| Description |
1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Series |
Psychology Revivals Ser |
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Psychology Revivals Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Action Theory: An Introduction -- Introduction -- Basic Concepts of Action Theory -- What Kind of Theory Is Action Theory? -- Methodological Implications -- I: Historical Traditions and Phylogenesis of Action -- 1: "Purposive Behavior" in Psychology and Philosophy: A History -- Introduction -- Explaining Purpose and Explaining it Away -- How Goals Influence Behavior -- Psychology Finds a Respectable Teleology |
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2: Stages in the Development of Tool Behavior in the Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) -- Introduction -- Levels of Language and Abstraction Within the Term Tool Behavior -- Instinctive Tool Use2 in Chimpanzees: The Construction of Sleeping Nests -- Learned Tool Use3 Under Natural-Habitat Conditions -- The Action Aspect in Chimpanzee Tool Use -- The Societal Level of Functioning: Tool Use5 as Activity (Taetigkeit) -- 3: An Action-Theory Perspective of the Tool-Using Capacities of Chimpanzees and Human Infants -- Introduction -- A Discussion of Schurig's Model -- The Piagetian Perspective |
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Chimpanzee Language Studies and Tool Use -- II: Fundamentals of Action Theory -- 4: Motivation, Intention, and Emotion: Goal Directed Behavior from a Cognitive-Neuroethological Perspective -- Introduction -- The Framework -- Motivation and the Principle of Selective Potentiation and Depotentiation -- Representations and Intentionality -- Representations and Emotion -- What Function Do Act-Outcome and Motivational Representations Serve and What Is the Behavioral Evidence of Their Existence? -- Summary -- 5: Anticipation as a Basic Principle in Goal Directed Action |
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Introduction: Representation and Anticipation -- A Model for Representation: The Functional System -- Levels of Anticipation -- Conclusions -- 6: Perception and Action -- Introduction -- Gibson's Ecological Approach to Perception -- Control of Balance and Locomotion-The Basis for Action -- Timing -- Exploratory Actions -- Concluding Comments -- 7: The Role of Invariant Structures in the Control of Movement -- Introduction -- Theories of Perception -- Invariants of Stimulus Information -- Invariants of Motor Organization -- Schemata, Images, and Mental Practice |
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Anticipations and the Perceptual Cycle -- von Hofsten's Critique -- 8: Thinking and Action -- Introduction -- Characteristics and Demands of Complex Problems -- Complex Problem-Solving Processes -- Modifications in Thinking and Action -- Relations Between Thinking and Action -- Summary -- 9: Action: Decision Implementation Strategies and Tactics -- Introduction -- Goals -- Implementation Strategies and Tactics -- Monitoring Progress Toward the Goal -- Failure to Progress Toward the Goal -- Attractive Goals, Aversive Tactics- A Special, but Instructive, Case -- Teaching Implementation Skills |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Implementation and the Reither and Stäudel Results |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sabini, John
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| ISBN |
9781000363883 |
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1000363880 |
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