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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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 (the theory is specific in type, but has diverse applications)- 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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meta loop, disengagement impulse, avoidance loop, conscious processor, error landscape, implemental mindset, feared self, expectancy assessment, limited disengagement, discrepancy reduction, localist models, catastrophe surface, behavioral discrepancy, goal engagement, mental disengagement, doubtful subjects, confident subjects, sensed input, superordinate system, negative reference group, catastrophe model, negative rumination, experiential system, avoidance goals, action loop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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meta loop, disengagement impulse, avoidance loop, conscious processor, error landscape, implemental mindset, feared self, expectancy assessment, limited disengagement, discrepancy reduction, localist models, catastrophe surface, behavioral discrepancy, goal engagement, mental disengagement, doubtful subjects, confident subjects, sensed input, superordinate system, negative reference group, catastrophe model, negative rumination, experiential system, avoidance goals, action loop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Social Psychology: Third Edition by Eliot R. Smith on 8 pages
- Social Psychology (12th Edition) by Shelley E. Taylor on 8 pages
- Studyguide for Social Psychology by Taylor, ISBN 9780130990068 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) by Cram101 Textbook Reviews on 8 pages
- Social Psychology by Leonard Berkowitz on 5 pages
- Social Psychology by Jim McKnight in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Self-Regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour by Linda Cameron on 4 pages
- The Self-Regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour by Linda Cameron on 4 pages
- The Social Psychology of Consumer Behaviour (Applying Social Psychology) by Richard Bagozzi on page 101, and Back Matter
- Fremdkontrolle als Dienstleistung für Kontrollierte: Eine Fallstudienanalyse (Research in Management Accounting & Control) (German Edition) by Tanja Brettel in Back Matter
- Advances in Sport, Leisure and Ergonomics by Thomas Reilly on page 227
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