Human Action Control

Author : Bernhard Hommel,Stephen B.R.E. Brown,Dieter Nattkemper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319092447

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Human Action Control by Bernhard Hommel,Stephen B.R.E. Brown,Dieter Nattkemper Pdf

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction into the areas of human action planning and action control. It discusses the basic theoretical issues and questions in understanding the planning and control of human goal-directed action. The authors begin by presenting an integrative theoretical framework and the neurobiological foundations of action planning and execution. Subsequent chapters discuss how goals are represented and how they guide action control; how perception and action interact; how simple and complex actions are selected and planned; how multitasking works; and how actions are monitored. Topics of interest include: stimulus-triggered selections, rule-based selections, intentional action selections, and intuitive decision-making. Human Action Control is a must-have resource for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and doctorate students in cognitive psychology and related areas, such as the cognitive neurosciences, and developmental and social psychology.

Author : Walter J. Perrig,Alexander Grob
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135679644

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Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness by Walter J. Perrig,Alexander Grob Pdf

In this book, an international group of leading scientists present perspectives on the control of human behavior, awareness, consciousness, and the meaning and function of perceived control or self-efficacy in people's lives. The book breaks down the barriers between subdisciplines, and thus constitutes an occasion to reflect on various facets of control in human life. Each expert reviews his or her field through the lens of perceived control and shows how these insights can be applied in practice.

Author : Julius Kuhl,Jürgen Beckmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783642697463

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Action Control by Julius Kuhl,Jürgen Beckmann Pdf

"It is not thought as such that can move anything, but thought which is for the sake of something and is practical." This discerning insight, which dates back more than 2000years to Aristotle, seems to have been ignored by most psycholo gists. For more than 40years theories of human action have assumed that cogni tion and action are merely two sides of the same coin. Approaches as different as S-O-R behaviorism,social learning theory, consistency theories,and expectancy value theories of motivation and decision making have one thing in common: they all assume that "thought (or any other type of cognition) can move any thing," that there is a direct path from cognition to behavior. In recent years, we have become more and more aware of the complexities in volved in the relationship between cognition and behavior. People do not always do what they intend to do. Aside from several nonpsychological factors capable of reducing cognition-behavior consistency, there seems to be a set of complex psychological mechanisms which intervene between action-related cognitions, such as beliefs, expectancies, values, and intentions,and the enactment of the be havior suggested by those cognitions. In our recent research we have focused on volitional mechanismus which presumably enhance cognition-behavior consistency by supporting the main tenance of activated intentions and prevent them from being pushed aside by competing action tendencies.

Author : Ezequiel Morsella,John A. Bargh,Peter M. Gollwitzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195309980

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Oxford Handbook of Human Action by Ezequiel Morsella,John A. Bargh,Peter M. Gollwitzer Pdf

Thinking and reasoning, long the academic province of philosophy, have over the past century emerged as core topics of empirical investigation and theoretical analysis in the modern fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience. Formerly seen as too complicated and amorphous to be included in early textbooks on the science of cognition, the study of thinking and reasoning has since taken off, brancing off in a distinct direction from the field from which it originated. The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook covering all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Written by the foremost experts from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience, individual chapters summarize basic concepts and findings for a major topic, sketch its history, and give a sense of the directions in which research is currently heading. Chapters include introductions to foundational issues and methods of study in the field, as well as treatment of specific types of thinking and reasoning and their application in a broad range of fields including business, education, law, medicine, music, and science. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in developmental, social and clinical psychology, philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence, education, and linguistics.

Author : C. S. Carver,M. F. Scheier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461258872

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Attention and Self-Regulation by C. S. Carver,M. F. Scheier Pdf

"Seek simplicity and distrust it. " Alfred North Whitehead "It will become all too clear that an ability to see patterns in behavior, an ability that some might feel proud of, can lead more easily to a wrong description than a right one. " William T. Powers The goal of the theorist-the scholar-is to take a collection of observations of the world, and perceive order in them. This process necessarily imposes an artificial simplicity upon those observations. That is, specific observations are weighed differently from each other whenever a theoretical account is abstracted from raw experiences. Some observed events are misunderstood or distorted, others are seen as representing random fluctuations and are ignored, and yet others are viewed as centrally important. This abstraction and oversimplification of reality is inevitable in theory construction. Moreover, the abstracted vision builds upon itself. That is, as a structure begins to emerge from continued observation, the structure itself guides the search for new information. The result is a construction that is more elaborate than what existed before, but it still is usually simpler than reality. It is important for scholars to believe in the value of their task, and in the general correctness of the vision that guides their work. This commitment, and the hope of progress that follows from it, make it possible to continue even when the work is difficult and slow.

Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1684226066

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Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises Pdf

2021 Hardcover Reprint of the 1949 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics" is the first comprehensive treatise on economics written by a leading member of the modern Austrian school of economics. Von Mises' contribution was very simple, yet at the same time extremely profound: he pointed out that the whole economy is the result of what individuals do. Individuals act, choose, cooperate, compete, and trade with one another. In this way Mises explained how complex market phenomena develop. Mises did not simply describe economic phenomena - prices, wages, interest rates, money, monopoly and even the trade cycle - he explained them as the outcomes of countless conscious, purposeful actions, choices, and preferences of individuals, each of whom was trying as best as he or she could under the circumstances to attain various wants and ends and to avoid undesired consequences. Hence the title Mises chose for his economic treatise, "Human Action."

Author : Luca Dellanna
Publisher : Luca Dell'anna
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : PKEY:6610000268481

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The Control Heuristic by Luca Dellanna Pdf

“A SUPERB book [...] by one of the profound thinkers in our field [behavioral economics].” – Michal G. Bartlett on the second edition “Luca’s book was so helpful to my work. Opened my eyes up to some more reasons why change is so hard.” – Chris Murman on the first edition “So insightful with common sense applications of complexity and the ability to communicate clearly!!” – Bob Klapetzky Seen on Nudgestock. Reviews of Luca Dellanna's previous books "Absolutely brilliant." – Alberto Pisanello "A very thoughtful piece of writing, deep and wiring!" – David Krejca "A thoughtfully written book in very straightforward language." – A.L. Peevey "Very good book. Read it in in two evenings. Great insights straight to the point (not the usual self-help babble). Highly recommended." "One of the best works I have read in that matter (I have read a few) and it's surprising how realistically he depicts the condition." – Manel Vilar (on Luca's book on autism) "A profound, useful and insightful book" – Lorenzo Dragani THE BOOK At a first look, human behavior seems an inexplicable mess. Why do we behave irrationally? Why is change so hard? What is happiness and why does it seem to escape us? The Control Heuristic offers a new perspective to answer these questions and provides a guiding light to understand the subconscious processes that guide our behavior. Luca Dellanna, author of 5 books, writes here a revealing journey into the true motivations for human behavior. Understanding how the human mind really works is the first step to personal change. Suddenly, the frustrating becomes clear and the complex becomes simple.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781610164313

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Human Action, The Scholar's Edition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julius Kuhl,Jürgen Beckmann
Publisher : Seattle, WA ; Toronto : Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN : IND:30000042878623

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Volition and Personality by Julius Kuhl,Jürgen Beckmann Pdf

This is an impressive book, which presents a profoundly new approach to analyzing human behavior. The fundamental concept is to focus on how people link motivation with action and why they do or do not stick with their original intentions. The fascinating studies reported here attempt to separate people into two groups: (1) State-oriented individuals who focus under stress on past, present, or future states, rather than on options available for action; versus (2) Action-oriented individuals who focus under stress on action alternatives. This book will be of great interest to both behavioral and cognitive psychologists, psychophysiologists, and specialists in sport as well as aviation psychology.

Author : Ran Hassin,Kevin Ochsner,Yaacov Trope
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199741625

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Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain by Ran Hassin,Kevin Ochsner,Yaacov Trope Pdf

This book presents social, cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to the study of self-control, connecting recent work in cognitive and social psychology with recent advances in cognitive and social neuroscience. In bringing together multiple perspectives on self-control dilemmas from internationally renowned researchers in various allied disciplines, this is the first single-reference volume to illustrate the richness, depth, and breadth of the research in the new field of self control.

