The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-818948-1 (ISBN)
Each chapter includes an author biography to set the context of their work within the development of PCT.
Dr. Mansell has written over sixty interdisciplinary publications on perceptual control theory, has convened three international conferences on PCT, and hosts a website pctweb.org that has received over 35,000 views since its inception in 2009. His work on PCT has appeared on UK national television, in science museums, and online newspaper and magazine articles. He has authored and edited various books, including: Coping with Fears and Phobias (2007), A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy (2012), Principles-Based Counselling and Psychotherapy (2015), Oxford Guide to Metaphors in CBT (2010), and The Bluffer’s Guide to Psychology (2006).
Part I
Why do we need perceptual control theory?
1. The world according to PCT
2. Understanding purposeful systems: the application
of control theory in engineering and psychology
3. The crisis in neuroscience
4. When causation does not imply correlation: robust
violations of the faithfulness axiom
Part II
Models of brain and behavior
5. Unraveling the dynamics of dyadic interactions:
perceptual control in animal contests
6. How the brain gets a roaring campfire: Structuring
for Perceptual Results
7. How the brain gets a roaring campfire: input and
output functions
8. The phylogeny, ontogeny, causation and function of
regression periods explained by reorganizations of the
hierarchy of perceptual control systems
Part III
Collective control and communication
9. Social structure and control: perceptual control theory
and the science of sociology
10. Perceptual control in cooperative interaction
11. Language and thought as control of perception
Part IV
Applications
12. Perceptions of control theory in
industrial-organizational psychology: disturbances
and counter-disturbances
13. Method of Levels Therapy
14. Robotics in the real world: the perceptual control
theory approach
15. PCT and beyond: toward a computational framework
for ‘intelligent’ communicative systems
Part V
Synthesis
16. Ten vital elements of perceptual control theory,
tracing the pathway from implicit influence to
scientific advance
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.06.2020 |
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Verlagsort | San Diego |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 1090 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-12-818948-7 / 0128189487 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-12-818948-1 / 9780128189481 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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