UID:
almafu_9960119123102883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 439 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-04609-5
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1-316-09885-0
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1-139-17479-7
Content:
This book presents a thorough overview of a model of human functioning based on the idea that behavior is goal-directed and regulated by feedback control processes. It describes feedback processes and their application to behavior, considers goals and the idea that goals are organized hierarchically, examines affect as deriving from a different kind of feedback process, and analyzes how success expectancies influence whether people keep trying to attain goals or disengage. Later sections consider a series of emerging themes, including dynamic systems as a model for shifting among goals, catastrophe theory as a model for persistence, and the question of whether behavior is controlled or instead 'emerges'. Three chapters consider the implications of these various ideas for understanding maladaptive behavior, and the closing chapter asks whether goals are a necessity of life. Throughout, theory is presented in the context of diverse issues that link the theory to other literatures.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Plan -- What Makes Behavior Happen? -- The Book's Plan -- Principles of Feedback Control -- Cybernetics, Feedback, and Control -- Additional Issues in Feedback Control -- Distinctions and Further Constructs -- Interrelations among Feedback Processes -- Concluding Comment -- Discrepancy-Reducing Feedback Processes in Behavior -- Feedback Control in Human Behavior -- Broadening the Application of Feedback Principles -- Summary -- Discrepancy-Enlarging Loops, and Three Further Issues -- Discrepancy-Enlarging Feedback Loops in Behavior -- Further Issues -- Goals and Behavior -- Goals -- Hierarchical Conceptions of Goals -- Comparisons Outside Personality-Social Psychology -- Comparisons from Personality-Social Psychology -- Summary -- Goals, Hierarchicality, and Behavior: Further Issues -- Challenges to Hierarchicality -- Further Issues Regarding Hierarchical Functioning -- Multiple Simultaneous Goals -- Programs Seem Different from Other Goals -- Goal Hierarchies and Traits -- Goals and the Self -- Public and Private Aspects of the Self -- Aspects of Self -- Behavioral Self-Regulation and Private versus Social Goals -- Self-Consciousness and Self-Awareness in Self-Regulation -- Control Processes and Affect -- Goals, Rate of Progress, and Affect -- Evidence on the Affective Consequences of Progress -- Questions -- Changes in Rate: Acceleration and Deceleration -- Affect from Discrepancy-Enlarging Loops -- Affect and Behavior -- Breadth of Application -- Affect: Issues and Comparisons -- Meta-Level Standards -- Further Issues -- Relationships to Other Theories -- Expectancies and Disengagement -- Affect Is Linked to Expectancy -- Interruption and Further Assessment -- Effort versus Disengagement -- Effort and Disengagement: The Great Divide.
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Disengagement: Issues and Comparisons -- Scaling Back Goals as Limited Disengagement -- When Giving Up Is Not a Tenable Option -- Watersheds, Disjunctions, and Bifurcations among Responses -- Does Disengagement Imply an Override Mechanism? -- Further Theoretical Comparisons -- Engagement and Disengagement in Other Literatures -- Summary -- Applications to Problems in Living -- Regulating with the Wrong Feedback -- Goals Operating out of Awareness -- Doubt as a Root of Problems -- Premature Disengagement of Effort -- Failure to Disengage Completely When Doing So Is the Right Response -- When Is Disengagement the Right Response? -- Lives out of Balance -- Rumination -- Hierarchicality and Problems in Living -- Links between Concrete Goals and the Core Values of the Self -- Making Low Levels Functionally Superordinate -- Residing Too Much at High Levels -- Chaos and Dynamic Systems -- Dynamic Systems -- Simple Applications of Dynamic Systems Thinking -- Catastrophe Theory -- The Cusp Catastrophe -- Applications of Catastrophe Theory -- Effort versus Disengagement -- Further Applications to Problems in Living -- Catastrophes and Psychological Problems -- Dynamic Systems and the Change Process -- Extensions -- Is Behavior Controlled or Does It Emerge? -- Coordination and Complexity Emergent from Simple Sources -- Connectionism -- Two-Mode Models in Personality-Social Psychology -- Autonomous Artificial Agents -- Conclusions -- Goal Engagement, Life, and Death -- Conceptualization -- Disengagement and Death -- Disengagement, Disease, and Death -- Dynamics and Engagement -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-00099-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-57204-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Psychology
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139174794
