On the Self-Regulation of Behavior - Rilegato

Carver, Charles S.; Scheier, Michael F.

 
9780521572040: On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

Sinossi

Description of human behavior which sees all behavior as aimed at attaining goals.

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Descrizione del libro

This book is a reader-friendly description of a viewpoint on human behavior which sees all behavior as aimed at attaining goals. A wide variety of topics are treated, ranging from goals, to emotion, to persistence and giving up, to living and dying. Both adaptive behavior and problems are examined.

Contenuti

1. Introduction and plan; 2. Principles of feedback control; 3. Discrepancy reducing feedback processes in behavior; 4. Discrepancy enlarging loops, and three further issues; 5. Goals and behavior; 6. Goals, hierarchicality, and behavior: further issues; 7. Public and private aspects of the self; 8. Control processes and affect; 9. Affect: issues and comparisons; 10. Expectancies and disengagement; 11. Disengagement: issues and comparisons; 12. Applications to problems in living; 13. Hierarchicality and problems in living; 14. Chaos and dynamic systems; 15. Catastrophe theory; 16. Further applications to problems in living; 17. Is behavior controlled or does it emerge?; 18. Goal engagement, life and death.

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9780521000994: On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521000998 ISBN 13:  9780521000994
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2001
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