Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Volume 52

Nebraska Symposium

Description

Capturing the complexity of human behavior has been a recurring theme in the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. The contributors to this volume describe contemporary approaches to the modeling of complex cognitive and behavioral processes, ranging from molecular to molar phenomena. Although the essays reflect a wide range of theoretical and epistemic perspectives, they all incorporate complex frameworks of dynamic, systemlike relationships involving perception, learning, concept formation, emotion, motivation, intention, behavior, and the social context in which behavior occurs.

 

The editors introduce the volume with a survey of the lifetime of the symposium, showing the development of ideas about behavioral and psychological complexity for over fifty years. A special feature of this collection is its emphasis on practical applications of the conceptual frameworks in which they work. The contributors provide examples of translational research ranging from clinical neuropsychology to self-actualization, from medical informatics to industrial psychology, from programmed learning to psychiatric rehabilitation.

Sujets

• Reference work
• Psychology
• Gender studies

Informations

• Publié par: Nebraska
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803213883
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

Modeling Complex Systems

Volume 52 of the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation

University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London

Volume 52 of the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation

Richard A. Dienstbier Bill Shuart Will Spaulding Jeffrey Poland

Presenters Bill Shuart

Will Spaulding

Jeffrey Poland

Richard W. J. Neufeld Wolfgang Tschacher Zeno Kupper Susanne P. Lajoie Mark A. Musen Eduardo Salas Kevin C. Stagl C. Shawn Burke Gerald F. Goodwin Michael J. Mahoney

Modeling Complex Systems

Series Editor Volume Editors

Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital University of Nebraska–Lincoln Rhode Island School of Design / Brown University

University of Western Ontario University of Bern University of Bern

McGill University Stanford University University of Central Florida University of Central Florida University of Central Florida U.S. Army Research Institute University of North Texas

Modeling Complex Systems is Volume 52 in the series CURRENT THEORY AND RESEARCH IN MOTIVATION

© 2007 by the University of Nebraska Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America International Standard Book Number ISBN: 978-0-8032-1387-6 (Clothbound)

The Library of Congress has cataloged this serial publication as follows: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. [Papers] v. [1]–1953– Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press. v. illus., diagrs. 22cm. annual. Vol. 1 issued by the symposium under its earlier name: Current Theory and Research in Motivation. Symposia sponsored by the Dept. of Psychology of the University of Nebraska. 1. Motivation (Psychology) BF683.N4 159.4082 53-11655 Library of Congress

Preface

The volume editors for this 52nd volume of the Nebraska Sympo- sium on Motivation are Bill Shuart, Will Spaulding, and Jeffrey Po- land. The volume editors coordinated the symposium that led to this volume, including selecting and inviting the contributors and coordinating all aspects of editing. My thanks to our contributors for excellent presentations and chapters. This symposium series is supported by funds provided by the chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Harvey Perlman, and by funds donated in memory of Professor Harry K. Wolfe to the University of Nebraska Foundation by the late Professor Cora L. Friedline. We are extremely grateful for the chancellor’s generous support of the symposium series and for the University of Nebraska Foundation’s support via the Friedline bequest. This symposium volume, like those in the recent past, is dedicated to the memory of Professor Wolfe, who brought psychology to the University of Ne- braska. Richard A. Dienstbier Series Editor

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Bill Shuart, Will Spaulding, and Jeffrey Poland Richard W. J. Neufeld

Wolfgang Tschacher and Zeno Kupper Susanne P. Lajoie

Mark A. Musen

Eduardo Salas, Kevin C. Stagl, C. Shawn Burke, and Gerald F. Goodwin Michael J. Mahoney

Contributors Subject Index Author Index

Contents

Introduction

Composition and Uses of Formal Clinical Cognitive Science A Dynamics-Oriented Approach to Psychopathology Developing Computer-Based Learning Environments Based on Complex Performance Models Technology for Building Intelligent Systems: From Psychology to Engineering Fostering Team Effectiveness in Organizations: Toward an Integrative Theoretical Framework

Constructive Complexity and Human Change Processes Editors’ Postscript: Modeling Complex Processes in a Rehabilitation Application

Introduction

Bill Shuart, Will Spaulding, and Jeffrey Poland Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital; University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Rhode Island School of Design / Brown University

Capturing the complexity of human behavior has been a recurring theme in the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: We expect behavior to be patterned or integrated, and to make biological sense; and so patterning and biological utility are what we see. And of course what we see is actually there—behavior in general is not chaotic; it is organized. (Nissen, 1954, p. 314)

When fundamental psychologists do make excursions into the human motivational world . . . it is rare that they survey the requirements for theory or pre-theory by intensive descriptive analysis of behavior related to such motives as produced by concrete human beings. More remote still is the chance that anyone will select for illustration, let alone analysis, behavior or experience relevant to man in his most characteristically human performances: man as he creates or loves or plays or responds to the aesthetic surfaces of the human and natural environment. Such matters are threateningly complex. (Koch, 1956, pp. 64–65)

I have tried, first, to show that it is possible to formulate a meaningful theory of complex motivation by analyzing the