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Analysis of Dynamic Psychological Systems
Title:
Analysis of Dynamic Psychological Systems
ISBN:
9781461564409
Edition:
1st ed. 1992.
Publication Information New:
New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1992.
Physical Description:
352 p. online resource.
Contents:
1. Systems and Systems Analysis: Methods and Applications -- Systems, Goal Seeking, and Feedback Mechanisms -- Applications of Systems Science to Psychology -- Organization of Volume 2 -- References -- I. Methods -- 2. The Study of Dynamic Systems Using Structural Equation Analysis -- 3. Sensitivity of Parameters and Loop Structures -- 4. Psychological Scaling and Filtering of Errors in Empirical Systems -- 5. Parameter Estimation and Assessing Fit of Dynamic Models -- II. Applications of Systems Approaches -- 6. Applications of Living Systems Theory -- 7. Complex Organizations and Living Systems Theory: The Case of the U.S. Army -- 8. General Systems in Psychiatric Disorder -- 9. A Systems Approach to Understanding and Enhancing Grassroots Organizations: The Block Booster Project -- 10. A Multivariate Causal Analysis of Teenage Child Rearing -- 11. A Theory of Service Delivery and Its Application to the Dropout Phenomenon -- 12. Educational Policy Analysis: An Analysis of Effective and Ineffective Schools Using the System Dynamics Method -- 13. A Cognitive Control System -- 14. Dynamics of Attitude Change -- 15. Toward Building Psychoanalytically Based Mathematical Models of Psychotherapeutic Paradigms -- Author Index.
Abstract:
Drawing on sources from a wide range of disciplines, this first volume of a two volume tutorial on systems theory focuses on non-linear dynamical techniques for analysis of feedback processes, information flow, decision making, control theory, and modeling of human behavioral systems.
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Language:
English