English Theme 8 (Spring 2006)

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English Theme 8 (Spring 2006)

• Time Monday 1300-1430
• Room 7-106
• Instructor Mafuyu Kitahara
• Text excerpts from Carver Scheier (1998), On
  the Self-Regulation of Behavior, Cambridge Univ.
  Press.

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Structure of the course

• Grouping 4 groups, 8 students each
• Pairing 4 pairs in each group
• Practice presentation in group
• Each pair summarizes 4-5 page section
• Other pairs evaluate the presentation
• The best pair should present in class

D (pp.15-19)
B (pp.10-14)
C (pp.15-19)
A (pp.10-14)
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Basic Presentation Technic

• Slideshow
• Simple 4 colors at most, no gimmick
• Graphical use charts, tables, and diagrams
• Large fonts at least 24 points gtgt less text
• Key words No sentence, just key words
• Speech
• LOUDER!!!!, don't worry about grammar
• Action
• Eye-contact don't read script, look up
• Gesture pointing, asking, walking, dancing...

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Contents of the whole book

• 1. Introduction and Plan (9pages) ? today
• 2. Principles of Feedback Control (18pages)
• 3. Discrepancy-Reducing Feedback Processes in
  Behavior
• 4. Discrepancy-Enlarging Loops, and Three Further
  Issues
• 5. Goals and Behavior
• 6. Goals, Hierarchicality, and Behavior Further
  Issues
• 7. Public and Private Aspects of the Self
• 8. Control Processes and Affect
• 9. Affect Issues and Comparisons
• 10. Expectancies and Disengagement
• 11. Disengagement Issues and Comparisons
• 12. Applications to Problems in Living
• 13. Hierearchicality and Problems in Living
• 14. Chaos and Dynamic Systems (23pages)
• 15. Catastrophe Theory (20pages)
• 16. Further Applications to Problems in Living
  (16pages)
• 17. Is Behavior Controlled or Does It Emerge?
  (28pages)
• 18. Goal Engagement, Life and Death

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Behavioral self-regulation

• Motor control physical
• Personality-social psychology mental
• How and why behavior happens?
• Motivation? --- no help
• Mental goal representation and feedback control
• Behaviorists S-R is everything
• Learning not stamping in of tendencies
• Short-term feedback loop

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Dynamic Systems and Catastrophe theory

• Conceptual tool for psychological models
• Nonlinearity
• Cusp fold over curve

Linear
Nonlinear