Processes of the Molar Regulation of Behavior
Published on 12. January 1996
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Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-3-931660-11-6 (ISBN)
Description
Contemporary research in experimental and general psychology either tends to "micro-deterministic" models focusing on isolated molecular phenomena or emphasizes global conceptions lacking empirical corroboration. This edition presents a series of articles trying to join the advantages of both approaches: They analyze the emergence of molar structures of human behavior on the basis of general psychological theories of emotion, memory, and action, which are strong in their domain with regard to their empirical evaluation, but, in addition, have high explanatory potential beyond it. Part I addresses memory and representation, Part II emotion, action, and thinking, and Part III focuses on resources and coping with stress. The fourth part discusses methodological aspects and examples of contemporary history of psychology related to the molar regulation of behavior. The chapters take a programmatic and integrative perspective in explaining emergence, structure, and functioning of molar behavior against the background of reliable domain-specific theories and, hence, bridge a gap in contemporary psychology.
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I. Memory and Representation
Mental Representations in Cognitive Science
Walter Kintsch
Generic and Generative Knowledge: Memory Schemata in the Construction of Mental Models
Stephan Dutke
Positions of Objects in Space: Their Definition and Their Effects on Experience and Behaviour
Hubert Feger
What Can I Do to Remember? Outlines of a General Model for Preparing Future Retrieval
Klaus B. Esser
II. Emotion, Action, Thinking
Anxiety, Processing Efficiency Theory, and Performance
Michael W. Eysenck
Anxiety and the Regulation of Complex Problem Situations: Playing it Safe?
Joachim Stöber
Changes in Feeling States Induced by Styles of Cognitive Processing: On the Molar Interaction of Feeling and Thinking
Jürgen H. Otto
Stress, Emotional Action, and Control
Shirley Fisher
Emotional Action Generation
Rainer Reisenzein
III. Resources and Coping
A Cognitive-Actional Model of Self-Regulation and Coping
Rainer Wieland-Eckelmann
Coping, Resources, and Social Context
Jeannine Monnier, Stevan E. Hobfoll, Brenda K. Stone
Temperament as a Moderator of Coping with Stress
Jan Strelau
Effort as Energy Regulation
Fred R. H. Zijlstra
The Subjective Experience of Resource Mobilization
Peter Schulz
Resources, Stability, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Wolfgang Battmann
Energetical-Control Processes in the Regulation of Human Performance
G. Robert J. Hockey
IV. Methodology and Contemporary History
Foundations of the History of Methodology and of a System of Methodology of Modern Psychology
Lothar Sprung, Helga Sprung
The Constructionist Approach to Psychological Assessment: Problems and Prospects
Hans Westmeyer
Carl Stumpf, a General Psychologist and Methodologist, and a Case Study of a Cross-Cultural Scientific Transition Process
Helga Sprung, Lothar Sprung
Mental Representations in Cognitive Science
Walter Kintsch
Generic and Generative Knowledge: Memory Schemata in the Construction of Mental Models
Stephan Dutke
Positions of Objects in Space: Their Definition and Their Effects on Experience and Behaviour
Hubert Feger
What Can I Do to Remember? Outlines of a General Model for Preparing Future Retrieval
Klaus B. Esser
II. Emotion, Action, Thinking
Anxiety, Processing Efficiency Theory, and Performance
Michael W. Eysenck
Anxiety and the Regulation of Complex Problem Situations: Playing it Safe?
Joachim Stöber
Changes in Feeling States Induced by Styles of Cognitive Processing: On the Molar Interaction of Feeling and Thinking
Jürgen H. Otto
Stress, Emotional Action, and Control
Shirley Fisher
Emotional Action Generation
Rainer Reisenzein
III. Resources and Coping
A Cognitive-Actional Model of Self-Regulation and Coping
Rainer Wieland-Eckelmann
Coping, Resources, and Social Context
Jeannine Monnier, Stevan E. Hobfoll, Brenda K. Stone
Temperament as a Moderator of Coping with Stress
Jan Strelau
Effort as Energy Regulation
Fred R. H. Zijlstra
The Subjective Experience of Resource Mobilization
Peter Schulz
Resources, Stability, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Wolfgang Battmann
Energetical-Control Processes in the Regulation of Human Performance
G. Robert J. Hockey
IV. Methodology and Contemporary History
Foundations of the History of Methodology and of a System of Methodology of Modern Psychology
Lothar Sprung, Helga Sprung
The Constructionist Approach to Psychological Assessment: Problems and Prospects
Hans Westmeyer
Carl Stumpf, a General Psychologist and Methodologist, and a Case Study of a Cross-Cultural Scientific Transition Process
Helga Sprung, Lothar Sprung