How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach

By Sam S. Rakover

Book Overview

In How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach, Sam S. Rakover proposes a critical review of explanation models (procedures); presents explanation as an essential part of research methodology; depicts understanding as based on explanation models and other procedures; provides a list of basic ideas common to most explanation models; supplies an approach that unifies mechanistic explanations as used by the sciences with mentalistic explanations that are based on one's inner world; and provides a general procedure for explaining individual behavior.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498536700
• ISBN13: 9781498536707
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"