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Author Vaughn, Michael G

Title Human behavior : a cell to society approach / Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, Holly C. Matto
Published Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2014]

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Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introducing The Cell To Society Framework -- Case Study: Malia's Different Abilities -- On the Importance of Transdisciplinary Approaches -- Change and Adaptation: Biological and Cultural Evolution -- Systems Thinking and Complexity -- Science and Scientific Methods -- Pseudoscience and the Human Condition -- Spotlight Topic: "Baloney Detection" -- Cell to Society Framework and the Life Course -- Major Developmental Milestones -- Major Theoretical Perspectives -- Expert's Corner: John Brekke -- Components of the Cell to Society Framework -- Genes and Behavior -- Stress and Adaptation -- Emotion -- Executive Functions -- Temperament -- Personality -- Cognition and Learning -- Social Exchange and Cooperation -- Social Networks and Psychosocial Relations -- Technology -- Physical Environment -- Institutions -- Belief Systems and Ideology -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 2 Genes And Behavior -- Case Study: Cory -- Distal Context -- Principles of Human Evolution -- Heritability -- Spotlight Topic: Nature and Nurture Means Both -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Molecular Biology Primer for the Social Work Practitioner -- Genetic Variation and Neural Substrates -- Genes and Behavior Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Expert's Corner: Terrie E. Moffitt -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 3 Stress And Adaptation -- Case Study: Juan Carlos-Profile of Adaptation in Unpredictable and Uncertain Times -- Distal Context -- What Is Stress and What Does It Have to Do With Human Behavior? -- Principles of Human Evolution -- Spotlight Topic: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Neural Substrates and Stress -- Endocrine System and Function -- Stress, Inflammation, and Biomarkers -- Environmental Triggers -- Childhood Stress Caused by Structural Violence -- Spotlight Topic: How Environmental Stress Gets Under the Skin -- Stress and Adaptation Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Sex Differences -- Expert's Corner: Bruce S. McEwen, Rockefeller University -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 4 Emotion -- Spotlight Topic: Emotional Valence and Affect -- Case Study: Tamika -- Distal Context -- Reflection: Social Work Intern in the Emergency Room -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Prefrontal Cortex -- Limbic System -- Social Information Processing -- Spotlight Topic: Empathy -- Emotional Development and Psychosocial Relations Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Sex Differences -- Expert's Corner: Jeanne Tsai, Stanford University -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 5 Executive Functions -- Case Study: Corporal Wagner -- Distal Context -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Emotion, Rewards, and Relationships -- Spotlight Topic: ADHD -- Executive Functions and Psychosocial Relations Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Spotlight Topic: Psychotropic Drug Treatment -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Spotlight Topic: Improving Executive Functions -- Sex Differences -- Expert's Corner: Russell A. Barkley, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 6 Temperament -- Case Study: Gloria -- Distal Context -- What Is Temperament? -- Theories of Temperament -- Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess -- Jerome Kagan -- Mary Rothbart -- Robert Cloninger -- Arnold Buss and Robert Plomin -- Central Nervous System and Evolutionary Underpinnings -- Spotlight Topic: The Criminology of the Amygdala -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Governance -- Limbic System, the Amygdala, and Emotional Processing -- Neurological Deficits -- Attachment and Neural Function -- Disorders Related to Temperament -- Spotlight Topic: Psychopathy -- Temperament Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Expert's Corner: Jerome Kagan -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 7 Personality -- Case Study: The Saldago Twins -- Distal Context -- What Is Personality? -- Central Nervous System and Evolutionary Underpinnings -- Five Factor Model of Personality -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Neural Substrates -- Genetic Underpinnings -- Environmental Contexts -- Spotlight Topic: Personality and the Social Work Profession -- Personality Disorders -- Paranoid Personality Disorder -- Schizoid Personality Disorder -- Schizotypal Personality Disorder -- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Borderline Personality Disorder -- Histrionic Personality Disorder -- Narcissistic Personality Disorder -- Avoidant Personality Disorder -- Dependent Personality Disorder -- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder -- Clients and Personality Functioning -- Spotlight Topic: Borderline Personality Disorders and Dialectical Behavior Therapy -- Personality Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Sex Differences -- Expert's Corner: Paul Costa -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 8 Cognition And Learning -- Distal Context -- Conscious and Unconscious Mind -- Case Study: Jack -- Intelligence -- Learning -- Learning Challenges -- Spotlight Topic: Tools of the Mind -- Motivation -- Self-Regulation and Cognitive Control -- Interpersonal Neurobiology -- Technological Advances to Understand the Mind -- Real-Time fMRI -- Individualizing Treatment Sequencing -- Neural Profiles of Resiliency -- Social Process Influence on Brain-Behavior Change -- Expert's Corner: Frank Krueger -- Cognitive Development Across the Life Course -- Early Brain Maturation -- Childhood