On the Self-Regulation of Behavior
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- Authors:
- Charles S. Carver, University of Miami
- Michael F. Scheier, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
- Date Published: May 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521000994
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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. The book blends ideas that have long been part of self-regulation models with ideas that are recently emergent in psychology: dynamic systems and catastrophe theory. It also blends theoretical statement with wide-ranging discussion of issues.
Read more- Coherent, integrative, broad theoretical statement
- Incorporates up-to-date discussion of emergent topics such as dynamic systems
- Considers both adaptive and maladaptive aspects of behavior
- Highlights issues about which more research needs to be done
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- Date Published: May 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521000994
- length: 460 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.621kg
- contains: 96 b/w illus. 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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