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Utilizing a number of techniques from behavior-change psychology,
speech, communications, and acting, the authors Sharon and Gordon
Bower outline an effective assertiveness program to help people
improve their self-esteem, articulate their opinions, and develop
meaningful relationships. Exercises and examples
throughout-including the celebrated "DESC scripts" (describe,
express, specify, consequences)-allow readers to practice the
program, adapt it to their own lives, and evaluate their progress.
For both personal and professional use, "Asserting Yourself" is the
classic guide to building confidence and taking a stand.
This book presents the contributions of the members of an Advanced
Research Workshop on Cogni ti ve Science Perspectives on Emotion,
Motivation and Cognition. The Workshop, funded mainly by the NATO
Scientific Affairs Division, together with a contribution from the
(British) Economic and Social Research Council, was conducted at II
Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy, 21-27 June 1987. The venue for our
discussions was ideal: a quiet holiday hotel, 500m high in the
Apennine mountain range, approached by a mile of perilously steep,
winding narrow road. The isolation was conducive to concentrated
discussions on the topics of the Workshop. The reason for the
Workshop was a felt need for researchers from disparate but related
approaches to cognition, emotion, and motivation to communicate
their perspectives and arguments to one another. To take just one
example, the framework of information processing and the metaphor
of mind as a computer has wrought a major revolution in
psychological theories of cogni tion. That framework has radically
altered the way psychologists conceptualize perception, memory,
language, thought, and action. Those advances have formed the
intellectual substrate for the "cognitive science" perspective on
mental life.
This book presents the contributions of the members of an Advanced
Research Workshop on Cogni ti ve Science Perspectives on Emotion,
Motivation and Cognition. The Workshop, funded mainly by the NATO
Scientific Affairs Division, together with a contribution from the
(British) Economic and Social Research Council, was conducted at II
Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy, 21-27 June 1987. The venue for our
discussions was ideal: a quiet holiday hotel, 500m high in the
Apennine mountain range, approached by a mile of perilously steep,
winding narrow road. The isolation was conducive to concentrated
discussions on the topics of the Workshop. The reason for the
Workshop was a felt need for researchers from disparate but related
approaches to cognition, emotion, and motivation to communicate
their perspectives and arguments to one another. To take just one
example, the framework of information processing and the metaphor
of mind as a computer has wrought a major revolution in
psychological theories of cogni tion. That framework has radically
altered the way psychologists conceptualize perception, memory,
language, thought, and action. Those advances have formed the
intellectual substrate for the "cognitive science" perspective on
mental life.
This work offers information on recent advances in the psychology
of learning and motivation. Among the topics covered are the
deriving of categories to achieve goals, the application of
category knowledge in unsupervised domains and spatial mental
models.
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