Motivation: The Organization of Action - Hardcover

Mook, Douglas G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393954749 ISBN 13: 9780393954746

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1987

Synopsis

This Second Edition of Motivation: The Organization of Action has the same goal as the first: to present a coherent view of theory and research in motivation.

It seeks to brings out certain ideas that link together the great diversity of topics that are called "motivational"-or if not all of them, at least adjacent ones, so that readers can move from topic to topic without ever finding themselves on wholly unfamiliar ground. These include such concepts as hierarchical organization (a principle that applies from mating in the stickleback through human schema structure), negative feedback, interaction of external and internal influences on action, and the interplay of excitatory and inhibitory influences.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas G. Mook is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He has published widely in leading professional journals, including Psychological Research, American Psychologist, and the Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, on such diverse topics as the nature of preferences, the problem of external validity in research, and the neuroendocrine control of ingestion in rats. Professor Mook is also the author of Motivation: The Organization of Action. He lives in New York City, where he teaches regularly at local colleges while cultivating his interest in operatic performance.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0393954749
• ISBN 13: 9780393954746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1