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Attention and Self-Regulation: A Control-Theory Approach to Human Behavior
C. S. Carver
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Paperback. Series: Springer Series in Social Psychology. Num Pages: 403 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMR; JMS; PSVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 646.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Springer Series in Social Psychology
Condition
New
Weight
646g
Number of Pages
403
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461258896
SKU
V9781461258896
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