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On the self-regulation of behavior / Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ;;New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: xx, 439 p. : ill. 23.5 cmISBN:
  • 9780521572040;0521572045
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • BF 611
Contents:
Introduction and plan -- Principles of feedback control -- Discrepancy-reducing feedback processes in behavior -- Discrepancy-enlarging loops, and three further issues -- Goals and behavior -- Goals, Hierarchicality, and behavior: further issues -- Public and private aspects of the self -- Control processes and affect -- Affect: issues and comparisons -- Expectancies and disengagement -- Disengagement: issues and comparisons -- Applications to problems in living -- Hierarchicality and problems in living -- Chaos and dynamic systems -- Catastrophe theory -- Further applications to problems in living -- Is behavior controlled or does it emerge -- Goal engagement, life, and death.
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Books Dow International Medical College Dow International Medical College BF 611 .C37 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00000513

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-422) and indexes.

Introduction and plan -- Principles of feedback control -- Discrepancy-reducing feedback processes in behavior -- Discrepancy-enlarging loops, and three further issues -- Goals and behavior -- Goals, Hierarchicality, and behavior: further issues -- Public and private aspects of the self -- Control processes and affect -- Affect: issues and comparisons -- Expectancies and disengagement -- Disengagement: issues and comparisons -- Applications to problems in living -- Hierarchicality and problems in living -- Chaos and dynamic systems -- Catastrophe theory -- Further applications to problems in living -- Is behavior controlled or does it emerge -- Goal engagement, life, and death.

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