Author : Roland Deutsch,Bertram Gawronski,Wilhelm Hofmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315523088

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Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Human Behavior by Roland Deutsch,Bertram Gawronski,Wilhelm Hofmann Pdf

Conflicts between the "head" and the "heart" are very common in everyday life. Over the past decade, research on such self-regulatory conflicts has been strongly shaped by Strack and Deutsch’s 2004 Reflective-Impulsive Model (RIM). The award-winning theory integrates cognitive, affective, and motivational influences on overt behavior, offering a domain-independent framework that is applicable to wide range of social and non-social phenomena. This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of research under the framework of the RIM. Its 15 chapters provide an overview of basic principles of behavior determination, showcase the RIM’s integrative and predictive power in many cross-cutting areas of inquiry, and illustrate the value of the theory for understanding the fundamental role of reflective and impulsive processes in various applied domains. Expanding on an introduction that discusses the significance of the RIM from a historical view, the book is divided into three major sections. The first section covers basic psychological principles within the RIM, including selective accessibility, embodiment, associative and propositional operations, and implementation intentions. The second section reviews the integrative and predictive power of the RIM in many cross-cutting areas of inquiry, including intuition, attitudes, self-control, and personality. Finally, the third section showcases the generative power of the RIM in various applied areas, including research on health behavior, addiction, anxiety, economic behavior, sexual behavior, and aggression. In its entirety, this volume provides an indispensable resource for any scholar interested in the psychological underpinnings of reflective and impulsive behavior in various areas of inquiry.

Author : Robert Aunger,Valerie Curtis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191002854

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Gaining Control by Robert Aunger,Valerie Curtis Pdf

'Gaining control' tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species. Exploring what is known about the psychological capacities of other groups of animals, the authors reconstruct a fascinating history of our own mental evolution. In the book, the authors see mental evolution as a series of steps in which new mechanisms for controlling behavior develop in different species - starting with early representatives of this kingdom, and leading to a species - us - that can engage in a large number of different types of behavioral control. Key to their argument is the idea that each of these steps — from reflexes to instincts, drives, emotions, and cognitive planning - can be seen as a novel type of psychological adaptation in which information is 'inherited' by an animal from its own behavior through new forms of learning - a form of major evolutionary transition. Thus the mechanisms that result from these steps in increasingly complex behavioral control can also be seen as the fundamental building blocks of psychology. Such a perspective on behaviour has a number of implications for practitioners in fields ranging from experimental psychology to public health. Short, provocative, and insightful, this book will be of great interest and use to evolutionary psychologists and biologists, anthropologists and the scientific community as a whole.

Author : B. L. Turner,William C. Clark,Robert W. Kates,John F. Richards,Jessica T. Mathews,William B. Meyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521446309

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The Earth as Transformed by Human Action by B. L. Turner,William C. Clark,Robert W. Kates,John F. Richards,Jessica T. Mathews,William B. Meyer Pdf

The Earth as Transformed by Human Action is the culmination of a mammoth undertaking involving the examination of the toll our continual strides forward, technical and social, take on our world. The purpose of such a study is to document the changes in the biosphere that have taken place over the last 300 years, to contrast global patterns of change to those appearing on a regional level, and to explain the major human forces that have driven these changes. The first section deals strictly with the major human forces of the past 300 years and the second is a detailed account of the transformations of the global environment wrought by human action. The final section examines a range of perspectives and theories that purport to explain human actions with regard to the biosphere.

Author : Sourav De,Paramartha Dutta
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780429591938

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Computational Intelligence for Human Action Recognition by Sourav De,Paramartha Dutta Pdf

Human Action Recognition is a challenging area presently. The vigor of research effort directed towards this domain is self indicative of this. With the ever-increasing involvement of Computational Intelligence in our day to day applications, the necessity of human activity recognition has been able to make its presence felt to the concerned research community. The primary drive of such an effort is to equip the computing system capable of recognizing and interpreting human activities from posture, pose, gesture, facial expression etc. The intent of human activity recognition is a formidable component of cognitive science in which researchers are actively engaged of late. Features: A systematic overview of the state-of-the-art in computational intelligence techniques for human action recognition. Emphasized on different intelligent techniques to recognize different human actions. Discussed about the automation techniques to handle human action recognition. Recent research results and some pointers to future advancements in this arena. In the present endeavour the editors intend to come out with a compilation that reflects the concerns of relevant research community. The readers would be able to come across some of the latest findings of active researchers of the concerned field. It is anticipated that this treatise shall be useful to the readership encompassing students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, researchers active as well as aspiring, not to speak of the senior researchers.

Author : Perry London
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UVA:X000004020

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Behavior Control by Perry London Pdf