Healing the psyche through music, myth, and ritual.

According to Carl Jung, a person's symptoms occur as a result of the psyche's creative attempt to self-regulate. These symptoms are viewed as the symbol-making function of the psyche. Music therapy as a therapeutic tool is also viewed as having a symbol-making function in that the physical act of making music involves conceptualizing one's symptoms into sounds. The sound serves as a musical symbol of the symptom. The myth of Orpheus is offered as an example of how early man amplified the creative potential contained in music to heal from life's woes. The Orphic archetype illustrates that music serves as a medium for healing and as an expression of Self. That psyche can be healed by music is a reminder of the connection between music therapy and the myth of Orpheus. In using the therapeutic tool of music one can transcend, through the symbol making process inherent in music therapy, the tension of opposites that are created at the crossroads of disease and wellness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychological separation, attachment security, vocational self-concept crystallization, and career indecision: A structural equation analysis.

Structural equation modeling was used to test theoretically based models in which psychological separation and attachment security variables were related to career indecision and those relations were mediated through vocational self-concept crystallization. In contrast to previous studies, which have found either weak or no support for a relation between separation or attachment security variables and career indecision, results based on a sample of 350 college students indicated that some components of separation and attachment security did relate to career indecision in a theoretically supportable direction. Results also revealed that regardless of whether global or component career indecision measures were used, separation and attachment security effects on indecision were at least partially mediated through vocational self-concept crystallization. The strongest mediated relations were observed for the effects of attachment anxiety and maternal separation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

置换通风与个体化微环境控制

介绍了传统的全空间空调方式，指出全空间空调方式不能同时为所有人提供可接受的热感觉和室内空气品质，而置换通风和个体化控制的联合将是一种理想的空调方式，在更大程度上满足人们的不同需要。     

Individuation, peers, and adolescent alcohol use: A latent growth analysis.

The study used latent growth modeling to investigate longitudinal relationships between individuation, peer alcohol use, and adolescent alcohol use among African American, Mexican American, and non-Hispanic White adolescents (N=6,048) from 7th, 8th, and 9th grades over a 3-year period. Initial levels of peer alcohol use were significantly related to changes in adolescents' alcohol use, whereas initial adolescent alcohol use also significantly related to changes in peers' alcohol use, suggesting a bidirectional relationship. Higher levels of intergenerational individuation were related to smaller increases in adolescent alcohol use and higher levels of separation were related to larger increases in youth drinking. The findings were similar across ethnic groups. Implications for development of prevention and intervention programs are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Multisensory exploration and object individuation in infancy.

Recent research indicates that by 4.5 months, infants use shape and size information as the basis for individuating objects but that it is not until 11.5 months that they use color information for this purpose. The present experiments investigated the extent to which infants' sensitivity to color information could be increased through select experiences. Five experiments were conducted with 10.5- and 9.5-month-olds. The results revealed that multimodal (visual and tactile), but not unimodal (visual only), exploration of the objects prior to the individuation task increased 10.5-month-olds' sensitivity to color differences. These results suggest that multisensory experience with objects facilitates infants' use of color information when individuating objects. In contrast, 9.5-month-olds did not benefit from the multisensory procedure; possible explanations for this finding are explored. Together, these results reveal how an everyday experience--combined visual and tactile exploration of objects--can promote infants' use of color information as the basis for individuating objects. More broadly, these results shed light on the nature of infants' object representations and the cognitive mechanisms that support infants' changing sensitivity to color differences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

个性化小学英语学习系统的设计与实现

针对目前资源学习系统缺乏个性化导致小学英语学习者的资源选择迷航问题,构建以个性化资源组织为核心的学习系统。通过纪录用户信息和个性化学习行为,建立小学英语学习者信息模型;以知识点标注的方式描述英语学习资源,建立学习资源库;运用学习偏好算法和学习水平算法计算学习者偏好,采用新型智能推荐技术,向用户推荐个性化的学习资源。通过原型系统运行实例,其结果验证了个性化学习和智能推荐的有效性。     

满足用户个性化需求的积木式产品设计研究

文章探讨了体验经济时代下积木式产品因何受到消费者青睐,以及在积木式产品生产、使用过程中设计师与用户角色的转变,并从设计角度提出对积木式产品开发的思考。     

职业教育在人才培养中的个性化教育研究

个性化教育作为培养具有创造性思维能力、表达能力的个性化人才的主要途径，是21世纪各个谋求发展的国家所共同关注的问题。加强职业教育中的个性化教育，要明确个性化教育目标，更新个性化教育理念，建立综合职业能力课程观，掌握先进的教育方法，建立新型的教育管理体制，改革教学评价体系和评价方法，充分发挥校园文化对学生个性培养的功能。     

文检课个性化教学设计

提出了文检课个性化教学的观点，讨论了实施个性化教学的必要性，指出在网络环境下，如何构建多维的个性化智能教学系统，探讨了个性化的教学方案及基于此的教学内容及考试制度。