Meanings
plural proactions
- countableuncountableProactive behavior or influence.
However, there are also numerous actions supervisors can take in order to encourage intern proaction.
2013, Daniel S. Newman, Demystifying the School Psychology Internship, →ISBN3 more examples
Those twenty-two that have been classified as transformational leaders all showed evidence of high levels of inspiration, integrity, selflessness, scholarship, and proaction.
2014, Michael S. DeVivo, Leadership in American Academic Geography, →ISBNThe goal of this part of the treatment involves the client's ability to use mindful emotion regulation skills that facilitate taking proactions that reflect a meaningful and rewarding life path.
2017, Alessandro Grecucci, Remo Job, Jon J. Frederickson, Advances in Emotion Regulation: From Neuroscience to Psychotherapy, →ISBNKlinman (1964) reported much greater proaction for "component testing" designs than for problems in which the redundant training stimuli and test-trial stimuli were identical. This suggests that retroaction and proaction have greater effects when training and test items are not identical.
2017, Donald K. Routh, The Experimental Psychology of Mental Retardation, →ISBN, page 111
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