and Adolescence -- Cognitive Functioning and Decline in Adulthood -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 9 Social Exchange And Cooperation -- Case Study: Food Cooperatives -- Distal Context -- Evolution and Social Exchange -- Game Theory -- Prisoner's Dilemma -- Cooperation -- Government Shutdowns Due to Lack of Congressional Cooperation -- Spotlight Topic: The "Big Man" Theory -- Utilitarianism and Social Exchange Theory -- Conflict Resolution for Personal Gain -- Homans's Elementary Forms of Social Behavior -- Emotion and Social Exchange -- Experiments Involving Social Exchange -- Reciprocity and Fairness -- Neuroscience of Social Exchange and Cooperation -- Power -- Altruism -- Restorative Justice: A Form of Altruism? -- Race and Altruism -- Self-Report Measures of Altruism -- Emotion Again -- Expert's Corner: Peter Corning -- Exchange and Cooperation Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Childhood and Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 10 Social Networks And Psychosocial Relations -- Distal Context -- Going It Alone? -- Case Study 1: Tyler, Disconnected and Struggling -- Attachment: The Developing Self in the Context of Others -- Case Study 2: Joey, Marching Into the Middle Class -- Social Relationships Across the Life Course -- Early Childhood -- Adolescence -- Emerging Adulthood -- Middle Age -- Older Adulthood -- Social Networks: Peers, Family, and Community -- Peers: The Influence of Your Friend's Friends' Friends -- Expert's Corner: Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH -- Family: The Network of First and Last Resort -- Community Connections: From Hull House to Facebook -- Spotlight Topic: Harlem Children's Zone -- Current Innovations in Community Building -- Hierarchies and Power -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 11 Technology -- Distal Context -- Technology Systems Among Chimpanzees -- Case Study: Micro and Macro Interventions -- Technology and Society: Major Theoretical Frameworks -- Ecological-Evolutionary Typology -- Cultural Materialism -- Technological Determinism -- Technological Change -- Technology Inside the Home -- Spotlight Topic: The Automobile -- Technology and Its Distribution in a Society -- Power -- Gender, Race, and Computer Technology -- Cross-National Comparisons -- Expert's Corner: Nazli Choucri -- Computers and Information Technology -- Social Media -- Who Tweets, Blogs, and Uses Facebook? -- Dark Side of Internet and Computer Use -- Integrating Technology Into Behavioral Interventions -- Technology Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 12 Physical Environment -- Distal Context -- Geographic Origins of Inequalities -- Axis Orientations -- Case Study: Community Types -- Geography and Economics Intersect -- Diffusion of Religion Around the Globe -- Ecosystems Theory -- Steward's Cultural Ecology -- Climate -- Natural Disasters -- Urban Ecology -- Built Environment -- Rural Ecology -- Spotlight Topic: Sense of Place -- Effect of Setting: Jails and Prisons -- Office Spaces and Productivity -- Tools for Spatial Analysis -- Case Study: Community Development and Youth Gangs -- Spatial Effects and Variation Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood and Older Adulthood -- Expert's Corner: Claudia Coulton, Case Western Reserve University -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 13 Institutions -- Case Study: The Overthrow of Institutions: Revolution and the Arab Spring -- Background and Distal Context -- Institutions -- Workplace Culture
Note continued: Evolution of Institutions and Social Organization -- Spotlight Topic: Bureaucracy -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Hierarchies -- Social Stratification -- Caste System in India -- Energy Regulation -- Example: Conflict and Energy -- Spotlight Topic: Energy Sharing -- Law and Social Control -- Juvenile Justice Through Supreme Court Decisions -- Leadership -- Impact of Economic Institutions on Human Behavior -- Expert's Corner: Michael Sherraden, Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis -- Institutions Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Childhood and Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Summary -- Key Terms -- ch. 14 Belief Systems And Ideology -- Case Study: Westboro Baptist Church -- Distal Context -- Evolution and Symbols -- Patriotism and Nationalism -- Political Ideology and Cognition -- Religious Ideology -- Expert's Corner: Jonathan Haidt -- Religious and Spiritual Evidence-Based Practices -- Race, Gender, and Class Ideologies -- Effective Race-, Gender-, and Class-Based Practices -- What Is Culture? -- Spotlight Topic: Cultural Neuroscience -- Brief History of the Culture Concept -- Culture Concept in Classical Antiquity -- Medieval and Renaissance Periods -- Practice Implications -- Problem of Confirmatory Bias -- Case Study: Cultural Awareness -- Belief Systems and Ideology Over the Life Course -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Summary -- Key Terms
Summary A unique approach to human behavior that integrates and interprets the latest research from cell to society Incorporating principles and findings from molecular biology, neuroscience, and psychological and sociocultural sciences, Human Behavior employs a decidedly integrative biosocial, multiple-levels-of-influence approach. This approach allows students to appreciate the transactional forces shaping life course opportunities and challenges among diverse populations in the United States and around the world. Human Behavior includes case studies, Spotlight topics, and Expert's Cor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human behavior.
Human behavior -- Physiological aspects
Behavior
human behavior.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
Human behavior.
Form Electronic book
Author DeLisi, Matt
Matto, Holly C
LC no. 2013003566
ISBN 9781118416259
1118416252
9781118418963
1118418964
9781118639689
1118639685
1118121546
9781118121542