds useful skills and psychological resources.
The forming–storming–norming–performing model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, [1] who said that these phases are all necessary and inevitable in order for a team to grow, face up to challenges, tackle problems, find solutions, plan work, and deliver results. He suggested that these inevitable phases were ...
Building on Tuckman's model and based on her own empirical research as well as the foundational work of Wilfred Bion, Susan Wheelan proposed a "unified" or "integrated" model of group development (Wheelan, 1990; Wheelan, 1994a). This model, although linear in a sense, takes the perspective that groups achieve maturity as they continue to work ...
A theory T is called model-complete if every substructure of a model of T which is itself a model of T is an elementary substructure. There is a useful criterion for testing whether a substructure is an elementary substructure, called the Tarski–Vaught test . [ 13 ]
SECI model of knowledge dimensions – Model of knowledge creation; Solution-focused brief therapy – Goal-directed approach to psychotherapy; Theory of multiple intelligences – Pseudoscientific theory of multiple types of human intelligence; Transtheoretical model, also known as Stages of change – Integrative theory of therapy
Agenda building describes the ongoing process by which various groups attempt to transfer their interests to be the interests of public policymakers. [1] Conceptualized as a political science theory by Cobb and Elder in 1971, [2] "the agenda-building perspective...alerts us to the importance of the environing social processes in determining what occurs at the decision-making stage and what ...
Grounded theory combines traditions in positivist philosophy, general sociology, and, particularly, the symbolic interactionist branch of sociology.According to Ralph, Birks and Chapman, [9] grounded theory is "methodologically dynamic" [7] in the sense that, rather than being a complete methodology, grounded theory provides a means of constructing methods to better understand situations ...
Planning theory is the body of scientific concepts, ... James Silk Buckingham who had designed a model town with a central place, ... namely buildings, is represented ...