On the Self-Regulation of Behavior
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Book Description
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.
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On the Self-Regulation of Behavior 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.
On the Self-Regulation of Behavior,Charles S. Carver,Michael F. Scheier,Cambridge University Press,0521572045,Behavior,Cognitive Psychology,Control (Psychology),Feedback (Psychology),Goal (Psychology),Movements - Behaviorism,Personality,Physiological Psychology,Psychology,Psychology & Psychiatry / Personality,The self, ego, identity, personality
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