Attention and Self-Regulation: A Control-Theory Approach to Human Behavior

by Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier, Michael F. Carver, Charles S.; Scheier

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461258898
• ISBN13: 9781461258896
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"