Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier, Carver Charles S.

On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 892g
• ISBN-13: 9780521572040
• ISBN-10: 0521572045
• Artikelnr.: 21923346

Inhaltsangabe

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.