Achieve your life goals with SELF-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR! With abundant strategies based on research, this psychology text guides you through exercises for developing skills in self-analysis and teaches you how to apply these skills in different settings. Case examples demonstrate how other students have successfully used the book's techniques, including one student who used shaping to gradually increase her ability to study, and another who learned to be more sure of himself on dates by consciously modeling a friend's confident behavior.

Self-Directed Behavior (PSY 103 Towards Self-Understanding)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Watson, David L.

Tharp, Roland G.

Psychology & Counseling

Wadsworth Publishing

Rousing Minds to Life is the education textbook for the '90s: A powerful synthesis of the theoretical advances in Vygotskian theory as applied to every aspect of teaching, learning, and schooling. Drawing on studies from preschool and elementary school through the university seminar, and on their own successful experience with thousands of students over two decades, this text integrates all recent work in the Vygotskian tradition with basic concepts in American and British behaviorism, cognitive science, anthropology, and sociolinguistics. Distinguished by a literate style and an extraordinarily rich content, it is appropriate for courses in educational psychology, curriculum and instruction, educational foundations, educational administration, special education, multicultural education, and any course that treats learning and cognitive development in social context.

Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context

Education & Teaching

Gallimore, Ronald

Schools & Teaching

Cambridge University Press

More than just a self-help book, this Sixth Edition of Watson and Tharp's highly successful text continues to provide readers with step-by-step instructions for carrying out a program of self-modification. As readers experience behavior modification in the laboratory of their own lives, they learn sound scientific principles and coping skills for personal problem solving that will be with them for the rest of their lives. Although the authors deal with specific topic areas such as improving study habits, managing stress, or overcoming depression, the book does not narrowly focus on overcoming specific problems. Instead, it emphasizes behavior modification principles students can apply again and again...Watson and Tharp guide students through exercises for developing skills in self-analysis and provide them with concrete information on how to achieve personal goals. Case reports of their own students' self-change projects and others solicited from users of previous editions provide models for success. In addition, the authors include data from empirical field testing of the text indicating that students in courses using this book have achieved self-change goals at percentages varying from 66% to 84% (e.g., Clements &amp; Beidleman, 1981; Hamilton, 1980; Rakos &amp; Grodek, 1984).

Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment

Self-Help

Success

This successful self-help text has sold over 150,000 copies to date and offers a systematic, clearly-written introduction to the principles of learning. Providing scientifically-based instruction in the principles and practices of self-applied psychology, the authors help readers develop skills in self-analysis and personal problem solving that will be with them for the rest of their lives. Step-by-step instructions for carrying out a program of self-modification are included, as well as numerous examples and cases drawn from self-modification projects conducted by the authors students.

This effective self-help book presents a workable set of skills that readers can use for tackling their own self-modification programs, whether it be to improve self-confidence in dating, control overeating, implement and exercise program, or give up smoking. The authors' goal is to teach the basic skills necessary for readers to modify the behavior of their own choice, (66%-84% of the students employing these methods have achieved their self-change goals according to published studies in the literature). Once students have applied the principles to a behavior, they'll find it easier to use the skills in different settings.

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Delta Theory establishes the foundation for a true scientific applied psychology, a theory of how human influence induces change in others. Delta Theory is unified and universal, applying to all cultures, historical periods, and goals for change. It integrates concepts and research from psychology, sociology, anthropology, evolution theory, philosophy, psychoneurology, cognitive science, and cultural-historical-activity theory. Yet Delta Theory is clear, economical, and elegant, with a full exposition of tactics for its practices. Rich examples are drawn from professional practices, but also from the creation and operations of criminals, healing ceremonies of indigenous peoples, and cross-species comparisons. This book ultimately seeks to describe how influence works, how it could be improved, and how it can be resisted.

Delta Theory and Psychosocial Systems: The Practice of Influence and Change

Motivational

Delta Theory establishes the foundation for a true scientific applied psychology, a theory of how human influence induces change in others. Delta Theory is unified and universal, applying to all cultures, historical periods, and goals for change. It integrates concepts and research from psychology, sociology, anthropology, evolution theory, philosophy, psychoneurology, cognitive science, and cultural-historical-activity theory. Yet Delta Theory is clear, economical, and elegant, with a full exposition of tactics for its practices. Rich examples are drawn from professional practices, but also from the creation and operations of criminals, healing ceremonies of indigenous peoples, and cross-species comparisons. This book ultimately seeks to describe how influence works, how it could be improved, and how it can be resisted.

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Self-Directed Behavior (PSY 103 Towards Self-Understanding)

Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context

Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context

Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment

Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment

Self-Directed Behavior: Self-Modification for Personal Adjustment

Delta Theory and Psychosocial Systems: The Practice of Influence and Change

Delta Theory and Psychosocial Systems: The Practice of Influence and Change