Systems Research for Behavioral Science

A Sourcebook
Herausgeber: Buckley, Walter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Systems Research for Behavioral Science will be of interest to those in any discipline concerned with developments in science

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1221g
• ISBN-13: 9781138533783
• ISBN-10: 1138533785
• Artikelnr.: 49208356

Autorenporträt

Walter Buckley

Inhaltsangabe

1: General Systems Research : Overview
1: General Systems Theory-The Skeleton of Science
2: General System Theory-a Critical Review
3: Cybernetics in History
2: Parts, Wholes, and Levels of Integration
4: Parts and Wholes in Physics
5: The problem of Systemic Organization in Theoretical Biology
6: Units and Concepts of Biology
7: Levels of Integration in Biological and Social Systems
3: Systems, Organization, and the Logic of Relations
8: Thoughts on Organization Theory
9: Certain Peculiarities of Organisms as a "System" from the Point of View of Physics, Cybernetics, and Biology
10: Definition of System
11: A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity
12: The General and Logical Theory of Automata
13: Principles of the Self-Organizing System
4: Information, Communication, and Meaning
14: What is Information Measurement?
15: Variety, Constraint, and the Law of Requisite Variety
16: The Promise and Pitfalls of Information Theory
A: Entropy And Life
17: Order, Disorder, and Entropy
18: Life, Thermodynamics, and Cybernetics
19: Communication, Entropy, and Life
20: Thermodynamics and Information Theory
21: The Entropy Concept and Psychic Function
22: From Stimulus to Symbol: The Economy of Biological Computation
B: Behavior And Meaning
23: The Application of Information Theory in Behavioral Studies
24: A Behavioristic Analysis of Perception and Language as Cognitive Phenomena
25: The Informational Analysis of Questions and Commands
26: Towards a Behavioral Theory of Communication
5: Cybernetics:Purpose, Self-Regulation, and Self-Direction
A: Cybernetics and Purpose
27: Behavior, Purpose, and Teleology
28: Comments on a Mechanistic Conception of Purposefulness
29: Purposeful and Non-Purposeful Behavior
30: Purposeful and Non-Purposeful Behavior: A Rejoinder
31: Purposive Behavior and Cybernetics
32: Purpose and Learning Theory
B: Homeostasis and Evolution
33: Self-Regulation of the Body
34: On the Parallel between Learning and Evolution
35: Purpose, Adaptation and " Directive Correlation "
36: Regulation and Control
37: The Second Cybernetics: Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes
6: Self-Regulation and Self-Direction in Psychological Systems
38: Feedback Theory and the Reflex Arc Concept
39: Plasticity In Human Sensorimotor Control
40: A Cybernetic Approach to Motivation
41: Ego Psychology, Cybernetics, and Learning Theory
42: The Open System in Personality Theory
43: Note on Self-Regulating Systems and Stress
44: The Concept of Stress in Relation to the Disorganization of Human Behaviour
45: Towards an Information-Flow Model of Human Behaviour
46: Plans and the Structure of Behaviour
7: Self-Regulation and Self-Direction in Sociocultural Systems
47: Toward a Cybernetic Model of Man and Society
A: Social Control: Internal Variety and Constraints
48: Social Control and Self-Regulation
49: Conformity-Deviation and the Social Control Concept
50: Variety and Constraint in Cultural Adaptation
51: A Behavioural Theory of Drug Taking
B: Social Control: Organizational Goal Seeking
52: A Systems Analysis of Political Life
53: The Cybernetic Analysis of Change in Complex Social Organizations
54: Feedback Problems of Social Diagnosis and Action
55: Control as an Organizational Process
56: The Cybernetics of Competition: A Biologist's View of Society
57: Is Adaptability Enough?
C: Decision Processes and Group Structure
58: Critiques of Game Theory
59: Society as a Complex Adaptive System