On the Self-Regulation of Behavior - Softcover

Carver, Charles S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521000998 ISBN 13: 9780521000994

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

Product Description

Book by Carver Charles S Scheier Michael F

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521000998
• ISBN 13: 9780521000994
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 460