fitness

Examples of fitness in the following topics:

• Evolutionary Theory of Motivation

  • According to evolutionary psychology, individuals are motivated to engage in behaviors that maximize their genetic fitness.
  • In this way, individuals are motivated to engage in behaviors that maximize their genetic fitness.
  • This results in social processes that maximize individuals' genetic fitness, or ability to pass their genes to the next generation.
  • In this context, success or fitness is judged by considering the number of offspring that the individual performing the behavior would contribute to the next generation.
  • Evolutionary psychology suggests that individuals are motivated to engage in behaviors that maximize their genetic fitness.

• Classification and Categorization

  • Then, when you encounter an object that fits this description, you classify that object as being a dog.
  • Different clusters have different requirements, and objects have different levels of fitness for different clusters.
  • Conceptual clustering is closely related to fuzzy-set theory, in which objects may belong to one or more concepts, in varying degrees of fitness.
  • Perhaps "fox" belongs to this cluster (animal, furry, four-legged, energetic), but not with the same degree of fitness that "wolf" does.
  • Different objects can fit a cluster better than others; fuzzy-set theory is not binary, so it is not always clear whether an object belongs to a cluster or not.

• Personality Testing in the Workplace

  • Personality tests have been used by some employers in the assessment and selection processes because they believe that they can reduce their turnover rates and prevent economic losses by identifying candidates that are a "better fit" for the job.
  • The controversies associated with assessing mental health for the purposes of job selection are discussed below; in these cases, however, an assessment of mental stability and fitness can be reasonably related to and necessary for optimal job performance.
  • Some even demonstrate that profiles can apparently seem to fit any person due to ambiguity of their basic terms.
  • Critics also argue that people do not fit easily into one of 16 types because they use different styles of thinking at different times.
  • Employers often use personality tests in their hiring processes in order to identify candidates they believe are a "better fit" for the job.

• The Psychology of Recruiting and Selecting Employees

  • No matter how a company recruits, the goal of a recruitment strategy is to produce viable applicants who fit in with the company's needs and values.
  • To find the best fit, managers create a list of relevant criteria composed of critical skills, behaviors, and attitudes for each position.
  • It is important that managers select candidates based on how they fit with the culture of the organization, as well as their technical skills and competencies.
  • Industrial and organizational (I–O) psychologists use a variety of measures to select applicants who are the best fit for a position.

• Exercise and Health

  • Exercise is any activity that requires physical effort and is carried out with the goal of sustaining or improving physical fitness.
  • All of these types of physical exercise contribute to physical fitness.
  • This phenomenon is due not only to the chemicals involved, but also results from the positive body-image and feeling of competence that come with accomplishing a fitness goal.

• Gender as a Spectrum and Transgender Identities

  • Most Western societies operate on the idea that gender is a binary—that there are essentially only two genders (men and women) based on two sexes (male and female), and that everyone must fit one or the other.
  • "Genderqueer" and "gender fluid" typically signify gender experiences that do not fit into binary concepts; they suggest nonconformity and challenge existing constructions and identities.

• Understanding Concepts

  • Our constant attempt to categorize concepts in the world around us can lead us to stereotype or judge people, concept, and ideas in order to make them "fit" into a certain category in our mind.
  • When we encounter something that does not easily fit into a pre-existing category, we become uncomfortable and unsure of how to interpret this new information.

• Intellectual Disabilities

  • Mild: Approximately 85% of individuals with an intellectual disability fit into this category.
  • Moderate: About 10% of people with intellectual disabilities fit into this category.

• Integrative Psychotherapy

  • A disadvantage is that there may not be a clear conceptual framework describing how techniques drawn from divergent theories might fit together.

• Heuristics and Cognitive Biases

  • Hamilton & Rose (1980) found that stereotypes can lead people to expect certain groups and traits to fit together, and then to overestimate the frequency with which these correlations actually occur.
  • When a researcher obtains a certain result that is counter to what he or she originally predicted, the researcher may use post hoc hypotheses to revise their prediction to fit the actual, obtained result.